Serguey Asael Shinder – IT Professional

The most valuable hour of my day
happens before anyone needs me.

No pings. No requests. No one’s urgency but my own.

For a long time I gave that hour away.
Straight to the inbox, reacting before I’d even thought.

Now I guard it.

The first hour goes to the work that’s mine.
The hard thing. The real thing.

Everything after rides on it.
A morning spent reacting
becomes a day spent reacting.

The world can have me at nine.
The first hour, I keep.

– Serguey Asael Shinder