Agree with that point on ‘less is more’. For knowledge workers especially, I don’t think it’s healthy or productive to spend all your time doing. In fact it seems inadvisable to charge on without regularly thinking.. ‘Is this the best way of doing this?’ or.. ‘Am I working on the right thing?’.

I like the 10% rule! I may float this as an idea.

Also agree on the outputs/outcomes front. Increasingly I’m thinking of pieces of work as ‘value added’ not ‘hours spent’. The weeknote/braindump thing feels like a big value add in terms of understanding my own ebb and flows re: productivity.

On that point about making them higher priority.. I probably need to publish my reflections internally somewhere so that the value is more clearly demonstrated/understood.. but not sure how to do that as yet so it doesn’t come across as a sort of passive-aggressive ‘look at the headaches you’re all causing me this week’ type move. :D