Marcel Schouwenaar

I'm trying to keep my days as predictable as possible with chunks of focussed time. Cooking and biking are important moments away from the keyboard. It allows for thinking or have a chat with colleagues. No tools but a notebook and calendar. Looks something like this: 8:30 bike to the office, make coffee, check news, list to-do's 9:00 catch up with messages / emails (~ meeting) 10:00 deep /...

A lot. When doing deep work, like creative work or development, I need blocks of 3-4hrs of uninterrupted focus time. Hence I plan all meetings as first thing in the morning, right before lunch, or late afternoon. Or find 1 day in the week to take meetings back-to-back and just don't expect any work to be done.