Thanks for this, David - it really resonated with me! I have been struggling lately with trying to take on too much and not being able to protect time for proper thinking. Two resources in particular helped a lot with that: this HBR article entitled 'Time management won't save you' https://hbr.org/2021/06/time-management-wont-save-you and the mantra from Cal Newport (author of Deep Work) of 'do less, do better, know why'.
Really looking forward to the return of the occasional long-form essay, I have found them incredibly thought-provoking.
Hi Rory, thanks so much for reading and sorry for the slow reply! Great to hear this resonated. I find that the struggle with time, and with the infinite possibilities we can embrace and directions we can take, is endless. I've found the thinking of Oliver Burkeman to be really useful on all this; you might like his book Four Thousand Weeks.
Great, and I'll definitely check out hat HBR article, too! Cal Newport I've read, and Deep Work was great in helping sort my own thinking around deep work time vs everything else.
I find this so positive cos it just demonstrates how we have to work in todays unpredictable world - have a clear aim and a sense of direction, make a plan, implement, change, adapt but so long as the direction of travel remains clear progress will be made!
Thanks Heather! Yes I think the trick is to be able at once to have a plan and to be adaptable enough to tweak the plan without abandoning it altogether. Doing that perfectly is essentially impossible, but we can only try...
Thanks for this, David - it really resonated with me! I have been struggling lately with trying to take on too much and not being able to protect time for proper thinking. Two resources in particular helped a lot with that: this HBR article entitled 'Time management won't save you' https://hbr.org/2021/06/time-management-wont-save-you and the mantra from Cal Newport (author of Deep Work) of 'do less, do better, know why'.
Really looking forward to the return of the occasional long-form essay, I have found them incredibly thought-provoking.
Hi Rory, thanks so much for reading and sorry for the slow reply! Great to hear this resonated. I find that the struggle with time, and with the infinite possibilities we can embrace and directions we can take, is endless. I've found the thinking of Oliver Burkeman to be really useful on all this; you might like his book Four Thousand Weeks.
Thanks, I'll check it out!
Great, and I'll definitely check out hat HBR article, too! Cal Newport I've read, and Deep Work was great in helping sort my own thinking around deep work time vs everything else.
I find this so positive cos it just demonstrates how we have to work in todays unpredictable world - have a clear aim and a sense of direction, make a plan, implement, change, adapt but so long as the direction of travel remains clear progress will be made!
Thanks Heather! Yes I think the trick is to be able at once to have a plan and to be adaptable enough to tweak the plan without abandoning it altogether. Doing that perfectly is essentially impossible, but we can only try...