Jared and Sophia walk through the underlying why of their thinking and how that guides their day-to-day. The co-hosts reflect on how their actions are impacted by their mindset and vice-versa: how can their actions guide their mindset.

 

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Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke

The second in a two-part… structure. Jared and Sophia pick up where they left off talking through the structure (or lack thereof) in their lives: understanding there are a fixed 24 hours in a day, setting goals and themes, and nurturing intentionality by slowing down.  

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“Amelia loves doing training runs in the rain and cold, as she knows her competition is probably opting out”- Tim Ferriss, Tools of Titans

This is Water by David Foster Wallace

Pull out a sheet of paper, write down:

1. Your goal, and the timeframe you'd like to achieve it over
2. 1-3 things you'll reduce in order to accomplish that (mental or time bandwidth)
3. What can you add? What's the smallest thing you can add every day?

ChatGPT-generated email sign-offs

“Slow is smooth, smooth is fast” - referenced in Extreme Ownership

Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday

What happened in 2023? And how does that influence 2024? Join Jared and Sophia as they talk through their current goals for the year to come. This episode ranges from goal-setting approaches, to actual goals, to quick-and-witty, one-line... advice...

 

Links

STREAKS. The to-do list that helps you form good habits. For iOS.

Johnny Decimal - 11.01 Introduction║J•D

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (Revised) a book by David Allen and James Fallows

The episode where Jared and Sophia talk through the structure (or lack thereof) in their lives, starting with the temporal realm of days, weeks, and months. They compare their 'aspirational' schedule with their 'actual' one in a live-action reality check. Part 1, so not a wrap quite yet...

 

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Cal Newport on time blocking

Opinion: I tried the Elizabeth Holmes schedule, and here is how it went via The Washington Post

The Great CEO Within by Matt Mochary

The episode where Jared and Sophia look to personality tests to understand themselves. Suffice to say, Sophia’s Iron Man arc continues, Jared failed on marking chapters, and they have diametrically opposed attachment styles…

 

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Zook on adjacency and expansion

Tests: Myers-Briggs, StrengthsFinder, Attachment Styles, Enneagram, Kiersey Temperament Sorter, Six Styles of Working Genius, OpenPsychometrics Character Test

Sophia: 

• Myers-Briggs: ESTJ
• StrengthsFinder: Learner, Achiever, Competition, Discipline, Connectedness
• Enneagram: 8w7
• Attachment Styles: Dismissive Avoidant
• Kiersey: Guardian Supervisor
• Working Genius: Galvanizing, Tenacity
• OpenPsychometrics: Tony Stark

Jared:

• Myers-Briggs: ENFJ
• StrengthsFinder: Achiever, Competition, Communication, Strategic, Learner
• Enneagram: 3w2
• Attachment Styles: Secure
• Kiersey: Idealist Teacher
• Working Genius: Galvanizing, Empowering
• OpenPsychometrics: Mixture. Marvel-focused, Dr. Strange

Link to Jared’s custom personality test (doesn’t currently exist…)

Zero To One - Peter Thiel

Click (2006 film)

The episode where Jared hates on IQ and EQ, hard and soft, and basically every other way of describing skills. Sophia becomes Iron Man. And the duo declares international streaming day, with a flashcards Twitch stream kicking off March 16, 2024. Podcasts take some time to edit…

 

Links

Product management - Wikipedia

Shape Up - Basecamp

2-person dev teams - Jason Fried

 

Extreme Ownership

Great CEO Within

Never Eat Alone

Welcome to the first episode! Sophia and Jared talk about their backgrounds, to set the stage for what's to come.

Everything ranging from dancing to powerlifting to balance to work, and a bunch in between.