Nir Eyal: Be Indistractable – Love Your Work, Episode 195
What if your smartphone didn’t distract you? What if your focus couldn’t be shaken by social media, by the latest news story, or even by your coworkers?
David Kadavy is author of Mind Management, Not Time Management, The Heart to Start & Design for Hackers.
What if your smartphone didn’t distract you? What if your focus couldn’t be shaken by social media, by the latest news story, or even by your coworkers?
To make it as a creative, you need to make the most of very limited resources. Your most valuable resource as a creative is your creative energy. You only have so much creative energy, but if you use that energy wisely, you can be leaps and bounds more productive than you could be otherwise.
Robbie Abed (@robbieab) is author of Fire Me I Beg You: Quit Your Miserable Job (Without Risking it All). Robbie is also one of the early influencers on LinkedIn’s publishing platform, he’s had over 500 coffee meetings, and he’s one of the key catalysts – along with James Altucher – behind why this podcast exists at all. (You’ll hear the story.)
Have you ever wondered to yourself: How the the hell did I end up in this situation?
Ryan Evans (@ryanevans) wanted to make easy money. Growing up on a pig farm, Ryan was used to making little money for lots of hard work.
An audio version of this income report is available to Patreon backers of certain levels »
July’s revenues were $6,481.57, down from June’s $7,182.77. Profits were $1,609.65, down from June’s $4,551.83. keep on reading »
You may have heard that you should assign yourself an “aspirational hourly rate.” That you should tell yourself you’re worth, say, $300 an hour; and if you can spend $300 to save yourself an hour, you should do so.
Rob Wiblin (@robertwiblin) is the Director of Research at an organization called 80,000 Hours, and host of the 80,000 Hours Podcast. 80,000 hours being the amount of hours you will spend working in a typical career. 80,000 Hours is dedicated to finding out just how effective various careers are, and who is suited for those careers.
We’re so accustomed to operating in a time management world, we can’t imagine it being any different. We all have our calendars full, and even then we can’t seem to manage it all.
An audio version of this income report is available to Patreon backers of certain levels »
June’s revenues were $7,182.77, up from May’s $4,968.21. Profits were $4,551.83, up from May’s $2,812.51. keep on reading »