Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchInformation Overload Is Simpler Than You Think - DBR 080
Episode 80
Eradicating information overload. The goal of personal information management is to put processes and tools around our information so we can "manag…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Work-life Balance Is Nothing (... but an Attention Management Problem) - DBR 079
Episode 79
This episode is about the outcomes you can achieve with the information and coaching I am able to give. This is important, because it's gonna be wo…
8 months ago
Watch Out For The Three 'Micro' Wastes of Productivity - DBR 078
Episode 78
I want to describe calm productivity. And I want to contrast the results of attention management to the results of efforts to do time management. …
8 months, 1 week ago
Over-allocated Attention and the Associated Stress - DBR 077
Episode 77
Our attention is over-allocated by a nexus of events. This episode is what to do about that. I'm gonna acknowledge something that I'm not a big fan…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Yes! You CAN Be Happy At Work - DBR 076
Episode 76
The happiness at work episode. Yay. I'm happy to be at work. Last time we talked about pessimism versus optimism. A closely related subject is happ…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Pessimism Cloaked as Realism Considered Harmful - DBR 075
Episode 75
This one's about optimism and pessimism, and what that has to do with productivity. I and the whole thing is a productivity concern for me. We talk a…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
How We Got Here and Where We're Going - History of Knowledge Work Productivity - DBR 074
Episode 74
I want to talk about the history of knowledge work productivity. And it's going to involve a lot of different names. It's going to involve the triumv…
9 months ago
Fable: Productivity Rain Dances - Watch Out - DBR 073
Episode 73
I started out talking about the lies of productivity, but I'm going to change to fables because it's just things we collectively believe without much…
9 months, 1 week ago
The Modern Productivity Paradox, What Should Knowledge Workers Do? - DBR 072
Episode 72
Most everybody involved in knowledge work is involved with technology. It's what we do. We deal in information, so we deal with information technolog…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
"Attention Crisis"? What is the Argument and the Evidence - DBR 071
Episode 71
There's an article in The New Yorker "What If The Attention Crisis Is All A Distraction" by Daniel Immerwahr. I think the attention problem (if there…
9 months, 3 weeks ago