How Heroku Works - Maker's Day(craigkerstiens.com)

52 pointsby asenchi215 yıl önce5 comments

http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2011/11/07/how-heroku-works-maker-day/

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holman15 yıl önce

> To the unobservant eye it may appear to be just any other day, but the engineers notice the difference. There will be significantly less interruptions by someone walking over to your desk, you won’t be pulled into meetings that distract you from features, and you know it’s an opportunity to accomplish a bulk of work laid out from your weekly planning meeting.

For these reasons, we have our own "Maker's Day" too, except we have them every day instead of every seven days.

lucisferre15 yıl önce

How do you address the need for discussion, planning, collaboration, etc. withing a zero-interruptions, zero-meeting environment?

brown9-215 yıl önce

https://github.com/blog/920-how-github-works

lucisferre15 yıl önce

Ah so basically everything is asynchronous communications?

bretthardin15 yıl önce

I am all for a day per week dedicated to only focusing on one task. Shut off email, Shut off IM, etc.

Context switching killed me when I worked for a corporation. I Don't want it to kill my startup.