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Attention is your scarcest resource | benkuhn.net

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how to ration your shower thoughts • care viscerally • monotask • evade obligations • timebox bullshit

Like many people, I have most of my best ideas in the shower. This is sometimes annoying: I could use more than one shower's worth of good ideas a day, but I'd rather not end up as a shrivelled yet insightful prune. Mostly, though, shower ideas are the incentive that keeps me smelling okay, so I grudgingly accept the constraint. The time when it was most constraining was the first time I became a manager. I only had a few reports, so managing them wasn't a full-time job. But I was very bad at it, and so it should have been what I spent all my shower insights on. Unfortunately, I was spending m

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