> Oddly enough, scheduled distractions may be worse than unscheduled ones. If you know you have a meeting in an hour, you don't even start working on something hard.
God, how I wish more people understood this. It might seem like programmers overreact to even the most minor demands on their time---"What's the big deal? It's only a half-hour meeting!"---but a half-hour meeting can easily kill several hours of productivity.
When I do have enough time to do some work, but I know it will get cut short by a scheduled event, it causes an almost non-stop sense of anxiety in the back of my mind. It's seriously distracting and feels horrible.
Same here! especially when your in the zone churning out code faster than Eminem can bust a rhyme. I love it when that happens and really hate it when someone pokes in and requests some idiotic update form so that your boss/manager can feel better about himself....
It's about time PHB notice this tiny little fact: they are the only ones looking forward to any sort of meeting.
Keeping a "this year I will do this and that" schedule is about as much schedule as it was ever required.
God, how I wish more people understood this. It might seem like programmers overreact to even the most minor demands on their time---"What's the big deal? It's only a half-hour meeting!"---but a half-hour meeting can easily kill several hours of productivity.