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Work on What Matters.
There'll always be more emails in need of reply, more meetings to attend, and more updates to read. A person can fill the entire workweek with these tasks over and over again. But to stay sane and sharp, you must pay yourself first by doing the work that actually means something to you.
I feel this acutely as someone... See more
DHHx.comFor high-priority tasks , like designing the main user interface content or creating content for a major product launch, you might spend 10–20 hours a week. These tasks need detailed planning and close collaboration with your team.
Medium-priority tasks , such as updating help center articles or creating content for minor feature updates, might take... See more
Medium-priority tasks , such as updating help center articles or creating content for minor feature updates, might take... See more
It’s time to upgrade from “hard-working” to “highly efficient”
To me, the ideal life is to take the 20 percent of my time that make me feel most alive and see if I can cut everything else out until that fills everything. Then do that again, cutting the “worst” 80 percent of the best. This is the inverse of how many companies operate. There the ideal is often “growth,” which they take to mean “say yes to all
... See moreHunter Walk recommends that folks avoid “snacking” when they prioritize work. If you’re in a well-run organization, at some point you’re going to run out of things that are both high-impact and easy. This leaves you with a choice between shifting right to hard and high-impact or shifting down to easy and low-impact. The later choice–easy and... See more
lethain.com • Work on What Matters.
Pacing yourself becomes the central challenge of a sustained, successful career: increasingly senior roles require that you accomplish more and more, and do it in less and less time. The ledge between these two constraints gets narrower the further you go, but it remains walkable if you take a deliberate approach.