You just spent 47 minutes in a pre-alignment sync to prepare for tomorrow’s cross-functional stakeholder review, which is actually just prep for Friday’s “real” meeting.

Nobody knows what the real meeting is about either. You could’ve built an entire landing page or written an entire new article in that time.

But instead, you’re updating a status tracker about the status of another status tracker.

And someone just pinged you on Slack:

“Hey, can we get 15 minutes to debrief on that sync?”

No. No we cannot.

It’s time it make a new choice.

It’s time for a new direction, Substack.

You can do this.

- j - 🤓🙏🏼

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