{"id":265,"date":"2019-08-28T08:48:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T08:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robdix.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2020-04-21T15:27:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T15:27:26","slug":"strategic-laziness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robdix.com\/strategic-laziness\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategic laziness: Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I probably shouldn&#8217;t admit this, but I manage to avoid all manner of relatively unimportant things by just <strong>ignoring them the first time<\/strong> <strong>around<\/strong>. My theory is that if it does turn out to be <em>that <\/em>important, it&#8217;ll find its way back to me again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, this has had no negative consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A good &#8220;training wheels&#8221; equivalent is to <strong>leave it for a while, then check if it&#8217;s still relevant.<\/strong> A good rule of thumb is to wait is d<em>ouble the amount of time you might  normally be expected to deal with it within<\/em> \u2013 so maybe a couple of weeks for an email, or a couple of months for a letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll often wait, follow up, and get a &#8220;never mind, I sorted it&#8221; response. Just yesterday, I replied \u2013 two months later \u2013 to a company that said I owed them \u00a36 for some reason I wasn&#8217;t clear on. They replied to say I now didn&#8217;t owe them anything and they&#8217;d done whatever they needed to do. Go figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does this sound lazy? Selfish? Disorganised? Irresponsible? 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