What Successful People Do With The First Hour Of Their Work Day
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#2I think the real key here is focus ... Meandering on Twitter for your first hour isn't going to get you anywhere.
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#3Interestingly there seems to be a recent trend of not being a slave to your email, twitter, FB, etc. I suppose people are starting to realize that urgent things don't necessarily come from these mediums and as much as we have come to rely on them, they provide us with more noise than useful data.
I've been trying to check email twice daily at scheduled times and respond to emails in "batch" instead of as they come in. It's definitely increased the number of "concentrated" hours I put into a task.
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#4This is very, very debatable. Solid product ideas come from cross-pollination of existing ones. How do you get existing ideas in your thought stream if you do not getyour inputs right? (in this case, email/twitter/facebook)
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#5This is very, very debatable. Solid product ideas come from cross-pollination of existing ones. How do you get existing ideas in your thought stream if you do not getyour inputs right? (in this case, email/twitter/facebook)
The article doesn't say that we should never check our email/twitter/Facebook. It is about structuring and scheduling your day right from the start.
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#6Interestingly there seems to be a recent trend of not being a slave to your email, twitter, FB, etc. I suppose people are starting to realize that urgent things don't necessarily come from these mediums and as much as we have come to rely on them, they provide us with more noise than useful data. I've been trying to check email twice daily at scheduled times and respond to emails in "batch" instead of as they come in…
It's a wild guess but I am pretty sure that this "trend" always makes a come-back at the end of holidays or vacations.
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#7I love the juxtaposition of this post with the one that currently follows it on the front page (at least for me):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4453030
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#8I've been trying hard to apply the "don't check e-mail/FB/Twitter/HN/etc until 11am" rule.
In my expericence, the later you open that gigantic can of worms, the better off you are. By far.
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#9You could also add 'reading HN' to e-mail / twitter / facebook. HN can be dubble as addictive due to the good comments. You now want to read the articles and the comments.
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#10It's reasonable as advice, but as an empirical answer to what successful people do with the first hour of their work day, I'd be interested in some less-anecdotal data. Are these five really representative of what successful people do with the first hour of their work day? I suspect that they aren't, and that if you did a proper survey you would find more boring results, e.g. a lot of successful people spending their first hour at work checking and responding to email, in meetings, etc.