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Interesting fact: At several large tech companies, there are engineers who have not attended a single required meeting in years because they have built enough internal credibility and delivered enough impact that their calendar is essentially untouchable. Some senior engineers operate on what is informally called "monk mode," blocks of deep work time so aggressively protected that even their managers will not schedule over them without a very good reason. The unspoken rule is that in big tech, visibility and interruption tolerance are inversely correlated with seniority: the higher you go, the more you can design your own working conditions. Reaching that level is not about politics or tenure, it is about making yourself so reliably high output that the organization bends around you instead of the other way around. Have you ever deliberately engineered your schedule to protect your deep work time?

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