TIL about going straight into the ask

POSTED ON: Aug 12, 2022

Attention is a limited resource. Studies even show that each interrupt can cost a developer 1.5 hours a day. Via Reducing the effect of email interuption on employees whitepaper

That's great for a developer who can solely focus on a ticket.

But when you manage a team, you need to be around for support.

RandomGuy: Any Javascript experts can help?

This is bad form, for several reasons. What the person is actually asking here is:

RandomGuy: Any Javascript experts who can dedicate the time help look into this vague problem for me, that could either be something with my code, my IDE, my browser, my build tools? It might be something on local, staging, production?

Via Don't ask to ask, just ask

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