Time Management at Khan Academy

I tried maybe times. Every system I put into place quickly bores me to death, it kills my creativity and my brain then tries really hard to escape from it. Anyone else in that situation?<p>The only trick that really stuck to me is to write down on a piece of paper where I&#x27;m at during a context switch. That really helps to pick it up again faster afterwards.

I find this incredibly useful. I work on a relatively small tech team as a lead&#x2F;project manager&#x2F;manager and every so often I get very busy where I only have 1-2 hours a day to do my dev work. I&#x27;ve also seen other devs and sysadmins collapse under a work load where they were in meetings all day every day. It can be very tough to get a schedule set where you&#x27;re able to work on your top priorities, so I value these stories and techniques.

The responders seemed to be hard core type A. That said, I found that it&#x27;s really useful to avoid context switching. Typically I pack calls in on Friday afternoon and have meetings at the end of the day. Sales calls can be exhausting so it&#x27;s better to get work out if the way first. And avoid context switching as much as possible (more time blocks).

I have zero techniques or schedules or habits for productivity. After reading this a part of me wonders if I should....but another part of me thinks that most people don&#x27;t, and its only type A people who could respond to that question with anything other than &quot;go with the flow&quot;.

I was hoping this was a course on time management. Stories are useful but do little to reinforce the behaviors necessary to develop good time management skills.

What&#x27;s most impressive for me in the first answer (that perhaps might not get noticed by everyone) is the self-awareness of when one&#x27;s most productive times are. I think knowing this can really help anyone get more done because you can re-schedule your day to suit when you&#x27;re best at doing creative&#x2F;routine&#x2F;mind-intensive tasks most effectively and efficiently.

Those first two sound like pompous self important over achievers in the worst way. The other two sound very straightforward and down to earth. I&#x27;m guessing the latter are the ones that do the work and the former are managers.

Why are engineering blogs littered with this kind of stuff? Who cares? The only blog I ever liked is the tech blog from Netflix.