'Deep work’ is just ‘doing your job’ for people who’ve been on Slack so long they forgot what that felt like

@Daojoan

This really hits home for me. It's not just Slack, it's also modern office environments that make focus impossible.

@svavar @Daojoan Open plan offices! These encourage colleagues to interrupt and ask questions continually during the working day. I am available for questions at points during the day, and have specific longer sessions to deal with more in depth issues that those learning the job quite reasonably need to learn about. But people seem to have expectations of instant and always on answering.