It’s 4:47pm on a Thursday. I’m halfway through a problem that’s been bugging me since Monday, and I can feel the shape of the solution forming. My brain is doing that thing where all the pieces are slowly rotating into alignment. Ten more minutes and I’ll have it.
My calendar pings. “Urgent sync — can we jump on a call in 15?”
I know what’s going to happen. We’ll spend 30 minutes talking through something that could have been a one-page document. By the time the call ends, I’ll have lost the thread of what I was working on. I’ll spend Friday morning trying to remember where I was. And nobody, including me, will remember what we actually decided on that call by Monday.
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