1. I get the most work done when I have a clear list in my mind of exactly what needs to get done, and am then left alone. Best hours: midnight to 3am, followed by 10am-12pm. 4-6pm is a bit of a productivity death zone.
2. It chafes somewhat, but when I don't have them, I'll eventually go crazy. Plus there needs to be some kind of reasonable hope of being around at the same time as your co-workers for those chats where email just won't do.
3. I'm not good at multitasking (at least not if one of those tasks is programming), so I'll give all my focus to whatever the interruption is, in the hopes of getting it out of the way as soon as possible. Sometimes, if it's an interruption that doesn't seem immediately important, I'll end up ignoring it. Neither of these strategies is the greatest thing ever.
4. Hacker.
5. I try to avoid it unless necessary. I find if I'm in any conversation, it takes over all my attention, at least to the exclusion of programming. If there is a conversation needed on a subject, I find in-person conversations have much higher bandwidth, so it takes less time overall to go and find that person (if they're physically proximate) than a slow back-and-forth over instant messages.
6. Away from them, mostly. I need to have enough discussions to have a plan for where I'm going.
2. It chafes somewhat, but when I don't have them, I'll eventually go crazy. Plus there needs to be some kind of reasonable hope of being around at the same time as your co-workers for those chats where email just won't do.
3. I'm not good at multitasking (at least not if one of those tasks is programming), so I'll give all my focus to whatever the interruption is, in the hopes of getting it out of the way as soon as possible. Sometimes, if it's an interruption that doesn't seem immediately important, I'll end up ignoring it. Neither of these strategies is the greatest thing ever.
4. Hacker.
5. I try to avoid it unless necessary. I find if I'm in any conversation, it takes over all my attention, at least to the exclusion of programming. If there is a conversation needed on a subject, I find in-person conversations have much higher bandwidth, so it takes less time overall to go and find that person (if they're physically proximate) than a slow back-and-forth over instant messages.
6. Away from them, mostly. I need to have enough discussions to have a plan for where I'm going.