YOUTUBE FS1mnISoG7U Scott Hanselman presents his talk at GOTO Conference in 2012
The less that you can do, the more of it you can do.
Now I've made my own notes here, but Hanselman has also made a blog post against this on his website. hanselman.com 
Hanselman juxtaposes Effectiveness and Efficiency. Efficiency is doing things in the most economical way. It's process oriented, and has a good input to output ratio. Effectiveness is doing the right things, but efficiency is doing things right.
Inboxes need to be triaged. Group things so you can tackle them separately.
There are 3 kinds of work, Hanselman calls this the "Three Fold Nature of Work". There's Pre-defined work as it appears, then there's work that's interrupting you and then there's the defining of work-- the planning bit.
6:40 - How to choose what to drop, use quadrants to figure it out.
Do it, drop it, delegate it or defer it. Dropping is such a powerful thing you can do to scale yourself.
All systems that work need to have flow control and so they drop packets. Sometimes dropping the ball is the right answer.
Consider the rule of 3. Write down three outcomes for the day, week and year. You need to reflect at the end of that period and see what happened and then do it again.
"Being busy is a form of laziness-- lazy thinking and indiscriminate action" -- Timothy Ferriss
"Being creative and making something is hte opposite of hanging out" -- David Rakoff
Reflect on yourself. Take all the data streams in your life an sort them into Signal vs Noise.
12:20 - Sorting your Email list
Don't put energy into things you don't want more of.
Never write a long email to someone. It should be an FAQ, or Knowledge base or Blog or something that's not a giant email. Then this text doesn't go off to die, it can live on.
A Pomodoro technique is a great way to reflect on what happens in your life. Turn off notifications and things that pull you out of flow.
20:04 Things you can multitask on at the same time
Multitasking is just wasting time task switching.
Hanselman loves to watch the wire on a treadmill.
"If it is not helping me ____, then it's not improving my life in some way, it's mental clutter and it's out" -- Christopher Hawkins, who put "Making Money" in there.
There is a difference between being busy and doing the work you want to do.
Hansleman suggests that to "keep up" you shouldn't try reading it all. Instead he suggests you subscribe to aggregators like Robert Scobal who read 1000+ blogs and summarise these in a way that is digestible. Who is an aggregator in your company that can keep you up to date?
So you need to...
Audit and sort your sources into Signal vs Noise
Schedule work sprints with a Pomodoro
Plan what you want to do in a day, your week, and reflect
Turn off distractions
Triage your inbox-- are you effecitve and are you efficent. Inbox isn't just email
Consider your personal toolbox.