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#WeeklyWrapShare on XIn an interview, Bill Gates once talked about how billionaire Warren Buffett taught him a valuable lesson about time. The famed investor showed his calendar. Nothing was listed for weeks. And it changed the way the Microsoft founder thought. “There are all these demands and you feel like you need to go and see all these people,” he said. “It’s not a proxy of your seriousness that you fill every minute in your schedule.”During a business disruption, it’s tempting to act quickly and schedule every moment in service of the changes we want to make.

with a content leader who told me how the business she works for switzerland email address pivoted hard to creating content the last eight weeks. She and her team have been busier and more sought after than ever. She said yes to most requests, pushing herself and her team to the limit. And yet she’s finding every new Zoom meeting, task, and project less satisfying than the one before. She got exactly what she wanted, yet it felt like a Pyrrhic victory.

Both she and the company were worse off for the efforts.In this segment, I explore why it feels better to give someone your best because you have something valuable to offer rather than because you feel like you should do it. (Spoiler: When you lose sight of how valuable time is, you deplete your ability to spend quality time.)A fresh take on running out of content (:)An article in What’s New In Publishing called ‘The Biggest Opportunity … for Our Industry in Years:’ Publishers Aren’t Taking the Pandemic Lying Down caught my eye this week.