Habits

I’ve always liked the idea of backing into parking spaces, but for most of my life I didn’t think much about my motivation for this. After a while I decided that backing in was a sign that I wasn’t a procrastinator. The procrastinators pull straight into places because they’re not even thinking about the potential challenges of backing out later. (Sorry to throw shade on the procrastinators. My snark could be genetically linked.) Viewing the people that pulled straight into spaces as procrastinators satisfied me for decades, yet I always felt like it wasn’t thought through as well as it could be. Despite the philosophical hand-waving, I kept up my tendency to back into parking places. Through the years I’ve learned a few things that might be more convincing. Welcome to a journey through my confirmation bias. ...

Overview Slack and other services include a Scheduled Send feature which allows you to send a message at some point in the future, without further effort on your part. Initially Slack limited this feature to channels, but recently it was also expanded to work in threads. So now seems like a good time to consider why you might want to take advantage of this feature. Generally we’re happy to send our Slack messages in real time and we hope for an answer within moments. The asynchronous nature of Slack lends itself to sending messages regardless of what time of day it may be for any of the parties involved. But there are occasions when asynchronous has downsides and for those times, Scheduled Send is your friend. ...

I shared https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20130806173515-28893870-change-your-habits-with-a-good-checklist/ by John Ryan.