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Engineering productivity suffers from seven common friction points: context switching (interruptions destroy deep focus), multitasking (creates illusion of speed while preventing meaningful work), urgency illusion (teams prioritize trivial urgent tasks over important work), Parkinson's Law (work expands to fill available time), Zeigarnik Effect (unfinished tasks consume mental resources), decision fatigue (willpower depletes throughout the day), and Brooks's Law (adding people to late projects makes them later). Solutions include batching communication, aggressive time-boxing, automating trivial decisions, keeping teams small, and implementing shutdown rituals to close mental loops.

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