Ask HN: What's the biggest time waste on your workday?

I've been thinking about things I have to do regularly, but are not worth the time.

Examples for me:

- manual tasks I didn't have time do automate yet (technical debt) - writing boilerplate code - unproductive meetings to discuss things that would be 1000x more efficient over text/a document

These are things I do regularly and they don't make me learn or improve at the rate of more interesting stuff.

Are these the same for you?

What are you doing that you wish you weren't?