How to Never Miss a Deadline, With Journalist Christopher Cox
The Upgrade by Lifehacker
Lifehacker
4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This week we're learning how to get better with deadlines with help from journalist Christopher Cox. Christopher is the former chief editor of Harper’s Magazine and executive editor of GQ, and has a new book out called The Deadline Effect: How to Work Like It’s The Last Minute—Before The Last Minute. Listen to hear Christopher explain the economic phenomenon of the Deadline Effect, what productivity tips he learned in his research on organizations that are successful with project rollouts, and how we can structure our due dates to help ourselves and the people we work with succeed in always meeting our deadlines.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey and welcome to The Upgrade, podcast from the team at Lifehacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time. I'm Jordan Calhoun, editor-in-chief of LifeHacker. |
| 0:21.3 | And I'm Megan Walbert, LifeHackers Managing Editor. And Megan, I can't get the hell away from these |
| 0:25.8 | deadlines. They are just personal deadlines, professional deadlines. Everything has a due date. |
| 0:32.3 | Jordan, I know they're everywhere, especially in our job. It's like one after another after |
| 0:36.2 | another. I don't know if you've noticed. |
| 0:37.5 | Yeah, no, I mean, I've noticed in my professional life, it is completely run by deadlines. I have now |
| 0:43.4 | realized in my personal life, they are also run by deadlines with children. You know that my nephews are |
| 0:49.5 | staying with me for the summer. And now I have to feed them regularly. Like, even when you feed them one time, |
| 0:55.8 | they'll need it again in just a few hours. It's excessive. They come tapping on your shoulder. |
| 1:01.2 | The lunchtime deadline is here. Oh, man. And then deadlines for picking them up from camp, |
| 1:07.2 | deadlines for trying to get them to bed. My entire life, all of our lives, are just organized by deadlines. |
| 1:14.2 | You know who we need? |
| 1:15.3 | Who do we need? |
| 1:16.0 | Tell me. Talk to me. |
| 1:17.1 | We need journalist Christopher Cox. |
| 1:19.0 | That's who we need. |
| 1:20.4 | Yes, indeed. |
| 1:22.6 | Creativity and sticking to a deadline are not at odds. |
| 1:25.8 | In fact, like the sort of motivation of a deadline can create the space for creativity. |
| 1:32.1 | It can be motivating to the kind of brilliant literary thoughts that you could have, |
| 1:39.5 | even if you're given all the time in the world. |
| 1:41.7 | Christopher is a former chief editor of Harper's Magazine, an executive editor at GQ, where he worked |
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