Deep Work

Blocking time on a calendar is the easy half; making the time inside the block convert into output is the hard half. This skill covers both — measuring how badly meetings fragment your week, defending blocks against encroachment, and designing sessions so that protected time produces a finished artefact rather than a warm feeling.

When to use this skill

• Your calendar looks manageable in total meeting hours but no real work gets done
• Focus blocks exist but keep getting moved, split, or quietly cancelled
• You need to argue for protected time and want fragmentation data rather than a preference
• Sessions happen but produce fragments — nothing reaches a finished state
• You want to know whether your deep-work practice is improving or decaying over months
• A 30-minute meeting keeps landing in the middle of your only long block

Inputs the skill expects