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Stop Snacking!

No I don't mean those Milano cookies you keep taking from the office snack wall either (although you should probably stop snacking on those as often as well).

Instead I'm referring to low effort and low impact work.

Once you get stuck in the snacking zone, it's incredibly hard to break out and work on the things that actually matter. You might be able to convince yourself (and maybe your manager) that all that snacking is actually valuable - but it isn't.

If you're not working on something both high effort and high impact, than you are wasting your time, and your teams time.

I'll re-iterate to help make it stick - stop snacking!

Brought to you by someone stuck in the snacking loop (both with Milano cookies and without)!


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