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Ep. 226: The Productivity Dragon

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Waiting for Column on My Task Boards

Chris from Scotland had a question about the waiting for column on his task boards. I'm an advocate of using task boards instead of list for keeping track of your open professional obligations. Have columns on each board for the different categories that you're moving tasks around on. So if there's something you're waiting to hear back about, like this person has to get back to me with this information,. You can put something on that waiting for column.

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