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David Sparks and Mike Schmitz are not nearly as productive as they’d like to be. Join these fellow travelers (and a bunch of special guests) as they share the best ways to get focused, and talk through their successes and failures along the way.
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- 3 days ago1h 6m
268: Gateway to the Past, with Liz Covart
Award-winning historian and Ben Franklin's World podcast host Liz Covart joins us to discuss reading, research, and AI through the lens of early American history.
- 2 weeks ago1h 5m
267: A Menu of Opportunity
David & Mike discuss their plans for Q4, setting quarterly milestones, and choosing what to leave undone.
- Oct 7, 202657 min
266: The Ultimate Shiny New Object
David & Mike discuss AI's tendency toward distraction and how to avoid the most common focus traps, from tool tourism to infinite collaboration.
- Sep 22, 20261h 13m
265: How to Try Again, with Steve Kamb
Author and nerd Steve Kamb joins us to talk about the benefits of failure, escaping the doom loop, and how to try again.
- Sep 8, 20261h 31m
264: The Accountability-Shaped Hole
David & Mike discuss chronotypes, capacity as a metric, tracking inputs, the delegation tax, and more in this feedback episode.
- Aug 26, 20261h 6m
263: Removing the Roadblocks, with Cat Mulvihill
Cat Mulvihill joins us to talk about building momentum, the immunity to change framework, and dealing with our dreaded identity so we can finally focus on what's really important.
- Aug 11, 20261h 0m
262: The Strategic Deployment of Friction
David & Mike discuss owning your ideas and staying sharp with the values-based application of AI.
- Jul 28, 202646 min
261: Metrics of Success
David & Mike discuss Goodhart's Law, why effort matters more than outcomes, and how to maintain a healthy relationship with the numbers you use to keep score.
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