💼 Career 🔗

A personal framework for career growth, high-leverage time management, task workflows, and email triage.

🎯 Goals 🔗

• 📚 Continuous Learning: Dedicate time to learn weekly.
• 🚀 Growth: Actively work towards career advancement.
• ⏱️ Time Management: Manage time efficiently on a daily basis.

⏳ Time Management 🔗

I write down all tasks so I can free up my working memory to focus strictly on the current task. I trust that my system will remind me to review other tasks periodically. This approach is heavily inspired by David Allen’s book, Getting Things Done.

📋 Task Management 🔗

I use Google Keep for notes because it is seamlessly convenient to edit on both my laptop and phone. I maintain several core lists:

• Inbox: Lists unprioritized tasks and raw ideas. For example, if I have an idea outside of working hours or during a meeting, it goes straight to the Inbox.
• Next: Tasks ordered by priority. These can include extra context such as deadlines, what is blocking the task, and by which date I should recheck it.
• Recurring (Daily / Weekly / Monthly): Routines and tasks I must do every day, week, or month.
• Project Lists: Individual projects get their own Inbox and Next lists. For some collaborative projects, I use Google Docs for these lists (better for collaboration, though slightly less convenient on mobile).

My Daily Workflow:

1. I start every workday going over the Daily list.
2. Next, I process the Inbox: I do the quick items immediately, and move the rest to prioritized spots in the Next list.
3. Finally, I work through the Next list. If a task requires working on a specific project, I shift over to that project’s specific Inbox/Next lists.

(Note: I use an analogous list system for my personal life on my personal Google account.)

📧 E-mail Triage 🔗

I read my e-mail inbox only on my phone and only once per day. I classify e-mails so I can deal directly with the important ones when I’m back at my laptop.

I use 3 simple Gmail labels:

• 🔴 u (Urgent): For e-mails I want to address as soon as I get to my laptop. Processing these is a dedicated task on my Daily list.
• 🟡 w (Waiting): For e-mails I send that need an answer. Reviewing these is on my Weekly list to decide if I should follow up or give up.
• 🔵 n (Next/Later): For e-mails I want to address later (e.g., watching a video of a tech talk). Processing these is a task on my Monthly list.

Pro-tip: On my laptop, I keep a single browser tab open with label:u Gmail search results to see when someone replies to an important thread. I avoid looking at the main Inbox from my laptop to preserve that time for more important tasks.

📝 Posts 🔗

🚀 Career & Productivity 🔗

• Redefining Conversational Styles: My Take on 'The Church of Interruption'
• The Shortest Path: What a Childhood Game Teaches Us About Career Growth
• Beyond the Paycheck: A Framework for Meaningful Work
• Upgrade Your Decision-Making: A Beginner's Guide to Mental Models
• How to Do Work That Matters: Lessons from Richard Hamming
• The Ultimate Guide to Stress-Free Task Management
• Think Like a Consultant: The Ultimate Guide to Structured Problem-Solving
• Mastering Executive Communication: A Guide to Driving Action
• 7 Undeniable Traits of Future High-Achievers
• Why Individual Contributors Hit Roadblocks (And How to Keep Moving)
• Beyond the Job Description: Why Your Role is Bigger Than Your Tasks

🧮 Math & Science 🔗

• Max Dama on Automated Trading - Brain Teasers (Enhanced Edition)
• The Recursive Pareto Principle: The Mathematical Path to Mastery
• Cracking the IQ Test: 18 Questions, Answers, and Explanations
• Summary: The Feynman Lectures on Physics – Algebra
• The Career Bet: Choosing Your Prize vs. Your Odds
• Pareto Salary: Price's Law and Compensation
• One Order of Time Faster: The 3x to 5x Rule of Leverage
• Bringing Math to Life: Understanding the Quadratic Equation
• Step-by-Step Derivation of the Quadratic Formula
• The Elegance of Euler: My Favorite Mathematical Formulas

💻 Software Engineering & Tech 🔗

• Propositional Logic Proofs Using Lean 4: A Practical Guide
• Mastering LeetCode Hard: 7 Complex Solutions Explained
• The Best XKCD Comics About Software Engineering (With Context)
• Controlling Whitespace in Go Templates: Nested Loops
• How to Keep Go Unit Test Logs Clean: Only Log Failed Inputs
• Unit Testing: Commands vs Mocks in Go
• Exploring the Expression Problem in Go with Generics
• Get Sorted Keys From Map in Go Using Generics
• FizzBuzz in Too Much Detail: A Go Perspective
• The Perfect Seating Chart: Solving the Leadership Summit Problem in Go
• The New Yorker: The Friendship That Made Google Huge - Key Takeaways
• 4 Game-Changing Lessons from 'Software Engineering at Google'
• Twenty-Nine Bytes to Say Hello: Golfing 'Hello, World!' in SuperHack
• The Sixteen Faces of Logic: All Possible Boolean Functions with Two Inputs

🏢 Startups & Business Strategy 🔗

• The Strategy Illusion: Are You Making Plans or Just Making Wishes?
• The Mechanics of Startup Wealth: Value, Scale, and Effort
• The Organic Approach to Finding Startup Ideas: Stop Brainstorming and Start Noticing
• How to Find and Validate Business Ideas Customers Actually Want
• Building the Ultimate Bootstrapped Business: Escaping the Scale Trap
• Deconstructing Naval Ravikant's Philosophy on Wealth Creation

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