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The "open office" concept is not as cool as it's often perceived to be.

The open office is the bane of my existence. I have helping disorder (made up) and it makes me 100% interruptible. Meaning I do 5x as much deep work in the office after hours or on a holiday. Imagine the productivity I could gain if I could simply close my office door.

I've often had to wait until Friday afternoon when everyone's mentally checked out to get work done.

There's a magical period between Friday at 3pm to late night Sunday where no distractions means I can actually coherently focus for hours at a time. Also it's typically enough time to get to a MVP if I need to prove a point. Just sucks that this magical productivity time also happens to be "the weekend" =(

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