This is a YouTube video titled "Rahul Vohra is the Co-founder and CEO of Superhuman" containing a monologue by Rahul Vohra recorded in May 2025. In this content, Rahul discusses a productivity technique he calls the "switch log," which involves tracking task changes via Slack messages to better capture actual work done rather than relying on a calendar schedule.
A technique that I call the switch log. And it's born out of the observation that your calendar says what you thought you were going to do, but it's really only your trail of work that describes what you actually did. So how can we capture that? And actually, how can create a system of work that isn't tethered to a calendar where you aren't at the behest of what some timetable says you do or you don't have to do. So I came up with the following idea. What if I just did whatever the heck I wanted? What if every single time I changed task, I just Slack DMed my EA and I said TS colon, and then a few words for the task I was doing. Instead of having to constantly look at the calendar and think, oh, should I stop this task, start that task, I can just do what I want. And if I get bored or distracted eight minutes in, which sometimes happens, because something else just bubbles up to the top of my mind. Well, there's a reason that my body is bubbling it up to the top of my mind. All I'd have to do is I'd go back to slack TS colon dealing with this other thing. Then at the end of the week, you can see where your time is going.