Busywork is the junk food of work is so true and yes you know in your gut when you’ve been pottering micro tasking instead of doing real work. How there’s more of this content coming!

This didn’t call me out nearly as hard as I thought it would! I block out Mondays and Thursdays as No Meetings Days and it really makes a difference. I get two full days to do real work. I find it way easier to say no to work than I do to myself, though. There are things I’ll do for myself, for my passion project, that I’d never do for a manager.

I find it particularly interesting that John Zeratsky (1) helped develop Slack, (2) wrote Make Time, and nowadays (3) puts considerable effort into eliminating, or at least adding significant friction to use, anything that can be refreshed in his phone. Never too late to see the light, I guess.

@apolaine

4 ай бұрын

Yes it is a bit ironic that the way they realised focus was important was during sprints, which now everyone abuses to run around as fast as possible.

I picked up a couple new things I’ll try. Thank you

@apolaine

4 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it. Any particular ones?

@freddygoulet6101

4 ай бұрын

I liked the idea of the odd increments in meetings I.e. 25 minute meeting instead of thirty or 40 min instead of 60; I think if you provide too much time for a meeting it will be used unproductively; like the principle that whatever time you allocate for a task will be used. Also the buffer times between meetings; although I have been scheduling in buffer times using Calendly for a while now, it is a good practice. The other thing I implement is sticking to meeting topics. When we have covered the meeting topics the meeting is over and I leave as soon as I am able to avoid the time waste of off topic talking. I have lost so much time to other people who weren’t looking to be productive and wanted to waste time talking about unimportant things. I am always on the look out for good tips to be more efficient and protect my time, so I’ll be watching out for your next video on this topic. Thanks

@apolaine

4 ай бұрын

@@freddygoulet6101 Thanks for following up. Yes, I hate the think of just filling the allotted time of a meeting for the sake of it, too. It's usually a sign that the meeting hasn't been planned well. There's an opposite to that, though, too, which is to try and crash through 20 agenda items and only ever get through three. I never understand why people do this over and over again.

Promo`SM 😊