You review every line of code
before it enters the codebase.
You accept meetings
without reading them at all.
Your calendar is your real system.
It decides what actually runs today.
An unguarded calendar
fills with everyone else's priorities —
their syncs, their check-ins,
their "quick" thirty minutes.
By noon you've shipped nothing
and you're not sure why.
So review invites like pull requests.
Decline the ones with no clear purpose.
Block the deep work
before the day claims it.
A merge needs a reason.
So does an hour of your life.
Protect the calendar
and the focus takes care of itself.
– Serguey Asael Shinder
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