466: How to Get Home Earlier by Automating (Some of) Your Work with Wade Foster
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 19 July 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Wade Foster shares super-simple mindsets, tools and tricks to automate repetitive work tasks and liberate extra time.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) Just how much time you can save through automation
2) Where automation works, and where it doesn’t
3) The latest low-cost software tools to optimize your workflow
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— ABOUT WADE —
Wade Foster is the co-founder and CEO of San-Francisco-based Zapier, a company offering a service that makes it easy to move data among web apps to automate tedious tasks. He, along with co-founder Mike Knoop, was featured on Forbes’ 30 under 30: for Enterprise Tech.
• Wade’s company: Zapier
• Wade’s Twitter: @wadefoster
• Wade’s email: wade@zapier.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Tool: Todoist
• Tool: Omnifocus
• Tool: Workona
• Tool: Calendly
• Tool: Slack
• Tool: monday.com
• Tool: Asana
• Tool: Trello
• Tool: Jira
• Tool: Google Sheets
• Tool: Airtable
• Tool: Coda
• Tool: Typeform
• Tool: Wufoo
• Tool: Superhuman
• Tool: Twilio
• Website: Upwork.com
• Book: “The Elements of Eloquence” by Mark Forsyth
• Previous episode: Episode 456: Finding Enrichment Through Side Hustles with Nick Loper
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 466 with Wade Foster. |
| 0:23.7 | We are talking about automation, |
| 0:25.4 | actually I think you will dig, |
| 0:27.1 | because one thing I've heard from y'all |
| 0:29.9 | is there's a bunch of stuff to do, |
| 0:32.0 | maybe more than you can handle and it's |
| 0:34.7 | dizzying it's exhausting you're distracted there's a lot of different |
| 0:38.7 | priorities trying to grab your attention in a lot of different directions and |
| 0:42.2 | how do you even get home at a reasonable |
| 0:44.2 | hour and have a shred of work life balance. |
| 0:47.1 | Maybe that was a little over dramatic, but the struggle is real and Wade has some real solution. |
| 0:52.1 | So you'll learn one, just how much time you can save through automation. |
| 0:54.8 | Two, where automation works and where it doesn't. And three, some of the latest low-cost software tools to optimize your workflow. |
| 1:02.4 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to optimize your workflow. |
| 1:02.6 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items we've referenced, |
| 1:05.6 | you'll find it over at awesome at your job.com slash F four six six. |
| 1:09.6 | If you don't want to tap that many buttons to get to the show notes, you can move, is that a word? |
| 1:15.1 | Swipe and move and shimmy on over into your podcast playing app |
| 1:20.6 | if you expand it to episode notes or show details or episode details |
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