Set Up Your Calendar

Segmenting your calendar with intention can drastically increase your deep work capacity and reduce distraction. Here are the core points from the lesson:

• Decompose your calendar by assigning specific time blocks for high-leverage work, shallow tasks (like email), and recovery to reduce ambiguity and improve clarity
• Avoid scattering meetings across the week—batch them into clusters (especially 1:1s) to preserve longer stretches of focus time
• Use your influence to improve team-wide productivity by suggesting standardized no-meeting days or more structured meeting schedules
• Even if you don’t follow your calendar plan perfectly, the act of time blocking improves your estimation skills and helps build a rhythm for deep work