Because he is relentless about spending a majority of his time on legacy work, Jim carries a stopwatch with him throughout the workday. The stopwatch has three separate timers: one for “creating,” one for “teaching,” and one for “other.” The “other” category is a catch-all for everything that doesn’t fit in either the creating or teaching category, and 100 percent of his workday is measured on one of the timers. At the end of the day, the time is logged onto a spreadsheet, with the resulting data posted on a whiteboard.
