[HN Gopher] The power of achieving flow state in DevEx
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       The power of achieving flow state in DevEx
        
       Author : taubek
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2023-08-04 17:44 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | cheschire wrote:
       | I think it's also important to note that many people struggle to
       | achieve flow state when context switching between sleep cycles.
       | There's a natural daily rhythm folks go through, and the older
       | one gets, the more it tends to (but not always) shift earlier in
       | the day. Think about that next time you want to schedule a
       | mandatory synchronous event, especially one such as a daily
       | standup.
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       | Some of your team may already be 2 hours into their day by 9am,
       | while others may be just rolling out of bed and not yet deep into
       | something. And some of your folks are starting to wind down their
       | focus period around 2pm to 3pm while others are ready to go deep
       | into the night.
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       | I'm not trying to assert there's a problem with standups or other
       | meetings. I'm just saying if flow state is a priority for an
       | organization, there has to be compromise made in how scheduling,
       | status checks, and synchronization works.
        
         | gausswho wrote:
         | When I was young I read that Vonnegut wrote most of material
         | before the fam woke up. Around 4 to 7am. As a young night owl
         | it was bonkers to me. Now I get it.
        
         | wdfx wrote:
         | Sure but by this logic there is no best time for everyone to
         | meet, so there's no point even debating what time to choose,
         | any will do.
        
       | SkyMarshal wrote:
       | What is DevEx? Maybe I missed it but they don't seem to say
       | anywhere in the article what DevEx is. A company? An IDE? A
       | development methodology? Something else?
        
         | esafak wrote:
         | DevEx, or DX for short, stands for _developer experience_ ;
         | patterned after UX or _user experience_. It is the hipper,
         | developer-focused version of _developer productivity_ which
         | sometimes carries negative, managerial connotations. Think
         | "What can we do to improve the developers' experience?" versus
         | "What can we do to increase productivity?"
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_experience#Developer_expe...
        
       | unixhero wrote:
       | What is DevEx?
        
       | 0x008 wrote:
       | For me it is a interesting consequence of our modern ways of
       | communication which is characterized by being always-online and
       | always expecting immediate response that people turn to giving
       | the new name of "flow-state" to what is essentially just
       | "uninterrupted work".
        
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