Technique/ Strategy: Define tasks by hours. Knowing where my time is going (and how much of it) is key to evaluating bandwidth and avoiding burnout.
In my context, I make sure the number of task hours doesn't exceed 35. In a 40-hour week, that gives me wiggle room for meetings and unforeseen requests from the team.
I start by writing down all my tasks and assigning hours to them (always erring on the higher side). Then, I divide these into higher-level categories and choose 2-3 categories to focus on for the week. It stops me from jumping between categories and losing my train of thought. At the same time, having 2-3 categories means I can move to something else if one task is too overwhelming.
If anyone's interested, I documented a few more techniques in this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/sindhusprasa...
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Product: Notion.
While I've been using it for. couple of years, the past year has seen me get serious about how I use it and how I can use it better. Now I'm at the point where I'm helping others. This is turn has generated new clients for my Graphic Design business.
Strategy: Helping others
It wasn't a strategic decision, but it seems the more good stuff you put out in the world, the more open you are to seeing it.
@peter_costello Would you say Notion is able to replace Jira in productivity analytics?
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@between_team I think so. But it requires set up and integrations to do so. I think with the recent purchase of automate.io this will open up significant opportunities for this sort of thing.
Having use JIRA and Confluence in the past I know that there is definitely less friction in getting the team to use notion.
One integration we use id toggl time tracking on a per task basis. This allows push time tracking that's super easy for the team.
Product: Notion, it replaced Google Doc, Google Drive, Trello/Asana as an all-in-one for small/ early stage team.
Technique: the book "Mom Test", talk to user is key and knowing how to talk to them is gold.
Strategy: Act fast, more fast, keeping the momentum > planning everything out and not doing.
Bonus: A lot of networking and meeting great people. You can learn whole lot from a 2-hour conversation with a price of coffee.
just realised how much could be learnt n changed in a year!
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@tszhoi_19 Great strategy point. It's a hard one to wrestle with sometimes.
Sounds too simple, but just working on a project consistently has changed everything.
I know what is happening, I solve problems when I am doing other things.
Just programming on it an hour a day has changed the way I work - https://twitter.com/JoshDance/st...
@joshdance Yes I totally agree with this. Consistency is huge!
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@joshdance hmm I like the idea of just doing an hour a day. Sometimes I feel that overwhelmed with all I have to do for my business - As I know it will take me hours and hours to do it all, so sometimes it really puts me off after already doing a day job and having a long work day. However, maybe telling myself to just do an hour per evening could work.
Webflow & Bubble: Easy of building things
Zapier & Airtable : Automating lots of repetitive stuff
Strategy: Just do it; it's much better than just thinking about it & never achieving it.
PH: Networking is important and building in Public
@integromat@vincentguittet Yes... I was thinking of starting with that as well ... currently building forms on bubble... once its over the next project would be on webflow and would require Integromat
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Strategy - A mindset to produce work that adds to my strengths, to produce content that feeds my optimism. This has helped me create work that is appreciated.
Technique - Change the perspective such that I can learn/benefit from mistakes, failures or shortcomings.
Product - Revue, it has saved a lot of effort in terms of organizing the newsletter.. Now I'm on the verge of switching to Ghost.
I hid my bookmarks tab in Chrome.
Bookmarks are meant to save you time.
But me, it just made me go on useless websites all the time.
Now I actually have to think for 30 seconds to find something useful to do.
Sports in the morning. Early morning. Every morning.
Clears the head.
Focuses on key points.
Makes ideas surge.
Only pain point: hard to take notes when running.
I'm replacing more and more of my traditional tools by building them myself. I don't get all the features but I get all the control. Coding = Super powers.
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Product: Notion for professional/personal life task management and Teal HQ for providing amazing career planning resources.
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