How to Prioritize Your Time : YC Startup Library | Y Combinator
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Prioritize work to minimize opportunity cost. This prevents you from only pursuing incremental futures. In each quarter how much time to allocate incremental ~ 60%, to big new initiatives ~30%, to guidance & infrastructure ~10%.
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Spend time on high leverage activities: Do things that have the most impact. Preparing one thing that affects many, like all-hands and dashboards, or do one thing with a lot of impact on one person, like a performance review.
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LNO: Framework to prioritize time. There are leverage, neutral, and overhead tasks, where you get 10x, 1x or < 1x output. You should focus your best and the most hours on leverage tasks. Delegate or strike N and O tasks. The same activity can be all three depending on the context and how you execute it. Track L, N, O tasks.
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How to build this skill:
- Maximize what you can do on your own: by ruthlessly prioritizing your time, pushing back on activities that have small ROI, and focusing on areas where your input is crucial; for engineers, it often means less coding (if more junior people can do that piece of coding).
- How you can maximize what you can do through others: b
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It’s important to challenge yourself and your peers to cut even the good ideas if they aren’t perishable (can be done later), strategic (don’t directly support this plan’s strategy), or differentiating (set you apart from your competition). Instead, put those resources against the top priorities.
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