Rule #2 – Disable notifications

The tools you use for work have been meticulously designed to distract you. Well-intentioned product managers track how long we spend using these apps. The longer the better, in their opinion.…

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Rule #1 – Check email twice a day

I cannot stress this enough: if you check email no more than twice a day, it will transform your productivity. I stumbled across email batching at the start of my career, seventeen years ago.…

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