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I would love to, but my coworkers expect me to be synchronous. They do async, but I'm always supposed to be sync with five nines availability. Looks like it's time to go job-hunting again, but I hate job interviews. Dammit.
I would love to, but my coworkers expect me to be synchronous. They do async, but I'm always supposed to be sync with five nines availability. Looks like it's time to go job-hunting again, but I hate job interviews. Dammit.
If only job interviews could be async!
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I've learned to take a lot of notes, make frequent checkpoints (e.g., git commits), and break things down into small pieces, just to deal with interruption--minute to minute (people asking me questions), day to day (fire drills, bugs), and week to week (constantly changing priorities).
Do you use a tool for this?
I store all my org files in git repositories and sync them across devices, allowing me to work on multiple devices and worry less about losing a particular device.
I've worked in low latency environments, but I prefer high throughput. The latter is more conducive to flow state. It also means people aren't relying on my consistency, where some days my brain turns on & some days it doesn't
I would love to, but my coworkers expect me to be synchronous. They do async, but I'm always supposed to be sync with five nines availability. Looks like it's time to go job-hunting again, but I hate job interviews. Dammit.
I've managed multiple remote, asynchronous teams across multiple countries. When people work in opposite time zones, asynchronous communication is mandatory. When it works, it's a great experience. However, async communication isn't appropriate for every situation, as the article admits. Some times, the most efficient way forward is to schedule a call where all parties can work out the solution in 15 minutes of real-…
I would love to, but my coworkers expect me to be synchronous. They do async, but I'm always supposed to be sync with five nines availability. Looks like it's time to go job-hunting again, but I hate job interviews. Dammit.
You should try and change their expectations. Often times it's not because they want to take advantage of you, they may just think you can handle distractions better than they can.
I was told it is not valuable by the new management.
Sometimes, they will take advantage of you, even if just through ignorance.
This halves the number of timeslots that are available to have time stolen from you, but allows us to get the empathy and quick resolution that real-time communication enables.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've learned to take a lot of notes, make frequent checkpoints (e.g., git commits), and break things down into small pieces, just to deal with interruption--minute to minute (people asking me questions), day to day (fire drills, bugs), and week to week (constantly changing priorities).
Do you use a tool for this?
I do this basically any time I feel like my short-term memory is overwhelmed with facts, and as a result the notebook has effectively become NVRAM for my brain.
I've managed multiple remote, asynchronous teams across multiple countries. When people work in opposite time zones, asynchronous communication is mandatory. When it works, it's a great experience. However, async communication isn't appropriate for every situation, as the article admits. Some times, the most efficient way forward is to schedule a call where all parties can work out the solution in 15 minutes of real-…