What to Skip
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What to Skip
The temptation is to add everything. Resist it.
A morning brief that takes eight minutes to read has failed at being a brief. The goal is under three minutes: scan, absorb, begin. If you’re reading a news digest, you’ve turned the brief into a reading session.
News is the most common thing to skip or heavily limit. One to three headlines maximum. If you find yourself reading the full articles, cut the integration until you’ve developed the habit of treating it as signal-only.
Email triage at morning-brief time should surface action items, not summaries. If you want a full email digest, that’s a separate task. The morning brief gets the count of items needing action and the one or two that are urgent. Everything else can wait until the working email session.