Tag: Schedule

After reading Deep Work by Carl Newport, I was determined to try the four philosophies of work he presents in his book: rhythmic, bimodal, monastic, and journalistic. I already tried the rhythmic philosophy and have a blog post about how it went. Right after, I moved along to the bimodal philosophy. I planned to do it for a month, from the 17th of October to the 13th of November of 2022. But things didn’t go as planned, so I stretched the experiment until the 4th of December. Then I wrote an entire blog post going over the experiment and what went wrong, and after 1550 words, I decided not to post it. My objective with this series is to understand and experiment with various ways of scheduling to achieve productivity most effectively. And reading back the post, I only saw myself trying to do something I wasn’t prepared for. I …

When I decided to buy Deep Work by Carl Newport, I had no idea the journey it would put me through. I was reading about a different approach to work, a change of perspective when what I found on those pages motivated me to experiment with different schedules. And today is finally the time to look back on the first experiment: the Rhythmic schedule. As this is considered the easiest deep work philosophy to archive, I started my journey with it. After all, I only need to work every day at the same time for 90 minutes. Sounds simple enough. Honestly, it wasn’t that easy, but it taught me a lot more about my work, myself and how much I can accomplish. Rhythmic schedule rules My deep work sessions are to work on blog posts, so I can somewhat compare each philosophy using the same project. Although I also what …