Dr. Cal Newport
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I use a paper-based time block planner.
So you flip through those pages and you're just looking for dark blocks, right?
So you see, if I see I don't have a lot of dark blocks,
I say, this is my whole job.
Like my whole life, I've been trained in a lab to think really hard about things and write things.
Why do I not have very many dark blocks?
You get this feedback mechanism.
So there's all these bonuses when you start doing this type of planning.
Yeah, it's interesting.
You're online.
with, or in person, with just other people doing deep work.
Basically.
Well, grad students do this, right?
Dissertation boot camps.
I don't know if you had this experience, but Georgetown does.
A lot of colleges do this.
Okay, everyone working on their dissertation, we're all going to get together.
and we're going to work on it together.
Because they would often have me come speak at these things earlier in my career.
It would just be a bunch of grad students.