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I'm big on async work, and I use it 99% of the time and encourage others to do so.
It happened to me countless times that while writing up an email for a meeting I wanted to schedule, I started asking more questions myself. This eventually led to not scheduling the meeting but just sending out an email with a mini research.
Writing forces you to think, and there's less room for small talk, which forces you to deliver facts.
I love that part of writing. It is very well engrained in Amazon's culture. Jeff Bezos always said that there is no way to write a six-page narratively structured memo and not have clear thinking.
By doing that, the amount of hours you save for your team make an impact in the long run.
The sad part is that most people only think in their individual time/effort, instead of the time/effort for the team
This reminds me of the https://paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html article.
I follow a similar approach where I batch similar stuff together and leave larger slots for deep work.
Absolutely, you can either act as maker or manager, but not both at the same time
I'm big on async work, and I use it 99% of the time and encourage others to do so.
It happened to me countless times that while writing up an email for a meeting I wanted to schedule, I started asking more questions myself. This eventually led to not scheduling the meeting but just sending out an email with a mini research.
Writing forces you to think, and there's less room for small talk, which forces you to deliver facts.
Thanks for the mention, Fran! 🤝
I love that part of writing. It is very well engrained in Amazon's culture. Jeff Bezos always said that there is no way to write a six-page narratively structured memo and not have clear thinking.
By doing that, the amount of hours you save for your team make an impact in the long run.
The sad part is that most people only think in their individual time/effort, instead of the time/effort for the team