High-leverage activities A few months ago, my friend Edmond wrote a very insightful post about the most important professional lesson he had learned. While working as an engineer at companies like Google and Quora, Edmond figured out that the best use of his time was to focus on high-leverage activities like automating repetitive tasks, interviewing potential candidates, and mentoring new hires. These tasks are time-consuming, but they consume much less time in the short run than they save in the long run. One could fill a book with the ways that engineers can leverage their time more effectively – in fact, Edmond has been working on such a