Energy Scheduling Skill

Hours are not interchangeable — the 9am hour and the 3pm hour hold different people — yet calendars treat them as identical slots, which is how peak hours get spent on email (because it arrived) and the hardest thinking gets scheduled into the slump (because the slot was free). Energy scheduling is matching, in two steps: map the real curve (a week of light self-observation beats a lifetime of assumptions — many people are wrong about their own peaks) and match the work to it — deep/creative work on peaks, mechanical admin on troughs (it fits there fine — that's the point), meetings on the shoulders. The calendar rebuild is where the map becomes money.

What This Skill Produces

• The observation protocol — the week-long, three-times-daily energy check (10 seconds each) that produces the real map
• The energy map — the personal curve: peaks, troughs, shoulders, and the day-of-week effects
• The matching table — the user's actual work-types assigned to their curve zones
• The rebuilt week — the calendar re-shaped: blocks on peaks (deep-work-blocking placement input), corridors on shoulders (context-switch-budget alignment), admin in the troughs

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

• The assumed curve — when they think they're sharp (recorded before observing, because the delta between assumed and observed is the finding half the time)
• The work-type inventory — what the role actually contains: deep/creative, analytical, interactive, mechanical; matching needs the categories
• The fixed constraints — the immovable meetings, the team's hours, the school run; the rebuild works inside reality
• Chronotype honesty — the morning-person mythology pressures night owls into fake 6am peaks; the observation protocol is the antidote, and the skill takes its side