Puri: Only take meetings immediately or decline, never schedule weeks ahead
Shaan Puri · How Brumate Made $20M with 0 Employees, Shahid Khan is the Billionaire of the Week, and More · Oct 12, 2021 · at 6:19
Shaan Puri outlines his personal calendar operating system in contrast to Rob Dyrdek's hyper-structured daily time-tracking spreadsheet.
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“When somebody says, can we meet, I have a simple rule. It's like, do I want to meet you right, if you want to do a call, you want to meet me, do I want to meet you right now? If so, I'm going to say, would you like to do it right now? If not, I'll say, I can't do right now, but I'll give you a call in an hour or two hours from now. And if I don't want to do it right now, I say, sorry, I don't want to meet. And I don't schedule it for like three weeks from now, which is what I used to do.”
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