The Rise of the Monk Mode Morning

To optimize your Deep Work time, you must adopt a bold hack: the monk mode morning.

The execution of the monk mode morning is straightforward.

Between when you wake up and noon: no meetings, no calls, no texts, no email, no Slack, no Internet. You instead work deeply on something (or some things) that matter.

What makes this hack particularly effective is its simple regularity.

If someone wants to schedule something with you, it becomes r…