Prompts · Personal task management
Protect real work on a calendar that's all meetings
every meeting seems reasonable on its own, the real work happens after 8pm or not at all, and declining feels like letting people down.
Built on
Cal Newport · 2016
Makes the case for blocking depth first and treating it as fixed, with the scheduling philosophies and fixed-schedule productivity to back it up.
Oliver Burkeman · 2021
Deals with the guilt: you will never clear the queue, so you have to choose whom to disappoint, and the real work gets scheduled first.
The prompt
My situation: [describe your calendar load, the work that isn't getting done, and what makes declining hard]
Use Deep Work by Cal Newport (2016) and Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman (2021) to help.
Recall any details from the whole book that help, including names, numbers, scenes, or cases that are not the most famous chapter titles.
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