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I am a programmer myself, so I am aware of how incredibly annoying interruptions are. I loathe being thrown out of the zone. So yes, I am very aware of whatever others are doing at the time of calling. I only call, if I believe it will shorten the interaction on both ends and would add something meaningful, and I am certain I am not interrupting the other person. I largely prefer email though, as it is more async and generally more convenient.


Put your phone on silent mode, and work until you don't feel like working anymore. Then check your phone whenever you feel like it.

Your phone calls don't need to control you. You can just check your phone later and see if you have missed calls / voicemails.

Working on something, but it's not super important and you don't mind being interrupted for a little bit? Take phone back off of silent mode. Easy.

Well, easy for me at least. Judging my all the comments here, this is absolutely IMPOSSIBLE for everyone else on Hacker News.




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