## Metadata - Author: [[joe-dunn|Joe Dunn]] - Full Title:: Tech Leader? Stop Being Overwhelmed — Get Your Thinking Time Back - Category:: #🗞️Articles - Document Tags:: [[Engineering management|Engineering Management]], - URL:: https://medium.com/coaching-notes/tech-leader-stop-being-overwhelmed-get-your-thinking-time-back-de7d8d6d2032 - Finished date:: [[2023-07-26]] ## Highlights > **Be ruthless about what stays in important/urgent**: Throw out everything you can ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h69mn498n5abg5jzbp8j61ne)) > Your bias, and the bias of the company around you, will be to make everything important/urgent. Don’t fall for it. Make a conscious choice to keep something in the red bucket. If there’s not a great reason for it to be there, throw it out. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h69mnc72ahy5ehmj8chqkx3f))