Focus Your Time

By Jake • November 28th, 2011 • 2 Comments

I’ve been missing for a while, spending some quality time away from this space, but now, I’m back and better than ever. Or something.

Anyway, a few weeks ago, this post about how Jack Dorsey spends eight hours every day working at both Twitter and Square revealed something interesting that everyone can use. Not the 16 hour day, which is impressive, but not for everyone, but the topical segmentation of his schedule. From the post:

Rather than spreading himself thinly across all aspects of both businesses, he zones in on one key area of corporate development, pushing everything else out of sight and, well, out of mind. Here’s what his weekly calendar looks like:

Monday: Management meetings and “running the company” work
Tuesday: Product development
Wednesday: Marketing, communications and growth
Thursday: Developers and partnerships
Friday: The company and its culture

This works in others disciplines too apparently, if you believe this Lifehacker post about elite-level violinists.

This is probably a lesson I need to learn, given that working from home tends to blur the lines and time spent exclusively on one or the other activity.

Anyway, food for thought. More to come as I wade through thousands of unread posts.


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  • Jim

    Welcome back Jake. I thought the silence meant a new announcement was in the pipeline, a-la Rich, Anthony, Paul…

  • http://theappslab.com Jake

    Heh, not exactly like that, but I will be announcing something soon. Stay tuned for that. It’s more coincidence though, just needed a break.