racoma.com.phJ. Angelo Racoma on technology, economics, writing, problogging, and getting things done

Greg writes on the perennial problem at the workplace named “interruptions.” According to our friendly usability expert, it is a programmer’s nemesis: one millisecond of interruption could disturb one’s “flow,” or nudge one out of his “zone.”

Here’s my response, which I posted on ForeverGeek. An excerpt:

I would think this same principle applies to other creative types, as well. And this includes writers, artists, and other people who rely on concentration and inspiration to work effectively and efficiently.

True, programmers need time to think up workflows and other logical stuff in their heads, and then finally put this into a coherent, cohesive code that would hopefully also mesh well with other programmers’ own sets of code. But the same goes with words, sentences, strokes of a brush or pencil, and even photo compositions, and other such multimedia.

I had drafted the entry here, and was supposed to hit the publish button already, when I thought I’d post it over at FG instead, so I could have a wider reach, and since I thought it’s FG material.

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