Podcast Episodes

Master Your Tasks & Time with a Backlog Refinement Rhythm - DBR 090

Episode 90

Episode 90: Master Your Tasks & Reclaim Your Time with Backlog Refinement Description: Are you tired of daily to-do list "rigmarole" and feeling over…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

PIM is Critical for Knowledge Creation - DBR 089

Episode 89

I want to delve deeper into a concept that listeners found interesting in a previous discussion: Commonplace Books. My goal here is to show you how a…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

DBR 088: Meetings and Death By Them - Is It Inevitable?

Episode 88

Hi there. I want to talk about a common source of pain among people on teams: meetings. You simply can't discuss productivity without addressing meet…

5 months, 4 weeks ago

Be Your Own Executive: Mastering Productivity Through Executive Function - DBR 087

Episode 87

My goal today is to help you understand a few things that are true about knowledge work, specifically focusing on a concept called executive function…

6 months ago

Not As Busy As We Think (Maybe) - DBR 086

Episode 86

Productivity is hard to measure. I've talked about it before. The measurement problems can lead us to confusion about our productivity. I'll talk abo…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

From Guild Secrets to Modern Work: Process Thinking is the Key to your Productivity - DBR 085

Episode 85

Today, I'm going to outline the current progress in the pursuit of increasing knowledge work productivity. I'll have some suggestions about how you c…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

Digital Moderation and How To Decline a Technology - DBR 084

Episode 84

I'm going to dive into the logic of the debate around technology.   Purpose: To earn a stronger hearing for honest critiques of technology: We'll dis…

6 months, 4 weeks ago

How to Process Incoming Information - DBR 083

Episode 83

Most people don't know how to process incoming information.   This is a core part of personal information management, which (particularly for knowled…

7 months ago

Don't 'manage time'; time is the constraint - DBR 082

Episode 82

I was answering a question: "how do I manage my time?" and I was thinking of it in terms of scheduling. Then it occurred to me that we don't manage t…

7 months, 1 week ago

WFH: Don't Fall For The Hidden Challenge - DBR 081

WFH: Don't Fall For the Hidden Challenge   Most everybody I hear wants to work from home. I've posted previously that most employees see WFH as a con…

7 months, 2 weeks ago