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I put myself on "tentative" in teams meetings except the ones with my direct team members.

I don't check my email more than 5 times a day: start of day, mid morning, before lunch, mid afternoon, end of day. In your case that's 20 emails to look at each time and I bet adding some inbox rules would break it up into something even more manageable (3 to 5 emails per folder they hit).

Teams and slack chats are muted by default for me unless I'm mentioned and that's what most people expect.

This yields good ~90 minute chunks for me to work with despite all the noise. I don't even block out my schedule. I just let some days be shitty if they're going to be (usually no more than about 3 half days lost per week).

parent sublinear 3 years ago

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