The blog
Honest writing about your calendar.
How much meeting time is normal, what it costs, why it's exhausting, and how to get some of it back. Data first. No productivity-guru nonsense.
- How much meeting time is actually normal? Managers average 16 hours a week. Germans lose 8.8 to bad meetings alone. See the numbers by role and country — then find out where you sit. Read →
- Clockwise shut down. Now what? A fair comparison of the real replacements — and the question none of them answer: should this meeting exist at all? Read →
- Do you know what your meetings cost? Shopify priced its meetings and deleted 76,500 hours of them. Here’s the math, the hidden costs, and a calculator you can run right now. Read →
- Why am I always so exhausted? A one-hour meeting rarely costs one hour. The science of meeting fatigue, the prep-and-recovery tax, and five fixes that actually work. Read →
- Optimise your calendar without giving it away Your calendar is a map of who you meet, when, and why. Most tools take more access than they need. Here’s how to keep the insight and lose the risk. Read →
- Share your week, change your week You rarely control your own calendar. Here’s how to make the meeting-load case to your manager with data, not a vibe — in a single shareable card. Read →