ProductivityCast
The show about all things personal productivity
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September 28, 2026 • 50 mins
This week, we continue swimming in the river of AI within our series, The AI-Powered Professional. Today, we are exploring Vibe Coding. We discuss the next major leap in personal productivity: using AI to help you build the bespoke tools, workflows, and interfaces your work actually requires. This opportunity is now available not only to professional developers, but also to non-coders and power users who can think clearly, describe...
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September 25, 2026 • 49 mins
In this week's episode, the ProductivityCast team continues their conversations about how AI is embedded across many of the tools that we currently use and how to integrate them into the places we already work.
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September 17, 2026 • 39 mins
This week, we continue our dive into the world of Artificial Intelligence with another episode in our series, The AI-Powered Professional. Today, we are exploring AI in Everything, focusing on the shift of AI from being a standalone tool to becoming a core, embedded capability within the software we use every day, making AI truly everywhere. The biggest productivity gains are coming from smarter versions of the platforms we already...
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September 8, 2026 • 39 mins
This week, we advance our series, The AI-Powered Professional, by exploring the "AI Coach." We'll dive into how AI is moving beyond simple task automation to becoming a force multiplier for personal transformation, focusing on "Accountability and Behavioral Design." We'll explore how these tools leverage data, psychological principles, and customized nudges to help us close the intention-action gap, consistently execute goals, and ...
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August 25, 2026 • 53 mins
Stop treating AI like a simple search engine and start using it as your own personalized, tireless mentor. This episode explores how to leverage AI-powered tools to bridge knowledge gaps, master complex skills, and accelerate your professional growth through the science of adult learning.
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May 25, 2026 • 53 mins
In this episode, we continue our discussion of the AI-Powered Professional by returning to the AI Researcher persona. Picking up from the prior conversation (episode 149) on information overload and information toxicity, Ray, Augusto, and Francis explore how AI can help professionals move from traditional search toward more collaborative research, synthesis, comparison, and knowledge discovery. They discuss deep research tools, sou...
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May 19, 2026 • 38 mins
In this episode, we continue our series on the AI-Powered Professional by introducing the AI Researcher persona. Ray, Augusto, and Francis discuss how AI is reshaping research, learning, and knowledge work by moving us beyond simple retrieval toward active knowledge synthesis. Along the way, they explore the problems of information overload, low-quality information, over-trusting AI-generated answers, news and social media overwhel...
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May 11, 2026 • 53 mins
In this episode, we continue our conversation on The AI Assistant as part of The AI-Powered Professional series. Picking up from Episode 147, the ProductivityCast team shifts from using AI merely to offload administrative friction and shadow work to thinking about AI as a true collaborative assistant. Ray, Augusto, and Francis discuss how to define roles for AI assistants, train them with useful context, manage multiple AI tools an...
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May 4, 2026 • 44 mins
In this episode, we’re discussing how to use AI to automate "shadow work", the boring, repetitive tasks like data entry and invoicing that drain our energy. By viewing AI as a "million interns" that need clear instructions and human supervision, the hosts share how to streamline everything from professional billing to personal life choices like cooking and movies. While AI can sometimes make mistakes or "hallucinate," the epi...
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April 27, 2026 • 50 mins
In this episode, we're discussing the concept of perspective as a contrast to the GTD concept of control. We explore the "Horizons of Focus" and the different altitudes of self-management, ranging from the "runway" of daily actions to the "50,000-foot" level of life purpose. We debate whether perspective is a tactical relationship or a pseudonym for context while contrasting top-down visioning with bottom-up execution. From discuss...
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April 20, 2026 • 38 mins
In this episode we're discussing the concept at the core of personal management: control. Specifically, we’ll be philosophizing about what control truly means within the context of the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology. We'll start with David Allen’s definition, which ties control to the workflow stages of capturing, clarifying, organizing, reflecting, and engaging. But does that definition fully capture the complex...
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April 14, 2026 • 52 mins
In this episode of ProductivityCast, we continue our deep dive into the psychological and tactical differences between stalling out and stepping back. While Part 1 focused on defining the core constructs of procrastination and conscious deferral, Part 2 moves into the "why" and the "how."
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April 13, 2026 • 36 mins
What if procrastination is not always procrastination? In this episode of ProductivityCast, we begin exploring the difference between true procrastination and conscious deferral, and why that distinction matters more than most people realize. This conversation challenges the labels we use, the judgment we attach to delay, and the hidden reasons we avoid certain tasks, making this a thought-provoking starting point for anyone who ha...
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April 6, 2026 • 40 mins
What if the world's #1 brain coach wrote a book that's better suited for someone else than you? The ProductivityCast crew puts Jim Kwik's Limitless under the microscope, and their verdict might save you 12 hours of listening time (or not! 😉). Today, we're doing a book review of Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life by Jim Kwik. (NOTE: We recorded this book review before Kwik publish...
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July 24, 2023 • 45 mins
Today on ProductivityCast we’re going to be talking about stepping away from getting things done so you can review and reflect, and then get back to getting things done better. It’s halfway through the year and so it’s a good time to discuss the mid-year review.
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March 20, 2023
Today, the ProductivityCast team talks about terminology, that is, what are the terms that we use in the personal productivity space? And why is there so much confusion around those particular words that we use?
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March 13, 2023
In this week’s episode, the ProductivityCast team debated subjective versus objective time as commentary on the article, “My Fixation on Time Management Almost Broke Me.”Thanks to Brian C. for the recommended reading! (See https://www.personalproductivity.club/posts/14785370.)
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March 9, 2023
Today, we’re releasing this episode which was recording live at the Task Management & Time Blocking Summit 2023 stage. The theme of the conference is “One Size Doesn’t Fit All” and so the ProductivityCast team spent time discussing in front of the live audience what our thoughts are on challenges of one-size-fits-all and some thoughts of solving for it. Enjoy!
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In a post entitled, Hyper-Scheduling, David Sparks (a/k/a MacSparky) writes about his method of time blocking on a granular level. This week, the ProductivityCast team provides their commentary, challenges and methods on this concept of hyper-scheduling, which will hopefully spark ideas on how you can better manage your time-based work.
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In this week’s episode, the ProductivityCast team continues their conversation about sequencing for greater productivity, this time about ordering projects to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
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