{"id":232,"date":"2023-08-18T16:20:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T16:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kurtgrung.com\/blog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2024-01-14T21:02:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T21:02:31","slug":"why-meetings-are-bad-for-coders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurtgrung.com\/blog\/why-meetings-are-bad-for-coders\/","title":{"rendered":"meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>why meetings are bad for coders (:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" src=\"https:\/\/kurtgrung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/call.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-233\" style=\"width:468px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kurtgrung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/call.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/kurtgrung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/call-300x168.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/kurtgrung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/call-768x431.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Writing code requires deep focus &#8211; It takes hours of continued focus to make any meaningful progress<br><br>Context switching is expensive &#8211; It takes some fixed amount of time to start writing code. Each time you switch you pay that cost.<br><br>Fragments your time &#8211; Meetings chunk up your calendar into smaller, useless fragments of time that aren&#8217;t as useful for making progress.<br><br>Of course somethings you need to have meetings though \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>why meetings are bad for coders (: Writing code requires deep focus &#8211; It takes hours of continued focus to make any meaningful progress Context switching is expensive &#8211; It takes some fixed amount of time to start writing code. Each time you switch you pay that cost. Fragments your time &#8211; Meetings chunk up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-meetings-are-bad"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurtgrung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurtgrung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurtgrung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurtgrung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurtgrung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kurtgrung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/kurtgrung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurtgrung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurtgrung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurtgrung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}