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Before Breakfast

Second Cup: Productivity doesn't always look productive

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Self-improvement, Education

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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You don't have to always look busy

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.5

Adventure should never come with a pause button.

0:07.1

Remember Movie Pass?

0:08.4

All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks?

0:11.1

I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.

0:13.9

And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.

0:17.4

Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company he

0:21.9

built. Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it.

0:27.3

And then boom, it's everywhere. And that was that moment. Listen to there are no girls on the internet

0:31.9

on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:37.9

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHeart Radio.

0:43.2

Good morning.

0:45.4

This is Laura.

0:47.1

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

0:50.8

Today's tip is that productivity doesn't always look productive.

0:57.3

If you know that you are making progress or you're working on something important,

1:03.4

then it doesn't really matter if it doesn't look like you are doing all that much.

1:12.2

So the day I wrote this would probably not look like a banner day from the outside.

1:19.6

I took multiple long breaks, and during the time I was at my desk, I was not always incredibly focused.

1:31.7

But after several false starts, I did write something that I needed to write. I had a long conversation with someone who was both

1:36.8

thoughtful and influential, which is always a good thing to do. I made a difficult business

1:44.0

decision that needed to be made. So that is not bad as

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