Every week holds 168 hours, yet a crowded calendar can make them feel like too few. In Big Time, Laura Vanderkam argues the shortage is mostly a matter of perspective.
Readical Key Points
A time-management guide built on research into how hundreds of people use their hours, plus ten years of the author logging her own
Treats careers, relationships and hobbies as parts of one schedule
Reviewed in Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews
Hardcover, 224 pages, W. W. Norton & Company, 2026
Vanderkam's case is that a sense of plenty depends less on clearing the calendar than on how its hours are seen and arranged. The book pairs her findings on how real weeks unfold with concrete tactics: running the schedule like a ringmaster, cutting large goals into small daily steps, and building low-stakes experiments into ordinary days so that something new has room to happen.
Big Time is written for people who have tried productivity systems and still feel behind, and for readers curious about what tracking their time might show them. The book cannot add an hour to anyone's week. What it offers is a different way of counting the hours already there.
About the Author
Laura Vanderkam has written seven books on time management, according to her publisher. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company and Fortune.
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