Tim Ferriss on time management as priority management
This is a piece of advice from The Four Hour Work Week that I need to re-learn and re-apply on a regular basis: Slow down… Read More »Tim Ferriss on time management as priority management
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The discipline death spiral
You make a bad decision (because everybody does).* You get busy fixing it – on top of all the other things you were already doing.… Read More »The discipline death spiral
Buzzy (Bee to Bee)
… is great when you’re working on your own, bashing through emails or making something. It’s less good when you’re making important decisions, working with… Read More »Buzzy (Bee to Bee)
Back-to-back
Back to back meetings are a bad idea: Unless you or the chairperson is really good, you’re almost certain to be running late at the… Read More »Back-to-back
30/90
What would happen if you made a 30/90 rule? It looks like this. 30 For every “ten minute job” that isn’t completely routine – an… Read More »30/90
A sense of urgency
No doubt about it: a sense of urgency helps us make get things happen and get stuff done. The problems come when we’re urgent about… Read More »A sense of urgency
Time on our hands: la durée
The idea is really just this: time on a watch is not the same as time in your head. An hour can fly by or… Read More »Time on our hands: la durée
Crunch time
… isn’t the push to meet a tight deadline, or what you do under pressure. Crunch time is when you have a bit of time,… Read More »Crunch time
The time and the energy
As in, “I don’t know where you get them.” I can’t make more time*, and you almost certainly know more than I do about managing… Read More »The time and the energy
Double time
There is never enough time. There are theories about why we’re so bad at predicting how long things will take: the planning fallacy, Brooke’s law… Read More »Double time
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