I want to make a change, I feel like I spend 80% of my time in meetings and barely get any time to focus on actual product strategy. How do you all carve out time for deep work when your calendar is packed? Any hacks to avoid burnout from endless calls?

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Block an hour or two a day as work time
Decline meetings where you aren’t needed
If there are certain meeting hosts who dont run a well organized meeting, start the meeting by calling out “what is the goal of this meeting?” And end the meeting with “are we clear on all of the next steps?”

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great advice

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