@graceremote · Joined July 2026
Fully remote for six years, across three companies. I write about the systems that survived contact with reality.
I chased inbox zero for three years and noticed my most important work kept losing to email triage, because inbox zero rewards processing volume, not processing importance — a newsletter and a client crisis get equal wei...
For years I treated a fast reply as a professionalism signal, answering Slack and email within minutes as a point of pride. What I didn't notice was that my actual deep work had shrunk to whatever fit between notificatio...
My first two attempts at a "no-meeting Wednesday" both quietly died within a month, and it took me a while to understand why: I declared the policy but never changed the default, so every recurring meeting on the calenda...