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Your signal first

Your work first. Their noise later.

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Hand-drawn diagram of framework 307, Your signal first: Your work first. Their noise later.
Framework 307 · in one look
How to use it

Your clearest hours go to your own most important work, before messages and before anyone else's noise. Every hour later costs a little. When you can't go first, take a 20-30 minute break before the hard thing.

How sure we are

P Evidence: promising. Good studies, but small or few. Use it and keep checking.

Sources

Every hour later in the school day, test scores fell about 0.9% of a standard deviation; a 20-30 minute break before the test lifted them about 1.7% (Sievertsen, Gino & Piovesan 2016, all Danish public schools, 🟡) · see 254.

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