The Productivity Issue • The Ponzi Scheme of Time

Today’s episode is a tale of two archetypes: the Productivity Power User who color-codes their calendar like it’s a Kandinsky painting… and the Procrastinating Professor Slayer who tells himself he’ll fix it tomorrow—which, incidentally, is always today when it arrives. Pete, whose relationship with task management involves quad-wielding to-do apps like a productivity warlock, faces off with Tommy, who uses his iPhone calendar like a grocery list taped to a parking meter.Together, they dismantle performative productivity (spoiler: it’s emotional self-gaslighting with better fonts), unpack procrastination as an anxiety-fueled death spiral in a trench coat, and lovingly roast each other’s ritualistic self-sabotage. There’s a chilling tale of Franz Ferdinand, a beeper, and the exact moment the world spiraled into World War I. And if that doesn’t scream “calendar hygiene matters,” then friend, you might already be scheduling your next collapse.This episode has everything: analog clock superiority, digital tool delusion, ADHD-fueled shame spirals, the dopamine hit of “not today,” and possibly the best joke ever made about lawn maintenance. It’s not just a podcast episode. It’s a panic productivity intervention disguised as comedy. You’re welcome. 
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