Let's face it: Interruptions happen and what is worse I'm not immune interrupting others. While we can and should strive to influence the environment to provide and protect flow state we also need imho. care about something else: Recovering flow state. Having notes laying out key milestones beforehand and capturing intermediate results at least for me make a big difference.
it’s unfortunate that the times when you need the flow state to focus on an urgent problem are also the times when you’ll get hit with a deluge of distractions (from automated notifications and panicking managers that don’t know what to do other than asking “is this fixed yet?”)
Nah, it's simpler for me when I have an _urgent_ problem. I then _know_ what I focus on and prioritize to fix that problem. I basically... rudely ignore anything and anyone else. When the priorities are not as clear is when I feel like wading through mud.
