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aliases: ["Podcast recording — 2025-04-10"]
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Date: "2025-04-10"
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# Podcast recording — 2025-04-10
Recorded episode with Matteo Gentile. Great conversation.

## Notes
- Episode theme: third session with Matteo — the organizational cost of context switching and how engineering leaders can design work systems that protect deep focus time
- Matteo presented research-backed findings on the impact of interruptions on engineering productivity, including a study he ran with three client organizations that measured output before and after implementing "focus blocks" and meeting-free days
- His consulting perspective gave him breadth across different company sizes and industries — the interventions that worked at a 50-person startup were fundamentally different from what worked at a 2,000-person enterprise
- Practical and immediately applicable episode; Matteo provided specific calendar and Slack configuration recommendations that listeners can implement the same week
- Key quote: "Every Slack notification is a context switch, and every context switch costs 23 minutes. Do the math on your team's daily notification count and you will understand where your velocity went"
- Clean audio; Matteo recorded from his consulting office with good room treatment

## Follow-up
- [ ] Send thank-you email to Matteo
- [ ] Draft show notes with the focus time implementation playbook he described
- [ ] Schedule editing with [[person-paco-furiani]]
