The weekly show about all things personal productivity
The weekly show about all things productivity
Hello and Welcome to Coaching Questions! The Podcast that will help you to begin connecting the invisible dots of your life! Ever wonder “What are the most common Coaching Questions you might be asked?”, or “What exactly is a Coaching Question?”, or “How coaching works”? The Coaching Questions With Augusto Pinaud Podcast is here to help you. Each week will a Coaching Question! that will help you get begin connecting the invisible dots of your life! and get you into Self-Coaching or learn abo ...
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Task Sequencing: How to Condition and Order Tasks for Greater Momentum
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This week, the ProductivityCast team tackles the topic of ordering tasks conditionally and task sequencing for momentum.(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/135 for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.)Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening!If you'd…
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This week, the ProductivityCast team tackles the topic of ordering tasks conditionally and task sequencing for momentum. (If you’re readingBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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Get More Out of Your Calendar: Forecasting, Budgeting and Tracking Your Day
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In this week's episode, the ProductivityCast team chats about how to track and manage time in a calendar/agenda style format to be more productive.(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/134 for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.)Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, th…
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Time Blocking and Time Chunking: Setting Up an Effective Reminder System
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This week, the ProductivityCast team talks about how to set up effective reminders when you're time blocking (or time chunking) as your primary productivity system. The conversation turns out much more useful for anyone looking to set up an effective reminder system. Enjoy!(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://pro…
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Time Blocking and Time Chunking: Setting Up an Effective Reminder System
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This week, the ProductivityCast team talks about how to set up effective reminders when you’re time blocking (or time chunking)By Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
In this week’s cast, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art discuss why task lists fail in your personal productivity systems? And, we offer some tips for making task lists that are resilient to our workaday worlds.(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/132 for clickable links and the full show notes an…
In this week’s cast, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art discuss why task lists fail in your personal productivity systems? And,By Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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Learning and the Four Stages of Curiosity
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This week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art discuss learning and four stages of curiosity. Curious what they are? Listen inBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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Learning and the Four Stages of Curiosity
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This week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art discuss learning and four stages of curiosity. Curious what they are? Listen in and learn! 😉(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/131 for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.)Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for liste…
Last week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art started a discussion about caffeinated productivity. This week, they continue their conversation aboutBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
Last week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art started a discussion about caffeinated productivity. This week, they continue their conversation about their favorite caffeine beverages, timing them for greater productivity, and many of the varieties of caffeination available to the productivity enthusiasts out there.(If you’re reading this in a podcast di…
This week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art start a conversation about coffee and tea and all things caffeine! (If you’reBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
This week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art start a conversation about coffee and tea and all things caffeine!(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/129 for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.)Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening!If you'd like to cont…
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Productivity Taxonomy: Making Tags Work in Your Personal Productivity System (Part 2)
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This week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art continue the conversation about tags, discussing how they use tags in their own lives and work, and how to deal with the limits of software when tagging.(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/128 for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript…
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Productivity Taxonomy: Making Tags Work in Your Personal Productivity System (Part 2)
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Productivity Taxonomy: Do Tags Help You Be More Productive? (Part 1)
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This week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art start a conversation about tags. Classifying information in our productive lives comes in many different ways. We discuss what tagging is, how tags are different from other types of organizing, and how to jumpstart your use of tags.(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://prod…
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The Power Bible: In Conversation with Comedian and Author Brendon Lemon
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This week, Augusto and I sat down with co-author of The Power Bible, Brendon Lemon. Brendon is a comedian and with his co-author William Betweet, III, are the authors of this unique book on how to manage power dynamics in relationships. (We had some technical recording issues, so you may notice we jump a bit in the conversation. It still came out t…
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The Power Bible: In Conversation with Comedian and Author Brendon Lemon
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BookCast: The Myth of Multitasking, Second Edition by Dave Crenshaw
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This week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art start a new series on ProductivityCast, BookCast, to discuss books in time management-related genres. To start us off, we’re discussing The Myth of Multitasking, Second Edition by Dave Crenshaw.(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/125 for clickable lin…
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BookCast: The Myth of Multitasking, Second Edition by Dave Crenshaw
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This week, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art start a new series on ProductivityCast, BookCast, to discuss books in time management-relatedBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
This week, in continuing on our recent episodes about note-taking methods, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art are taking on a closely-related topic of personal knowledge management to discuss Zettelkasten. Don't know about Zettelkasten? Listen in and learn!(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/124 …
This week, in continuing on our recent episodes about note-taking methods, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art are taking on aBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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Productivity Labs, Methods Edition—Bullet Journal
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Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art art starting a new "series" called Productivity Labs here on ProductivityCast. We're going to be discussing tools, methods and research we're experimenting with in our own personal productivity systems (even when they are not what we normally use) so we can report back to you what we've learned. This week, we're diving…
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Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art art starting a new “series” called Productivity Labs here on ProductivityCast. We’re going to beBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
In this week’s ProductivityCast episode, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art voiced their thoughts on note-taking methodologies.(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/122 for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.)Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening!If you…
In this week’s ProductivityCast episode, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art voiced their thoughts on note-taking methodologies. (If you’re reading thisBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
In this week’s ProductivityCast episode, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art voiced their thoughts on note-taking—the value of note-taking, methods we use, and tips and tricks for taking notes in different contexts.Note: I say that we're covering note-taking methodologies in this episode, but we will actually be discussing those in the next several episo…
In this week’s ProductivityCast episode, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art voiced their thoughts on note-taking—the value of note-taking, methods weBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
The four-day workweek is lately in the news. Its promise is greater economic benefits for businesses and governments, and increased productivity for organization’s human resources. How should we think about this from a personal and business productivity perspective? Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art share their thoughts on the four-day workweek.(If you…
The four-day workweek is lately in the news. Its promise is greater economic benefits for businesses and governments, and increasedBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
In this week's episode, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art explain the concept of building a memory palace (a/k/a Method of Loci, or Journey Method) and then discuss its veracity in work and personal life, and some productive uses of the memory palace for someone starting out.(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://produ…
In this week’s episode, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art explain the concept of building a memory palace (a/k/a Method ofBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
In this week's episode, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art gathered round the microphones to discuss what they noticed happening in the world of personal productivity, and then what their plans are for next year (in terms of their own systems and other work they are doing).(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://producti…
In this week’s episode, Ray, Augusto, Francis and Art gathered round the microphones to discuss what they noticed happening inBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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Productivity App-apalooza! Fourth Edition
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A few times per year, the ProductivityCast team comes together to share with you a few software products and/or services that we know/use in our personal productivity systems, or with our client’s systems. We call this series Productivity App-apalooza, and do this in three rounds, with each of us taking the opportunity to explain the tool and why w…
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Convenience: Personal Productivity Enabler, or Not?
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Back when smartphones first came out, some (including Francis) asked the question: is a smartphone superior to a knapsack full of gadgets? For example, was a sack with a camera, pda, phone a functional equivalent? If so, did it offer more than convenience? Was there a real improvement in productivity?Since then, the question has been answered by ap…
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Convenience: Personal Productivity Enabler, or Not?
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Today we are discussing about Voice Productivity. the ProductivityCast team explains how to use Voice on our devices and technologyBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
Today we are discussing about Voice Productivity. the ProductivityCast team explains how to use Voice on our devices and technology to be more effective and productive. We have in the past We discussed voice assistants in episode 071 (Personal Outsourcing) and episode 086 (IoT Productivity).(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please…
Using the Eisenhower Matrix Productivity Method Longtime productivity technique, Eisenhower Method, is often tied to the myth of President DwightBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
Using the Eisenhower Matrix Productivity MethodLongtime productivity technique, Eisenhower Method, is often tied to the myth of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. After all, it’s named after him! But, there’s much more to the prioritization method than meets the eye. In this episode, the ProductivityCast team explains the Eisenhower Matrix (or more ap…
Today, we take four questions that each of the ProductivityCast team has brought to the show and then we answerBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
Today, we take four questions that each of the ProductivityCast team has brought to the show and then we answer and discuss our perspectives.(If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/113 for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.)Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks f…
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Making Time to Focus With KosmoTime CEO Nicolas Vandenberghe
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We had the pleasure of interviewing on the show, Nicolas Vandenberghe, CEO of KosmoTime. Nicolas Vandenberghe started selling newspapers in the streets of Paris in high school, studied Maths at Ecole Polytechnique then Business at Stanford GSB, started and sold 3 tech companies with up to 65 employees and $11M in revenues, ran Sales for a $2Bn tele…
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Making Time to Focus With KosmoTime CEO Nicolas Vandenberghe
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We had the pleasure of interviewing on the show, Nicolas Vandenberghe, CEO of KosmoTime. Nicolas Vandenberghe started selling newspapers inBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud
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Productivity Software Stewardship for the World
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We are going to be talking about software stewardship. And really what that means for the world of productivity, culture and society is remarkably impacted by how software today is developed, there isn't anything that isn't really run by technology, from your water plants, you know, the the treatment plants that are running water and sewage, to you…
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Productivity Software Stewardship for the World
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We are going to be talking about software stewardship. And really what that means for the world of productivity, cultureBy Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud