For years, I’ve approached weekly planning the same way most people do: open the calendar, panic slightly, start throwing tasks into random empty spaces, and hope that somehow everything works out by Friday.
The problem with most productivity systems is that they begin with activity instead of outcomes. We build giant to-do lists full of emails, admin, errands, meetings and vague ambitions to “be productive”, but by the end of the week it’s often hard to point to anything meaningful that actually changed.
