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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I have found that if the meeting is actually quick (sub 20 minutes) rebounding is not as difficult. When the "quick meeting" turns into a check in + "do we have time to talk about..." + any other number of meandering paths a meeting can travel down, I'll have a hard time getting back into task mode.

Something that helps me is to take a walk right after those meetings. Helps me reset when I get back to my desk.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I've found medication helps the most lol

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Some drugs help, but only if you can get the person organizing the meeting to take them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Here comes the juice!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah sure, medication can help!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've had had to stop medication due to high blood pressure.

Yippeeeeeeee!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, can't you just take HBP meds?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every medication has conflicts and side effects, ranging from vitamin absorption changes to actual risk of death depending on your situation. Adding another medication adds to the complications, in a 1+1=3 kind of way.

The more you keep going, the more you're taking on. Soon it becomes a "do I like living or do I want to kill my liver for X benefit" choice. "Brain-zap effects or suicidal thoughts?" (Or, with effexor, both!)

So tread carefully.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes medications have potential side effects, but HBP meds have been around for decades, are well studied and shown to be preferable versus the known outcomes of untreated hypertension.

Hypertension will fuck you up way more than taking an additional medication will. On the topic od the liver, It actually causes new blood vessels to be made to circumvent the liver which leads to more waste in bloodstream not being filtered out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

more waste in bloodstream not being filtered out

But that also doesn't sound like a good thing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah sorry, was not trying to present the process as positive..blood should not be circumventing the liver.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

This is why you make your own work better, improve the team’s work, and position yourself as a candidate for team lead by insisting that meeting timeboxes are enforced.

Even if it breaks productivity by cutting things off the first few times, it will train everyone to get to the point, which will make everything better after the first few breakages.