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Let people know that you don't respond to personal communications nor interruptions during working hours on weekdays. Keep work meetings to 3 hours per day or less and only during working hours. Give yourself at least two 1 hour blocks per day for deep work. You'll have plenty of time to learn new technologies.

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Based on personal experience, 3 hours per day of meetings is hell. Once you factor in all the time lost to context switching this consumes half your day. This coming year I really have to work on cutting back on zooms for my own mental health.

Are you sure staff+ engineers can keep meetings to 3 hours per day? Every single staff+ engineer I know has more meeting than that. 3 hours per day is around the meeting load of senior engineers, not staff.

Many (most?) organizations seem to have too many meetings. 3 hours daily is insane. It’s amazing what we tolerate for a paycheck.

At my current job (sr. eng) I have an average of 45 minutes of meetings per day

Really depends on the company, full stop.

Find a company culture that does have meeting-itis.

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