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From the book algorithms to live by
I check my work and personal emails once per day. Work ones are usually all just hr spam, sometimes something I need to know about in advance but it's rare. Personal I would check less often but if I get any emails about attempts to access accounts, job interviews, etc it's nice to be semi up to date. I also only open physical mail once per month, unless it's something that is urgent (almost never) l
I also get through my sprint jira tickets in order from fastest to slowest (assuming all have similar priority) to take advantage of something called 2 machine scheduling. It decreases the overall wait time for the tickets. If I do a 2 day task then a 1 day task, the wait on the 2 day task is 2 days and the 1 day task is 3 days, so 5 days of wait total, in the other order 2 day task has 1 day of wait, 2 day task has 3 days for 4 days total. It honestly doesn't change a whole lot, but it allows whoever needs to QA my tasks to get started faster and have stuff to do while I'm working too rather than extra downtime (normally not an issue because the department I'm doing a lot of work for currently is over 2 weeks behind though)
Loved that book