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Ep. 261: Control Your Time

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Advanced Time Blocking Advice

The single hardest batch admin tasks that most people do on a regular basis is cleaning their email inbox. If you're just going through your inbox one by one, why is that so hard? Because you are switching context from message to message. So shorter blocks of themed admin tasks is way more comfortable than having bigger blocks when you mix together different types of admin tasks. But my fourth bit of advanced time blocking advice is whenever you put a meeting of any significant length or complexity onto your time block plan, add a short block after it for just post-mortem and organizing what you learned.

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