Focused

Jesse Anderson joins us to talk about self-awareness and the struggles with being productive while battling ADHD.

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Sean McCabe comes back to report in on what happened when his year-long sabbatical smacked into a pandemic and how he keeps his focus while winding up a new business.

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David & I do an audit of our productivity workflows and share what’s working (and what isn’t).

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Is willpower enough to plow through? In this episode, David & I look into that question.

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We’re all a lot less objective than we give ourselves credit for. David & I attempt to figure out why by considering limiting beliefs, learning loops, and the slippery slope of self-sealing logic.

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At what point does your quest for productivity and efficiency become toxic? It’s a good question and an easy trap. David and I have a few ideas.

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Gmail ninja Colleen Wainwright joins us to talk about delegating work to others, the evolution of the attention economy, and working out of email without going crazy.

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In this episode of Focused, David and I talk about PKM planets and how we read, process, and learn from books and other media.

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In this episode of Focused, Nick Milo from Linking Your Thinking joins David & I this week to consider the role of focus in idea development and knowledge management. I’m a big fan of Nick’s work, and it was a thrill to get to talk to him about Obsidian, PKMs, and MOCs.

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In this episode of Focused, David & I are joined by Jeff Sheldon of Ugmonk to talk about his Analog productivity system, connecting dots, intentional constraints, and being a geek for the details.

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