A Meditation on Time Management for Technical Writers

By Ugur Akinci

(Excerpt)

Time management means being able to say “no”.
Whenever someone comes running to you saying “I need your help,” it’s automatically an emergency. You’re a team player, so you may say “Sure, I can help you with that” without thinking.
Stop.
Think.
Less obvious but more common is the failure to prioritize tasks. How many times have you worked on a diagram, tweaking and tuning and rearranging until you realize you’ve spent half a day on a picture that only reinforces existing text? Was that critical to the project? Hardly.

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2 Comments

  1. time management on January 29, 2010 at 3:25 am

    Thanks for sharing. Very helpful.



  2. Anna Houck on September 20, 2010 at 3:30 pm

    Hi! Is there a form of meditation where I can increase my potential to retain when I’m reviewing my notes? Thanks!