[HN Gopher] Deep work. Essentialism in asynchronous culture ___________________________________________________________________ Deep work. Essentialism in asynchronous culture Author : jorzel Score : 27 points Date : 2022-12-20 20:12 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (jorzel.github.io) (TXT) w3m dump (jorzel.github.io) | 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." ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-12-20 23:00 UTC)