Tag Archives: Busy

How the busiest people plan their days

For people who manage hundreds of employees and dozens of projects, having a foolproof way to plan the day is crucial to performance.

By Alina Dizik

If you want a job interview with Li Fan, head of engineering at Pinterest, you’ll need to wait until Friday.

Fan categorises the types of meetings she takes by days of the week. Mondays are for large group meetings and Tuesdays are for speaking with people one-on-one. Wednesdays and Thursdays are for ad hoc requests or various monthly meetings.

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Don’t disturb

How to Make Sure No One Bothers You in a Computer Lab

If You’re Busy, You’re Doing Something Wrong

The Berlin Study

In the early 1990s, a trio of psychologists descended on the Universität der Künste, a historic arts academy in the heart of West Berlin. They came to study the violinists.

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