I walk to work almost every day. I listen to audiobooks when I walk, at three-times speed, so a book every couple of days. Bad Blood [by John Carreyrou] is so good! It’s fun and terrifying and definitely makes you feel better about running a company that isn’t Theranos.
I’m very calendar-driven. I get in, and my day is already laid out—and my week, to some extent. So I try to take a step back and ask myself: “What are the things that are the most strategically important, and am I allocating my time to them correctly?” Things like team communications, or hiring, or representing the company externally . . . Am I spending the right percentage of my time on them? It’s easy to get lost in the weeds.
I’ve never exchanged an email with somebody else who works at Slack. I check my email maybe once a day. It’s quite peripheral to how I work . . . A lot of my productivity around using Slack is knowing to prioritize what information I need to see. That means [heavily] muting channels or not joining channels, and “starring” the ones that are really important to me.
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