We’ve all been there. We get our coffee. We set up the perfect playlist. We adjust our monitors, put our headphones in, and now we’re ready for total, 100% focus. Minutes later, a colleague wanders over and asks us a basic question about CSS positioning. Our concentration is broken and our patience is tested – but we pause, answer their question, and slowly attempt to get back to work.
That uninterrupted focus is key to our coding productivity, yet we have all these junior developers who need consistent guidance wandering around hindering our efficiency.
In this talk, we’ll discuss the reasons why you should embrace the junior dev hire and chat about some practical tips for managing your focus with your teaching.