Bonjour friends! 🇫🇷
This newsletter is reaching you from the city of light (aka Paris), where I am celebrating my girlfriend’s birthday! I have been here three days and have already eaten my body weight in pastries. 🥐
Anyway, this week I want to talk about time management and my favorite technique that I use.
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Over the past few weeks, I have been receiving several messages about how I manage my time. I work full-time as a Data Scientist, do YouTube videos, write this newsletter, and blog on Medium.
I’m not trying to boast, as on the surface it may seem like I’m doing a lot. In reality, I am just pretty good at prioritizing tasks (in my humble opinion 😅).
One technique I use is called the daily highlight. The idea is that at the start of each day, you ask yourself what’s the single most important task you want to complete. Focus on that task and ignore everything else until you have completed it.
Doing your single most important task each day leads you to be unimaginably productive and accomplish quite a lot. Not to mention makes you feel satisfied knowing you completed the main task you wanted. Anything more you achieve is a bonus.
I typically have two daily highlights, one for my day job as a Data Scientist and the other for all the extra stuff I do. I try to list these the night before, so I am ready to go the next day. I often don’t even write them down, but rather make a mental note.
There are different ways to decide your daily highlight, it could be what is the most urgent, most satisfying, or the task that will bring you the most happiness. To be honest, the task you need to complete each day is normally glaringly obvious.
I encourage you to try the daily highlight method and see how you get one. I find it super useful and it gives me direction every day.
What’s Been Cooking 🥘
Some tasty stories this week:
Google’s Most Powerful LLM — Google has launched its new LLM Gemini Ultra, which is superseding its old models Bard and Duet.
Meta To Label AI Content — Meta is exploring ways to label content generated by AI on their platforms.
YouTube Set On AI — The YouTube CEO wrote a blog post detailing his plans to introduce AI onto the platform to help creators.
Weekly Favourites ❤️
📚 Book — The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes. Most of you know that I am quite interested in history and politics. Figes’ writing about such a dense topic is truly brilliant.
🎬 YouTube — Brainf**k in 100 Seconds. This video will blow your mind. The recursive main function is truly beautiful.
🎬 YouTube — The Primeagen. If you are looking for a mix of coding and comedy, then this channel is for you. To be honest, I watch this channel more for the entertainment aspects than educational reasons.
(PS: Some links are affiliate links that I get a kickback from with no extra cost to you 😎)