E346. The Art of Focused Work - Paul Shirley

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

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🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Paul Shirley, former NBA basketball player turned productivity guru, returns to the podcast for a conversation with Bridget that takes us from his Kansas farm origins (where apparently growing your own food creates a family of giants) to battling what he calls the "Distraction Industrial Complex." Paul breaks down why we're all suffering from "informational diabetes" in an age where we consume 74 GB of data daily—the same amount our ancestors got in a lifetime. Between near-death basketball i...

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0:00.0	Okay, I'm with Paul Shirley.
0:02.3	Everyone, welcome back to Walkins.
0:03.8	Welcome.
0:05.1	Hey, wasn't I like a first, an early guest, like a really early guest?
0:10.5	Yeah.
0:10.7	Yeah.
0:11.5	You're a repeat guest.
0:12.7	Back when we really didn't know what we were doing in Los Angeles.
0:16.2	No, we were, we still were in Los Angeles.
0:19.8	You were one of the, I wonder what number that was.
0:22.6	I was going to look actually this morning.
0:24.4	I came to your house.
0:25.5	I know that.
0:26.2	Oh, wow.
0:26.9	Yeah, that was like old school.
0:29.1	And we were audio only because we also didn't know what we were doing.
0:33.0	And now we've had a very smart person who runs networks be like, what are you doing, idiots?
0:42.0	Because we had one show, dumpster fire, that was video only, and one show, this one,
0:48.0	Walkins Welcome, that was audio only.
0:51.2	And he was like, anything you're doing audio or video should be both because you're
0:57.2	leaving money on the table if you don't do both how is episode five wow wow it's like looking
1:07.4	back at the old hardy boys mysteries when i was a kid i would always would always try to go back to the original Hardy Boys, the two towers or whatever it was.
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