Make Time
by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky
Two designers from Google Ventures offer a daily framework: choose one highlight, laser-focus on it, keep energy up, reflect. The book is a menu of eighty-plus tactics to mix and match, from a distraction-free phone to 'scheduling the highlight.' It is light, friendly and assumes you will adapt it.
Read it if…
you want a flexible daily system rather than a rigid one.
Skip it if…
you want a complete method; this is tactics to try.
Three things you will actually use
- Choose a daily highlight.
- Remove infinity pools from your phone.
- Reflect each night: what worked, what to try tomorrow.
Do this first
Pick tomorrow's highlight, one thing that will make the day feel worthwhile, and put it on the calendar.
Our verdict
Friendly, modular and easy to start; a good first productivity system.
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