On this episode of Focused, Mike and I are joined by Cat Mulvihill to look at a frustrating productivity problem: having a good system and still not doing the work. Cat separates the reasons we get stuck into three categories, logical, biological, and psychological,…
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Chris Bailey’s New TEDx Talk
Chris Bailey has a new TEDx talk out, “12 Things That Motivate Everything You Do.” It’s another TEDxManchester appearance for him, and it’s the condensed version of the argument at the center of his book Intentional, which I recommended to the Labs book club…
Listen & read notes →Mac Power Users 863: 20 Years of Things with Werner Jainek
This week on Mac Power Users, Werner Jainek, co-founder and CEO of Cultured Code, joins us to talk about nearly 20 years of Things. He gets into what Siri AI is and what it takes for a developer to implement. He also explains how…
Listen & read notes →Mac Power Users 862: Alfred vs Spotlight vs Raycast
On this episode of Mac Power Users, Stephen and I go deep on launchers: Alfred, Raycast, and Spotlight, and which one actually earns a spot on your keyboard shortcut. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: Ecamm: Powerful live streaming platform for…
Listen & read notes →Intentional AI 6: Sparky’s Email Odyssey
On this episode of Intentional AI, Chris and I get into my email odyssey, the months I spent trying to hand my email over to a robot. First came the Big Swing, where I would never open email again and the robot read everything…
Listen & read notes →Focused 262: The Strategic Deployment of Friction
On this episode of Focused, Mike and I try to build a personal philosophy for when AI writing help makes you sharper and when it just makes you soft. In Deep Focus, Mike walks through hiring his first full-time virtual assistant. Episode Links How…
Listen & read notes →Mac Power Users 861: Stephen’s Kanban App
In this week’s episode of the Mac Power Users, Stephen and I share the state of our task manager software stacks. To take it further, Stephen built himself a Kanban app, Kan Do. He shares the story of how he built it and why…
Listen & read notes →Focused 261: Metrics of Success
On this episode of Focused, Mike and I take apart our complicated relationship with measurement. We start with Goodhart’s Law, the idea that a number stops measuring the thing you cared about the moment it becomes the target, and follow that through law school…
Listen & read notes →Intentional AI 5: Dragons in Execution
If you haven’t checked out my new AI podcast with Chris Bailey, you should. On this episode of Intentional AI, Chris and I map the dragons waiting at the edge of the AI map: false confidence, scope creep, becoming the donkey, and surrender. Chris…
Listen & read notes →Mac Power Users 859: Tangential Gadgets
Lock your wallet for this one. Stephen and I spent the whole episode showing off the tangential gadgets we normally only mention in passing: bags, desk chargers, MagSafe batteries, travel routers, and enough Find My trackers to start our own shipping company. I walked…
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