John Jonas has worked 17 hours a week since 2008 by concentrating work into two days, Tuesdays and Thursdays, and filling the rest with skiing and time with family. Short breaks handle admin tasks like job postings and emails.
Since about 2008, I've worked about 17 hours a week. The thing about working a lot less is you still fill your time. I'm still just busy. Like, I go skiing, and it's part of my routine. Like, three days a week, I go out and ski with a friend or with my daughter or with my wife, and that takes a long time. And so on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I get all my work done, which means there's a lot of pressure to get all my stuff done. And so then I take a break and I post a job, and it really just takes a couple minutes. It's amazing how those couple of minutes, it's so, so scary to get started. But then when it turns out, it's like, oh, I just had to write, like, an email. That was super simple.
Stop Being the Dispatcher, Start Being the CEO: How to Scale Your Field Operations 🛠️
