Hello and welcome to Best Lave Plans.

This is a podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent.

And today we are going to talk about time blocking.

So every once in a while, I'm not sure what I'm going to talk about

on a given week and then something comes out of the blue and inspires me. And today is one of

those episodes. As I was listening to Deep Questions with Cal Newport this morning, they had an

extensive discussion, well, I would say he had an extensive discussion about time blocking and his

thoughts on time blocking as well as some back and forth between him and some things that Oliver

Berkman has said about time blocking. Now, fun fact, both Cal Newport and Oliver Berkman have been guests

on this podcast. I feel very lucky to have gotten to chat with both of them.

I also find both of them excellent thinkers. I learned a ton from their podcasts and just from their work.

Actually, sorry, Cal's podcast. I don't even know if Oliver has a podcast, but if he does, I would listen to it.

I've definitely read his writings. The last book he wrote was 4,000 weeks and it was

excellent. And Cal Newport came out with slow productivity this year and I enjoyed that as well.

Anyway, so both of these guys do a lot of talking about systems and productivity. And both of

them have somewhat different, but also similar thoughts on the concept of time blocking. And listening to them,

I thought, why not share my take as well? I'm sure everyone is waiting with bated breath to find out

what I think about time blocking. No, I jest, but sometimes there is something to be said about a

perspective from a different gender, someone with different pressures on their plate,

or someone with a different kind of job. And I'm a little bit weird and that I have a partially

very structured job and a partially more fluid job. So I will share how I tend to use time

blocking and my general thoughts on the practice. But first of all, what is time blocking? So I've heard it

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