The Meeting Diet: Cut 6 Hours From Your Calendar Without Getting Fired (TPS637)

In this episode, we break down a practical meeting diet you can use to cut 20 to 30 percent of your meeting hours without getting fired or damaging trust. We walk through how to audit your calendar by time cost, use the meeting autopsy question, apply the three filters for recurring invites, and replace the right meetings with async updates, Looms, and shared docs. I also share scripts for saying no gracefully and how to protect the meetings that actually matter.

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Cheat Sheet

• 📱 The iPhone trick that lets two phones share one number [1:11]
• 📚 Top 3 Productivity Resources [2:46]
• 😩 Why a packed calendar can still feel like a time suck [5:48]
• 🔁 Why NVIDIA’s CEO skips recurring meetings with his team [7:08]
• 🎉 The one-second test that tells you if a meeting is worth keeping [9:16]
• ⏱️ Why a 20-minute meeting can beat a full hour [11:40]
• 💸 The Shopify bot that wiped everyone’s recurring meetings [17:03]
• 🧪 How to kill a meeting when you’re not the one running it [23:35]

Links

• MasterClass
• Shopify
• 25X Productivity Coaching
• iPhone Duo
• Situated: Find the People and Places That Bring Out Your Best by Angela Duckworth
• Grit by Angela Duckworth
• Remotion Agent Plugins
• Claude Code
• OpenAI Codex
• The Amazon 6-Pager: What, Why, and How
• The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
• Shopify cancels recurring meetings
• Shopify’s meeting cost calculator

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