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Ep. 203: Taming Meetings

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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The Tool Box for Taming Meetings

The meeting buffer method is all about working with your calendar in a slightly smarter way. If you have to set up a meeting, and you know how long that meeting'is going to be, so often meetings have hard stop for itsa. Don't just block out that hour on your calendar. Add 15 to 20 minutes to that block. What you then do with this 15 to 20 minute buffer period is where you process everything that came up in that meeting,. To take the small steps to the small tasks that could be done right away. The capture in whatever systems you use to longer term tasks. A lot of people are in that ation, be it in their office or over zo

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