Cancel your next meeting. I’m serious. That’s the best thing you’ll do for your work today.
At Fiverr, we run meetingless Tuesdays. It came from hearing the same thing on repeat: “I’m in meetings all day. I can’t focus for more than 30 minutes.” When that starts to feel normal, something’s off.
It’s not really a time problem. It’s a context-switching problem. Our brains don’t jump between tasks the way our calendars pretend they do. Every interruption has a cost, and when your day is chopped into 30-minute blocks, there’s no real space to think or stay with a problem long enough to actually solve it.
Because work isn’t just doing. It’s thinking, learning, processing. Sometimes it’s staring at nothing until things click.
Meetingless Tuesday gives people one day a week to actually feel what focused work is like. Once you feel that, you start protecting it