Designing Your Ideal Week: Reclaim 10 Hours Each Week with a Proven Planning System

KulasGrov is a productivity researcher and time management consultant who has spent the past twelve years studying how knowledge workers allocate their attention, energy, and hours. He began his career as a software engineer at a Fortune 500 company, where he observed firsthand how reactive scheduling cultures burn out talented teams and drain organizational productivity. Frustrated by the gap between time management theory and the messy reality of corporate work, he left his engineering role to study decision science and behavioral psychology at the University of Chicago, where his research focused on how environmental structure affects cognitive performance.

He has since worked with over forty organizations, ranging from early-stage startups to multinational enterprises, helping teams design scheduling systems that protect deep work while maintaining necessary responsiveness. His previous publications include The Buffer Principle: Why Unscheduled Time Is Your Most Productive Asset and over thirty articles on time management, energy mapping, and organizational productivity. He writes a monthly newsletter read by twenty-eight thousand subscribers, where he shares weekly planning templates and case studies from readers who have implemented the Ideal Week system.

KulasGrov lives in Portland, Oregon, where he maintains his own Ideal Week template with a 7:00 AM start time, a protected three-hour writing block every morning, and an unwavering commitment to ending his workday by 5:30 PM. He can be reached through his website at kulasgrov.com or followed on social media where he posts his weekly plan publicly every Monday as an accountability practice.