"A colleague had no meeting day and it was respected. So I tried no meeting Thursday. " And I realized people booked over me. I pushed back and they'd make it out like the "The time I spent meant less to them than getting what they wanted." "How do I acknowledge the social baggage that people of color and also anyone marginalized in the workplace in a way that helps us get ahead." "This is where gaslighting can really cripple a person. You don't immediately say you're being targetted. You think, there's something wrong with me." "It was a sentiment heads from other black colleagues." Alan Henry, WIRED editor and author of the new book SEEN, HEARD and PAID: The New Work Rules for the Marginalized,

"People are like I'm getting a lot done. That's not the point. "Do you have clarity and space in your head to know what you're not getting done? Almost universally it's like no. That's what Getting Things Done has done for me. That's what helps people sit down and read it. It can make an impact"

"Often times, the human mind acts like a big hoarder of ideas, no matter how trivial they are. "To convert all these muddled ideas into viable actions, you need to distinguish the actionable and non-actionable tasks to get rid of the ones that cannot be done, thus clearing up some brain memory."