Review: Make Time

A pro­duc­tiv­ity book writ­ten by for­mer Google and YouTube em­ploy­ees.

They make a good point that most pro­duc­tiv­ity sys­tems are too com­plex to stick with, which matches what I’m ex­pe­ri­enc­ing right now.

I like the idea of a high­light in­stead of the usual ap­proach of pick­ing the top 3 tasks to fo­cus on. The high­light is more flex­i­ble and can be any­thing that gives you sat­is­fac­tion at the end of the day. It could be a task, a pro­ject, or even just spend­ing time with fam­ily.

The rest of the book is pretty straight­for­ward, and most of the sug­ges­tions are al­ready well-known.

Overall, I like what the au­thors pro­pose, a well-bal­anced ap­proach to man­ag­ing time and en­ergy. It’s not so ov­erengi­neered that it be­comes a has­sle, but also not so sim­ple that it fails to be use­ful.