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deep-work-blocking
Protect focus time that actually survives the week — the block placement matched to real energy hours, the defense rules (what moves a block, what never), the entry ritual that beats the blank-stare start, and the honest sizing that stops 8-hour fantasy blocks. Use when asked block focus time that keeps getting eaten, when should I schedule deep work, my calendar has no room to think, or I block time and then waste it. Produces the block design, the defense tiers, the entry ritual, and the meeting-culture negotiation.
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# Deep Work Blocking Skill
Focus blocks fail three ways: placed wrong (2pm slump hosting the hardest work), defended badly (the block that moves for every invite is decoration with a border color), and entered badly (twenty minutes of warmup-shuffling inside a 90-minute block is a 70-minute block wearing a lie). The design fixes all three: blocks land on the user's *actual* high-energy hours ([energy-scheduling](../energy-scheduling/SKILL.md) supplies the map), carry explicit defense tiers (what outranks them — almost nothing — and the decline scripts), and start with an entry ritual — the named task waiting, the environment pre-set — because a block is a container, and containers need contents chosen *before* the clock starts.
## What This Skill Produces
- **The block design** — count, length (90–120 min beats the 8-hour fantasy), and placement on real energy hours
- **The defense tiers** — what moves a block (genuine emergencies, defined), what never does, and the decline scripts
- **The entry ritual** — the task named the day before, the environment checklist, the first-five-minutes rule
- **The culture negotiation** — making blocks legible to the team (the shared norm beats the solo fight)
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