How I manage my todos as a CEO

Max StoiberMax Stoiber
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Kanban board with five columns: Inbox, Backlog, Blocked, Delegated, Done

Most importantly:

  1. GTD-style โ€œif it takes less than 2 minutes, do it immediately.โ€

  2. Create todos for everything (and I mean, everything, including replying to people) that go into Inbox.

    1. Always inbox zero across Slack/email/etc. Respond to slack messages/emails/etc. with "On my todo list to reply, will get back to you".

Every morning sit down and prioritize todos that are in the Inbox into the Backlog. (and reprioritize existing Backlog list if it's changed)

Rarely (if never) do todos that you just created in the Inbox.

Whenever I'm not in a meeting, open todo list and do top Backlog item.

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Max Stoiber
Max Stoiber

CEO & co-founder of Stellate, the GraphQL CDN โšก (Co-)creator of open source projects used by millions ๐Ÿ’ป Angel investor in 20+ startups ๐Ÿš€ Speciality coffee barista and backcountry skier ๐ŸŽฟ Austrian living in San Francisco ๐ŸŒ