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Jake & JZ's new book!!! (+ free resources)
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Hi everyone! Jake here, taking over Time Dorks this week with a special announcement! (Don't worry, Connor said it was okay 😇) The headline: JZ and I just announced our new book, Click! And the pitch: If you ​preorder Click by Friday​, you'll get a bunch of exclusive bonuses so you can apply the book's biggest lessons before anyone else. Before Make Time, JZ and I first became obsessed with "designing time" while using my Design Sprint method to help hundreds of teams focus on their most important work. In those Design Sprints, we saw how powerful it was to change the defaults, block out distraction, and do one big thing at a time. Lessons from those sprints directly inspired Make Time — and if you've read the book, maybe you remember this story! We published Sprint (our book about the Design Sprint) in 2016, then we released Make Time in 2018. Since then, we've worked with a TON of teams, from the largest corporations to the smallest startups. And we're still obsessed with designing time 🤓 A few years ago, I began to create a new kind of sprint. Design Sprints are still great for solving big problems and testing new ideas, and we use them all the time, but at the very beginning of big new projects — something was missing. At the start, people need a different kind of help: Help clarifying their project’s focus, their motivation, their advantages, and making a concrete plan for what to do first. My new sprint method is called the Foundation Sprint, and it has quickly become our most-used sprint format. Based on my work with early-stage startups at Character Capital, the Foundation Sprint combines all of my best techniques for starting big projects into a fun and simple package of steps that you can run in just a few hours. That's it! That's the news! 🎉 I'm really proud of the Foundation Sprint and our new book, Click, and I can't wait for the whole world to get access in April. If you want a head start, head over to ​theclickbook.com​ and preorder the book today. As a thank you for preordering, you’ll unlock a bunch of resources so you can get started with Foundation Sprints today. These bonuses are available to all who preorder Click between now and this Friday! Thank you! — Jake |
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Hey friends, Connor here with an honest plug for something I'm really proud of. In the lead up to Black Friday, when everyone is scrambling to buy last-minute items they don't actually need, why not choose to invest in yourself instead? Allow me to share one great way to do just that: apply for the second cohort of The Inner Operating System! The program starts January 20th. If you're feeling the end-of-year burnout creeping in, this might be the reset you need to start the new year with...
Hey Time Dorks, In my last dispatch, I wrote about the power of pausing and how taking a beat can give you more space to choose a thoughtful response. Today, I want to share a simple body-based tool that makes that pause even more powerful. Something to Try — The 4-6 Breath The other afternoon, I was wrapping up my workday when an email from a client arrived with some unfortunate news: they needed to postpone a workshop we had scheduled for later in the week. Instantly, I was annoyed. My mind...
Hey Time Dorks! Connor here. Over the summer, Claire and I ran the very first cohort of our new program, The Inner Operating System. We built it for driven professionals who feel scattered, stressed, or overwhelmed and want to be more focused, energized, and present so they can create a more intentional life that feels healthy, productive, and deeply satisfying. One of our students, Kyle, told us: “It is not putting it mildly to say that the way you pulled all this together, the manner in...