For most of my working life, my calendar wasn’t mine. At Amazon, meetings landed on it from people in different time zones before I’d even opened my laptop. Teaching English in Japan, the school set my hours and I built my life around them. I got used to my best hour of the day being…
The simplest, most immediately actionable calendar habit for founders who want to protect their cognitive capacity and do their best work. Here’s a question worth answering honestly: when in your working week do you do your best thinking? For most founders the answer isn’t ‘during work hours.’ It’s in the shower. On a run. During…
A poorly designed calendar doesn’t just waste time — it generates cognitive drain before your most important work has even started. A few weeks ago I introduced the concept of Decision Fatigue — the well-documented cognitive phenomenon where the quality of our decision-making degrades progressively as we make more decisions across the day. Each choice,…
The gap between the priorities you say you have and the ones your calendar reflects is one of the most telling operational measures in any business. Here’s an exercise worth doing this week. Pull up last week’s calendar and look at it honestly. Not at what you planned — at what actually happened. Where did…
