I signed up for Y Combinator’s founder matching program last week. Suddenly zoom calls have popped up all over my calendar, I’m communicating with people over email and LinkedIn, and I feel the pressure to stay on top of it all!
The best method I’ve found thus far for protecting my focused work and not letting synchronous communication take control of my life has been obsessive use of my google calendar combined with my cell phone’s “do not disturb” setting left on most of the day.
No to do list – all reminders go on my calendar at the time slot when I want to actually do them. Need to protect deep work.
Noah's (Life) Ark 