What do you do within the first 30 minutes of starting your work day?

Coffee, emails, news, start recapping yesterday and thinking about today/blockers for DailyBot (there's no need for an actual standup meeting in 2020 when DailyBot/WorkingOn/etc. allows everyone to submit the same results, asynchronously and to an actionable dashboard everyone can see throughout the day, without wasting 10+ minutes of everyone's time).

Make coffee, check email whilst doing some Prod health checks, look at error logs. But sometimes can be varied, if there is an emergency fix...

First I look at open issues/notes/e-mail/messages/etc. Just to get a quick overview over what's urgent. Then make a quick list of todos for the day (if I don't have one yet from the day before), organize them by priority, put on some music and grab something to drink, and start working on my todos :)

I always start the day with a coffee and favourite articles and new post on artificial intelligence and sometimes if I buy a book related to my subjects my morning usually starts with them.
It's a good practise I mean it's always help me to brush up daily applicable skill.

Roll out of bed soon after 10 am, stumble downstairs and open the laptop.
Stare blankly at chat messages and emails until they gradually come into focus. Archive all of them. Kettle is ready.
Finish catching up on chats and drinking coffee.
Open a Tiddlywiki entry for today and add one or two vague bullet points for what I want to do today. Usually involves copying the things I didn't finish yesterday. Recursively expand each task with a few indented bullet points until some concrete next actions become obvious.
Oh, it's 7pm. Well, maybe tomorrow then.

I recently bought a standing desk with a treadmill. The first 30 minutes now is typically a brisk walk on the treadmill as I catch up on emails, from Jira tickets, and other tasks that don’t require a ton of typing. During this time I’ll also generally do some scanning of the stock market for trade ideas, which is my secondary source of income.

I recently bought a standing desk with a treadmill. The first 30 minutes is typically a brisk walk on the treadmill as I get caught up on emails, groom Jira tickets, and other tasks that don’t involve a ton of typing. I also spend some of this time doing some scanning of the stock market for trade ideas on my secondary source of income.

Panic!

LOL just kidding.

The first thing I do is check and see if any of my team needs my response or help with anything, if yes then I jump on that.

If not then it's on to emails and Jira.

Explore something new and write a blog 🥂
This is the most satisfying thing ever had 😁😅

1. Brain dump - 5-10 minutes
2. Meditate - 12 minutes
3. Tabata + shower - 10 minutes

Only after that point, do I check email and prioritize the day's tasks.

1) "Sign in" via our Slack's "location reporting" channel
2) Check email that might have come in after signing off from the prior day
3) Look at any pending Slack notifications
4) Login to customer's networks

Note: Depending how exhaustive my replies to #2 and/or #3 might be, #3 and/or #4 may not fit within that opening 30 minutes.

Make sure that I have a cup of coffee, start my bullet journal for the day, and then check comms (email, teams, slack).

Have coffee and check news, turn on the equipment, start working.

Drink coffee

Catchup on Emails
Coffee
listen podcast/audio book
Then onto the main task of the day :)