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by hvb2 26 days ago
What I'm trying to say is that the cost of answering the question might look like 30 seconds to the person asking.

What really happened is, you context switch, answer a mundane question, and now spend 30 minutes to get back to the mental state that you were in that made you productive

1 comments

There’s a difference between “people should not ask me questions they can look up” and “people should know when it is an appropriate time to ask questions.”