Hello and welcome to Best Laid Plans.

This is your host Sarah Hart Unger and this is the podcast where we talk all things planning

and planning adjacent.

I am very excited about today's topic.

I was going to have a really cool guest on, so I

apologize that I did promise that in last week's episode, but our interview actually fell

through. I'm still hoping that she'll come on, so I will not share her identity, but

stay tuned because it will be great when it finally happens. Instead, I am going to bring to you an episode that came to mind as I listened to a recent

episode of the Deep Questions podcast, which is Cal Newport's podcast.

Now, many of you are probably familiar with Cal Newport.

He is a computer science professor and an author, and he writes about the intersection

between tech

and productivity and culture. He is a New Yorker contributor, and he has a very successful

podcast called Deep Questions. He has also been on best laid plans in the past, so it was a

thrill to get to speak to him via, I wouldn't say in person, but via camera, and talk to him

about his time block planner that he created. I don't say in person, but via camera and talk to him about his time block planner that

he created. I don't always agree with everything that he comes out with, which would be

silly. I mean, no one agrees with everything anyone comes out with, I am sure, but I always find

his ideas very thought-provoking. And so, when I listened to his episode, which was called How Cal Organizes His Life, I felt very

moved to share my own picture of organization, lest anyone assume that one person's, you know,

way to organize is the right way. I guess I feel like I organized pretty well too, and my way is pretty different than

Cal. And so I felt like I might as well give you guys a 10,000 foot view of what my system looks like.

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