Best Laid Plans The Intersection of Time Management x Planning with Laura Vanderkam EP 301
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May 4, 2026 
Laura Vanderkam, author and time-management writer known for books like Big Time, joins to explore planning that creates time abundance. They cover time tracking and how even short tracking boosts satisfaction. They discuss breaking big projects into small steps, the quest for golden hours, and a practical weekly planning routine to protect what matters.
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Small Weekly Slots Become Large Annual Time
- Time abundance appears when you zoom out from a single week to longer periods like a year.
- Laura shows three weekly 45-minute slots add up to ~150 hours a year, turning small pockets into meaningful progress.
Yearlong Reading Projects With Bite Size Chunks
- Laura tests yearlong projects like reading War and Peace in daily short chapters and re-reading Shakespeare slowly.
- She succeeded with bite-size War and Peace chapters but abandoned a slow Shakespeare re-read after three plays when motivation faded.
Daily Writing Project That Produced A Dud
- Laura tried writing 100–200 words daily for a year but produced a novella she disliked.
- The project lacked plot and good timing, leaving her bored and unable to finish the result.
