- Conserve your keystrokes.
In this video, the author is mentioning the idea that you can represent your time (rather how much time you have left) in keystrokes. Actually, literally in everything (eg. he gave an example in cups of coffee).
There is this website https://keysleft.com/ you can put there your age and your typing speed and it’ll share with you how many things you still can do before you die at the age of 90. In very specific terms (eg. how many novels you have left). The interesting thing here is that you can consider almost anything that way. Do you need to stay and work longer? How much will it cost you? A chapter of your book? A meeting with your family?
- Put the information in a place for which you can create a URL.
If you are studying or researching something if somebody asks you a question do not write it just down (eg. email). Publish is somewhere with the URL. It will save you time when somebody will ask you the same question.
- Practice memorization.
When I was at school we didn’t have the internet. We get books but for a limited amount of time. And we had to memorize things, we had to understand things and develop them from scratch in place (during the exam for example). Now there are all types of information on the internet. Our brain is smart enough to avoid this exercise of memorization. Why bother if we can find it on the internet at any moment? But that is not true, this hardly affects us and most importantly it affects how we think. And I’m pretty sure in a bad way.
See things, read things, study things and always try to rephrase them, try to explain them in your own words.
- Use sprints for your daily routines.
You know agile? The agile. Incorporate it into your day-to-day life. Let’s say on Mondays pull things from your backlog and put it into a sprint. And on Fridays have a retrospective.
Consider the rule of 3. Apply to your day. Then a week. Then for a year.
- Being busy is a form of laziness.
Prioritize tasks. Dump useless things. Focus on delivery.
- Consider your tools.
The main idea here is that your tools should be easy to set up and easy to maintain. It should take you as little time to work with them as possible. Otherwise, you just become support for your own tracking system.
Above is the summary for the lecture of Scott Hanselman plus some of my thoughts.