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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 Time Dorks! Connor here. Before we dive in, I have a quick ask. For the past five years, I’ve helped leaders and teams at companies like YouTube, L’Oréal, and Squarespace create healthy, high-performance work cultures—but lately I’ve been feeling called to go deeper with individuals. As part of this exploration, I'm doing market research and want to have 1:1 conversations with driven professionals who: Struggle to focus because your attention is constantly being pulled in different...
Hello Time Dorks! There’s a lot of pressure to start the year with a bang. Get. Stuff. Done. Stay busy. Make resolutions. Arrange plans. In other words: never be bored. It could be the Busy Bandwagon telling us that anything less than full capacity is a failure. Maybe it’s social media demanding a picture-perfect version of ourselves – always laughing, hiking, dancing, or whatever it is people think is interesting! Or maybe it’s all those Infinity Pools, distracting us from our boredom before...
Hello Time Dorks! Before we dive in, a quick announcement: On Monday, Jake & JZ are hosting a live online event to introduce a new sprint format called the Foundation Sprint. I had a chance to preview this new method, and I'll just say, it's an incredibly useful tool for anyone kicking off any new project. You won't want to miss it! Register here. This week, I want to talk about making New Year's resolutions that will actually stick. If you've tried to make big changes in the past that never...