What's up everyone? This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and CEO of Morning Brew, coming to you with another episode of the Founders Journal, where I talk about the most impactful things in my day.

Basically, doing my daily journal that I said I would do for myself for four years,

but actually doing it now for you, the listener, the public, to learn from and relate to.

You may hear another voice in the episode,'s producer Josh who pushes me to be the best

version of myself in this episode. I hope you enjoy and if you ever have feedback shoot me

an email to Alex at morningbrew.com Let's take it away.

Today I was looking at your calendar. We were scheduling this thing and you had an absolutely packed calendar. Did you get anything done today?

It depends on what you define as getting things done.

Yeah, it was a pretty crazy day. I try as hard as possible these days to really keep my meetings and phone calls before 10 a.m. and after 4 p.m.

but there are certain like jobs that I end up having to do that require a lot of meeting and call time and today was one of those days.

You know, the initial question was, did I get things done today?

Yes, I got things done, but I also realized that it is impossible to go a full day with meetings and

calls and not run over by a minute.

So you need to build in time.

But I also just realized, like, you know, we've talked about it on the podcast before how I really am working to have the

right balance of my time be thinking and not just doing and I would say you know I decided

for myself moving forward I'm going to try as hard as possible to have 15-minute blocks of time on my calendar that literally say nothing.

They're just blocks of time, and they are basically reserved for spillage and reflection after calls and the one good

caveat when I was telling Samir or head of content about this strategy and he

actually does this already I didn't realize that is that you can't use these

15 minute buffers as just a reason to go over on your calls because he said it

very quickly turns into that and so the way I think about it is moving forward, I'm going to make

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