Dr. Cal Newport

It's good enough.

But if it's, I have 4X more meetings than I used to because of the inherent inefficiencies of having to go to pre-scheduled virtual for basically all collaboration, that could be a huge problem.

The data I saw from Microsoft, the last data I saw was a 252% increase in...

in these meetings from 2020 to now.

And it's not a number, it's not like it peaked and then started coming back down again once we went to hybrid.

It's just high and it's still creeping up, right?

That's a lot of time that just vanished.

And we sort of pretend like it didn't, but that's a lot of time that is not actively working on things and just talking about work or talking about other stuff while we get around to talking about work.

I think it's a real issue.

Yes.

What would they be?

Vis-a-vis knowledge workers.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So if I do three, I would say, okay, first of all, with your workload, simulate something like a pull system instead of a push system.

And what I mean by that is when you keep track of what you're working on, have the top part of that list, which is I'm actively working on these things, and keep that top part of your list to like two or three things.

Everything else is in the bottom part of the list.

It's to work on next, and it's in an ordered queue.

And so when you finish something that you're working on, you pull something new to take its slot from the list below.

So what I'm trying to do with that advice is reduce all this administrative overhead.