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Hailley Griffis

A long-time remote worker, career growth enthusiast, and personal systems fan, I juggle working full time as Buffer's Head of Communications and Content, running a podcast about creating purposeful workflows called MakeWorkWork, and I write and update what I learn on my website and newsletter.

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A reminder for when to-do lists are too long

HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Monday 🌞 If you joined recently, hi 👋 I’m Hailley. I’ve always built systems to help me stay calm and organized — at work (as a marketing leader at Buffer) and at home (as a remote mom of two). Lately, even my best systems are feeling the strain. For the past few weeks, I’ve been starting my days with around 40 tasks on my to-do list — and that’s just not reasonable. Some of this comes from poor workload planning on my part (read more about my usual system for that...

HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Monday 🌞 If you joined recently, hi 👋 I’m Hailley. I’ve always created systems for my work (as a Marketing leader at Buffer) and life (as a remote worker and mom of two) where I can stay productive, calm, and organized. This week, we’re chatting about career planning — specifically, a simple tool I call the “future job description” that has transformed how I think about my career growth. For years now, I’ve been collecting job descriptions that match or slightly exceed...

HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Monday 🌞 If you joined recently, hi 👋 I'm Hailley. I've always created systems for my work (as a Marketing leader at Buffer) and life (as a remote worker and mom of two) where I can stay productive, calm, and organized. This week, we are talking about one of my favorite systems and resources — creating an accomplishments list. It’s (somehow already) the end of Q1, and now is an excellent time to start tracking your accomplishments for this year if this isn’t already a...

HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Monday 🌞 If you joined recently, hi 👋 I’m Hailley. I’ve always created systems for my work (as a Marketing leader at Buffer) and life (as a remote worker and mom of two) where I can stay productive, calm, and organized. This week, we’re chatting about a simple content creation system — specifically, an easy system that any professional can use to create content and post more consistently on LinkedIn. There are a ton of benefits to posting on LinkedIn (from connecting...

HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Monday 🌞 If you joined recently, hi 👋 I’m Hailley. I’ve always created systems for my work (as a Marketing leader at Buffer) and life (as a remote worker and mom of two) where I can stay productive, calm, and organized. This week, we’re chatting about AI — specifically, four different ways to use AI to help you think more deeply or get unblocked at work. I’ll admit I was slow to adopt AI after the release of ChatGPT. I eventually decided to invest more time in using AI...

HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Monday 🌞 I’m so glad to be back to this newsletter. If you joined recently, hi 👋 I’m Hailley. I’ve always created systems for my work (as a Marketing leader at Buffer) and life (as a remote worker and mom of two) where I can stay productive, calm, and organized. This week we’re chatting about mental processing. Understanding your natural thinking style can dramatically improve how you work, communicate, and solve problems. Whether you know it or not, you likely fall into...

HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Monday 🌞 Can you think of a challenge you have in your work or life right now? If you’re like me, you have a number of challenges that range from big to small. Some things on my mind include iterating on Buffer’s blog content, spending more time reading the books on my 2024 reading list, and getting more sleep. Over the years, I’ve developed a simple method for tackling these sorts of questions. (Except for that last one — that is in the hands of my 7-month-old.) Here’s...

HAILLEY GRIFFIS Well, hello there! 🌞 I’ve been off work for 16 weeks and away from this newsletter for even longer. That all changes today—it is my first day back at work and my first newsletter again post-baby. I’m glad to be back to both. Besides a few Instagram posts, I’ve been mostly away from posting on social media and from any work. So this is me slowly coming back online after a lovely break. I’ve decided to return to this newsletter first as I love this space, and I’m so grateful to...

HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Monday 🌞 As you might have guessed from the title, I’m heading out on parental leave very soon. I’m so grateful to be able to take some time away from work to focus on the new baby and learn about life with a newborn and a toddler. (Send encouragement or advice if you have any!) This will be my third time taking an extended break from work, which I feel very privileged to do. The first was my first parental leave for 12 weeks in 2021, the second was my 7-week sabbatical...

HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Monday 🌞 I recently had the experience of reading an article and having that article completely change my mind on something. The article spoke about ‘joining the AI class’ and was written by Greg Shove and Taylor Malmsheimer. The core concept is that you can’t ignore the impact that AI can have on your work and your career right now — that there will be this class of people ‘the AI class’ of workers who leverage AI to be more efficient. (I recommend reading the whole...