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The Productivity Show

Systems Thinking for Productivity: Why Goals Fail & Systems Win (TPS595)

The Productivity Show

Asian Efficiency

Business, Careers, Education, Management, Self-improvement

4.6549 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Tired of the goal-chasing treadmill? This systems thinking episode reveals why goals often lead to “pre-success failure” and how building daily productivity systems creates lasting results. Learn to decompose complex tasks, create feedback loops, and make structural changes that transform your efficiency and build the ultimate form of consistency. Get Notion, now with Notion Agent […]

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0:00.0

Welcome to the productivity show podcast where we believe that people like you can get the important things done without sacrificing your health, family and things that matter to you.

0:13.2

If it's your first time listening, welcome to the show.

0:15.4

I'm TAM founder of Asian Efficiency where we help people become more productive at work and in life.

0:20.6

And I do this podcast together with my co-host, Brooks Duncan.

0:23.3

How are you today, Brooks?

0:25.2

I'm good, but this is the world we live in now.

0:29.0

Yesterday, so we always talk about the Logitech MX Master mice that both of us really like.

0:34.0

I have mine totally tricked out with all these sorts of controls.

0:37.3

Well, Logitech all of a sudden

0:39.1

had this like massive system failure and turns out that all of these features we all like rely

0:46.2

on the software being able to connect to their servers. So everybody who uses a Logitech MX Master

0:53.2

mouse with customizations, it all died.

0:55.7

So I was thinking to myself, how did I get myself in this situation where I need my mouse to be connected to the internet?

1:02.9

But this is the world we live in.

1:04.2

Turns out a developer forgot to renew a certificate is what happened.

1:08.8

But anyway, this is the world we live in now. Even our

1:12.0

mice are connected to the internet. That's so funny. We had a similar issue a while ago for

1:18.1

people who don't know. So we record this. And we use a particular software called Descript to kind

1:23.5

to edit the show. And for whatever reason, a few weeks ago,

1:27.7

somebody forgot to renew some sort of domain name.

1:30.7

And so we couldn't log in to record the episode

1:34.3

because it's all done online.

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