What’s refreshing about this guide is the authors’ premise that no one set of tactics is going to work for everybody—these are strategies to try, to adjust, and to abandon if they don’t work. This is a useful, but superficial book from the authors of Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days.

Productivity experts Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky have created a four-step framework that anyone can use, packed with more than 80 tactics to help you design your day around the things that matter.He proactively tied himself to the mast of his ship and made his sailors put beeswax in their ears, so they couldn’t react to the Sirens’ song. Time and focus mgmt is something I'm very keen on - that's why I read every promising book on the topic. Building on the success of these sprints and their experience designing ubiquitous tech products from Gmail to YouTube, they spent years experimenting with their own habits and routines, looking for ways to help people optimize their energy, focus, and time.

Instead, it's a framework designed to help you actually create more time in your day for the things you care about, whether that's spending time with your family, learning a language, starting a side business, volunteering, writing a novel, or mastering Mario Kart. Both Apple and Google state that they ensure that only users who have actually downloaded the app can submit a review. In modern life, it often feels like there are never enough hours in the day to do the things we really want to do.This is a fast read that works quite well as a peppy companion volume to Newport's more discursive approach. By default other people choose what goes on our calendars, and by default we're expected to be okay with back-to-back-to-back meetings. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.