Coaching practices for New Coworker Puts on Disturbing Shows and Music on the Store Tv
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- Work never actually ends
- Someone just came to me with a mistake and I felt my face tighten before I said a word
- It’s not the brightness that gets me
- My boss keeps checking in and hovering over my work, and it makes me feel untrusted
- I’ve got something playing or scrolling pretty much every waking minute, and now even mild quiet feels unbearable and ordinary tasks feel flat
Practices that may help
- Set explicit work-technology boundaries to stop techno-invasion
Define the hours during which work technology cannot enter your personal time — and hold the boundary.
Technostress: What It Is and How to Manage It - Respond non-punitively to mistakes
When someone brings you a problem or mistake, make your first move curiosity, not blame.
Psychological Safety in Teams - Curb stimulating content before bed
Cut the arousing, attention-grabbing content, not just the screen brightness.
The Digital Sunset - Send proactive, brief status updates
Update your manager on important work before they ask — in the format and frequency they actually want.
Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss - Audit and reduce your stimulation diet
Deliberately lower the baseline level of stimulation you consume so boredom tolerance rebuilds.
Boredom Tolerance - Show up for the person, not just the deliverable
Acknowledge what is happening in someone’s life when it is clearly affecting them — before addressing the work.
Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor - Open with something unexpected to direct attention deliberately
Surprise briefly resets attention, letting you redirect it to whatever follows.
Pre-Suasion, Made Practical - Rotate bundles before they stop working
A bundle loses its pull when the want becomes associated with work rather than pleasure — rotate before that happens.
Temptation Bundling, Made Practical - Diversify creative inputs: consume across domains and outside your taste
Read, watch, listen to work that you do not immediately like — outside-taste input breaks the feedback loop that narrows creative range over time.
The Beginner’s Mind in Creative Practice - Audit and redesign your digital environment
Your phone and computer are designed by engineers optimizing for your attention — audit them as you would a physical space.
Environment Design for Behavior Change
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When someone brings you a problem or mistake, make your first move curiosity, not blame.
Respond non-punitively to mistakes
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Downward arrow for interpreting others’ behavior
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Update your manager on important work before they ask — in the format and frequency they actually want.
Send proactive, brief status updates
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Give team members specific language for raising concerns, not just permission to raise them.
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