Podcast · ~1 hour episode

Making time for what matters (Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky)

Lenny Rachitsky · Lenny's Podcast Freemium Intermediate

The Make Time authors walk through how they actually defend a daily Highlight and fight the pull of reactive work, in conversation rather than book form. Good if you absorb ideas better by hearing people reason through their own trade-offs. Pairs well with a commute or a walk when you cannot sit and read.

  • Pick a single most-important thing and guard its time first
  • Reactive urgency will always feel louder than important build work
  • Small daily design changes compound more than big resolutions
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The question it answers

  1. How do I keep shipping weekly when I am building solo and constantly interrupted by support, sales, and admin?

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