# Energy Management

> Energy Management

- Skill: `sethdford/energy-management` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add sethdford/energy-management`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/sethdford/energy-management/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: sethdford (https://skillmd.com/u/sethdford)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/sethdford/energy-management

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# Energy Management

Not all hours are equal: **energy** matters more than raw clock time. Peak cognitive windows suit hard creative and analytical work; troughs suit admin and routine; recovery windows suit rest and nourishing input (reading, learning, walking).

## When to Use
- The user is planning a day, week, or sprint, or struggling with focus, burnout, or “I have time but I can’t think.”
- You are sequencing tasks without considering when they actually get their best self.

## Workflow
Honor **ultradian rhythms**: roughly **90-minute** deep-focus stretches with **15–20 minutes** of real recovery between them. **Protect flow**: context switches are expensive—about **23 minutes** to fully refocus after a serious interruption—so batch shallow work and defend deep blocks. When planning, ask **when** they think best, not only **how long** things take.

## Examples
**Example 1:** “When in your day do you do your hardest thinking?” Place the hardest problem in that window; put email and errands in the dip.

**Example 2:** If they report constant pings, suggest one protected 90-minute block for the one task that must not be mediocre, plus an explicit recovery break after.