Share your calendar(s), and the world will know what you (and your company) values. Where does your time go? How much time do you spend: Talking to customers? Sharing your insights? Reflecting on what you’ve learned recently? “Managing” stakeholders? In 1:1s without your manager? Planning for things far off into the future? Chats with no clear resolution or progress?
Check our reclaim.ai and getclockwise.com for some newish SaaS companies looking to solve these problems through tooling in the intersection between deep work and shared work in our new remote world!
Hey John - you account a lot of time for context switching in your example. Do you really believe context switching is burning that much of our time? Also would you have in mind switching between products/projects (if applicable) or simply type of tasks people do? Would be great to get your thoughts on that. Regardless - thanks for the text!
"I’ve encountered 10x more over-workers than under-workers in tech. And most of the under-workers were geniuses (coincidence?)."
This is a great observation. Hardly a coincidence, rather one of those truths hiding in plain sight. Beyond the myth of busyness and total efficiency (that Tom DeMarco properly undressed in "Slack"), I love Cal Newport's perspective on this -- the "hyperactive hive mind" -- a sort of modern day tech tragedy of the commons.
Great post again, John. Thanks for putting it together.
Check our reclaim.ai and getclockwise.com for some newish SaaS companies looking to solve these problems through tooling in the intersection between deep work and shared work in our new remote world!
Hey John - you account a lot of time for context switching in your example. Do you really believe context switching is burning that much of our time? Also would you have in mind switching between products/projects (if applicable) or simply type of tasks people do? Would be great to get your thoughts on that. Regardless - thanks for the text!
"I’ve encountered 10x more over-workers than under-workers in tech. And most of the under-workers were geniuses (coincidence?)."
This is a great observation. Hardly a coincidence, rather one of those truths hiding in plain sight. Beyond the myth of busyness and total efficiency (that Tom DeMarco properly undressed in "Slack"), I love Cal Newport's perspective on this -- the "hyperactive hive mind" -- a sort of modern day tech tragedy of the commons.
Great post again, John. Thanks for putting it together.