Calendar Jenga
This week's post is about our calendars. You know that thing that lives in your computer or in your phone or as a physical daytimer. I don't know about you but my calendar has no more room for anything and this week was a week of folk cancelling and then other folk trying to fit into slots that have now appeared in spaces that were no longer free. And this calendar work is really work that we don't stop to acknowledge. Calendars do a kind of work on our lives that isn't truly acknowledged beyond the "I'm so busy" exclamation. What I mean by that is that depending on the kind of work you do, preparing for meetings or going to events requires a kind of pre-work that our calendars also don't make manifest. Maybe you have to read a thing or many things to make the meeting effective. Maybe you need to give feedback on something, or maybe you actually need to write a thing or prep a thing. When is all of that pre-work supposed to happen when our calendars ar...