Topic
Productivity
Get effective and then efficient at work
Notes are your external brain
Batch your inbox, and get to zero
How to search in Outlook
Emails in your Inbox are inefficient. So, you archive old Emails. But once you've archived everything, you need to learn to query well. Most people browse folders. It is slow, and it only works if you filed the thing where you now think you filed it. Search instead,
Block time for deep work, on your own clock
Eat the frog first
Learn two shortcuts a day
Two windows, and a colour-coded calendar
Ownership means it gets done, not that you do it alone
Owning a workstream means you are responsible for making sure the work gets done. Doing all of it yourself is a different obligation entirely, and high performers reliably confuse the two. An Engagement Manager at McKinsey put it better than I can: “What I didn’t understand in the beginning