251 - Come up for Air - Nick Sonnenberg
You Are Not So Smart
The Importance of Organizing Your Life
About 60% of our time at work is spent on what they call work about work, which is a form of running in circles we might call meta work, searching for documents, organizing folders, pinging people three or four times, and then those people pinging other people three or four times, talking about the pings, gossiping about the pings, planning meetings about unnecessary meetings about planning more meetings and so on./nAnd though we spend most of our time doing that, we believe we spend about 30% of our time doing that./nThe result is we feel like we don't have enough hours in the day. But as Nick says, that feeling is generated by the quote, thousands of seemingly small inefficiencies at work that add up over time to become major drains on everyone's productivity.
