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When organizing your task boards, it is more effective to group tasks based on similar content, such as roles or major projects, rather than time sensitivity. By organizing tasks with similar content together, you can easily focus on specific areas at a time, allowing your brain to familiarize itself with the semantic context. This makes it easier to work with the tasks on the board and stay productive.
As a legislative consultant, it is important to find a balance between distractions and deep work. To achieve this, allocate the first two hours of your workday for deep work. Avoid scheduling meetings or other distractions during this time. By setting aside dedicated time for deep work every day, you can focus on learning, writing about policy ideas, studying legislative history, and other important tasks without interruptions.
In order to prioritize deep work, consider starting your workday a little earlier and dedicating the first two hours to focused, uninterrupted work. While there may be temporary inconveniences or annoyances with clients or colleagues who prefer to schedule meetings during this time, the long-term benefits of deep work and personal growth far outweigh these short-term issues. Remember to communicate your schedule in advance to manage expectations and allow others to adjust to your dedicated deep work time.
Grammarly Go, a communication assistant powered by generative AI, allows users to quickly generate high-quality writing. It understands the user's unique context, preferred voice, and goals. Users can generate ideas, compose, rewrite, and reply thoughtfully with just a few clicks. Grammarly Go offers suggestions for decorations, captions, and helps adjust tone, clarity, and length. By applying generative AI in a focused and user-centered way, Grammarly Go enhances communication and saves time for knowledge workers.
When hiring someone and discussing time management or prioritization, the focus should be on creating a productivity culture within the organization. Instead of seeking specific examples or tactics, it is more important to push potential employees away from a cybernetic definition of productivity. Leaders should ask potential hires about how they decide what to work on next and examine their understanding of attention-centered productivity. Seeking individuals who are aware of the importance of minimizing context shifts and know how to allocate their work and time accordingly can be a valuable asset in promoting productivity within the organization.
Over the past twenty years, “productivity” has come to be synonymous with using digital tools to speed up non-essential parts of knowledge work. As cal argues in this episode, this “cybernetic” approach has proven to be a complete failure. He explores why speeding up isn’t working and what this teaches us about what we need to do instead.
Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). Get your questions answered by Cal! Here’s the link: bit.ly/3U3sTvo
Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia
Today’s Deep Question: Why doesn’t cybernetic productivity work? [8:40]
- What should I ask a potential hire about their time management habits? [31:55]
- How do I teach leaders how to work more deeply? [38:17]
- How did Cal become good at breaking things down into systems and processes? [48:06]
- How do I build task boards if I have many roles? [51:05]
- How do I find time to think in my busy job? [54:20]
Something Interesting: Taylor Sheridan’s “writing bunker” [1:02:48]
Links:
hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/taylor-sheridan-yellowstone-interview-1235519261/
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Thanks to Jesse Miller for production, Jay Kerstens for the intro music, and Mark Miles for mastering.
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