[HN Gopher] Deep work. Essentialism in asynchronous culture
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       Deep work. Essentialism in asynchronous culture
        
       Author : jorzel
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2022-12-20 20:12 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | civopsec wrote:
       | As a low-level employee, my noise-cancelling headset helps me way
       | more when it comes to concentration than any how-to book on "deep
       | work" could.
        
       | BlargMcLarg wrote:
       | >This approach is based on pushing information rather than
       | pulling it
       | 
       | This is really what's at the heart of almost every discussion
       | regarding communication. Many if not most places introduce
       | polling rituals as a one-size-fits-all solution, whereas many
       | people work best pushing information and having everyone else
       | react to it. It is no different than event-driven structure vs
       | polling.
       | 
       | Every time you create more 'polling' systems and push some claim
       | (the infamous 'new employees won't speak up without standups'
       | comes to mind), there is less pressure to teach them asynchronous
       | ways of working. Every time some manual procedure is pushed as a
       | fix, the alternative of an automatic procedure is pushed aside
       | because 'costs too much money' and 'look, manual works,
       | communication!'.
        
       | psteitz wrote:
       | I agree with the main point here, but one thing that has always
       | puzzled me is how to think about what might be called deep
       | collaborative work. Most meetings, especially the status-y kind,
       | are manifestly not "deep" but some of the most intense work that
       | I have ever done has been with one or a small handful of
       | collaborators.
        
         | jorzel wrote:
         | I think that collaborative work can be deep, e.g. pair
         | programming. However, the more people, the harder to be focused
         | on presise topic / goal.
        
           | psteitz wrote:
           | Exactly. The key is focus which is not the same thing as
           | organization or just "having one conversation."
        
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