What's the most expensive 30-minute task you do every day?

Not "expensive" like it costs money. Expensive like it costs your focus, your energy, your best hours.

For me, it was triaging email every morning. 30-45 minutes of decision fatigue before I'd even started real work.

I calculated: that's 2.5 hours/week, 10 hours/month, 120 hours/year.

At my hourly rate, that's $12,000/year of "thinking work" spent on... sorting messages.

And the worst part? I was doing it at 8am when my brain was freshest. I was literally spending my best cognitive hours on the lowest-value task.

What about you? What's that recurring task that eats your best time without moving the needle?

Drop it below. I'm curious if there's a pattern here.