{"id":127,"date":"2010-03-12T00:46:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T00:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2010-04-14T19:50:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T19:50:48","slug":"next-thursday-is-closer-than-asap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Next Thursday is Closer than ASAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting time management observation. In a lot of organisations, including where I work, a large number of requests come in with the timescale for response being <em>As Soon As Possible<\/em>. Occasionally, requests come in with a specific time scale; &#8220;by next Thursday&#8221;, for example. Bizarrely, I tend to respond to these requests <em>quicker<\/em> than those that say ASAP. I think that this is a mixture of &#8220;so many things are marked ASAP, so I have to schedule everything marked ASAP, so ASAP starts to mean &#8216;when I can schedule it'&#8221;. As a result all the ASAP things go through an explicit scheduling process, by contrast the unusual &#8220;by next Thursday&#8221; type requests don&#8217;t get held up in this scheduling system. There is a also a vague sense that the person who has taken the trouble to give a precise date has put more thought into when they need the response by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting time management observation. In a lot of organisations, including where I work, a large number of requests come in with the timescale for response being As Soon As Possible. Occasionally, requests come in with a specific time scale; &#8220;by next Thursday&#8221;, for example. Bizarrely, I tend to respond to these requests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5,26],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}