Make room
for the work.
Gareth, working through a thought.
A prototype makes an idea easier to talk about. A small tool can make a day easier to navigate.
FlowTimer is one such tool: a macOS timer that brings you to a check-in, where you decide whether to continue, extend, or stop.
The calendar asks a related question. What deserves time—and what are we keeping out of habit?
The FlowTimer project ↗Is this meeting worth the time?
An exercise from my writing on time blocking: make the tradeoffs explicit, then discuss them with the people involved.
Not permission to delete the calendar.
The useful part is the conversation. Review your judgments with peers and explain changes rather than silently removing meetings.
Another experiment in time: 30 Apps in 30 Days ↗