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Top 3 Productivity Resources [4:03]
Is a $3,000 phone actually a productivity upgrade? [7:22]
Why the hour you blocked off still doesn’t get used [8:53]
The one-hour meeting that’s really costing you two [16:46]
The classic GTD scheduling advice Brooks had to throw out [21:11]
Three things to do before you expect your brain to focus [23:09]
What Thanh’s ring told him after three afternoons of crashing [24:39]
The “head trash” that makes a messy system even harder to fix [31:06]
Why your dream job is only 10% the thing you love [36:55]
The trick that makes an ugly task suddenly doable [39:41]
Why chasing inbox zero solves the wrong problem [6:56]
Triaging your whole inbox from a 15-minute walk [10:39]
What tracking every single minute for four months taught him [21:20]
The two-app note setup that ended years of hoarding [28:11]
The one rule that keeps a blown-up routine from wrecking your day [36:26]
Principles, not prison cells [43:39]
The 12 phone calls that turned a superfan into the CEO [3:14]
Why lyrics quietly wreck your flow state [15:35]
The focus sprint setup he recommends to every beginner [18:30]
Half human, half math: how each track gets built [21:35]
The surgery study that convinced him this really works [23:56]
Video games, EEG, and fMRI: how they prove the effect [27:45]
The morning ritual he runs before touching anything else [34:23]
The Google Maps trick for a week that’s going sideways [38:34]
Why teaching someone your workflow exposes what you’ve been tolerating [7:19]
Ask AI to comb your past sessions and hand you the fixes [20:20]
The one book idea that changes how you attack any bottleneck [26:56]
How half a day of “donkey work” shrank to 15 minutes [32:07]
The counterintuitive handoff fix: more meetings, not fewer [45:31]
Why the debt-snowball approach beats a fancy priority matrix [49:36]
Top 3 Productivity Resources [1:42]
Why the “productivity valley” is so fun to get stuck in [4:43]
Four ways optimizing turns into procrastination [11:13]
The search-first notes setup that skips the Obsidian rabbit hole [14:29]
Why Thanh ditched markdown files for HTML pages [16:14]
The automation everyone’s sleeping on right now [21:41]
How to tell you’re consuming instead of doing [28:23]
The consume-versus-do ratio worth aiming for [37:05]
Turning saved bookmarks into a weekly experiment [40:49]
Want to build your own digest? Start here [46:30]
Why almost nobody talks about productivity systems anymore [6:27]
Why your step-by-step instructions are secretly slowing the AI down [17:35]
The reason someone else’s “perfect” system falls apart the moment you copy it [26:35]
The one framework that survives even when all your tools change [36:10]
The “skinnier me” trap that quietly wrecks the system you just built [41:04]
Why the calendar block you swore by is quietly failing you [6:22]
The counterintuitive move: running five tasks at once and calling it focus [8:53]
The brand-new kind of distraction nobody warned you about [18:09]
The hidden “debt” you rack up when your agents work faster than you can learn [21:31]
The one scheduling hack that frees up the rest of your week [34:37]
The 15 minutes between meetings that change everything (and the 2-skip rule) [38:19]
Why Friday afternoon is the perfect time to do Monday’s work [44:09]
Top 3 Productivity Resources [1:28]
The Stream Deck button that shuts up a noisy office fridge [4:47]
The workaround for pulling Teams and Slack context into your AI [13:00]
The mountain of captured stuff — and how AI finally clears it [19:33]
Let AI plan your week around your energy peaks, not just your open slots [30:40]
The gates that keep your AI agents from going off the rails [46:30]
The answer that made people swear off AI for good [6:45]
The accountant who’d never opened a terminal, and the demo that flipped a skeptical senior dev [10:36]
Assistant, workflow, agent: the three-level map that shows exactly where you’re stuck [19:29]
The “wedge” that turns an AI skeptic into someone who calls Claude their best friend [34:47]
What actually happened after every meeting moved to Wednesday [17:00]
The productivity lever nobody in this industry talks about [24:12]
No budget? How to buy back time when you’re starting from zero [35:00]
The take that might get Brooks fired: skip eating the frog [39:56]
The diagnosis that cut an 18-hour workday down to one [4:05]
Drowning in a new inbox? The four-times-speed fix [26:10]
The hospital night that turned him into a data geek [34:59]
The one non-negotiable he wishes he’d started sooner [40:35]
Where to find Ari [44:39]
Top 3 Productivity Resources [1:37]
The new device ritual both hosts use to make every app earn its place back [21:44]
The 15-minutes-a-day method that makes decluttering actually stick [29:40]
