Sean divided the day into a morning block and an afternoon block. At the beginning of each block, his team gathers in person, with the occasional remote worker joining using videoconferencing software, to discuss the upcoming block. “Each person covers three points: what they did yesterday, what they are doing today, and what issues they’re having or blocks they’re experiencing,” Sean told me. “It lasts fifteen minutes max.” Then everyone does something that has become exceedingly rare in our current age of connectivity: they simply work, for several hours in a row, with no inboxes to check or
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