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Also: build better tools (and get better at using the ones you have).

If you can squirrel away a little bit of time here and there to make hard things easier, then you can eventually start breaking tasks down into chunks that fit better into a day of interruptions.

This has been the only way that I've found to consistently increase my productivity no matter how much I'm procrastinating or being distracted at the time.



So when you're deep in focus, or trying to be, and there's an interruption or ad-hoc open-floor brainstorming meeting right next to you, you just blink once or twice and shift over to some easy-pickup task you already have waiting in the back of your brain? Add a zero to your rate.




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