Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky share 12 tactics to make more time every day, focusing on priorities, maintaining focus, healthy habits, and reflection. They emphasize optimizing productivity, managing distractions, prioritizing tasks, and utilizing technology effectively. Strategies include setting daily highlights, managing email efficiently, and optimizing physical energy for enhanced productivity.

John Zeratsky, co-author of 'Make Time' and a design and tech expert, shares powerful insights into optimizing focus and productivity. Discover the intriguing idea of caffeine naps that can supercharge your energy for work. John discusses how minor environmental tweaks can enhance focus, emphasizing the need to create spaces that support productivity. He also reveals strategies for tackling time-wasting decisions and highlights the importance of breaking daily goals into manageable steps, making staying productive feel achievable.

John Zeratsky, co-author of 'Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day,' shares a 4-step daily framework to optimize energy, focus, and time. Topics include choosing a daily highlight, managing time and avoiding distractions, setting priorities with highlights, dedicated time for personal projects, protecting our 'picture highlight,' and maintaining productivity systems and habits.

This is a re-broadcast. The episode originally ran in October 2018. Do your days seem like a continuous blur of busyness, and yet you don’t seem to get much done, nor remember much about how you spent your time? As a former employee of Google, my guest today worked on the very apps and technology that can often suck away our time. Today, he’s dedicated to figuring out how to push back against these forces to help people take control of their time and attention. His name is John Zeratsky and he’s the co-author of the book Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day. Today on the show, John shares how the experience of feeling like he was missing months of his life led him to spending years experimenting with his habits and routines, looking for the best ways to to optimize energy, focus, and time. He then shares the simple 4-step daily framework that developed from this research and walks us through that system. John talks about choosing one “highlight” each day to ensure your most important work gets done and that your life is full of memorable moments. He also shares how to reduce the time you spend wading in what he calls “infinity pools,” why energy management is just as important as time management, and how reflection is essential in figuring out if what you’re doing is working. Lots of valuable direction in this show for how to get your life on track and find more hours and meaning in the day.

John Zeratsky, a tech industry designer, talks about his 18-month journey living on a boat with his wife in Central America. They discuss rethinking convenience and comfort, the value of belonging and community, and how their relationship with money has changed. They also share tips for reducing phone addiction and exploring workshops and books for personal development.