Time Blocking Without the Ideology
The useful part of time blocking is one sentence: decide in advance what a stretch of time is for, so you are not deciding at the moment you sit down. That is the whole mechanism, and it is worth doing. ...
Context-Switching
Your Calendar's Fragmentation Problem
Two people have eleven meeting hours this week. The first has them in four blocks: Monday afternoon, Wednesday morning, Wednesday afternoon, Friday morning. Three of her days contain a clear stretch of four hours or more. The second has them spread across ten sessions, roughly one every ninety minutes, every day. His longest uninterrupted stretch all week is fifty-five minutes, and it is on Friday at 4pm. ...