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174: Deep Work, with Cal Newport

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How to Use a Time Block Plan to Protect Your Time

When I do a time block plan for the day every minute of my workday isn't part of a block blocking every minute and I do that on paper. When I'm planning on the weekly scale for example will go on to my digital calendar to protect time  for working on like a project doing deep work later in the week. So appointments with myself will show up on my digital calendar when I'm trying to figure out when am I going to get this very important thing done, she says.

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