Time Management at Khan Academy(engineering.khanacademy.org) |
Time Management at Khan Academy(engineering.khanacademy.org) |
The only trick that really stuck to me is to write down on a piece of paper where I'm at during a context switch. That really helps to pick it up again faster afterwards.
Work is getting stupid now. All the gains go to someone else for most people.
Everyone says they "tried X for a few weeks but let it lapse". Is this because ultimately we cannot work full throttle without big incentives?
Yes we all have fear as a driver but I find this wears off quick.
Oh, maybe I do that too? I'm not sure if I blame this on my memory, but sometimes to do X I need to do Y and then Z (specially when starting a project), and then I forget why I was doing Z in the first place. I'm using Trello for doing things at work, and after a "Doing" column, I put a "Doing now" that usually has only one task to simulate the writing in a piece of paper. Sometimes it turns out into a "stack" of tasks with the switchs. It's usually really short term tasks. Not sure if you are talking about something like that.
Before that I used to write in my notebook what my task was, so I don't lose focus.
Our current solution is to make it easier to cordon off blocks of time and easily reschedule disruptive meetings using a mix of auto-suggested times and meeting polls.
> Given my couple-year goals, am I focusing on the right spheres in my life?
> my professed purpose is "expand the reach of human knowledge and ability"; my current vision is "do that by making powerful ideas more learnable and by helping more people become life-long learners"
> which I create based on what I and my team are accountable for delivering to the company.
> I can't ignore my email, but I also can't let it dominate me. <- dominate? wtf?
That's just a few examples but this stuff is pretty cringey and detached from basic humanity.
That said, Khan Academy has some interesting tech:
http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/aphrodite-inline-cs...
* work due today
* work due this week
* work due this month or later
I use it for my to-dos at work.
I do know what my priorities are, and I work on them as time allows, but I cannot plan when things will get done.
Find a like minded person and agree to a support shift: person A will handle interruptions in the morning so persona B can work on projects, then person B will handle interruptions in the second half of the shift so person A can work on their projects.
When the stakes are high people think ahead, organize, and make plans. If you consider your career progression to be low stakes by all means don't plan.
Seems unfair to claim "Elizabeth's post makes it sound like she's a manager-type" when she literally says she is a manager in the post.
And IMHO an outliner is much more flexible than a webapp.
He and Christina Hogan has also written "The Practice of System and Network Administration" which deals with everything else schools didn't tell you about Systems Administration including chapters on hiring/firing, negotiations from both sides of the table and more ;-)