Dr Lars Vinterberg
productivity researcher
Sceptical of fads; debunks popular systems
Everything Is Due
Kemi is brilliant and permanently late. She tries planning systems, attention strategies and finally honesty with her supervisor as the deadline closes in, learning that systems have to fit the person using them.
Planned · not started yet
Practical life skills Living with uncertainty Second chances School or campus Lightly witty Tense
The premise
Kemi is brilliant and permanently late. She tries planning systems, attention strategies and finally honesty with her supervisor as the deadline closes in, learning that systems have to fit the person using them.
The protagonist
Kemi Adeyinka-Ross — Postgraduate with three jobs and a thesis due in one term
The council
Every council member is an original fictional character. None represents, quotes or is endorsed by a real person.
Rosie Achebe-Clarke
study-skills coach
Encouraging; systems must fit the person
Patrick Ng-Holloway
project manager
Structured; everything has a next action
How the story moves
One term to the thesis deadline; an honest conversation with her supervisor halfway through changes everything after it.
What readers take away
- Capturing tasks reliably
- Prioritisation methods compared
- Time-blocking
- Breaking projects into next actions
- Understanding and reducing procrastination
- Designing a focused environment
- Asking for extensions honestly
- Running a weekly review
- Estimate task time accurately using past data
- Plan around energy levels across the day
- Use accountability partners effectively
- Recover after missing a deadline
The books
- 1The list Planned
- 2The system Planned
- 3The crash Planned
- 4Submission Planned
Book titles are working titles and may change before publication. No book is on sale until the complete series is finished, checked and released.