So in today's episode I want to talk about, I want to take a sort of like break for a second from the like kind of political anti-capitalist kind of conversations we've been having.

Just a little bit because we are still gonna touch on some things.

But I wanna revisit the conversation around productivity and being more productive.

And I want to reframe that conversation in such a way that we can understand there's actually a better goal to have. Now one of the things that people write in to me about all the time like I literally

get this message constantly is like what advice do you have for being more productive how

can I be more productive how can I get more done each day? How can I

show up more and stay focused and all these things? And over the years I've talked about a number of

strategies. I've been a preacher for the of not familiar. Maybe you're new to the show, the Pomodoro technique is a productivity system where you set a timer for 25 minutes,

you work until the timer goes off, you take a five minute break, do another 25, and then after five sets of that, you take a five minute break, do another 25,

and then after five sets of that,

you take a longer break.

And that break can be anywhere from 10 minutes or 30 minutes.

It's an approach that has worked incredibly well for me

in my life. It's really allowed me the opportunity to stay focused,

especially around projects that I'm like not particularly excited about.

Something about having that ticking timer and

knowing that you just have to make it through this like little sprint

is incredibly useful for getting focused and staying focused.

So I'm no stranger to the conversation around productivity.

But lately, as I've been thinking about my own work, what I do on a day-to-day basis, everything from this

podcast to the app that I'm building to my full-time job, which I do have a full-time job now, and a number of other projects that I'm working on and consulting

things that I'm doing.

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