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Six months with a team of eight people in a company. The chat app had a #random channel where you could write stuff not related to work. Six months and 200,000 words later, yes, you read correctly: 200k. I was looking at the screen, wondering about the meaning of time and words.<\/span><\/p>\n Two hundred thousand words, two full novels, wasted in meaningless chat. A cache of words cleared and left void soon for other people to write. I felt sick. <\/span><\/p>\n Somewhere in our hurry to improve communication, we devalued the most important asset: the word\/time ratio. I like to think I became skilled in redirecting them and cutting short these types of conversations. My son taught me a lot about it. He\u2019s far more efficient in cutting the noise out, especially when I\u2019m the one making it.<\/span><\/p>\n Going through emails and Slack, answering back to emails or messages is a daily grind. I hate it, no matter how needed. Every writing moment when I\u2019m away from writing my stories hurts. Every reading moment when I don\u2019t read the books on my list hurts.<\/span><\/p>\n Now I\u2019m setting Jira Service Desk for our writers on the Asengana platform. It\u2019s clean with simple workflows. It should help us cut the noise better.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Six months and 200,000 words later, yes, you read correctly: 200k, I was looking at the screen wondering about the meaning of time and words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,6,109],"tags":[112,9,111,113,93,92,99,100,110,79,27],"class_list":["post-21366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4","category-asengana","category-writing-life","tag-amwriting","tag-asengana","tag-indieauthor","tag-novel-writing","tag-time","tag-words","tag-writers","tag-writing","tag-writing-software","tag-writingcommunity","tag-writinglife","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I always accepted that meetings are a waste of time. The moment you put a monetary value on time at an hourly rate, everything changes. I noticed the real time killers: the other people. Meetings are a congregation of people. Some of them like to hear themselves talk and they keep talking outside meetings too. No finality, no action, no doing.<\/span><\/p>\n