The Meeting Diet: Cut 6 Hours From Your Calendar Without Getting Fired (TPS637)

In this episode, we break down a practical meeting diet you can use to cut 20 to 30 percent of your meeting hours without getting fired or damaging trust. We walk through how to audit your calendar by time cost, use the meeting autopsy question, apply the three filters for recurring invites, and replace the right meetings with async updates, Looms, and shared docs. I also share scripts for saying no gracefully and how to protect the meetings that actually matter.

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Cheat Sheet

The iPhone trick that lets two phones share one number [1:11]
Top 3 Productivity Resources [2:46]
Why a packed calendar can still feel like a time suck [5:48]
Why NVIDIA’s CEO skips recurring meetings with his team [7:08]
The one-second test that tells you if a meeting is worth keeping [9:16]
Why a 20-minute meeting can beat a full hour [11:40]
The Shopify bot that wiped everyone’s recurring meetings [17:03]
How to kill a meeting when you’re not the one running it [23:35]

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