Dr. Cal Newport

Yeah, like here's something interesting we could do, or here's like something I read about unrelated to work.

Yeah, no, I think it makes a huge difference.

And again, there's all these meta benefits for these things.

So one of the meta benefits for all of these is also, these are all very structured.

You'll begin to build a reputation as someone who is very careful about how they manage themselves in their time.

Like if you're doing multiscale planning and certainly if you're doing, you know, pull-based workload management, people are going to start thinking this is someone who thinks a lot about like how they manage their workday and how things happen.

This gives you massive leeway.

Because we think what our colleagues want from us is accessibility.

But really why they want accessibility is because they have no clarity about, are we going to do this thing?

Are we going to remember to do this thing?

Am I going to have to keep bothering you?

You know what, if I don't really think you have your act together, I just wish you would just do this right away or respond to me right away because I'm going to have to worry about this until I hear back from you that you did it.

Accessibility is born from lack of trust or lack of clarity, right?

So if you have the reputation of someone who really has their act together, you can, for example, lean into a shutdown.

I don't do email at all.

And people, they don't think that you're being lazy or that you're not keeping up with the work.

They're like, no, like Andrew has his act together with this stuff.

I trust him.

When you show them something like this workload management system, like this is where the queue is.

Like I can't get to this yet.