Future Squared with Steve Glaveski

Today’s the day (finally)!

My fifth book, Time Rich: Do Your Best Work, Live Your Best Life, is now available.

The book was originally slated for release in May, but with all of the uncertainty surrounding coronavirus at the time, my publisher (Wiley) and I decided to push it back to October, thinking that the world would have returned to some semblance of normality by then. 

While that isn’t exactly the case, the book is perhaps more relevant now than ever, with people spending, on average, 11 hours a day staring at screens since remote work became more than just a fringe startup and freelancer movement, and a reality for almost everybody employed in a white collar profession.

As Roman statesman and philosopher Seneca put it almost two millennia ago, “people are frugal with their money but not with their time”, but unlike money, time cannot be earned back once we’ve spent it and it is by virtue of the shortness of life, the most precious commodity we have.

Time Rich builds upon the foundation laid by my Harvard Business Review article, The Case For the 6-Hour Workday, and provides actionable insights for not only the lone worker, but teams and leaders at large organizations.

It’s about reorganizing how we work - something we’ve never truly learned how to do - in order to not just be more productive and more innovative, but free up time to lead our best lives.

The book has been endorsed by a number of thought leaders, including Adam Grant, Nir Eyal and Whitney Johnson.

Adam Grant (bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take) was kind enough to say that “Steve Glaveski understands something that few leaders have figured out: it’s possible to do less and get more done. This book offers a blueprint for working smarter.”

Nir Eyal (bestselling author of Hooked and Indistractable) put it simply; “Steve Glaveski offers countless ways to get more out of each day”.

If you’re looking to get more out of your days - whether that be at work or in your personal life - then I am sure that a modest investment in this book will repay itself in orders of magnitude. 

And if you’re not convinced, below you’ll find ten quick tips which scratch the surface of what you will find in Time Rich.

How You Can Support the Book

Buy the book: Of course, the best way to support the book is to pick up a copy. You can do so here.

Bulk buy: If you work for a company and think that your organization might benefit from learning how to be smarter with its time, then I am offering bulk buy deals, which also include a remote keynote talk. You can learn more about that here. This might be of interest to your human resources team. 

Leave a review: And if you’ve read and enjoy the book, I would really appreciate it if you took a minute or two to leave a review on Amazon, Goodreads, Booktopia or your platform of choice. 

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Thank you so much for your support - without an audience of people coming back to read my articles and listen to my podcast, this book would simply not have happened.

Thank You!

Steve Glaveski

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In this solosode of the Future Squared podcast, I tackle the recent news that Spotify's NYC staffers want the platform to censor one of the world's most popular podcasts today, the Joe Rogan Experience.

This is a recording of an article I wrote on the topic which you can find at https://www.nofilter.media/posts/spotifys-censorship-moment-joe-rogan-podcasts-and-politics

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In this special rebroadcast episode, we go back into the archives for a conversation on the philosophy of Stoicism, and on focusing on what you can control - something of central importance in these trying times of COVID-19.

Massimo Pigliucci is a Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York. His research is concerned with philosophy of science, the relationship between science and philosophy, and the nature of pseudoscience.

He received a Doctorate in Genetics from the University of Ferrara in Italy, a PhD in Botany from the University of Connecticut, and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Tennessee. He has published over a hundred technical papers and several books. 

Prof. Pigliucci has been awarded the prestigious Dobzhansky Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution. He has been elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science "for fundamental studies of genotype by environmental interactions and for public defense of evolutionary biology from pseudoscientific attack."

In the areas of outreach and critical thinking, Prof. Pigliucci has published in national magazines such as Skeptic, Skeptical Inquirer, Philosophy Now, and The Philosopher's Magazine, among others. He has also been elected as a Consultant for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. 

Pigliucci penned the wildly successful "Rationally Speaking" blog and podcast (rationallyspeaking.org) and maintains a blog - the namesake of his latest book -  called How to be a Stoic.

Towards the end of the show we started chatting about genetically modified and AI augmented humanity which will form the basis of another chat with Massimo in the future, but for now, please enjoy my conversation on Stoicism and how it can help you in your personal and professional life with the one, the only...Massimo Pigliucci.

Topics Discussed:

• The intersection of philosophy and science
• Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius
• How Stoicism can help us lead better professional and personal lives
• Stoicism in the workplace
• Does being Stoic make you emotionless?
• Silicon Valley’s Stoicism movement
• Living a life of virtue
• The decoupling of consciousness and intelligence
• Are human feelings just algorithms

Show Notes:

1. Twitter: twitter.com/mpigliucci
2. Rationally Speaking blog: rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com
3. How to be a Stoic blog: howtobeastoic.wordpress.com
4. Footnotes to Plato blog: www.platofootnotes.org

Get Massimo's books:

• How To Be A Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Living - https://amzn.to/2MvYuC4

• Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk - https://amzn.to/2x9zkV1

• Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem - https://amzn.to/2paA4oh

• Science Unlimited?: The Challenges of Scientism - https://amzn.to/2pbCGTa

• The Nature of Philosophy: How Philosophy Makes Progress and Why It Matters - https://amzn.to/2xccdJy

• Evolution, the Extended Synthesis (The MIT Press) - https://amzn.to/2pcD0Rs

• Tales of the Rational: Skeptical Essays About Nature and Science - https://amzn.to/2pcDze2

• Answers for Aristotle: How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to A More Meaningful Life - https://amzn.to/2phtOeN

• Phenotypic Integration: Studying the Ecology and Evolution of Complex Phenotypes - https://amzn.to/2xe2vGm

• Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology - https://amzn.to/2MCofka

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At the age of twenty-six, John Roa founded a tech-consulting and design firm,  ÄKTA,  that he sold for a fortune to Salesforce. 

His account of his rise from a self-described below-average student, to becoming a poster boy for the ambitious, successful young entrepreneur, to nearly destroying himself in the process is the subject of his book, A Practical Way to Get Rich . . . and Die Trying.

Roa's twenty-year-long journey from being dead-broke to wealth he never imagined is an absurd and often comical story of talent, luck, risk, rapidly changing technology, larger-than-life personalities, sex, gambling, and excessive alcohol and drug consumption.

We covered lots of ground in this conversation, including:

• How Roa went from a six-figure debt to multi-millionaire before the age of 30
• The toxic lifestyle he led while building his company, AKTA
• The psychotic breakdown he experienced, which forced him to sell his company
• And the lessons learned along the way about business and life

Listeners of this show will know that I am an advocate for balance, and Roa’s tale serves as a cautionary one that I hope entrepreneurs listening to this will learn from.

With that, I bring you the one and only, John Roa.

Show Notes:

• Get the book: https://amzn.to/3572aa6
• Twitter: @johnroa
• Instagram: @johnroa
• Web: roa.com

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I've just launched a new narrative form podcast called Battle of the Bands.

If you like Business Wars, and like music, then you'll love Battle of the Bands...at least, I hope you will.

Check it out wherever you find your podcasts, or visit www.nofilter.media/battle

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In this episode of Future Squared, founder of Aussie fintech Parpera, shares his journey from Melbourne's northwestern suburbs to EY and London Business School, before founding up and coming fintech, Parpera.

Show notes:

Crowdfunding campaign: equitise.com

Parpera: parpera.com

Contact Daniel: [email protected]

Future Squared: www.nofilter.media/futuresquared

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Nick De Mey is founding partner of Board of Innovation, a Strategy & Business Design firm for corporates.

He heads up the Insights team, and recently published an in-depth report on The Low Touch economy, and what organizations can do to adapt to the new normal.

In this conversation, we unpack:

• How to identify quick wins to weather the storm
• How to identify longer term business model shifts
• And what we should really be bracing ourselves for, insofar as business recovery is concerned

With that, please welcome Nick De Mey.

Show Notes:

1. Low Touch Economy report: www.lowtoucheconomy.com
2. Nick De Mey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickdemey/?originalSubdomain=be

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Maria is the author of two New York Times best-sellers, The Confidence Game (Viking/Penguin 2016), winner of the 2016 Robert P. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking, and Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes (Viking/Penguin, 2013), an Anthony and Agatha Award finalist.

She is a regular contributing writer for The New Yorker, and has written for the Atlantic, the New York Times, Slate, the New Republic, the Paris Review, the Wall Street Journal, Salon, the Boston Globe, the Scientific American, WIRED, and Smithsonian, among many other publications.

Her writing has won numerous awards, including the 2019 Excellence in Science Journalism Award from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology.

While researching The Biggest Bluff, Maria became an international poker champion and the winner of over $300,000 in tournament earnings.

This was a fascinating conversation, unpacking Maria’s rise from somebody who didn’t know the basics of poker to national poker champion, and what she learned along the way about not only poker but life more broadly.

We unpack lots in this conversation, including:

1 - the role of chance and skill in life

2 - the learning process Maria followed to go from zero to hero on the poker circuit in under a year

3 - the benefit of tackling problems or pursuits with a different perspective and tool-set

Topics Discussed:

• How a run of bad luck inspired the book
• John von Neumann’s Theory of Game and Economic Behaviour
• Parallels between poker and life
• Stoicism
• Chance v skill
• Working with poker legend, Erik Seidel
• Bringing a unique toolset to poker
• What Maria’s grandmother thought about her becoming a poker player
• Maria’s first roll of the dice
• What she learned to go from zero to hero
• How Maria learns
• The value of a beginner’s mind, and “I don’t know”
• High leverage meta-skills for life and poker
• Dealing with the sudden spotlight and magazine covers
• What Maria learned about herself from playing poker
• The role of deliberate practice
• Following your passions
• The ludic fallacy
• The value of fiction

Show Notes:

Twitter: @mkonnikova

Instagram: @grlnamedmaria

Web: mariakonnikova.com

Get the book: https://amzn.to/2V7ML3V

NOFilter Media: www.nofilter.media

K-Startup Grand Challenge: https://www.k-startupgc.org/

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Mark Mathews is a professional big wave surfer who has made a living surfing waves up to 50 feet big.

He is a Red Bull athlete, has won three Oakley Big Wave Awards, and has featured in several documentaries, including Fighting Fear, alongside UFC fighter Richie Vaculik, and the forthcoming On The Other Side of Fear.

While surfing in Tasmania, fifteen feet in front of a cliff in cold, shark infested waters, Mark hit a reef and instantly blacked out. Neck braced and hospital-ridden, he didn’t know if he could ever surf again.

We unpacked a whole lot in this 80 minute conversation, including:

1. Mark’s childhood in the Sydney beachside suburb of Maroubra
2. What makes a big wave surfer
3. Near death experiences
4. Recovering from a life and career-threatening injury
5. Cultivating discipline and resilience in the surf and in life

You can also check out the video version of this podcast, complete with surf footage Mark and I refer to, at the new Future Squared YouTube channel.

With that, I bring you the one and only, Mark Mathews.

Topics Discussed:

1. Childhood
2. Where the motivation to surf big waves came from
3. Affiliation with the Bra Boys
4. What it’s like to ride and wipe out on a big wave
5. Becoming a professional surfer
6. Near death experiences
7. The psychology of flow
8. Goal-setting and feedback loops
9. Getting back on the board after a near death experience
10. Cultivating mental resilience
11. Suffering a life and career threatening injury
12. Mental and physical rehabilitation, and what Mark learned during this time
13. An attitude of gratitude
14. The Other Side Of Fear documentary
15.  Surfing at Jaws, Cyclops, and Shipstern’s Bluff

Show Notes:

IG: @markmathewssurf

W: www.markmathews.com

LI: www.linkedin.com/in/mathewsmark

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In this episode of Future Squared, I interview my now 69-year-old mom, Miljana Glaveska.

While she doesn’t come to the show with the same kinds of credentials or pedigree that many of my former guests do, she comes to the show with something many don’t have, almost three-quarters of a century of life experience, and a unique story to tell.

We unpacked:

• Early life in socialist Yugoslavia
• Being raised by deaf parents
• Leaving her family behind to start a new life in Australia
• Being a non-English speaking migrant in Australia in the 1970s
• Losing a child
• Developing resilience

...and so much more.

I learned so much in this conversation, and I hope you take something out of it too.

So with that, I bring you a conversation with my one and only...literally...Miljana Glaveska.

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