When I’m not interrupted, I can code effectively for 20 to 30 minutes. However, constant notifications from instant messaging, emails, and meetings disrupt my concentration and make it challenging to finish tasks on time.
I once read an analogy that relates to this situation, stating that just like the value of money remains the same whether you have a $100 bill or in coins, the overall time remains constant even if you have small intervals.
How do I overcome this?
This really helps. Thank you.
Another thing…If you are seated in an open office environment or have free seating it’s really good if you can get some sort of agreement with your colleagues that if a someone has headphones on they should not approach and instead act as if the person wasn’t there at all. They should send an email or a Teams message instead.
The single most common thing that rips me out of my creative world is people talking my shoulder asking me if I’m busy… aaaaand then it often takes me 20 minutes to get up to speed again.