> Eventually people will realize the light is busy when the person isn’t really busy
Like the geniuses that block off their whole day everyday on their calendar or set their Teams status to unavailable all day.
Like the geniuses that block off their whole day everyday on their calendar or set their Teams status to unavailable all day.
Doing it 1-2 days/week is the difference between being able to get some focus time to deliver something of value, and just being an internal search engine.
My job has lots and lots of calls. I am happy to leave most of my calendar open. But most mornings, and at least one full day every 2 weeks is mine, and no, you can't have it, you're not entitled to it, it's important to me I have that time to actually do focus work.
The trick is balance for the role. For engineers it should be a lot more focus time, for PMs and managers it should be a lot more managers, but you should still be able to block out calendars for focus time if you need to - just not all day, every day, forever.
as someone who leaves themselves open to hear out others with their "hey do you have a second to check this out" ideas
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