Protect your calendar

In this episode we wanted to address another productivity issue.

We talk about the concerning trend of having an open calendar and how detrimental this can be for getting stuff done.

We talk about how we balance meetings vs deep work via time boxing.
Related essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

Mentioned meeting quote: "Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better." - Peter Drucker

We talk about the culture of "now vs when" and how Slack (ironically) gets this down! They seem to have embraced the "when you work, work, when you play, play".

We hope that after listening you take control of your calendar and tell us all about it:
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Finally, at the start of the episode we mention our new, free 6 day training course:
The 6 Key Ingredients of a Successful Pythonista

You can get it here:
https://www.buildpythonapps.com/

Extra Resources:

Julian's Reading: 

• Pine Gap: The Inside Story of the NSA in Australia - David Rosenberg

Bob's Reading: 

• Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success - Phil Jackson
• Serious Python: Black-Belt Advice on Deployment, Scalability, Testing, and More - Julien Danjou