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Unfortunately, I think a lot of people may miss the most useful point of this article: blocking out days by themes as a productivity booster.

The big headline is about working 16 hours days, but that headline grabber will distract from the most useful nugget of information: how he does it.

The really cool thing about this article is theme-blocking his days. Has anyone tried that? If so, how has it worked?

Because of the tuesday-tuesday nature of the record business, working at a label necessitated this.

Monday->Engineering maintenance for records. Lots of email blasts and such, site maintenance.

Tuesday - Release day, also radio promo meetings. Executive meeting

Wednesday - Marketing meeting. This was when results of the last week's sales were finalized so also reconciling retail with stats and such.

Thursday - typically a big launch day for us.

Friday - clean up, product dev work, department stuff. It was a 0 launch day.