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# The Quadrants in the Day of a Deep Worker
- URL: https://www.bramadams.dev/202301291706/
- Published: 2023-01-30T00:31:03.000Z
- Updated: 2023-01-30T03:28:03.000Z
- Author: Bram Adams
- Tags: deep-life, time-management

What does a the optimal day look someone focused on deep work and sharing remarkable results?

This post argues that a day can be split into four categories for optimal impact of deep work and minimal risk of burnout: preparation, deep work, sharing, and input.

**preparation** \- prioritize tasks for the day to accomplish, prepare internal and external environment for best work

**deep work** \- important tasks to be fulfilled requiring flow/100% focus

**sharing** \- sharing atomic, distilled elements from work. These are the scraps from the cutting-room floor ([202212181947](https://bram-adams.ghost.io/202212181947?ref=bramadams.dev)), leveraging the Feynman Technique to solidify the results of the deep work process

**input** \- consuming high quality curated content to input for future deep work inspiration

The idea is that the preparation phase *leads into* the deep work phase *leads into* the sharing phase *leads into* the input phase.

## Rigid, Yet Flexible Schedule

- Up to **4** hours of deep work a day (**cornerstone**)
- Up to **3** hours of sharing (livestream/office hours/performance/etc)
- Finish the day with high quality input instead of low quality interspersed throughout the day
- Maintain critical health hygiene habits (sleep, exercise, diet)

Here's a tentative schedule with clear boundaries (+/- in hours):

- wake up - +3(hours) = preparation
- +3 - +7 = deep work
- +7 - +10 = sharing
- \-3 - sleep = high quality input

## Preparation Template

This template is filled out in the morning to align on the priority tasks so the deep work phase can be 100% focused. In addition, this template seeks to excite about interesting content to be looked forward to at the end of the day.

```md
### What Project(s) Do You Plan On Working On Today?

#### What Three Most Important Tasks Need Priority?

### What Are You Consuming To Help With This?

#### What Are You Looking Forward to Consuming?

### How Will You Move Your Body Today?

### What Are You Hoping To Be Able To Share From Your Deep Work Session?

```

## Deep Work -> Content Template

This template concludes the deep work phase of the day and extracts high quality content to share.

```md
### What Project(s) Did You Work On Today?

### Is Any Of Your Deep Work in a Directly Shareable State?

### What Interesting Thing(s) Did You Learn?

### How Would You Convey What You Learned As A Short Summary?

```

## Input Alignment Template

```md
### What Are You Consuming?

### What Project(s) Are You Working On Tomorrow?

### How Does Your Consumption Help Progress Your Projects?

```

## Personal Example

Here are my daily priorities and deep work activities (marked):

- exercise *(preparation)*
- zettelkasten processing (reading -> to-process inbox -> zettel -> publish) *(deep work)*
- content creation *(sharing)*
- livestream *(sharing)*
- coding *(deep work)*
- writing *(deep work)*
- improving [my website](https://bram-adams.ghost.io/ROLE%20-%20bramadams.dev?ref=bramadams.dev) *(sharing/deep work)*
- client work *(deep work)*

Here's how a day might look using this structure:

1. **1st block is prep**
2. filling out the **Input Template** and the **Preparation Template**
3. light exercise
4. cleaning the work space
5. **2nd block is deep work**
6. open external tasks owed to clients (priority 1)
7. going through #to-process and converting notes to distilled items (priority 2)
8. *(or)* creating bespoke content like videos or essays (priority 2)
9. *(or)* coding open projects (priority 2) (*why priority 2?* to not waste time on coding for coding's sake [202212251454](https://bram-adams.ghost.io/202212251454?ref=bramadams.dev))
10. at the end of the deep work session, filling out the **Content Template**
11. **3rd block is sharing**
12. going on livestream and reviewing what was made and why
13. using the **Content Template** as a guide, share what was done and what was learned
14. **4th block is input**
15. catching up on books and reading/watching/listening to content that will become raw material for future deep work