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Run the workday from a schedule, not a to-do list. Give every minute a job in advance, redraw the plan when it breaks, and stop at the shutdown.
during your workday you give every minute a job in advance
Georgetown computer science professor, author of Deep Work and Slow Productivity
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Run the workday from a schedule, not a to-do list. Give every minute a job in advance, redraw the plan when it breaks, and stop at the shutdown.
during your workday you give every minute a job in advance
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Cal Newport
gives every minute of the workday a job in advance and redraws the plan when it breaks. Without that plan, he argues, email, meetings and admin overhead take the day and the real work slides into the evening.
plans one Highlight, a single 60 to 90 minute block written down before the day starts, and accepts that the rest of the day is reactive. Everything else exists to protect that one block.
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