#source/book📚/ingested [[2022-01-12]] ## Two rules - ### Make work visible - ### Limit work in progress - Focus on flow not productivity - Flow requires space Capture the cadence of work ## Prioritize in the quadrants of important and urgent Keep things out of important urgent quadrant: anything that ends up here should be evaluated for why it ended up here Create your value in the important not urgent quadrant Identify your curiosities and interests in the non-important not urgent quadrant Invest in your social system in the urgent not important quadrant ## Whenever possible create Pull not push systems ## Identify cycle times capture: 1. created date 2. today date 3. work in progress date 4. done date ## Clarify Spending more time upfront clarifying the purpose, background, details, etc. will save innumerable time later “Recognizing our work’s context and understanding its ramifications gives us clarity.” If you want to know your past, look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future, look into your present actions. ~ Buddhist Saying