Productivity
106 episodes
#6326: Choosing Ergonomic Inputs for Working in Bed
A review of fifty-seven typing studies found that access method materially affects productivity and user experience.
#6090: Unconventional Pitch Tactics That Actually Win Clients
From ditching slide decks to wheeling in a day's worth of paper — a ladder of pitch tactics, from mildly odd to career-ending.
#6089: Cheap Ads for Two-Person Shops
Billboard remnant space, $20/day digital slots, and reverse graffiti: how small operators buy attention at a fraction of list price.
#6031: Why Two Parents Alone Can't Carry a Toddler
Daycare didn't fix it. The research says the problem isn't hours — it's fragmented hours, portable mental load, and a village that isn't there.
#5971: Personal CRM in 2026: Dex, Mesh, folk, Monica, Twenty
What actually makes a good personal CRM — and which ones can an AI assistant talk to?
#5908: One Database Won't Fix Your Fragmented Stack
Rita has two employees, four apps, and one fear: which database wins when they disagree? Here's the field-by-field answer.
#5753: Unpacking as a Warehouse Problem: Sorting vs. Tagging
Daniel's move is done but nothing's findable. The fix is a warehouse putaway problem — and his IKEA bag is the slowest possible tool.
#5742: What Neuroarchitecture Says About Your Desk
A technologist and his architect wife disagree about rooms. Turns out neuroscience has a lot to say about who's right.
#5690: Kaizen and the Cult of Productivity
Two-thirds of people rank productivity above health, money, and happiness. What happens when the bar you're chasing never stops moving?
#5536: Staging Environments for Blog Posts and AI Pipelines That's 54 characters. This captures both the content workflow angle and the AI pipeline angle. Good.
Content teams are reinventing staging, draft states, and version history on their own — and AI pipelines are adding autonomous review stages betwee...
#5458: Two Linuses and the Fun in Technology
What Linus Tech Tips and Linus Torvalds each model about play, mastery, and keeping tech fun as AI eats the tedious parts.
#5324: Retention by the Numbers: Who Actually Trains Their People?
Most small organizations run training programs — they just don't call them that. What the data says about who invests in talent, and why it pays.
#5277: AI Handles the GTD Inbox So You Don't Have To
GTD says capture everything — then caps your inbox at 100 items. What if AI did the organizing layer instead?
#5078: When Shopping Lists Outgrow the Grocery Store
Why grocery list apps fail when you need drywall anchors, and what actually works for multi-store household shopping.
#4922: The Strangest Corporate Team-Building Exercises That Actually Happened
Trust falls, human knots, and apology rituals — the documented exercises that companies actually run on their employees.
#4899: Budgeting for Word People, Not Spreadsheets
What if your brain processes words better than numbers? Here's how to budget without the spreadsheet dread.
#4888: Action Minutes: The Meeting Tool That Forces Clarity
How a diplomatic note-taking technique eliminates vague language and forces real commitments in meetings.
#4787: The Motion Test: Which Weird Peripherals Actually Earn Their Port
Does that fancy peripheral actually remove a motion you make hundreds of times a day? We put steno keyboards, TourBox, Stream Deck, and more to the...
#4573: Reusable Packing Checklists That Actually Work for ADHD
Why to-do apps fail travelers with ADHD — and which tools actually help you stop worrying about what you forgot.
#4497: Voice-First Stack Consolidation
Two transcription apps, two text expanders, no sync — and snippets about to fight each other. The path forward.
#4482: Never Being Pressed for Time: The Buffer Mindset
Why your brain underestimates task duration and how to build buffer that actually works.
#4447: How to Survive a Project That Never Ends
When "work harder" stops working, what's the third path between burnout and giving up?
#4443: Terminal Navigation Beyond cd: Favorites, Recents & Agentic Workflows
Why cd isn't broken — our spatial memory is. A tour of zoxide, broot, and what's missing for power users.
#4431: Warehouse Logic for Your Living Room
Industrial pick-to-cart systems, pull signals, and why Daniel's "inbound to sort" box is a staging creep disaster waiting to happen.