Cal Newport

And it just seems to me it's very hard to make those changes day of.

But when you're looking at the week, there is some shuffling to do.

And you move this, cancel this, get a ride here, connect these two things together, and it can make a really big difference.

So this gets to, I think you talked about as rearranging as being one of the key strategies.

So this is a place where you'd be doing a lot of, not a lot of, but this is where the rearranging could happen, the small changes with big impacts.

Yeah.

I'll tell you the magic, you probably have the same thing.

The magic shift at the weekly scale for us is when we figure out, oh, if I shifted this one thing to here, I can handle two or more carpool, I can link two or more carpool duties together into like one seamless, oh, that's always the magic.

I pick up this kid, drop them off here as I pick up this kid and end up here and bring them back.

Oh man, is there anything more satisfying than when you figure out how to make those pieces click together?

All right.

So I was already a big fan of weekly planning.

I talk a lot about it.

But then the next part, when you're talking about the ringleader that caught my attention, was new to me.

I really liked this notion of house rules.

So having these set rules that simplifies dealing with complexity.

That's a weird sentence, but it does.

It simplifies the dealing with the reality of complexity.

So walk me through a little bit what you mean by house rules or setting your own rules.

All right.