If you’re someone who has a busy schedule and does a lot of context switching, how do you carve out time for deep thinking? I’d love to hear how you approach this or what strategies you’ve tried.

I also set automatic blocks of focus time on specific week days that I really try to stick to… but that’s not available to everyone, really depends on your company and role.

I have this too and it’s a pretty mixed bag of results, it mostly becomes time to catch up rather than do deep work. Or another slot to be scheduled over 🙃

Yeah I get it, it’s difficult to stick to it! 🙈 I really do try to only use those for deep work 🙏🏻 a thing I’ve also started to do is setting “themes“ for each workday — my Fridays, for example, are focused on self-development / learning new things / writing blog posts / etc.

Obviously sometimes there will be last minute things that will be more important 🫠 but usually I know that Fridays I’ll be quieter and allow me to put in a few hours of learning and writing undisturbed. This also helps with the context switching for me (I do it a lot at my job!)

I like this a lot for “background thinking”! creating space to let our brains wander and form organic connections across all the bits of information feels esp important for more creative, generative thinking