--- title: The Thirty Minute Rule | daily.dev description: The Thirty Minute Rule is the rule that if anyone gets stuck on something for more than 30 minutes, they should ask for help. By asking for help after 30... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-thirty-minute-rule-7al92rvxr twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Thirty Minute Rule | daily.dev og:description: The Thirty Minute Rule is the rule that if anyone gets stuck on something for more than 30 minutes, they should ask for help. By asking for help after 30... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-thirty-minute-rule-7al92rvxr og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/7Al92RvXR.png og:image:alt: The Thirty Minute Rule og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Thirty Minute Rule **[Pointer](https://daily.dev/sources/pointer)** · 2 min read · 323 upvotes · 31 comments ## Summary The Thirty Minute Rule is the rule that if anyone gets stuck on something for more than 30 minutes, they should ask for help. By asking for help after 30 minutes it addresses the following things:Often we are stuck because of something we don’t know, making it impossible to proceed. Sometimes simply formulating the question to ask allows us to answer the problem ourselves. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ghost** · 5 upvotes > Nice article! I had to admit; at first, I was a little apprehensive of the idea, but after reading further, it makes total sense. **@idoshamun** · 4 upvotes > @dailydevtips @sshanzel @aya_dev interesting read! We might want to adjust and incorporate some of it **@babi364** · 4 upvotes > Nice article! I recently completed my academic internship and during this period I met a fellow intern who did not know how to ask for help. He would stay with an issue for days and we'd discover it usually during the stand-up meetings. I don't know why but some people have some kind of need to solve their problems themselves. Asking for help does not make you less competent. **@sonofapollo** · 3 upvotes > Thank you for this reinforcement. I try to do this as well because I'm highly (sometimes, too) analytical and this is one of the ways I keep myself from wasting too much time on a task. **@devna** · 3 upvotes > Don't stick in issues for more than 30 min. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-thirty-minute-rule-7al92rvxr) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The Thirty Minute Rule","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-thirty-minute-rule-7al92rvxr","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-thirty-minute-rule-7al92rvxr"},"datePublished":"2022-03-04T19:59:19.305Z","dateModified":"2022-03-04T19:59:19.305Z","description":"The Thirty Minute Rule is the rule that if anyone gets stuck on something for more than 30 minutes, they should ask for help. 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I had to admit; at first, I was a little apprehensive of the idea, but after reading further, it makes total sense.","datePublished":"2022-03-11T04:38:02.369Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/7Al92RvXR#c-BJovEE24D","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Deleted user","url":"https://daily.dev/ghost","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--hNIUzLiO--/f_auto/v1705327420/public/ghost_vlftth"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":5}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"@dailydevtips @sshanzel @aya_dev interesting read! We might want to adjust and incorporate some of it","datePublished":"2022-03-24T06:49:10.344Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/7Al92RvXR#c-YYR3McI9W","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Ido Shamun","url":"https://daily.dev/idoshamun","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s---xy_OAwk--/f_auto,q_auto/v1703781380/avatars/avatar_28849d86070e4c099c877ab6837c61f0"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":4}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Nice article! I recently completed my academic internship and during this period I met a fellow intern who did not know how to ask for help. He would stay with an issue for days and we’d discover it usually during the stand-up meetings. I don’t know why but some people have some kind of need to solve their problems themselves. 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I try to do this as well because I’m highly (sometimes, too) analytical and this is one of the ways I keep myself from wasting too much time on a task.","datePublished":"2022-03-20T12:53:06.007Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/7Al92RvXR#c-cgMpQ89Nw","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Angel C Garcia","url":"https://daily.dev/sonofapollo","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/53502849?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Don’t stick in issues for more than 30 min.","datePublished":"2022-03-11T12:34:51.948Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/7Al92RvXR#c-xAEfjTabj","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Naveen E","url":"https://daily.dev/devna","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/AOh14GgNln84WkC-EbBVanSRnm9RbJKhu5J54y-93UGXkQ=s100"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}}]} ```