Productivity Alchemy

This week we will discuss the bursts of productivity that we've both had recently. We think it may be due to recent events. After that, we will read your letters!

• Charity Spotlight - Georgia Senate Runoff Support
• In a World Gone Mad, Paper Planners Offer Order and Delight
• Monster of the Week by Shaenon Garrity
• LizardbethArt on Twitch
• Election Night 7Days2Die with Liz, Ursula, and Kevin

We are recording this on the day after the US Election. Nothing is decided yet, and likely won't be. We'll talk about some coping mechanisms to lessen the impact of what is likely a very stressful time (if you live in the US). After that, we will talk with Larissa Banting about how she stays productive - and changed her career twice!

• Charity Spotlight : Meals on Wheels
• Larissa Banting
• Polyglot
• Day Timers
• Time Blocking
• Pomodoro Technique
• The 90 Day Year
• Outliers: The Story of Success
• Terrazu Coffee
• Cafe Brit
• Cafe Milagro
• Hello Giggles
• The Hollow Places UK Release
• Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome
• Warcraft 3 Reforged
• Oxygen Not Included
• Doomscrolling
• Alongside Wildlife Foundation

Ursula is quite happy about the fact that she has depression. We'll discuss why that is, as well as our general productivity over the past week. After that, we sit down and talk to the amazing and brilliant Marguerite Kenner and Alasdair Stuart about how they stay productive!

• Charity of the Week : RIP Medical Debt
• Alasdair Stuart's website
• Alasdair Stuart on Twitter
• Marguerite Kenner on Twitter
• Alasdair and Marguerite on Instagram
• Escape Artists on Twitch
• Trello
• Toodledo
• Traveller's Notebook
• Kinesthetic Learning
• Blue Yeti Microphone
• Blue Blackout Spark SL
• Blue Compass Microphone Arm
• Blue Raspberry Microphone (discontinued)
• Zoom H4N
• Mur Lafferty
• Dry Erase Sticky Paper
• Monty's Deli in London

Hi folks! This week we will discuss the impact missing a day of her meds had on the Wombat Test Subject (Author and Illustrator Ursula Vernon), and talk about the things Kevin saw at the Virtual All Things Open 2020. We then have a great conversation with our friend Sara Glassman!

• Sara Glassman on twitter
• Sara on Etsy
• Sara on Patreon
• Drew Williams twitter
• The Universe After by Drew Williams
• Montessori Education
• Oberon Design
• Rocketbook Notebooks
• Little Professor Book Center
• Pilot FriXion Pens
• TWSBI ECO Pens
• Pilot Kakuno
• Pilot Varsity
• Dark on Netflix
• 12 Monkeys (TV Series)
• Bojack Horseman S4E6 "Stupid Piece of Sh*t"
• Bojack Horseman S3E4 "Fish Out of Water"
• Pieced and Quilted Plague Doctor Mask
• Miss Fancy's from Avondale Brewing
• Meet Miss Fancy
• The Alongside Wildlife Foundation

Hi folks! This week we will talk about what happened when the Wombat Test Subject (AKA Ursula Vernon) forgot her ADD medication this morning, as well as how is has been "re-training" her brain. We then have a chat with the most excellent Emma Marshall about how Emma stays productive.

• Emma on Twitter
• Emma's Website
• System76
• Pop!_OS
• Giphy
• Zendesk

CW: Mentions of pet death

This week we start by reminding you that it's OK if the current events are causing you to be less productive. Honestly. that is really common right now, so don't feel bad. Also, since the season is upon us, we review the first of several new planners for 2021. Finally, we read and discuss your letters and comments!

• NaNoWriMo
• Effin' Birds Store
• Swear Trek
• MightyDeals
• LEGO Harley Davidson Fat Boy 10269
• 7 Days To Die
• The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher
• The Conjuring Universe
• Inbox Zero
• The Rice Delivery Thread
• The only scene from ST:TNG you need to see if you dislike Q
• Red Wombat Chickens Facebook Page

Hi folks! This week, we will talk about a realization many people are having now : that their workplace is toxic, and we will discuss our experiences with them. There is only one real solution if you find yourself in one - that is, finding a new job - and that isn't easy in the pandemic. After that, we speak with community builder and advisor Juno Bacon, to find out how he stays productive.

• Jono Bacon
• Jono on Twitter
• People Powered
• Sipsmith Gin
• The Irish Whiskey Museum
• Superhuman email
• Inbox Zero
• CoSchedule
• Thinkific
• ConvertKit
• WebinarJam
• Headliner
• Final Cut Pro
• Auphonic
• Zapier
• IFTTT
• Bad Voltage Podcast
• Remarkable 2
• Mattermost
• Primal Fear
• Muse
• Power Trip
• Witchery
• Gothenburg Abyss Festival
• All Things Open 2020
• Loom
• The Hollow Places

This week we talk about doing the dishes, and how it is helping Kevin relax. We also talk about Ursula's latest side project, comic tools, and why she isn't drawing (as much). After that, we will talk to Emily Edwards, host of the Fuckbois of Literature podcast, about how she stays productive!

• Ms Emily Edwards on Twitter
• Fuckbois of Literature Podcast
• Fuckbois of Literature Twitter
• Brett Easton Ellis (wikipedia)
• Logic Pro
• Out 0f Sight Litter Box
• EA Podcasts Twitch Channel - Live reading of A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
• ComicDraw for iPad
• Ren'Py
• Dom's Dodge Charger LEGO set 42111
• Lightalings Kit for Dom's Charger
• Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
• Angeles Crest Creamery and Goat Ranch

Hi folks! This week we talk about Kevin's lack of self-care and his new hobby. We also talk about Ursula's week off that isn't, and a brief story about something amazing that happened as part of the fires in the western U.S. After that, Kevin has a long chat with author Annie Bellet, to find out how she stays productive.

Correction: I mis-attributed Gathering of Dragons to Annie. The author of that series is Milla Vane.

• Annie Bellet website
• Annie Bellet on Twitter
• The 20 Sided Sorceress
• Pre-Order Bad Moon on the Rise - The Six Gun Sorceress Book 1 pre-order
• Gathering of Dragons by MIlla Vane
• On Writing by Stephen King
• Lego The Razor Crest Set 75292
• Lego Camero ZL1 Set 75891
• Lego Dom's Dodge Charger Set 42111

CW: There are discussions of abuse, date rape, bullies, spiders, and mental health in this episode. This week, after we check in on ourselves, we will discuss the responses to the distance learning question posed by a listener. After that, we will have a chat with listener Selphie, and see how she stays productive! And yes, there are pictures of Romney the Sheep too!

• Selphie on Twitch - Ugly Retro Girls Play Ugly Retro Games
• Selphie on Storium
• Habitica
• Thermomix
• Rhohypnol
• Sailor Moon (Wikipedia)
• Beastars (Wikipedia)
• Momo by Michael Ende
• Romans 12:20-21 (NIV)
• Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
• Daikon Radish Cake
• Zork (series)
• King's Quest (series)
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Game)

• Romney the Sheep
• Romney Disapproves
• Romney and the Printer
• Romney and Cake