April 29, 2024

How I learned about Agile 10 years ago. Why traditional goal-setting doesn't work.

7 minutes

In this episode I talk about why long-term goals don't work and how we've been mislead all this time by the traditional goal setting advice. I also share my story of finding out about Agile and how it changed my approach to personal productivity.

Link to the video version of this episode.

Timestamps:

(00:00) - Traditional productivity advice

(00:32) - New Year's Resolutions

(00:55) - My first job at a fast-growing startup

(01:10) - Corporate world - how things are usually done

(01:40) - The time the status quo got questioned

(02:30) - Creation of Agile Framework for building software

(03:03) - How Agile works

(04:31) - My story of learning about Agile

(06:29) - I stopped creating long-term plans 10 years ago

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