Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work

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Whales are marine mammals and like all mammals they require air to breathe and must come to the surface of the water to take in oxygen. So you have to use judgment and it’s a function of kind of the importance of finding that document in the future. You know, not everything. Not everything is worth the same in terms of the impact if you can’t find it. So if something’s really critical, it really needs to get done, it’s gonna make a big stink in your business. Um, I knew that we would be able to turn it around and I could see kind of the path, but at the time of him, him leaving, you know, there was a high chance we were going to go bankrupt. And so in the forthcoming months, we lose 40% of clients. Um, I’m cashing out my 401k, my dad’s taking a loan on a house to loan US money If a human were to try and consume food underwater there is a chance that their nostrils or air passage would open up causing their lungs to take in water.

Somehow the reality never lives up to the memory. Places from childhood are always smaller and shabbier than imagined. You wonder just why you got on with those folks so well, as you are now all stumbling to find something to say. The holiday destination you dreamed of years ago looks nothing like the pictures in your mind. Yet you still feel a strange kind of ownership over somewhere that used to mean a lot to you, and a sense of loss. Something has drifted away without you noticing.Andrew: I love hearing that. And then we got to connect at a conference in Bali, which was running remote. And I forgot this. You reminded me. I kept asking you questions about Asana because we were using it to, to organize ourselves. You asked me. I eventually switched to base camp for project management This is especially true while the turtle is sleeping. During this time, they breathe through cloacal respiration and their metabolism rate slows down, which means the turtle requires less oxygen to survive than before. As a result, aquatic turtles can stay underwater for up to 7 hours while they sleep. That being said, some turtles have evolved so as to absorb oxygen while they are underwater. For these sorts of turtles, they still cannot breathe underwater and need air for respiratory functions, but their ability to absorb oxygen allows them to stay underwater longer than other land animals. The end of the book is pretty downbeat and this tone characterises the whole book and therefore might not be to everyone's taste. I loved it. I've already bought Orwell's ' Keep the Aspidistra Flying' which I will read soon. If you like any of the books I list at the start of this review then I'm confident you'd enjoy this book too.

Let’s just go buy a different domain. I log into my service. It turns out I’d own so many. That I had her name as a.com. I was bidding and not getting a response from myself. And then my brother, who gets the messages on all the domains, um, I told him the story. He goes, wait, that was you? I go, yeah. He goes, I’ve been getting all those messages trying to buy the domain. While whales are known to breathe through their blowholes they are unable to breathe through their mouth because the trachea is not connected to the whales throat.Andrew: you know what, when I went to school, I thought it was kind of odd that they were teaching us how to use Microsoft Excel. I said, Microsoft’s a huge company. They’re teaching us Excel, like they’re almost consultants and promoters of this one big company. And then I learned it and I realized, you know what?

Even for people who don’t use Excel for spreadsheets, knowing this piece of software is critical. They’re gonna work with people who need it. Uhhuh, With laundry. If you take it out of the dryer, you can spend five, seven minutes putting it all up in, uh, in your closet and in the drawers, and then you’ve got it for the rest of the week. Here, you do a task, you have to stop. And then you have to go and file the task away. You do a task, and then you have to go and figure out where does it go to write it, where do you go to write out how you did it? In another chapter that I remember somewhat vividly from this novel, George reminisces about getting to spend a few months alone on an island, at some strange care-taking job, just sitting alone, reading and thinking. Coming up for air, you might say. Life might offer a peaceful interregnum here or there, Orwell suggests, but there's also an awareness throughout his work that the world will not simply allow us to go into hiding and read books. Not for long, anyway. A psychologist and Nobel Prize winner summarizes and synthesizes the recent decades of research on intuition and systematic thinking. The more processes you have means that you’ve in, you’ve figured more stuff out. You’ve invested time, resources, and energy to figure out how to do something. And so a, a good indicator of the maturity of your team or organization is that ratio of processes to projects that you’re working on.

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You’ll learn the proven empirical strategies from someone who not only turned his company around when it was on the verge of bankruptcy, but has also helped thousands of organizations around the world become more efficient and leverage the right systems and tools for explosive growth. Come Up for Air is the employee manual you never received. Work Management Tools (Asana) All info/communication about things that should be done, that aren’t a process. It is said that nostalgia is felt more by the old. But even a four-year old will talk about when they were young, chat with a sense of maturity about when they were “a baby”; have memories of how things used to be. Sometimes they are happy memories, sometimes regretful, sometimes highly coloured in their imagination, just as ours are. The only difference seems to be that for tiny tots, their sense of time seems to stretch out more than for older people: But when he arrives home, George finds his cover has been blown, and Hilda knows he was not on a work trip. She is convinced her husband has been off with a woman somewhere, having an affair. George feels caught in an impossible situation. Should he go along with this fiction, or should he come clean and say that he had been on a journey into his past—in which case he would also have to tell her about gambling on the horses, winning, and then squandering the cash? We never know.

I think I’m on board with 90+% of the framework, and it’s provided clarity for me that helps with our Asana roll-out, especially for how this should fit in with our other tools. According to some researchers whales are also able to use up to 90% of the oxygen they inhale as compared to humans that are only able to use around 15% of the oxygen they inhale. And lastly, I wanted to share this book with all of you because I know you are the change-makers in the workplace. I truly think many of you will resonate with the information in this book. I’m envisioning Asana forum members reading it and thinking, “this is what I’ve been saying for years!” There just aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done!” Sound familiar? Forget the old concepts of time management and the hustle culture of working until you burn out. You and your entire team can get more done, in far fewer hours, with the right blueprint. Come Up for Air is that blueprint.Orwell is also satirising suburbia, he describes the road on which Bowling lives as a “line of semi-detached torture chambers”. Although Bowling dislikes his lot, he accepts it reluctantly, despite his brief foray into his past. Andrew: I know it. So what were you doing in it? It seemed like you at the time had software that wasn’t working very well. Right. That’s why you were able to cut it and switch o over to this. Terrestrial turtles cannot hold their breath for nearly as long as their aquatic and semi-aquatic counterparts. Instead, terrestrial turtles can typically only hold their breath for about an hour at most. Particularly young, old, or active terrestrial turtles need oxygen even more. You have to be professional, you have to be able to analyze a room and be able to, um, the change management with this stuff, which we haven’t really spoken about, is one of the hardest pieces of. You know when you tell someone, Hey, we want you to use this tool differently, or We want you to stop doing it this way and use this new tool. Michael Seiger, who is phenomenal at getting domains, his company, um, was DNA Academy, was bought by GoDaddy. He is in the domain space for years. I asked him, he introduced me to the company that, that we were hiring. He introduced me to the founder. Still couldn’t get a response. Uh, with his help and everyone else, I finally say, okay, you know what?