White space is good for calendars, not just graphic design. (Blank space on your calendar is your schedule’s shock-absorber.)
Time
Execution over Revelation
It can be hard to get started, even when you’ve blocked out time to work. Get a rolling start by reading through your last few pages of work to remind you what was engaging you then. And be sure you’re setting an end-time for your work. This means you won’t stop when you don’t like […]
Calendars Tell Stories
Calendars tell stories about our future–both where we need to be at 8:30 tomorrow morning, and what we should be working on over the next year. And they tell stories about our past: how we got here and what we intended to be working on. We’ve put together a series of timelines about the 2020 […]
Work vs. System Building
Feeling incredibly behind lately, I was telling a friend that I wanted to take a couple weeks to set aside the distractions and work hard to catch up. She gave me some excellent advice.[1] She said that sounded good, as long as I spent that time building systems, instead of just “doing work.” She meant […]
Freedom
I asked him what he used his freedom for since he defended it so assiduously.