I'm curious as to why the responses to this topic don't mention electronic communication more often. Tapping someone on the shoulder when they're in flow leads not only to immediate destruction of mental state, but usually someone nearly falling out of their chair.
Headphones being the universal symbol for "otherwise occupied, please DND", why don't people use these electronic communication systems we spent the last two decades developing?
You get an IM along the lines of "Got a sec?" and you can gracefully swap that mental state out to disk and address the question.
Headphones being the universal symbol for "otherwise occupied, please DND", why don't people use these electronic communication systems we spent the last two decades developing?
You get an IM along the lines of "Got a sec?" and you can gracefully swap that mental state out to disk and address the question.
Really, it's a no brainer.