The Productivity Show

Rethinking Email, Focus & Doing Less w/ Ari Meisel (TPS621)


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How many good decisions do you actually have in you each day? Ari Meisel says the answer is about two dozen — which means your inbox, with its thousands of tiny choices, is quietly bankrupting you before lunch. In this encore conversation, the founder of Less Doing joins us to reframe email as a decision-making problem rather than a communication one, and to explain why he’s replaced almost all of his messaging with asynchronous voice. He shares how he runs a coaching business, closes sales, and stays close with far-flung friends without a single call on his calendar — and how those constraints made him more effective, not less.

If you’re looking for genuinely unconventional ways to do less and get more done, this one’s worth your time.

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Cheat Sheet
  • Top 3 Productivity Resources [1:43]
  • The diagnosis that cut an 18-hour workday down to one [4:05]
  • Forget “eat the frog” — the prioritization rule most people miss [6:32]
  • Why your inbox isn’t an email problem at all [11:11]
  • How he closed a $1,500 sale in 8 minutes of voice notes [19:40]
  • Drowning in a new inbox? The four-times-speed fix [26:10]
  • The hospital night that turned him into a data geek [34:59]
  • The one non-negotiable he wishes he’d started sooner [40:35]
  • Where to find Ari [44:39]
  • Links
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    • 25X Productivity Coaching
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    • Smart Nora
    • Emergency by Neil Strauss
    • Less Doing
    • Eat That Frog! by Brian Tracy
    • Double Double by Cameron Herold
    • Vivid Vision by Cameron Herold
    • Oura Ring
    • Levels
    • Dexcom
    • Viome
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