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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI

Capacity Planning

Formal System

The practice of estimating available time, energy, and attention, then allocating them to commitments with explicit buffers for the unexpected.

Also a topic in the curriculum: Capacity Planning.

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Planning fallacy countermeasures

Build a Reference Class Forecast in Google Sheets

Time recovery

Build a Time Recovery Action Plan in Google Sheets

Seasonal time planning

Build a Seasonal Capacity Calendar in Google Calendar

Read-it-later systems

Track Your Reading Queue Health in Toggl Track

Information overload recovery

Execute an Information Bankruptcy in Notion

The monthly review

Conduct a Monthly Review in Notion

Elevate the bottleneck

Calculate and Plan Your Bottleneck Elevation Investment in Google Sheets

Capacity is finite even if ambition is infinite

Calculate Your Capacity Deficit in Google Sheets

Measure your actual capacity

Track Your Weekly Focused Work Capacity in Toggl Track

Sustainable pace over sprint pace

Track Your Sustainable Pace in Toggl Track

Capacity varies day to day

Track Daily Capacity Ratings in Notion

The commitment to capacity ratio

Calculate Your Commitment-to-Capacity Ratio in Google Sheets

Load balancing across time

Map and Rebalance Your Weekly Workload in Google Sheets

Capacity buffers

Calculate and Implement Buffer Time in Google Calendar

The cost of overcommitment

Audit Your Commitments in Google Sheets

Capacity for different types of work

Track Work Type Capacity Using Toggl Track Categories

Building capacity gradually

Track and Scale Your Deep Work Capacity in Toggl Track

Capacity recovery after overload

Calculate Your Recovery Coefficient in Google Sheets

Saying no to protect capacity

Build a Capacity Counter-Offer Script in Notion

Capacity communication

Create a Capacity Dashboard in Notion

The capacity dashboard

Build a Visual Capacity Tracker in Google Sheets

Seasonal capacity variation

Map Your 12-Month Capacity Patterns in Google Sheets

Capacity and age

Map Your Cognitive Capacity Profile in Notion

Team capacity planning

Calculate Team Coordination Tax in Google Sheets

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