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4 points by xtat on Dec 9, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 17 comments |
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| I am Co-Founder/CTO at vid.io in San Francisco, and I'm iterating the most ideal work environment for all parties. If you have any favourite links related to this, I'd love to see them! 1. Under what circumstances do you get the most work done? What time of day? 2. How do you feel about having predefined hours every workday? 3. Stuff breaks, wild opportunities arise, people freak out. Interruptions are
an unfortunate reality. How do you manage them, and how do you wish people would work with
you on this? 4. I think there may be some business side->tech side correlation to these answers, so...
Do you identify more with being a hardcore hacker or a business guru? Myers-briggs type? 5. How often do you realtime chat, voice chat, and in what way does this affect your output?
Related to that, do you ask more questions than you answer? 6. Do you get more done around people or away from them? |
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2. Pre-defined hours are useful to maintain work discipline.
3. I manage and prioritize distractions by utility and time sinks. I pre-manage situations by making sure that stuff is reliable or stupid-easy-to-fix so that people don't freak out. That makes it easy to engage opportunities when they arise.
4. A good tech thinks like a business guru and a good business guru thinks like a tech. It's all the same discipline.
5. Chat is disabled for all of my work. I typically disable e-mail unless I'm filing a status report or handing off an asynchronous task.
6. My productivity is scheduled according to whether I'm with people, or by myself. I handle extended tasks when I'm alone. When I'm with people, I handle the tasks that benefit more from real-time iteration. I prefer to work independently since real-time iteration almost always leads to a dumbing down of a final product.