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3 Free Mac Apps to Boost Your Productivity as Manager
These are the apps I am using and cannot tell how much they are saving my daily work life
Currently, I am head of data engineering in a unicorn startup. I have at least 4–5 meetings on a good day but I am used to having 10–12 meetings in a day. I am kind of an enabler between product and data team that I collect requirements, evaluate how they are important for business perspective, tell data engineers in engineering language :) As I am a computer engineer, the last part is generally very easy because I build teams who can collaborate easily. The hardest part is that follow-ups, understanding every tech level of stakeholders, connecting dots about data, and make the data discoverable by the data science team to get value from it. On the other part, there is also the BI team to create beautiful charts that everybody understands. As I am a direct report, I am also doing 1–1s which need extra care to remember history. When the team grows, it is very hard to remember what happened last week or what we should follow-up next weeks.
As you read the summary of my daily work, here is the list of applications that I am using daily to boost my productivity and making me a better manager. Of course, everyone using Slack or similar apps nowadays so my intention is not these types…
