Charity Majors shares how the role of management is to get interrupted.
Management is highly interruptive, and great engineering — where you’re learning things — requires blocking out interruptions. You can’t do these two opposite things at once. As a manager, it is your job to be available for your team, to be interrupted. It is your job to choose to hand off the challenging assignments, so that your engineers can get better at engineering.
This. This is how my day, more or less, looks like. Interruptions and context switching. But somehow I like doing this.