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SDS 850: Continuous Calendar for 2025
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A new year often draws our focus towards fresh approaches to the way we work and structure our day. For Jon Krohn, the continuous calendar gives him a realistic and uninterrupted overview of his time. Plus, it’s customizable and free! In this episode, Jon also shares his plans and priorities for the New Year, and he recommends how you can assess and achieve your goals for the year; critical advice for anyone who wants to create manageable and sustainable milestones in 2025.
A new year will often draw our focus towards fresh approaches to the way we work and structure our day. And it isn’t often easy! We might try a print calendar that offers two-page spreads for the week, only to switch to our trusted digital calendar when we keep misplacing the book. Others might struggle to find a calendar that gives them just the right amount of space without letting them lose track of upcoming deadlines and events.
For Jon Krohn, the continuous calendar is “vastly superior” to any of the standard calendars on the market because it gives him a realistic and uninterrupted overview of his time. Plus, it’s customizable and free! Jon attributes the continuous calendar to his success in recording and releasing all 104 episodes for The SuperDataScience Podcast every year.
In this episode, Jon also shares his plans and priorities for the New Year, and he recommends how to assess and achieve your goals for the year; critical advice for anyone who wants to create manageable and sustainable milestones in 2025.
Head over to Episode 482, to learn more about Jon’s continuous calendar and how the concept has helped him plan ahead and achieve his goals over the last four years. And then visit jonkrohn.com/cal25 to download the calendar and start populating it with upcoming conferences, courses and contests!
ITEMS MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:
For Jon Krohn, the continuous calendar is “vastly superior” to any of the standard calendars on the market because it gives him a realistic and uninterrupted overview of his time. Plus, it’s customizable and free! Jon attributes the continuous calendar to his success in recording and releasing all 104 episodes for The SuperDataScience Podcast every year.
In this episode, Jon also shares his plans and priorities for the New Year, and he recommends how to assess and achieve your goals for the year; critical advice for anyone who wants to create manageable and sustainable milestones in 2025.
Head over to Episode 482, to learn more about Jon’s continuous calendar and how the concept has helped him plan ahead and achieve his goals over the last four years. And then visit jonkrohn.com/cal25 to download the calendar and start populating it with upcoming conferences, courses and contests!
ITEMS MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:
- SDS 482: The Continuous Calendar
- Jon Krohn’s Continuous Calendar
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Claude
- Gemini 2.0
- ChatGPT
- What are your tried and tested strategies for managing time?
- Download The Transcript
Podcast Transcript
(00:05):
This is Five-Minute Friday with a Continuous Calendar for 2025.
(00:20):
Welcome back to The Super Data Science Podcast. I'm your host, Jon Krohn. Well, it’s the start of another year, which means it's time for another continuous calendar from us here at SuperDataScience! Back in episode number 482, I provided a detailed introduction to these continuous calendars. They are in a nutshell, a calendar format that I personally find vastly superior to the standard weekly or monthly calendar format. With today's episode, we're updating the calendar for the new year for 2025.
(00:51):
We release 104 episodes a year and need to manage recording and releasing all of these episodes alongside all of the other professional and personal obligations we have going on. In order to do that efficiently, we love the continuous calendar format. I know I’m not the only one who loves them because my annual blog post providing an updated continuous calendar for the new year is reliably one of my most popular blog posts.
(01:14):
Episode number 482 again provides a detailed explanation, but the general concept is that continuous calendars both enable you to one overview large blocks of time at a glance I can easily fit six months on a standard piece of paper and two get a more realistic representation of how much time there is between two given dates because the dates don’t get separated by arbitrary 7-day or 30-day cutoffs.
(01:40):
The way the continuous calendars work so effectively is that they're a big matrix where every row corresponds to a week and every column corresponds to a day of the week. So if you’d like to get started today with your own super efficient continuous calendar in 2025, simply head to jonkrohn.com/cal25. Cal25. We’ve got that link for you in the show notes but, again, it’s jonkrohn.com/cal25. C-A-L 25.
(02:08):
At that URL, you’ll find a Google Sheet with the full 52 weeks of the year, which will probably suit most people’s needs. If you print it on standard US 8.5” x 11” paper, it should get split exactly so that the first half of the year is on page one and the second half of the year is on page two.
(02:25):
The calendar is super simple: It’s all black except that we’ve marked US, well it’s all in black font, on white paper. And we've marked the US Federal Holidays with red dates. If you’re in another region, or you’d like to adapt our continuous calendar for any reason at all, you can make a copy of the sheet or you can download it, and then you can customize it to your liking.
(02:45):
On a related note to new calendars for the new year, at this time of year, many folks are reassessing their goals and habits. In my experience (and a lot of research supports this), I wouldn’t recommend trying to make dramatic changes. Instead, try to make extremely small behavioral changes in the direction of your big goal. Changes that are so small that they are trivially easy to execute upon on a daily basis. My friend James Clear wrote a book, that there’s a good chance you’ve already heard of because it's the most popular non-fiction book in the world of the past five years, it’s called Atomic Habits and it details this incremental approach. It’s a terrifically content-dense book; I highly recommend it.
(03:27):
In addition, as a tech-forward person like you no doubt are given that you listen to this podcast, I further recommend leveraging the paid tiers (yes, they’re worth every penny to pay for) of something like Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini 2.0 or OpenAI’s ChatGPT to interactively brainstorm on strategies for sustainable, long-term fulfillment, professional success or whatever it is you’re looking to accomplish in 2025. These tools have become invaluable for me for bringing this kind of open-ended brainstorming toward specific action items.
(04:00):
For me personally in 2025, my big goal is to cut down what I try to tackle to only the highest priorities. I've spent my entire professional life being stretched in all directions, which means that, no matter how hard I work, I'm paradoxically holding myself back on the priorities that matter most to me. The good news for you listeners is that, in 2025, the SuperDataScience Podcast will be a bigger priority for me than ever before. I can’t wait to share 104 more fun, informative episodes with you in the coming year. I’m certain it will be our best year yet, with the highest velocity of A.I. breakthroughs ever to cover, the best guests we’ve ever had and the highest production quality we’ve ever had.
(04:40):
All right, looking forward to it, that’s it for today’s episode. It's great to have you listening. And yeah, can't wait to share this year with you. Until next time, keep on rockin’ it out there and I’m looking forward to enjoying another round of the SuperDataScience podcast with you very soon.
This is Five-Minute Friday with a Continuous Calendar for 2025.
(00:20):
Welcome back to The Super Data Science Podcast. I'm your host, Jon Krohn. Well, it’s the start of another year, which means it's time for another continuous calendar from us here at SuperDataScience! Back in episode number 482, I provided a detailed introduction to these continuous calendars. They are in a nutshell, a calendar format that I personally find vastly superior to the standard weekly or monthly calendar format. With today's episode, we're updating the calendar for the new year for 2025.
(00:51):
We release 104 episodes a year and need to manage recording and releasing all of these episodes alongside all of the other professional and personal obligations we have going on. In order to do that efficiently, we love the continuous calendar format. I know I’m not the only one who loves them because my annual blog post providing an updated continuous calendar for the new year is reliably one of my most popular blog posts.
(01:14):
Episode number 482 again provides a detailed explanation, but the general concept is that continuous calendars both enable you to one overview large blocks of time at a glance I can easily fit six months on a standard piece of paper and two get a more realistic representation of how much time there is between two given dates because the dates don’t get separated by arbitrary 7-day or 30-day cutoffs.
(01:40):
The way the continuous calendars work so effectively is that they're a big matrix where every row corresponds to a week and every column corresponds to a day of the week. So if you’d like to get started today with your own super efficient continuous calendar in 2025, simply head to jonkrohn.com/cal25. Cal25. We’ve got that link for you in the show notes but, again, it’s jonkrohn.com/cal25. C-A-L 25.
(02:08):
At that URL, you’ll find a Google Sheet with the full 52 weeks of the year, which will probably suit most people’s needs. If you print it on standard US 8.5” x 11” paper, it should get split exactly so that the first half of the year is on page one and the second half of the year is on page two.
(02:25):
The calendar is super simple: It’s all black except that we’ve marked US, well it’s all in black font, on white paper. And we've marked the US Federal Holidays with red dates. If you’re in another region, or you’d like to adapt our continuous calendar for any reason at all, you can make a copy of the sheet or you can download it, and then you can customize it to your liking.
(02:45):
On a related note to new calendars for the new year, at this time of year, many folks are reassessing their goals and habits. In my experience (and a lot of research supports this), I wouldn’t recommend trying to make dramatic changes. Instead, try to make extremely small behavioral changes in the direction of your big goal. Changes that are so small that they are trivially easy to execute upon on a daily basis. My friend James Clear wrote a book, that there’s a good chance you’ve already heard of because it's the most popular non-fiction book in the world of the past five years, it’s called Atomic Habits and it details this incremental approach. It’s a terrifically content-dense book; I highly recommend it.
(03:27):
In addition, as a tech-forward person like you no doubt are given that you listen to this podcast, I further recommend leveraging the paid tiers (yes, they’re worth every penny to pay for) of something like Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini 2.0 or OpenAI’s ChatGPT to interactively brainstorm on strategies for sustainable, long-term fulfillment, professional success or whatever it is you’re looking to accomplish in 2025. These tools have become invaluable for me for bringing this kind of open-ended brainstorming toward specific action items.
(04:00):
For me personally in 2025, my big goal is to cut down what I try to tackle to only the highest priorities. I've spent my entire professional life being stretched in all directions, which means that, no matter how hard I work, I'm paradoxically holding myself back on the priorities that matter most to me. The good news for you listeners is that, in 2025, the SuperDataScience Podcast will be a bigger priority for me than ever before. I can’t wait to share 104 more fun, informative episodes with you in the coming year. I’m certain it will be our best year yet, with the highest velocity of A.I. breakthroughs ever to cover, the best guests we’ve ever had and the highest production quality we’ve ever had.
(04:40):
All right, looking forward to it, that’s it for today’s episode. It's great to have you listening. And yeah, can't wait to share this year with you. Until next time, keep on rockin’ it out there and I’m looking forward to enjoying another round of the SuperDataScience podcast with you very soon.
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