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Brian Crain

Creating Space

One of the nice things about the Christmas break was to have no meetings, no Slack. It created some space and silence that I very much needed. Over the next 30 days, starting tomorrow, I want to extend that and go deeper with it. And...

Email Processing

When it comes to interacting with emails, I am often falling into patterns that are dysfunctional. But I have also figured out patterns that feel smooth and efficient. In this post, I wanted to describe both of them. Dysfunctional Email My email inbox has a...

2021 Blog Posts Overview

This is the 35th post of the year. I'm really happy that I've been writing regularly, especially in the last three months. To wrap up this year of writing, I grouped most of the posts by area below. Even though I write many posts quickly...

How to Do Things Slowly

In my last post, I wrote about how my goal for 2022 is to go slow. But this is easier said than done. My own default mode is to try to do things fast and rush. When I do anything, I tend to fall into...

Slow

My goal for next year is to go slow. Do everything more slowly. Interject an extra pause. Take a breath. Lean back. Look around. Rest for a moment....