Co-create a remote-team charter defining overlap hours, channels, and reply SLA.

Define where your "good enough" is on a 0-100 ruler, to know when to stop.

Sort tasks on urgent/important axes and treat each quadrant with its rule.

In news writing: most important first, important next, extra last — reader gets it even if stops mid-way.

Do not commit on the spot. Request 24 hours to think before any new obligation.

Compute colleague's time before writing, use schedule-send to avoid sleep disruption.

Decline any meeting without a written agenda — politely cancel and request one.

Before adding a new tool, verify it doesn't duplicate a job an existing tool already does — overlap costs more time and money than it saves.