A Productive Conversation
Hosted by productivity strategist Mike Vardy, A Productive Conversation offers insightful discussions on how to craft a life that aligns with your intentions. Each episode dives into the art of time devotion, productiveness, and refining your approach to daily living. Mike invites guests who are thinkers, doers, and creators to share their strategies for working smarter and living more intentionally. From practical t
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“we've had these conversations about being like the GTD or Task Management, you know, let's check off the boxes. And then the this the quote softening of it that we've seen David Allen do”
“They have they put my book on their shelves. And I and again, they're an independent bookstore. So and they they put the productivity diet on there as well”
“The seven habits of highly successful teenagers, I think it was. Oh, but it was a graphic novel by Stephen Covey's son, Sean Covey”
“It's not like he abandoned. Building a second brain at all. But he's looking at the life review and the and the journaling and the reflective practice”
“Making it all work versus getting things done. Um, and I would argue all day long Making it all work is so much the more important book to read”
“Clayton Christensen's Uh how do you measure a life is I mean speaking of of of Perfect like he was a professor at Carnegie Mellon”
“even though he wrote about the innovator's dilemma and the Jobs to be done theor all these marking books”
“Actually remember the first book I read, it was um The paradox of choice. Yeah. Uh that would be like a year or two later”
“David Allen's getting things done first edition. Capture. Now, as he's older collect. Like there's a bit of a a softness to it”
“and that's an that's a piece of advice that goes back to my building a second brain book”
“Well the book is called Life in Perspective, The Art. And power. Of the annual life review”
“Well, this this book is a is called Weathering the Storm. Navigating the anti social justice. Wave”
“and Lork, um Uh She wrote the book Uh Tiny Experiments, which has been getting a lot of praise”
“I wonder if'cause you know, obviously James's book Atomic Habits came out and that would like took the world by storm”
“decisive by the Heath brothers and stuff like that”
“we've heard this before. I mean, again, you mentioned like blue ocean strategy, employee and entrepreneurial time”
“I stole this from a book called The Art of Possibility that I read 25 years ago”
“When I wrote the front nine, which we talked about, it was the subtitle is How to Start the Year You Want, Any Time You Want”
“I remember giving you the book getting things done for teens”
“My new book is called Productiveness, and mikevardi.com slash productiveness is where you can get it”
“you've read the Blue Ocean strategy, like employee time versus entrepreneur time”
“Clayton Christensen, a number I think it was in the innovator's dilemma”
“your book, Cheers to Monday. The surprisingly simple method to lead and live With less stress”
“And I remember reading the book. uh Creative Quest by Quest Love, and he talks about micro meditations”
“Upcoming book as we're recording this. Jolted. Why we quit. When to stay and why it matters”
“Clayton Christensen, you know, Innovator's Dilemma, you talk about him there”
“When your previous book, Algorithms to Live By, right? That was the one that I I look at that book in in the context of your body of work when it comes to writing and then the laws of thought”
“And that's what's summarized in the book Thinking Fast and Slow”
“kinda like Persig's work, uh in you know, in his In Zen and and and his other work”
“Arnold Bennett's book How to Live on twenty four hours a day, which is a hundred and Ten year old book”
“unlike say Alvin Toffler's Future Shock, which is an old Like his wife had to rewrite it”
“cord of allegorical or fable type type books that aim to teach us something”
“he wrote this book called An Investigation of the Laws of Thought. That title is obviously echoed by my title here”
“This is reminding me of sections of Robert Gruden's book, Time and the Art of Living”
“The other thing he's talking about is soundtracks, the John Acup book, you know, the idea of The the things we keep replaying in our head again and again”
“we get back to the the kind of the book that you're most known for on fuck yourself”
“And now we're into now what”
“He's a computer science professor at Georgetown. Right for the New Yorker. wrote Deep Work among others”
“We just finished uh in my time crafting trust community. our time crafting trust community talking about the book's slow productivity”
“So it's get resultsology the scientist of getting stuff done”
“all so you're right. We it's so I mean, I've said this before and this is not new. But We don't just learn About We don't just learn what to do from the people that are in our purview our stories or whatever, especially our parents. We also learn what not to do. Like th I won't do that. I won't do that. And it it is fascinating. Um but you can't In in my experience. That stuff you It doesn't You sometimes you get the epiphany and when you get the epiphany it's important to sit with it.”
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