At least speaking from my experience, one of the default ways the Lightcone campus team gets deep-work done is by working in pairs. I also think we would structure things probably somewhat differently if we were doing more engineering or math work (e.g. the LessWrong team tends to be somewhat less interrupt driven).
I’ve found that by working in pairs with someone, I end up with a lot more robustness to losing context for a minute or two, and often get to expand my metacognition, while still getting a lot of the benefits of deep work. It doesn’t work for everything (for example, I have a really hard time co-writing long pieces of text with someone), but it works pretty well for other things (like programming, planning, preparing talks, legal work).
At least speaking from my experience, one of the default ways the Lightcone campus team gets deep-work done is by working in pairs. I also think we would structure things probably somewhat differently if we were doing more engineering or math work (e.g. the LessWrong team tends to be somewhat less interrupt driven).
I’ve found that by working in pairs with someone, I end up with a lot more robustness to losing context for a minute or two, and often get to expand my metacognition, while still getting a lot of the benefits of deep work. It doesn’t work for everything (for example, I have a really hard time co-writing long pieces of text with someone), but it works pretty well for other things (like programming, planning, preparing talks, legal work).