That nagging feeling that you should be doing something else right now.
It’s time to slow down, my friends.
If your meetings are back to back, let’s face it, you have too many meetings.
If your first instinct is to check your email, don’t.
If you scrum, unscrum.
Take a deep breath and think about it:
There’s never enough time to do something right, but there’s always enough time to do it over.”
—Melvin Conway, How Do Committees Invent?
So unwind and wander.
Wandering is an essential counter-balance to efficiency. You need to employ both. The outsized discoveries—the ‘non-linear’ ones—are highly likely to require wandering.”
—Jeff Bezos, 2018 Letter to Shareholders
And when you’re ready, come waste your time with me.
