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Living in Karachi, I usually anchor my schedule around overlapping hours with Europe and a partial overlap with US teams. For a complex feature, I’d start my day with 1–2 hours of focused work before standups, so I come in with clear updates and blockers. I rely heavily on async tools: detailed Jira tickets, small Git branches with clear commit messages, and RFC-style docs in Confluence or Notion. For communication, I default to written updates in Slack with short Loom videos for anything visual, so teammates in other time zones aren’t blocked by my availability. I like to batch meetings into a 3–4 hour window to protect deep work. To avoid misalignment, I’ll propose a weekly 30-minute cross-time-zone sync just for the feature, with a shared checklist and metrics (like error rate, latency targets, or story points completed) so everyone can see progress at a glance.
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