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Eric Siu explains the Night Queue concept for team Slack: scan open work, rank high-leverage tasks, batch threads, and use prompts to close them. It keeps work moving overnight and prevents tasks from getting stuck in open conversations.

Eric Siu explains the Night Queue concept for team Slack: scan open work, rank high-leverage tasks, batch threads, and use prompts to close them. It keeps work moving overnight and prevents tasks from getting stuck in open conversations.
Night Queue allows you to look across open work, ranks the safest high-leverage tasks. So I like talking about highest leverage because a little bit of output, maybe $1 of output yields you $10 or $100 back, runs what it can and turns risky work into approval packets. The whole idea here is that you have /goal to keep work moving, but you want it to work overnight. Maybe you want it to continue to focus on high-leverage tasks through the evening. And then maybe you have open threads and maybe you need to batch it out, right? So this helps my workflow. In Slack, I'm just like, hey, like, What are the open threads and can we /goal to finish them off? So again, you're going to forget because you're doing so much work, you're doing it so quickly, you have this infinite intelligence in your hands right now and you want to keep it moving.