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why "quick questions" hurt more than meetings
(and how to fix it without disapearing on your team)
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👋 Welcome back to All Things Remote: your weekly shortcut to building lean, efficient remote teams without the chaos.
Everyone complains about meetings.
And they're right - remote teams typically have way too many meetings (problem for another day!) But here's what's killing your team's productivity even more than the calls throughout the day!
It’s the Slack pings. The "got a sec?" messages.
The "just checking in" that pulls someone out of deep work for something that could've waited.
These interruptions feel smaller than meetings, they're not on the calendar and they don't block out an hour so it doesn’t feel like anything!
But they're worse. Because, unlike meetings, they happen all day. And every single one costs your team 20+ minutes of focus time.
In today's send:
✅ Why "quick questions" destroy more productivity than meetings
✅ How to protect focus time without becoming unreachable
✅ A simple system that makes interruptions work better
But first, a quick question:
How often do you think your team gets interrupted by "quick questions"? |
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