Longstreet, judging from your description of your situation (in this thread and prior instances) I am not sure, if what you do is time blocking.
Well, it is, but it isn't.
Presumably the basic idea of time blocking is that you turn discretionary time into scheduled time. Instead of choosing what to do at that precise moment, you pre-arrange your activity. That would be the conceptual difference.
Now with your situation it sound like we are not talking about your discretionary time at all!
If your peers and also your assistance can just determine your activity for a given time slot, than that time slot is not your discretionary time.
What you are doing is reserving time slots for discretionary use, out of the array of time slots that by now are allocated for organizational use.
What you are doing is time-blocking in reverse. You do not have discretionary time, you make it by blocking it out. Whereas ordinarily the idea would be that a knowledge worker takes some of his discretionary time and turns it into scheduled time.
Let's add another point to this.
Usually what happens when you are a "top-dog" in society, like a head of state say, you have staff that arranges appointments for you. They schedule (nearly) all your tasks and you just hop along that schedule. No
@context list.
For most of us, though, we do not have any staff, in most cases maybe some "shared" secretary or department or so…
…and certainly nobody who draws circles into your calendar. Alternatively, you are a "line-worker" and just do work as it shows up and, again, according to a tight schedule others are preparing for you.
Longstreet, it seems to me that you walked the street long enough to have entered into "top-dog" territory. Now others are scheduling things for you again. While at the same time you still have more than enough todo on the mid-tier knowledge worker level, ie. research projects.
Like a head of state, a CEO etc you have your staff (or the staff of your peers that actually do arrange these meetings you were talking about:…) scheduling things for you and thus you do not have discretionary time any more. Your
@context list should be empty. Except for @home of course.
What do you think?