PERFECT WORK SCHEDULE EXPERIMENT 13 Month Business Calendar. 5 day work week + 2

PERFECT WORK SCHEDULE EXPERIMENT

13 Month Business Calendar.

5 day work week + 2 day weekend.

5 day work week + 2 day weekend.

5 day work week + 2 day weekend. (release deliverable)

2 day work week + 5 day weekend. (planning next)

Holiday’s restart the cycle.

Gotta try that some day. And track performance.

Too hard to do unless you have something like Oversing.

Now, the data says that ‘people’ are only productive about six hours a day. But that doesn’t really apply to the high performance fields. Plenty of us who specialize in thinking, can work ten or twelve hours productively. And, I know, that if I don’t have other real-life distractions, I’m pretty good for 14 hours a day for six weeks before I get tired.

My favorite way to work, and I think this is true for most problem solvers, is to ‘sprint’. That means, to work very hard on a problem for up to three months, and then recover for a week or two. I’d actually rather work in sprints than I would at a constant pace.

And I don’t think I’m alone in that. I just think most people don’t get the opportunity, and so they have to try all sorts of games to remain interested in what they’re doing, precisely because they don’t set goals, and ‘sprint’.

One of the best reasons for sprinting, is that work doesn’t expand to fit available time, nor does work become diluted by a multitude of irrelevant but pleasantly distracting nonsense – like internal politics.

(just a thought for the day)