Deep Work

How to plan and protect time for demanding work when your attention is easily pulled away: working in longer blocks, batching email and admin, and getting started on hard tasks.

  • Why Hard Work Needs 90-Minute Blocks

    Most of us try to do hard thinking in the leftover minutes between meetings. Here is why that rarely works, and how to build a day around a few protected…

  • Put Your Inbox on a Schedule

    Email, admin and quick replies are part of every job. Batching them into a few fixed windows keeps them from taking over the day.