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October 2024
Focused #215: The Sparkly 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