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Calendar Blocking can boost developer productivity in Quarantine

by azzen on 4/22/20, 6:03 PM with 12 comments

• by zuhayeer on 4/22/20, 10:28 PM

  I prefer having an unbounded provision of time for anything I'm working on. Ideally I'd minimize the amount of context-switches (ie blocks) in general. I'd rather get to some sort of finish line for what I'm doing rather than leave things half-baked and lose the build up of context / energy

• by zitterbewegung on 4/22/20, 9:05 PM

  To be honest you can remove in Quarantine from the title.

• by jimbobimbo on 4/23/20, 1:14 AM

  I have a standing fake meeting "Busy" at around the lunch time every day. It's purpose to show me as busy and deter folks from dropping meetings at inconvenient time.

  When I'm pressed for time, I'm changing it to whole-day "Out-of-office" fake (I'm in the office, obviously).

  Very effective tool!

• by nerdbaggy on 4/23/20, 2:44 AM

  I’ve tried this and it didn’t work for me. I would always have anxiety about the end time and if I got to where I wanted to be. Without the bounded time I can work till I like where I’m at.

• by whalesalad on 4/23/20, 7:31 AM

  This is bottom of the barrel content even for inbound marketing pieces.