Triage is an underrated contender for best productivity meta-skill. Not prioritization or organization on their own, but the ability to blitz through the list of things which must be done and deciding how to manage them as they come up, in spite of circumstances.
It's so easy to do everything you want when there's enough time. It's the constraints that get you, and time is the biggest one of all.
I've made some recoverable, but extremely annoying mistakes today. Sabotaged half my workflow for entirely preventable reasons. I'll probably spend the rest of the day dealing with it.
A couple years ago I would have had a full breakdown, it's that large of a blast radius. Then I would have destroyed my schedule and commitments rushing to fix it, then suffered through cleaning up the mess.
Now? Half an hour of attempting minor fixes before concluding I'll have to do it the slow way, then five minutes of triaging the things which I'll have to handle through workarounds until I have time to sort it all out.
It'll be a few hours of tedium, but I'll be laughing it off as a funny story in three days.
Anyway, time's up.
I'll be back.
- Rew
Nightly Notes
I was planning to finish the draft from yesterday, but when I sat down to write, I couldn't find the focus. There wasn't even that much left.
I guess this is the sequel to cutoffs? Never would have guessed this would be the cause. That day had a funny story as well, though entirely outside of my control.
I need to do other things now.
Back later.
- Rew