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Posted on Oct 13, 2023

What's the One Work Task You'd Cut?

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If you could free up time by cutting out one daily work activity, what would it be, and why? Don't all say "meetings!" at once.

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Jimmy Lipham

I am working on all sorts of things ranging from SaaS products to embedded systems design. DevOps leader by day, FOSS side hustler by night.

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• Oct 13 '23

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Jira. I don't even do "tickets" on the daily, but managing it has been absolutely the most soul sucking activity I can think of recently.

Jon Randy 🎖️

🤖 Artisanal developer - coding with varying degrees of success since 1983

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Well, I already cut it a long time ago... but doing estimates is the main thing I would strongly recommend others to cut.

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