Focus Block Protocol.

Carve out and defend uninterrupted time for the work that genuinely requires concentration, because by default the reactive crowds out the important.

Focused work does not happen in the gaps between interruptions; it requires protected blocks, deliberately scheduled and actively defended.

Identify the deep work: which of my work truly requires concentration, produces the most value, and suffers most from fragmentation?

Schedule recurring blocks as real commitments

Focus block

Day and time

What it is for

How I will defend it

Put them on the calendar as protected time, not as time that survives only if nothing else comes up. Treat a focus block as you would an important meeting. During it, close the channels and silence the notifications that fragment attention.

Match work to energy: my strongest hours for demanding focused work

Defined windows where I will batch reactive work instead of letting it spread across the day

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