July 2025

Focused #235: Practical Wisdom for Mindful Living, with John Chandler July 29th, 2025
Focused #234: Intentional Friction July 16th, 2025
Focused #233: I Wanna Be Me When I Grow Up, with Kara Monroe July 1st, 2025

June 2025

Focused #232: Useful Not True, with Derek Sivers June 17th, 2025
Focused #231: Overwhelm, AI, and Life's Balancing Acts June 3rd, 2025

May 2025

Focused #230: Journaling & Intention, with Joe Moyer May 20th, 2025
Focused #229: Workflow Check-In May 6th, 2025

April 2025

Focused #228: Time Surfing, with Paul Loomans April 22nd, 2025
Focused #227: Quarterly Planning April 8th, 2025

March 2025

Focused #226: The Importance of Review March 25th, 2025
Focused #225: Tiny Experiments, with Anne-Laure Le Cunff March 12th, 2025

February 2025

Focused #224: Chasing Valuable Rabbits, with Chenell Basilio February 26th, 2025
Focused #223: Solving the Actual Problem, with Ian Byrd February 11th, 2025

January 2025

Focused #222: The 2025 Productivity Field Guide January 28th, 2025
Focused #221: A Focus on Creativity January 14th, 2025

December 2024

Focused #220: 2024 Retrospective December 31st, 2024
Focused #219: A Focused Smorgasbord December 17th, 2024
Focused #218: Turning Down the Volume, with Stephen Hackett December 3rd, 2024

November 2024

Focused #217: The Anxious Generation November 19th, 2024
Focused #216: Wholehearted Transformation, with Amy Wicks November 5th, 2024

October 2024

Focused #215: The Sparky Language Model October 22nd, 2024
Focused #214: Solving Gnarly Problems, with Clarke Ching October 8th, 2024

September 2024

Focused #213: Developing Skills September 24th, 2024
Focused #212: Living the Llama Life, with Marie Ng September 10th, 2024

August 2024

Focused #211: The Focus MOB August 27th, 2024
Focused #210: Media Strategies for a Focused Life August 13th, 2024

July 2024

Focused #209: A System for Writing, with Bob Doto July 30th, 2024
Focused #208: Moving the Needle Revisited July 16th, 2024
Focused #207: What Would Sparky Say? July 2nd, 2024

June 2024

Focused #206: Rapt June 18th, 2024
Focused #205: Tasks & Calendars June 4th, 2024

May 2024

Focused #204: Analog Productivity, with Jeff Sheldon May 21st, 2024
Focused #203: The Little Lies You Tell Yourself, with Jason Snell May 7th, 2024

April 2024

Focused #202: Slow Productivity April 23rd, 2024
Focused #201: What to Do When Things Don't Go Your Way, with Haemin Sunim April 9th, 2024

March 2024

Focused #200: Favorite Productivity Hacks March 26th, 2024
Focused #199: Repotting & Retirement, with Jim Eager March 12th, 2024

February 2024

Focused #198: Revisiting Journaling February 27th, 2024
Focused #197: Feel Good Productivity February 13th, 2024

January 2024

Focused #196: Focus & The Reading Life, with Maryanne Wolf January 30th, 2024
Focused #195: The Productivity Field Guide January 16th, 2024
Focused #194: I'd Like to Take a Mulligan January 2nd, 2024

December 2023

Focused #193: The Problem with Mise en Place, with Justin Khanna December 19th, 2023
Focused #192: Flow State December 5th, 2023

November 2023

Focused #191: Multi-Scale Planning November 21st, 2023
Focused #190: Overdosing on Gratitude, with Karl Staib November 7th, 2023

October 2023

Focused #189: Focus & AI October 24th, 2023
Focused #188: Q4 Planning & The PKM Stack October 10th, 2023

September 2023

Focused #187: Drop Zones & Launch Pads, with Jesse J. Anderson September 26th, 2023
Focused #186: The Burden of Opportunity, with Shawn Blanc September 12th, 2023

August 2023

Focused #185: How to Be Miserable August 29th, 2023
Focused #184: Solving Problems, with Jay Clouse August 15th, 2023
Focused #183: Practicing Focus August 1st, 2023

July 2023

Focused #182: Building Focused Flywheels, with Nathan Barry July 18th, 2023
Focused #181: Walking Your Own Path, with Justin Moore July 4th, 2023

June 2023

Focused #180: A Focused Hodgepodge June 20th, 2023
Focused #179: Ideal Weeks June 7th, 2023

May 2023

Focused #178: Mike's Big Adventure May 23rd, 2023
Focused #177: The Care and Feeding of Technology, with Mike Rohde May 9th, 2023

April 2023

Focused #176: Doing Less April 25th, 2023
Focused #175: The To-Don't List April 12th, 2023

March 2023

Focused #174: Deep Work, with Cal Newport March 28th, 2023
Focused #173: Life Has Lifed You, with Mark Metzger March 14th, 2023

February 2023

Focused #172: Journaling & Focus February 28th, 2023
Focused #171: Communication & Focus February 14th, 2023

January 2023

Focused #170: Holistic Productivity, with Tim Stringer January 31st, 2023
Focused #169: How to Calm Your Mind, with Chris Bailey January 17th, 2023
Focused #168: 2023 Focus Resolutions January 3rd, 2023

December 2022

Focused #167: 2022 Year in Review December 20th, 2022
Focused #166: The Social Dilemma December 6th, 2022

November 2022

Focused #165: On the River, with Chris Upchurch November 22nd, 2022
Focused #164: Mind Mapping November 8th, 2022

October 2022

Focused #163: The Laws of Creativity, with Joey Cofone October 25th, 2022
Focused #162: Perfectionism October 11th, 2022

September 2022

Focused #161: Stolen Focus, with Jean MacDonald September 27th, 2022
Focused #160: Balancing Calendars and Tasks September 13th, 2022

August 2022

Focused #159: The Art of Note-Taking August 30th, 2022
Focused #158: Humans First, with Rob Krecak August 16th, 2022
Focused #157: Non-Traditional Measures of Productivity, with Mike Vardy August 2nd, 2022

July 2022

Focused #156: The State of GTD July 19th, 2022
Focused #155: 12 Favorite Problems July 5th, 2022

June 2022

Focused #154: Building a Second Brain, with Tiago Forte June 21st, 2022
Focused #153: A Wandering Mind, with Kourosh Dini June 7th, 2022

May 2022

Focused #152: Mental Models May 24th, 2022
Focused #151: The Bento Method, with Francesco D'Alessio May 11th, 2022

April 2022

Focused #150: Optimize for Intentionality April 26th, 2022
Focused #149: Asking Questions, with Marc Champagne April 12th, 2022

March 2022

Focused #148: Savoring the Moment, with Chris Bailey March 29th, 2022
Focused #147: Task Management & Focus March 15th, 2022
Focused #146: The Extended Mind, with Annie Murphy Paul March 1st, 2022

February 2022

Focused #145: Focus & Your Environment February 15th, 2022
Focused #144: Enough, with Patrick Rhone February 1st, 2022

January 2022

Focused #143: Thinking Annually January 18th, 2022
Focused #142: Sparky Gets Focused January 4th, 2022

December 2021

Focused #141: You Never Arrive December 22nd, 2021
Focused #140: Your Brain is Not a Computer with Cory Hixson December 7th, 2021

November 2021

Focused #139: Soundtracks & Self-Talk November 23rd, 2021
Focused #138: Hyper-Scheduling Revisited November 9th, 2021

October 2021

Focused #137: Managing Busy October 27th, 2021
Focused #136: Social Focus, with Taylor Jacobson October 12th, 2021

September 2021

Focused #135: Don't Eat the Frog, with Jesse J. Anderson September 28th, 2021
Focused #134: Finding Space with Sean McCabe September 14th, 2021

August 2021

Focused #133: Success & Failure August 31st, 2021
Focused #132: Willpower and Your Environment August 17th, 2021
Focused #131: Liminal Thinking August 3rd, 2021

July 2021

Focused #130: Toxic Productivity July 20th, 2021
Focused #129: No One Wants to Work With a Jerk, with Colleen Wainwright July 6th, 2021

June 2021

Focused #128: Communication June 22nd, 2021
Focused #127: Focusing a Team, with Ken Case June 8th, 2021

May 2021

Focused #126: Productivity vs. Grinding May 25th, 2021
Focused #125: Professional Nerd, with Rosemary Orchard May 11th, 2021

April 2021

Focused #124: Reading and Learning April 27th, 2021
Focused #123: A Focus on Time April 13th, 2021

March 2021

Focused #122: Linking Your Thinking with Nick Milo March 30th, 2021
Focused #121: Analog Focus, with Jeff Sheldon March 16th, 2021
Focused #120: Caveday with Jake Kahana March 2nd, 2021

February 2021

Focused #119: Productivity & Meditation, with Chris Bailey February 16th, 2021
Focused #118: Tasks and Habits February 2nd, 2021

January 2021

Focused #117: Roles & Goals January 19th, 2021
Focused #116: The Big Reset January 5th, 2021

December 2020

Focused #115: Solving Interesting Problems, with Ernie Svenson December 22nd, 2020
Focused #114: Inputs and PKM Stacks December 8th, 2020

November 2020

Focused #113: ADHD and Cognitive Science, with Brittany Smith November 24th, 2020
Focused #112: Productivity & Creativity November 10th, 2020

October 2020

Focused #111: Environmental Focus, with Erik Fisher October 27th, 2020
Focused #110: Focus with Michael Hyatt October 14th, 2020

September 2020

Focused #109: Email Workflows September 29th, 2020
Focused #108: Pruning with Ian Byrd September 15th, 2020
Focused #107: The Bullet Journal Method, with Ryder Carroll September 1st, 2020

August 2020

Focused #106: Home Offices with Laura Vanderkam August 18th, 2020
Focused #105: Living the Multipotentialite Life, with Jay Miller August 4th, 2020

July 2020

Focused #104: Sleep and Sabbaticals July 21st, 2020
Focused #103: Systems & Challenges July 7th, 2020

June 2020

Focused #102: Analog Productivity with Brad Dowdy June 23rd, 2020
Focused #101: Taking a Sabbatical, with Sean McCabe June 9th, 2020

May 2020

Focused #100: Staying Focused with Episode 100 May 26th, 2020
Focused #99: Working From Home, with Dave Caolo May 12th, 2020

April 2020

Focused #98: Floating with Dave Hamilton April 28th, 2020
Focused #97: Emotional Overload April 14th, 2020

March 2020

Focused #96: Working from Home March 31st, 2020
Focused #95: Five Years of Freedom March 17th, 2020
Focused #94: Journaling with Matt Ragland March 3rd, 2020

February 2020

Focused #93: Attention Overload February 18th, 2020
Focused #92: Getting Focused Kourosh Dini February 4th, 2020

January 2020

Focused #91: Information Overload January 21st, 2020
Focused #90: Habits > Goals January 7th, 2020

December 2019

Focused #89: The Magic of Mind Mapping, with Harald Eckmüller December 24th, 2019
Focused #88: Annual Check-Ins December 10th, 2019

November 2019

Focused #87: Nerds Like Us, with Myke Hurley November 26th, 2019
Focused #86: Rest is a Weapon November 12th, 2019

October 2019

Focused #85: The Depth of Our Madness October 29th, 2019
Focused #84: Focus is a Super Power October 15th, 2019
Focused #83: Ideas Over Art, with Mike Rohde October 1st, 2019

September 2019

Focused #82: The Hustle September 17th, 2019
Focused #81: Breaking the Twitch, with Anthony Ongaro September 3rd, 2019

August 2019

Focused #80: The Power of "No" August 20th, 2019
Focused #79: Reclaiming Margin, with Shawn Blanc August 6th, 2019

July 2019

Focused #78: Changing Defaults with John Zeratsky July 23rd, 2019
Focused #77: You Can't Hack the System July 9th, 2019

June 2019

Focused #76: A Failure Across the Board June 25th, 2019
Focused #75: Intentional Constraints June 11th, 2019

May 2019

Focused #74: Moving the Needle May 28th, 2019
Focused #73: Productivity and Art with Bob Reynolds May 14th, 2019

April 2019

Focused #72: Heart-Centered Productivity, with Jocelyn K. Glei April 30th, 2019
Focused #71: Hyper-Scheduling April 16th, 2019
Focused #70: Digital Decluttering, with Shahid Kamal Ahmad April 2nd, 2019

March 2019

Focused #69: The Intentional Life March 19th, 2019
Focused #68: Getting Productive with an Unproductive Boss March 5th, 2019

February 2019

Focused #67: Staying Motivated with Laura McClellan February 19th, 2019
Focused #66: Putting Email in its Place February 5th, 2019

January 2019

Focused #65: Hyperfocused with Chris Bailey January 22nd, 2019
Focused #64: The Power of Habits January 8th, 2019

December 2018

Focused #63: Lessons Learned December 26th, 2018
Focused #62: The Year End Audit December 11th, 2018

November 2018

Focused #61: The Morning Routine November 27th, 2018
Focused #60: Be Strategic About It, with Mike Vardy November 13th, 2018

October 2018

Focused #59: Kaizen October 30th, 2018
Focused #58: A Better Path, with Joe Buhlig October 16th, 2018
Focused #57: Chef = Boss October 2nd, 2018

September 2018

Focused #56: Iterate in Public, with Sean McCabe September 18th, 2018
Focused #55: The Math Works September 4th, 2018

August 2018

Focused #54: I Have to Try It, with Casey Liss August 21st, 2018
Focused #53: The Value of Your Time August 7th, 2018

July 2018

Focused #52: You Can't Be What You Can't See with Ann Shen July 24th, 2018
Focused #51: Freedom Frogs July 10th, 2018

June 2018

Focused #50: Bet on Yourself June 26th, 2018
Focused #49: Panting to the Finish Line June 12th, 2018

May 2018

Focused #48: Lousy With the Stink of Freedom, with Merlin Mann May 29th, 2018
Focused #47: Personal Floating Holiday May 15th, 2018
Focused #46: Being Comfortable Is Not an Option, with Jaimee Newberry May 1st, 2018

April 2018

Focused #45: Like Going Back to High School April 17th, 2018
Focused #44: Maybe You'll Get a Real Job, with David Wain April 3rd, 2018

March 2018

Focused #43: Don’t Ask Us Permission March 20th, 2018
Focused #42: Learning Your Creative Rhythms, with Shawn Blanc March 6th, 2018

February 2018

Focused #41: A Walk on the Beach February 21st, 2018
Focused #40: Like Being in a Boat, with Kourosh Dini February 6th, 2018

January 2018

Focused #39: Quality Time with a Sledgehammer January 23rd, 2018
Focused #38: Knit Your Parachute on the Way Down, with Thom Zahler January 9th, 2018

December 2017

Focused #37: The Twelve-Week Year December 26th, 2017
Focused #36: My App Story, with John Voorhees December 12th, 2017

November 2017

Focused #35: I Guess I'm Felix Unger November 28th, 2017
Focused #34: I Think I Just Got Fired, with Marco Arment November 14th, 2017

October 2017

Focused #33: When You Say Yes to Everything October 31st, 2017
Focused #32: It's Scary, Dude! with Kathy Campbell October 17th, 2017
Focused #31: Being Selective About Clients, with Aleen Simms October 3rd, 2017

September 2017

Focused #30: Tito Needs to Pay the Rent September 19th, 2017
Focused #29: The Spreadsheet September 5th, 2017

August 2017

Focused #28: David's Origin Story August 22nd, 2017
Focused #27: Bird in the Bush August 8th, 2017

July 2017

Focused #26: A Batphone to My Heart July 25th, 2017
Focused #25: Breadcrumb of My Life, with Stephen Hackett July 11th, 2017

June 2017

Focused #24: Take Care of Yourself June 27th, 2017
Focused #23: It's Hard To Get on a Different Train June 13th, 2017

May 2017

Focused #22: Staying Agile May 30th, 2017
Focused #21: The Second Feedback Episode May 16th, 2017
Focused #20: Jason's Origin Story May 3rd, 2017

April 2017

Focused #19: Nobody Grades You on the Scaffolding April 18th, 2017
Focused #18: A Series of Logical Decisions, with Greg Pierce April 4th, 2017

March 2017

Focused #17: Stop Digging March 21st, 2017
Focused #16: R2-D2 on My Desk March 7th, 2017

February 2017

Focused #15: Put on the Business Hat February 21st, 2017
Focused #14: Putting Numbers in Boxes, with Andrew Carroll February 7th, 2017

January 2017

Focused #13: Promotion Can Feel Gross January 24th, 2017
Focused #12: Right Now It's Only Me, with Katie Floyd January 10th, 2017

December 2016

Focused #11: Balancing Dollars and Delight December 14th, 2016

November 2016

Focused #10: Indie Vacation November 29th, 2016
Focused #9: The Feedback Episode November 15th, 2016
Focused #8: Email Is Not Your Job November 1st, 2016

October 2016

Focused #7: Be Like a Duck October 18th, 2016
Focused #6: The Shawshank Redemption, with Shahid Kamal Ahmad October 4th, 2016

September 2016

Focused #5: Envision a Bonfire September 21st, 2016
Focused #4: Location, Location, Location September 6th, 2016

August 2016

Focused #3: My Curse and My Reward, with Myke Hurley August 25th, 2016
Focused #2: Booked Up With Myself August 9th, 2016

July 2016

Focused #1: The Temptation of Yes July 26th, 2016