1/ I’ve noticed something very interesting about how I do my weekly review these days: I don’t ever sit down and do it in one go
2/ Instead, I do it in small chunks over 2-3 days. Checklist format facilitates this. Each spurt I just pick up where I left off
3/ Almost as soon as I finish one weekly review, I’m starting the next 2-3 day cycle. The monolithic, weekly heavy lift has turned into a biweekly, continuous information consumption protocol
4/ Even if I get an email right after clearing my inbox, for ex, I’m ok leaving it to next cycle because I know I’ll come back to that part of the checklist within a few days
5/ I’m essentially integrating new info not by doing it comprehensively in one go, but by accelerating cycle/clock time to be faster than my environment
6/ This creates an amazing effect: every time I sit down to work, I know exactly what to do (next item in checklist). I don’t automatically default to email. I can make progress on checklist in any span of time, even if it’s just one item in 10m
7/ If I need to focus and produce deliverable, I know exactly where to pick up where I left off. Info gets triaged to various inboxes, which I know I will get to soon as I do my “rounds”. Kind of like a hospital. Triage + rounds
8/ This if anything strengthens my thesis that the WR is an operating system. Any given piece of info I want to review, I just leave it in one of the places I know I’ll check every 2-3 days. I can continuously forward things to future me, who has more perspective about it
9/ Other info I put somewhere I know I’ll check every 3-4 weeks (during monthly review), or every 3 months (quarterly review), or end of the year (annual review)
10/ I’m essentially organizing info based on when I want to review it, like a tickler file or my PARA system, rather than what it means or want to do with it
11/ Not only is this a MUCH easier decision to make, it fails gracefully: if I just can’t decide, I default to reviewing it sooner. At that point, I can often push it again much more mindfully
12/ As number of opportunities explodes, our ability to consciously & gracefully postpone things becomes a key skill. Placing it in time at the moment of maximum upside, which is rarely right this instant
