053: Facilitated Focus with Caveday's Jake Kahana

Free Time with Jenny Blake

What gets in the way of deep, intentional focus? Hint: the phone sitting right at your desk. Even though we know the apps blinking on screen are designed for distraction and shallow work—we don't always know how to best facilitate our own focus. Jake and cofounders at Caveday are taking a stand for social connection while carving out and facilitating group sessions dedicated to deep work.

More About Jake: Jake Kahana is a designer and entrepreneur who teaches creative leaders the tools and skills to build thriving creative teams. He is a cofounder of Caveday, a company that facilitates deep focus sessions and deep work training. As a founding U.S. faculty member with The School of Life, Jake also teaches workshops in emotional intelligence for corporate teams.

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📘 Books Mentioned:

• Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business and Pivot
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
• Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
• When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
• Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits

🔗 Resources Mentioned: Jake on the web, Caveday, Instagram: @jakekahana, LinkedIn, The Email Refrigerator (Jake's monthly philosophical email), Caveday's holiday gift guide

🎙 Related Episodes: Free Time: 002: Eliminate Email with Cal Newport, Pivot Podcast: 131: Indistractable with Nir Eyal

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