My experience dealing with wrongheaded coworkers is this: The more time you spend isolated working on a problem, the more sunk cost fallacy you experience when people push back on your idea.
We have a whole bunch of programming techniques that allow us to make progress and lay groundwork outside of flow state, and then when we are certain that we have the solution, jump in for brief periods and come back out to check in with the world.
Saints preserve me from people who disappear for eight hours at a time and expect me to compliment them for their echo chamber work. Software is a team sport, not a painting.
We have a whole bunch of programming techniques that allow us to make progress and lay groundwork outside of flow state, and then when we are certain that we have the solution, jump in for brief periods and come back out to check in with the world.
Saints preserve me from people who disappear for eight hours at a time and expect me to compliment them for their echo chamber work. Software is a team sport, not a painting.