Tag: Life in Product

As an accomplished taker of meeting notes (although I’ve never quoted that on a CV or mentioned it during the course of an interview), I was unaware of the role that James Madison played in the development of the American Constitution until 2018; an advocate of developing your note-taking skills no doubt. When James Madison…

Each time we are interrupted mid-task, we pay a tax on our time and attention. The more your attention is divided, the harder it becomes to stay focused on any one thing. This is a vicious cycle that ends in mental exhaustion with little to show for it – the cost of context-switching. While emergencies…