The Everest Journal
Notes from the ascent.
On mastering your time & optimizing your calendar to focus
on the work that matters.
Planning your week & managing your calendar: a research-grounded field guide
The research on weekly planning, prioritization, time-blocking, and energy — from Allen, Covey, Newport, and Pink — distilled into a calendar system you can actually adopt.
Core hours: choosing meeting windows a distributed team can live with
The four-hour overlap rule everyone repeats has no research behind it. Here is what the evidence actually says, and how to set core hours from your real overlap instead.
Why your recurring meeting drifts an hour twice a year
A standing call that was fine in February is an hour wrong in March. Here is the mechanism behind it, why the clocks stopped agreeing, and how to pin a series so it holds.
How to schedule meetings across time zones
Across time zones someone always pays for the meeting. This is how to work out who, how often, and how to stop paying for meetings you did not need.
How to show multiple time zones in Google Calendar
Google Calendar can show a second time zone beside your grid, a world clock for the rest, and a specific zone per event. Here is how to set all three up.
How to time-block your calendar without overplanning your day
Time blocking turns priorities into real calendar time — but overplanning leaves you behind by 10:30 a.m. How to combine structure, visibility, and slack.
Calendar theming for founders managing multiple companies or clients
When you run several companies, your calendar fragments into context switches. Calendar theming assigns recurring focus to days and blocks so each venture gets coherent, protected time.
Maker's schedule vs. manager's schedule: how to balance both
Founders juggle deep work and meetings. Here's how to separate maker time from manager time across every calendar, so a single meeting stops breaking your morning.
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