Rose and Scotty discuss rapidly moving between many pieces of competing work and how they navigate through these experiences.

Some things we mention and love:

You Need a Budget: Snowball effect

Eisenhower matrix

How to be a miracle worker (Scotty Principle): Part 1 and Part 2

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Rose and Scotty discuss implications of and approaches to all-consuming problems.

Some things we mention and love:

What is Getting Things Done

Office Space: I could set the building on fire

Mad Men: Not great, Bob

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: find your towel

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Rose and Scotty discuss task management clutter, the difference between clutter in motion vs. in stasis, and how they are managing through both.

Some things we mention and love:

How to Deal with Clutter When You Have ADHD

OmniFocus

Agenda

Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Bring Out Your Dead

The LEGO® Botanical Collection

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Rose and Scotty discuss the art of delegation, how they think about it, and how they work with it.

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Rose and Scotty discuss how sometimes we are brainless, and so need to both prepare for and respond to such situations.

Some things we mention and love:

Mise en place (Wikipedia)

What is Getting Things Done

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Rosemary and Scotty discuss the use of time, choices we make, and ways we try to make the most of the time we have.

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Rose and Scotty talk about our handling of stuff and where it goes.

Some things we mention and love:

KC Davis and Struggle care

Drafts app

Agenda app

Scotty’s Agenda Daily Log

Yoink app

Unclutter app

Setapp

DEVONthink

Baskets! All baskets!

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Rose and Scotty discuss their best practices for working in a mixed workstyles environment, where some people are in office and others are remote.

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Rose and Scotty talk about breaking out of bad patterns.

We mention Jerry Seinfeld’s productivity secret (this is the earliest mention of it we could find), and a few quotes from David Allen.

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Rose and Scotty talk about how they manage and conserve energy productively.

We mention the XY problem, which is something worth really reflecting on!

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