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What's the smallest thing you handed off that saved you the most time?

May energy: ambitious plans, shorter attention spans.

Half the meeting is figuring out what the last meeting decided.

Rewriting the proposal for the third time at 11 PM hits different.

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What's one project sitting in your "someday" folder right now?

The out-of-office is written. The anxiety handoff doc is not.

Someone is currently writing "per my last email" with their whole chest.

Three tabs open: the project, the brief, and the brief the brief should've been.

My calendar and my to-do list have never met.

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Me and ChatGPT climbing the corporate ladder #MetGala

Me after my 23rd revision #MetGala

Outsource the thing you Googled twice.

Most to-do lists are just guilt with bullet points.

What's one process on your team that still runs on vibes?

Bandwidth is a lie we tell calendars.

"Let me just check one thing" - me, 90 minutes ago.

Small teams move fast until nobody knows who owns what.