Time and attention are a knowledge worker’s most precious and irreplaceable natural resources. And, yet, most of us find our lives riddled with attention leaks that sap hours from every week. What ...
Time and attention are a knowledge worker’s most precious and irreplaceable natural resources. And, yet, most of us find our lives riddled with attention leaks that sap hours from every week. What can we do to understand where those leaks are coming from? And how we can start to command greater respect for time and attention — as well as ensuring that we respect that of our colleagues?
Darren Kuropatwa, Educator at ∞ßThanks for including the video. The title and slides reminded me very much of Howard Rheingold's recent work on Infotention.3 years ago
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Main Boss
Boss
Old Boss
HR with Questions
Committee
Primary
You Team
Secondary
Team
Sr. Engineer
Programming Who Hates You
Partner
That Marketing Tech
Person Committee
OPPORTUNITY COST
∞
SELFISH?
HARD-LY.
FINITE TIME,
FINITE ATTENTION
Concept: Joel Spolsky / JoelOnSoftware.com
SO?
FIVE PATTERNS
(THINGS THAT TEND TO WORK)
FIVE PATTERNS
1 Identify Leaks
2 Govern Access
3 Minimize Notifications
4 Work in Dashes
5 Renegotiate
IDENTIFY LEAKS
GOVERN ACCESS
WHO GETS ACCESS NOW?
MINIMIZE
NOTIFICATIONS
“DING!”
WORK IN
DASHES
TRAINING:
10/50 DASH
10 min Collect & Process
50 min Work
10 min Collect & Process
Etc...
RENEGOTIATE
QUALIFYING
“YES”
QUALIFYING
“YES”
• Kinda
• Maybe
• Later
• A Little
FIVE PATTERNS
1 Identify Leaks
2 Govern Access
3 Minimize Notifications
4 Work in Dashes
5 Renegotiate
HERE’S YOU:
OK, GENIUS,
SO, WHO DID
MOVE MY BRAIN?
HERE’S ME:
ANYONE WHOM
YOU’VE LET
MOVE YOUR BRAIN.
Gabriél Ma
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