[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":89},["ShallowReactive",2],{"site-default-description":3,"\u002Fwriting\u002Fworking-in-serial":46},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":38,"extension":39,"meta":40,"navigation":41,"path":42,"seo":43,"stem":44,"__hash__":45},"pages\u002Findex.md","Sanket Saurav",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":34},"minimark",[9,21,24,31],[10,11,12,13,20],"p",{},"I was born in India and now live in San Francisco, CA with my wife, daughter, and two kittens. I currently work at ",[14,15,19],"a",{"href":16,"rel":17},"https:\u002F\u002Fdeepsource.com",[18],"nofollow","DeepSource",", a company I founded in 2018.",[10,22,23],{},"I studied Computer Science & Engineering at NIT Jamshedpur, India, where I bootstrapped my first startup, taught myself how to build software products, and built several side-projects. At 21, I raised venture capital for my second startup.",[10,25,26,27],{},"I consider myself ½ engineer, ½ designer. I've worn several hats over the last ten years of building startups, but I enjoy the process of creating new product experiences the most. ",[28,29,30],"em",{},"Veritas vos liberabit.",[32,33],"site-navigation",{},{"title":35,"searchDepth":36,"depth":36,"links":37},"",2,[],"Engineer \u002F Designer \u002F Founder. YC alum. Living in San Francisco.","md",{},true,"\u002F",{"title":5,"description":38},"index","0qv_C4UnvmvI9xt_4xn_1C3N-vhJohTB9L7VP4H32dw",{"id":47,"title":48,"body":49,"date":81,"description":82,"extension":39,"image":83,"meta":84,"navigation":41,"path":85,"seo":86,"stem":87,"subtitle":83,"tags":83,"__hash__":88},"writing\u002Fwriting\u002Fworking-in-serial.md","Working in serial",{"type":7,"value":50,"toc":79},[51,60,63,66,73,76],[10,52,53,54,59],{},"I recently came across Walter Isaacson on ",[14,55,58],{"href":56,"rel":57},"https:\u002F\u002Fx.com\u002Felon_docs\u002Fstatus\u002F1789998295479124168",[18],"Lex Fridman's podcast"," talking about Elon Musk's work ethic. Isaacson says that Musk is able to focus sequentially on many different things in a day, and he gives his 100% attention to each task at hand regardless of the number of other things he has to do that day.",[10,61,62],{},"As founders, even an incremental change in your productivity can mean a step change in your startup's overall productivity. Founders are often the bottlenecks, after all. There's so much advice around \"unblocking your team\", but I think just getting more things done might be a better way to improve the rest of the team's productivity.",[10,64,65],{},"So I've started worked in serial since the last few weeks. Every Monday, I assign a broad focus area for each day in the week, depending on the most impactful work I can do for the company at that time. I try not to complicate things by planning too much — a broad focus every day is enough. I create all-day events for each focus area without blocking the calendar, so I can still have other meetings during the day. Every day, apart from the meetings, I'm only working on the focus area.",[10,67,68],{},[69,70],"img",{"alt":71,"src":72},"Serial Focus Calendar","\u002Fimg\u002Fmicroblog\u002Fserial-focus-calendar.png",[10,74,75],{},"It's been only three weeks since I've started doing this, and it has already been the most productive weeks for me this year. I've been pleasantly surprised how much I was able to get done across several completely different areas of work.",[10,77,78],{},"Maybe this Elon guy is onto something.",{"title":35,"searchDepth":36,"depth":36,"links":80},[],"2024-09-18","I recently came across Walter Isaacson on Lex Fridman's podcast talking about Elon Musk's work ethic. Isaacson says that Musk is able to focus sequentially on many different things in a day, and he gives his 100% attention to each task at hand regardless of the number of other things he has to do that day.",null,{},"\u002Fwriting\u002Fworking-in-serial",{"title":48,"description":82},"writing\u002Fworking-in-serial","qe-PjdUMLwoe4ytNlj5AB46lGS0KBkfcsX9U9ZqlLQY",1784055681336]