Measure focus-mode interruption debt

Prompt that measures focus interruption debt and proposes quiet-hour rules. Paste it into an AI tool of your choice, which then measures focus-mode interruption debt.

Topic: Planning & projects
Type: Prompt
Level: Beginner
Time: about 10 min

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Role: engineer, last sprint week Chat 38, meetings 11, incidents 2 Recovery ~12 min / switch Debt ≈ 9.5 h Rules: no-meeting Tue AM, chat batch 3×/day Metric: deep-work hours / week

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RoleWho is measured?

WeekWhat week?

SourcesWhat interrupts?

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Help me measure focus-mode interruption debt.
Role: [Role]
Week: [Week]
Sources: [Sources]
Steps: 1. List interruption sources and count events in a typical week. 2. Estimate recovery minutes after each switch. 3. Separate deep work blocks from shallow reactive time. 4. Propose rules: quiet hours, batching and meeting caps. 5. Name one metric the team will watch. 6. Write a one-week experiment.
Output: debt map, recovery estimate, rules, metric and experiment.

Take particular care to count recovery time, not only meeting minutes, then protect deep work.

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Paste calendar density and chat volume bands, without private message text.

Why does this work?

Eight “quick questions” can cost more than one meeting. Debt is recovery time, not only minutes on the clock.

Tips

Protect at least one two-hour block daily before adding more sync.

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