# How to spend your life force as a product manager

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## What Jamie wrote

This article is ostensibly about product managers focus, but can be for anyone. Bucketing work on an ease v. impact scale.

> Which leads me to my main point. It’s in the combination of the ease/effort involved in a task, as well as our known sphere of influence, that we are able to make the best decisions about where to spend our life force. 

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