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The cost of interrupted work (2023)

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Waterluvian ◴[23 Aug 25 23:25 UTC] No.44999915[source]▶
Some days an interruption will throw me off my train of thought, and I spend the remaining six hours collecting discarded bottles and railway ties for hopeful use somewhere, somehow, sometime.

Other days an interruption costs me pretty much nothing.

I’m still trying to figure out how to tell which of those days I’m going to have and whether to just not log into Slack for the day.

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neves ◴[24 Aug 25 04:39 UTC] No.45001447[source]▶
As I get older, I feel I take more time to get back on track.

I don't feel less intelligent, maybe more experience compensates for it. I probably make less wrong turns. But I have to be more rigid to prevent interruptions.

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1. heisenbit ◴[24 Aug 25 08:20 UTC] No.45002393[source]▶
I try to compensate with more and larger screens. Also resorting to writing down key aspects of context and plan. Used to keep it in my head but context switches can derail me more easily now so I need a way to get back again.