Catt Small

And so I actually ask people now to chunk meetings with me.

So it seems maybe counterintuitive,

But I actually usually will set a one-to-one, for example, to be 25 minutes long instead of 30.

So if I need to get water or anything like that, then I've got my break.

But then I want to have those meetings right after one after another.

And I can do that for probably...

three hours, you know, and then I need focus time after that.

And I usually try to have blocks of two hours, at least for my focus time.

I think, you know, if you go three to four hours, then it can be kind of a lot of focus time.

So there, you know, you might want to have a break in between.

But these are the kinds of things you need to start to understand about yourself and

to make sure that your calendar is designed in a way that makes you most effective.

And then you can start to think about, OK, what's the allocation of my time?

So how much time do I want to spend on forward-looking, one-year-out, two-year-out kinds of work?

versus thinking about immediate priorities.

That's another way that you can also manage your energy as well.

And so you can do things like, you know, consider how you want to do that.

And then you can go talk to your manager and say, Hey, I propose that I spend, you know, 70% of my time on immediate work shipping right now.

And then 30% of my time thinking about what's coming next or auditing the existing product, et cetera.

to make sure that we're just capturing any potential new work.