It's why I hate when middle managers get a hold of my time allocation. "You have 8 hours a day, so you can spend 1 hour each on these 8 different projects and move them all forward together!" Sprinkle 3-4 pointless meetings throughout the day, and then they wonder why nothing gets done.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I wrote a reply before I got this far down in this thread, but 100% agree.

So for that hour:

10min to stop the last thing I was doing.

10 min to switch to new task (getting environment set up, checking out code, etc).

30 min to figure out where I was the last time I started.

And now 10 min to actually do anything.

God forbid a random pop-in, priority email, slack message, system alert, etc happen in that hour.

Yep seems totally efficient to me.