The thinking continues. @TimeCraftingNow is the framework. The Lantern is where it lives – https://nitter.cf/t.co/RAdnw261Oc
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Familiar isn't the same as true. A solo episode on telling what rings true from what you've gotten used to, and three ways to listen for the difference before you decide.
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Radical hope isn't optimism and it isn't denial. It's holding a clear-eyed view of how hard something is at the same time as believing it can change.
New conversation with Dr. Tiffany G. Townsend. aproductiveconversation.tran…
#Productiveness #LeadershipDevelopment
Experiments have an end in mind. Tinkering doesn't. One produces a decision; the other produces the feeling of progress without ever asking for one.
New PM Talks with Patrick Rhone. aproductiveconversation.tran…
#Productiveness #IntentionalLiving
Efficiency is a useful tool for exactly one thing: managing waste. Nick Richtsmeier on why making it your strategy means nobody will ever love what you build.
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#Leadership #Productiveness
The Productiveness paperbacks have arrived. 📦 Watch Mike open the first box.
Find it at your local indie bookstore, wherever books are sold, or mikevardy.com/productiveness
She reminded me on air that she used to write the show notes for this podcast as a teenager for twenty dollars an episode. I had forgotten. She had not.
18 years of this show and I've never called myself a podcaster. It's about fourth on the list, because the podcast was never the point.
For International Podcast Day, my daughter Grace joined me at @kit Studios on NYC and turned the tables and interviewed me.
aproductiveconversation.tran…
#InternationalPodcastDay #Productiveness
Bending Spoons is acquiring Airtable for 1.285B.
The record: 75% of WeTransfer’s staff cut. 85%+ at Brightcove. Nearly all of Vimeo. Evernote’s annual plan went $69.99 → $129.99.
Nothing changes until it closes. Learn how to export your bases before it does.
Last call: launch pricing on The 10 Second Inbox ends tonight. One 10-second decision per message, one calm inbox you actually trust. $29 through tonight, then $49.
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I wonder if it was because it was about the @Bengals that he got so riled up... 😬
Nick Wright, before making a routine prediction: get the date on record, mark it for the archives, "I want to be the first to report."
Being first to report a guess is not reporting. It's pre-ordering your own highlight reel.
This is what arrogance looks like when it's convinced it's confidence. And it's the same engine behind most performative productivity: the appearance of being right, doing the job of being useful.
Productiveness doesn't need the archives. The work either mattered or it didn't.
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Your inbox is the worst to-do list you own.
No structure. The real task buried behind “re: re: fwd: quick thing.” Actual work tangled up with receipts you’ll never read.
The fix isn’t a new app. It’s a decision: let your inbox be where things land, not where they live.
The whole system is in The 10 Second Inbox — one short course, about 35 minutes.
$29 through Sunday night, then $49: timecraftingtrust.circle.so/…
Last day to vote on my @PodcastMovement session, "The Podcast Isn't the Point (It's the Connective Tissue)."
Thank you to everyone who already has.
It takes a sign-in to vote (a small hoop, I know). If you're willing to jump through it, search "Vardy" once you're in.
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Closes tonight. 🎙️🙏
I proposed a talk for @PodcastMovement 2026 and the community decides what gets picked.
It's called "The Podcast Isn't the Point (It's the Connective Tissue)" — for anyone whose show supports a bigger body of work instead of being the whole thing.
18 years in. Your show might do more by being asked to be less.
Vote here (closes July 21): podcastmovement.fider.io/pos…
#PodcastMovementNYC26
Every birthday, the deal’s the same: however many years you’ve turned, that’s how many lessons you’re supposed to hand back. Turn 52, cough up 52.
I turned 52 this past week. I’ve got one.
Nurture your relationship with time. Not manage it — nurture it.
Because if your relationship with time is solid, your relationship with everything else will be too.
Last day to submit as a speaker for Podcast Movement New York City on Sessionize and I've just submitted a session! sessionize.com/podcast-movem… (Now the waiting begins...)
How many emails are in your inbox right now? (Be honest.)
11%Zero — I live there
42%Under 100
26%101–5,000
21%I stopped counting
19 votes • Final resultsThe doom loop: feel behind, find the fix, go all in, get derailed, feel worse, repeat.
@SteveKamb spent 17 years watching it happen — and built PACT to get out of it.
New episode of A Productive Conversation: aproductiveconversation.tran…
#productivity #howtotryagain
The simple analog stack. Three things. No notifications. No switching apps. Just the right tool for the right moment. 🧵
Tried, tested, and true. The Now Year® Weekly Worksheet keeps the week in view without the overhead of a full planning system.
