Yeah this is something I want to learn more about for sure and is the weakest part of this piece. What have you found that works for you? Or is just that knowing that you’ll get interrupted will force better discipline?
this is part of the promise of the Pomodoro Technique. Named after a tomato shaped kitchen timer, the idea is to work for 25 minutes and then stop for 5 and step away from what you were doing, rinse and repeat. Being able to pick back up becomes important.
Definitely agree with your assessment. That’s the feeling I wanted to convey at the end. The goal is to make people aware it’s not their fault but they have some things they can try to make things better for them.
This is excellent and aligns with my own experience.
During my day I try to minimize interruptions by batching them. I will largely ignore Slack, and as notifications come in I glance and determine quickly if it really is urgent or if it can wait. If it can wait, I will punt all of those messages to a "remind me later" of a few hours, and get back to my task. I think this keeps my "recovery time" small as I'm not looking too close at these messages. It's not perfect, but definitely helps over pausing my "real work" to fully dive into each notification or ask.
Then in your next performance review you get dinged as "not responsive", "not a team player". Trying to work in peace is a in instant loss nowadays, just play the visibility performative game as all the quickly promoted people in office do. Why do you think your management cares about getting things done? If they did they would reward it.
This has not been my experience at least at the more remote-friendly places I worked. However, I can see this at companies with different culture / pace / attitude.
My most recent role the entire company of ~200 was remote, and so there was rarely the expectation of immediacy in a response. If something was truly urgent you'd be paged.
That was an excellent piece that bookmarked to come back to it and I took time to read through it. I was only surprised to not find some recommendation on how to reproduce that without going through the whole full conscious self-monitoring.
I looked at the simulator mentioned at the end of the post.
The deep work I am often in requires way more than an hour of it and with continuity. This is because a lot of context needs to be held in memory and the loss from interruptions is thereby much higher.
It would have been better if the ranges on the following were wider, hitting may be even 16 hours for the first one below (not kidding).
>> What counts as deep work? 30m 45m 60m
>> How many blocks do you need? 1 2 3
PS: Why limit the range or quanta when the math framework you have painstakingly built allows for more.
This site is hosted on Github Pages as a statically built site; it's not served by Astro. I don't think I can control what they do with trailing slashes or the lack of it. This is also clarified on the Astro config.
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For the first time, we are hiring a product manager that is going to be focused on our growth funnels within our service. This person will own the onboarding journey and help those first-time customers become loyal users. This role comes at a special time where we have launched a brand new version of our SDKs and APIs where customers, especially in large enterprises, can fully integrate Felt into their own tooling [2]
Ideal candidates will have 4+ years of experience focus on growth and onboarding within B2B SaaS and/or PLG companies. They will have a proven track record, own metrics such as time to value, be comfortable owning touchpoints, and designing and running experiments.
As mentioned, this role is the first product role at our fast growing company and will have strong leadership potential. You'll be joining a team that's build groundbreaking tools before, and is on the cusp of doing it again.
We are well-funded with a long runway and a strong revenue funnel already. You can read more about it our first funding here [3], and our announcement here [4]. Our terms are employee-friendly terms such as early exercise, a 10-year exercise window and even a matching 401(k).[5]
If you are interested, please reach out via hello@felt.com and mention HN and the role you are applying to. This role is based in SF Bay Area, in our Oakland office that's right next to the BART station. [6]
Felt | Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Growth Product Manager | Oakland, CA or REMOTE (US only) | Full Time | https://felt.com
Felt is building a cloud-based geographic information systems (GIS) solution and have hundreds of customers already using it to run their operations, processing terabytes of data. Our team hails from Uber, Google, Meta, CARTO, Mapbox, The New York Times and a few others. If you have used online maps in the past few years, you have used their work. My co-founder and CEO, Sam, is a former YC founder who sold his previous company [1] and I'm an early Uber engineer.
We are on the lookout for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer who will help build our GIS architecture in the cloud. Felt built the world's most advanced cloud-native GIS systems. We are able to processes almost all types vector, raster, and tabular data you can throw at it. You can throw a basic CSV or a multi-band raster file with NDVI encoding. Felt can also natively connect to STAC repositories, process data from your Snowflake installations, or download things from your Redshift.
We are looking for a senior or a staff level engineer who will help us take this architecture to next level. We are always adding support more types of files and connectors. We also have some ongoing projects to make this infrastructure more modular and work in VPCs.
Ideal candidates will have experience working with infrastructure as code tools such as Cloudformation, CDK, Terraform or similar. We handle many different types of data on a daily basis and it's key that we iterate really fast; our IaC tools enable us to do that with confidence.
Also, for the first time, we are hiring a product manager that is going to be focused on our growth funnels within our service. This person will own the onboarding journey and help those first-time customers become loyal users.
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Ideal candidates will have 4+ years of experience focus on growth and onboarding within B2B SaaS and/or PLG companies. They will have a proven track record, own metrics such as time to value, be comfortable owning touchpoints, and designing and running experiments.
We are well-funded and just raised our $15M Series A. You can read more about it our funding here [5], and our announcement here [6]. Our terms are employee-friendly terms such as early exercise, a 10-year exercise window and even a matching 401(k).[7]
If you are interested, please reach out via hello@felt.com and mention HN and the role you are applying to.
My experience suggests the opposite; the city was an upwards trajectory until 2018 or so but it's taken a turn for the worse since.
I lived in SF from 2009 to 2024. Every part of the city has gotten worse. When I moved, parts of Mission were definitely rough and they've cleaned up quite a bit. Even SoMa became somewhat interesting, as much as area like that could have before Covid.
Felt | Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Growth Product Manager | Oakland, CA or REMOTE (US only) | Full Time | https://felt.com
Felt is building a cloud-based geographic information systems (GIS) solution and have hundreds of customers already using it to run their operations, processing terabytes of data. Our team hails from Uber, Google, Meta, CARTO, Mapbox, The New York Times and a few others. If you have used online maps in the past few years, you have used their work. My co-founder and CEO, Sam, is a former YC founder who sold his previous company [1] and I'm an early Uber engineer.
We are on the lookout for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer who will help build our GIS architecture in the cloud. Felt built the world's most advanced cloud-native GIS systems. We are able to processes almost all types vector, raster, and tabular data you can throw at it. You can throw a basic CSV or a multi-band raster file with NDVI encoding. Felt can also natively connect to STAC repositories, process data from your Snowflake installations, or download things from your Redshift.
We are looking for a senior or a staff level engineer who will help us take this architecture to next level. We are always adding support more types of files and connectors. We also have some ongoing projects to make this infrastructure more modular and work in VPCs.
Ideal candidates will have experience working with infrastructure as code tools such as Cloudformation, CDK, Terraform or similar. We handle many different types of data on a daily basis and it's key that we iterate really fast; our IaC tools enable us to do that with confidence.
Also, for the first time, we are hiring a product manager that is going to be focused on our growth funnels within our service. This person will own the onboarding journey and help those first-time customers become loyal users.
.
Ideal candidates will have 4+ years of experience focus on growth and onboarding within B2B SaaS and/or PLG companies. They will have a proven track record, own metrics such as time to value, be comfortable owning touchpoints, and designing and running experiments.
We are well-funded and just raised our $15M Series A. You can read more about it our funding here [5], and our announcement here [6]. Our terms are employee-friendly terms such as early exercise, a 10-year exercise window and even a matching 401(k).[7]
If you are interested, please reach out via hello@felt.com and mention HN and the role you are applying to.
Felt | Senior Infrastructure Engineer (AWS, GIS) | Oakland, CA or REMOTE (US only) | Full Time | https://felt.com
Felt is building a cloud-based geographic information systems (GIS) solution and have hundreds of customers already using it to run their operations, processing terabytes of data. Our team hails from Uber, Google, Meta, CARTO, Mapbox, The New York Times and a few others. If you have used online maps in the past few years, you have used their work. My co-founder and CEO, Sam, is a former YC founder who sold his previous company [1] and I'm an early Uber engineer.
We are on the lookout for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer who will help build our GIS architecture in the cloud. Felt built the world's most advanced cloud-native GIS systems. We are able to processes almost all types vector, raster, and tabular data you can throw at it. You can throw a basic CSV or a multi-band raster file with NDVI encoding. Felt can also natively connect to STAC repositories, process data from your Snowflake installations, or download things from your Redshift.
We are looking for a senior or a staff level engineer who will help us take this architecture to next level. We are always adding support more types of files and connectors. We also have some ongoing projects to make this infrastructure more modular and work in VPCs.
Ideal candidates will have experience working with GIS tools such as Rasterio, GDAL, Shapely as well as AWS primitives such as Cloudformation, CDK, and Lambda. Experience building infrastructure of either kind is a plus!
We are well-funded and just raised our $15M Series A. You can read more about it our funding here [5], and our announcement here [6]. Our terms are employee-friendly terms such as early exercise, a 10-year exercise window and even a matching 401(k).[7]
If you are interested, please reach out via hello@felt.com and mention HN and Infrastructure role.
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