Newsletter Week 14 | 2022

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Hey there.

I hope you've had a great week.

What I've made for you

Book notes—No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin MeyerI like the principles and what they describe the Netflix culture to be. I kind of enjoyed the book, but I found it slightly boring at times due to some of the stories.

To catch a second wind, you have to stay in the game long enough

I was out on a run where I realized that, to catch a second wind, you have to stay in the game long enough. You have to run long enough for the second wind to occur. If you don't—if you quit before it happens—you deny the possibility of it happening.

Of course, it's never guaranteed. Maybe it is time to quit. But then you'll never know what an extra shot might have done.

To get lucky, you have to show up.

If you procrastinate: eliminate, delegate, or improve

You clearly don't want to do the task, or it's not important enough to you.

So now you have a few options:

• You can either eliminate the task, which is either great if it isn't important, or very bad if it is. This might not even be possible, which leaves you with the remaining two options.

• You can try to delegate it to someone else who'll do it better (and is more excited about it) than you.

• Or, you can live with the pain of not wanting to do it, but doing it anyway. Who knows, you might even like the task if you improve enough on your process for it.

Eliminate

If you have determined the task to not be of importance, it's time to eliminate it.However, this is often not possible, so there are only the remaining two options.

We often find that we take on tasks that we don't really want to do just because they're low-hanging fruit. Don't do it just because it is easy.

Delegate

Delegation can be to a human or robot. Either you pay someone to do it, or you create an automation to automate the task completely.

Delegating a task that you hate to do can possible increase the ROI for the task, if whomever you delegate it to has skills and depth greater than your own.

By delegating, you increase your leverage to become more productive.

And if this isn't possible, either because it's not feasible, or if it isn't worth the cost of delegation, you're left with one choice...

Improve

Now you'll want to optimize and improve the process for completing the task as much as you can.

• How can you make the task (more) fun for you?

• Can you delegate parts of the task?

• Can you split the task into small chunks that you can do over time? So you take it one step at a time.

• How can you minimize friction?

And so on. Think deeply about how you might implement an effective system for accomplishing the task—one that you want to actually use.

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To your success. Regards,

Christian Bager Bach Houmann