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You’re Not As Busy As You Think
Audit your calendar and clear the defaults that no longer serve you.
Justin Glover
October 16, 2025
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Today’s Perspective Shift
From: I have no time
To: I’ve been overruled by my past self
Theme for the Quarter: Intelligent Innovation
Theme for the Week: Reclaim Your Calendar
Quote of the Week:
“The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.”
✨ In Today’s Episode:
Why most founders are trapped in time debt
How to spot the 3 calendar defaults stealing your energy
A GPT-powered time audit you can run in 10 minutes
What sovereign scheduling actually looks like
You’re Not As Busy As You Think
Audit your calendar and clear the defaults that no longer serve you.
🧠 ONE Smart Idea
Most founders don’t run out of time. They just inherit too much of it.
Every meeting you accepted 3 months ago...
Every recurring task you forgot to cancel...
Every obligation that once made sense...
...is now squatting in your week, rent-free.
This is time debt…and it’s killing your clarity.
📖 Story Spark
A founder I met had 12 recurring meetings on his calendar.
He only needed 4 of them.
The rest?
Leftover projects. Past teams. One-off ideas turned into infinite loops.
He said:
“I keep showing up to things that a past version of me thought were important.”
That’s when we built his Time Debt Dashboard…a simple review of every recurring calendar block and standing meeting.
Within 30 minutes, he cleared 8 hours a week.
Not with a new tool.
Just with a braver mindset.
⚙️ Tactical Application: Run the “Time Debt Audit”
Here’s how to spot and strip out legacy clutter from your calendar:
Step 1: Pull up next week’s calendar
Color code by category: Recurring vs. One-off
Filter: Which entries are default leftovers?
Step 2: Ask the 3 “Calendar Audit” questions
For each recurring block, ask:
“Is this still aligned with my current mission?”
“If this meeting were optional, would I still attend?”
“Would I let Future Me book this?”
Anything that fails = time debt.
Step 3: Use GPT for a Pattern Audit
Drop this prompt into ChatGPT:
I want to audit my calendar for legacy time debt. Here’s a breakdown of my recurring weekly schedule: [paste categories + times] Help me identify 3 blocks I can remove or restructure to align better with my top priorities.
Pair that with a Notion doc or Google Sheet called:
“Old You’s Calendar Contracts”
You’ll laugh. You’ll cringe. You’ll delete.
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🧭 Intelligent Elevation
There’s no freedom without review.
Most calendars are designed by momentum, not by design.
You don’t need a better time management app.
You need a cleaner relationship with your past self.
“Clarity isn’t just about knowing what to do, it’s about letting go of what no longer fits.”
Sovereign founders don't fear the audit.
They use it to evolve.
🧵 What’s Happening in AI
Here’s a catch up on the AI + business news over the last 24 hours!
⚡️ Apple AI exec jumps to Meta — Ke Yang, head of Apple’s “Answers, Knowledge & Information” AI search team, is leaving to join Meta, signaling continued talent battles in AI.
🔥 Salesforce commits $15B to San Francisco for AI push — $15B investment announced over 5 years to build AI incubator and scale “Agentforce 360.”
🚨 Oracle embeds AI agents inside Fusion cloud apps — New agents now power finance, HR, supply chain, sales, and service workflows.
⚡️ OpenAI partners with Broadcom for custom AI chips — Plans to co-develop accelerators capable of 10 GW scale deployment.
🔥 Graph AI raises $3M seed for pharmacovigilance tools — Bessemer leads funding to build AI for drug safety & adverse event monitoring.
🚨 TSMC hikes forecast amid AI demand boom — Q3 profit surged ~39%, full-year revenue guide upped thanks to strong AI chip demand.
⚡️ Liberate secures $50M to build reasoning AI for insurance — Startup aims to automate decisioning in insurance with next‑gen agents.
🔥 POET Technologies lands $75M for AI connectivity growth — Funding to expand R&D, acquisitions, and infrastructure for AI networking.
🚨 ATLANTIS: AI system for auto cyber defense unveiled — New research integrates LLMs + program analysis to detect and patch vulnerabilities.
💬 Closing Insight
You're not as busy as your calendar wants you to believe.
You’re just running on past assumptions.
Clean house.
Clear defaults.
Claim your current self’s clarity.
“Old priorities don’t deserve permanent placement.”
🧠 Run this audit and post your #1 cut this week
💾 Save this for your next calendar reset
➡ Forward to a founder trapped by their 2022 schedule
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