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Be Too Busy to ‘Do Coffee’
You should be too busy to “do coffee” while still keeping an uncluttered calendar.
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
You should be too busy to “do coffee” while still keeping an uncluttered calendar.
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
It’s taken me a while to warm up to the idea that thinking is working, and that what is actually work can at first look lazy. I love Naval [Ravikant’s tweet], “Be too busy to do coffee while keeping an uncluttered calendar.” More often than not, spending two hours thinking about a problem is a much better use of my time than taking two calls withou... See more
Sari Azout • Sari Azout on Building Emotional Capital
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At first, I’d say yes to everything — meetings are really valuable when you’re starting off. But I reached a point where I was letting myself get scheduled on six to eight hours of phone calls a day. And when I looked at them, I couldn’t identify what the positive outcomes were — and more importantly, I didn’t enjoy doing it.
Every • The CEO of No
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The first suggestion is simple to implement: apply the heuristic of reducing whatever task list you come up with for a given day by somewhere between 25 and 50 percent. As mentioned, humans are wildly optimistic when we estimate how much time is needed to complete cognitive efforts. Blanket reduction rules, like cutting your initial task list by a
... See moreCal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
For example, one of the most important things to me is a continuous stream of new requests for my services. As long as this demand for “me” exceeds the available supply of “me,” I can demand and get premium fees, choose clients I like and blow off those I don’t, choose projects that interest me and reject those that don’t, confidently turn away bus
... See moreDan S. Kennedy • No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs: The Ultimate No Holds Barred Kick Butt Take No Prisoners Guide to Time Productivity and Sanity
The cost of meetings is so high especially given all the people who are in there... you're literally just dying an hour at a time. So you have to just drop non-urgent meetings or forget them all together if you want to do anything great.
Joe Rogan • #1309 - Naval Ravikant
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