{
  "id": "3b0a7a3237cd",
  "url": "https://www.next-action.co.uk/2023/09/14/calendar-management-tips/",
  "title": "How To Control Your Calendar - Next Action Associates",
  "note": "Perhaps it is age, but every year the value of time goes up for me. Mathematically that makes sense, since we are all reducing our balance of remaining time every day. This video merges two topics In a way I would not. There is the idea of time blocking, which is well understood. But there is another topic that I often describe as Defensive Calendar management.\n\nThe modern workplace has opened up our most precious and important asset, time, as a resource for anyone to inspect and use. Group calendaring and availability is great for some things, but I would challenge anyone to show me that it is optimal for all entities in the system to use their time optimally. Defensively managing your calendar is a critical skill.\n\nThe how is tactics, but for more on the why go to Graham's great [Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule](http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html) article. ",
  "voice": "jamie",
  "saved": "2023-09-15T01:52:15Z",
  "host": "next-action.co.uk",
  "kind": "page",
  "tags": [],
  "record": "https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3b0a7a3237cd/",
  "markdown": "https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3b0a7a3237cd.md",
  "issues": [
    {
      "number": 261,
      "slug": "261",
      "title": "Weekly Thing 261 / Bloomfield Bridge, Critical Ignoring, Subscription Era",
      "date": "2023-09-16T13:29:03.976753Z",
      "section": "Notable",
      "position": 12,
      "url": "https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/261/",
      "page": "https://links.thingelstad.xyz/issues/261/"
    }
  ],
  "connections": {
    "same_host": {
      "count": 3,
      "page": "https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/next-action.co.uk/",
      "nearest": [
        {
          "id": "ada4c797e54c",
          "title": "Three Common Misunderstandings of Self-Taught GTD Fans - Next Action Associates",
          "url": "https://www.next-action.co.uk/2020/08/04/self-taught/",
          "record": "https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ada4c797e54c/"
        },
        {
          "id": "a4122ecfec6d",
          "title": "Motivational Streaker - Next Action Associates",
          "url": "https://www.next-action.co.uk/2022/02/03/motivational-streaker/",
          "record": "https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a4122ecfec6d/"
        },
        {
          "id": "b7c583d0ef50",
          "title": "Slow Yew Down - Next Action Associates",
          "url": "https://www.next-action.co.uk/2022/03/24/slow-yew-down/",
          "record": "https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b7c583d0ef50/"
        }
      ]
    },
    "same_week": {
      "count": 31,
      "nearest": [
        {
          "id": "0deae27d0e54",
          "title": "Bitty Engine - An itty bitty game engine",
          "url": "https://paladin-t.github.io/bitty/",
          "record": "https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0deae27d0e54/"
        },
        {
          "id": "79c6a250a002",
          "title": "Tonal home gym review – Chad Dickerson's blog",
          "url": "https://blog.chaddickerson.com/2023/09/14/tonal-home-gym-review/",
          "record": "https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/79c6a250a002/"
        },
        {
          "id": "ae6ff27fdaa6",
          "title": "s32 unix clock",
          "url": "https://retr0.id/stuff/2038/",
          "record": "https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ae6ff27fdaa6/"
        },
        {
          "id": "39c057828666",
          "title": "We’re in a ‘polycrisis’ - a historian explains what that means | World Economic Forum",
          "url": "https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/polycrisis-adam-tooze-historian-explains/",
          "record": "https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/39c057828666/"
        },
        {
          "id": "edf567180cbb",
          "title": "LÖVE - Free 2D Game Engine",
          "url": "https://love2d.org/",
          "record": "https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/edf567180cbb/"
        }
      ]
    },
    "mentions": [
      {
        "id": "73b4a394cc5d",
        "title": "Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule",
        "url": "http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html",
        "record": "https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/73b4a394cc5d/"
      }
    ],
    "mentioned_by": [],
    "saved_twice": []
  },
  "elsewhere": {
    "wayback": "https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.next-action.co.uk/2023/09/14/calendar-management-tips/"
  }
}