A thing I'm going to build: /freehour in Slack. Use case: I have free hour; it suggests three things I could be doing from templates & data.
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Benefits: gets some use out of marginal time; reduces decision fatigue; repeated use of it useful signal re: "might need new priorities."
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Examples of output: three items from a list of 20, with suggestions pulled from various data sources.
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Item: Consider writing a blog post about X, Y, or Z. (Three random pops from Trello list or Google sheets w/ content ideas for a rainy day.)
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Item: Write a thank you letter to $CUSTOMER. (Randomly pick a customer w/ high LTV who hasn't receive a thank you letter recently.)
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Item: Consider kicking sales process with X, Y, or Z. (Grab CRM data; look for leads in some status w/o recent activity owned by user.)
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Item: New forum threads: X, Y, and Z. Drop in and post something; remind people that we're part of the community.
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Also, in general, I love little dev projects like this which have obvious opportunities for low-friction expansion in the future.
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/freehour -> "Consider implementing a new suggestion for /freehour"
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I would really like to visit this magical kingdom of fairies, leprechauns and "free hours".
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I know how you feel, but often seem to happen to me when I'm on manager time. (e.g. call at 1->2, call at 4->5; 2 hours in middle)
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