Tech After Five

In this episode we talk about the routines that give us focus. We are trying to get the right things done. How do we get body, mind, and soul ready to do something big? It might be having the right morning routine might be the thing you need. But, it might not be morning. We've got space for night owls as well.  Either way, having focusing routines will help you keep your day your own. It is easy to have the world hijack your day. How do you stop it? Get focused. There are things you want to get done. Let's make you effective at getting those things done through the power of focusing routines.

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Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

Scott and Phil talk about going back to work in the office. How do we handle that? Why are we feeling differently about that? How do do our best to assess the risks? Also, a brief conversation on the transformation of businesses from heroics to systems thinking.

Bonus… We hint at the upcoming availability of a time machine for one of our events you might have missed.

Then we get to a decision framework for getting the important stuff done. How do we do that? How do we avoid the loops that keep us from getting the most important things done?

We’ve got some ideas on how you can nudge yourself into new behaviors and change your outcomes.

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Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

Unpacking the paradoxes of the way humans think is Dr. Rebecca Heiss’ life work.  Her research has been designated “transformative” by the National Science Foundation.  She taught at the South Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics and later was recruited to be among the founding faculty members to develop a startup school to nurture entrepreneurial minds.

Her work is evolutionary human biology and stress responses.  How do we sort through our fears? How do we change our responses so that we can grow? Dr. Rebecca Heiss talks to us about her work with various professional and entrepreneurial groups.  She helps us understand the Fear(less) Challenge she's conducting with people from all walks of life. 

Learn more about Dr. Rebecca Heiss, the Fearless Challenge, the app she's developing as well as her upcoming book in this episode.

Learn more: https://rebeccaheiss.com/

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Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

Today, Scott Pfeiffer and Phil Yanov interview Donald Robertson, author of “How to Think Like a Roman Emperor” for the Tech After Five podcast. Let me say… we are both excited about this. Robertson’s book was one of our favorite reads of last year and Phil says he's read the book several times now. "What does that have to do with tech" you might ask. 

We think that tech, and IT specifically, is one of the fastest moving parts of our society. It’s really easy for us to be put in positions where we might find ourselves acting beyond the prescriptions of our ethical frameworks. 

How do we act nobly in uncertain situations? How do I execute my work and my communications with others with virtue? We think Stoicism (of the capital “S” sort) provides a useful scaffolding for decision making. 

In this episode, we explore that with Donald Robertson who starts the conversation off with a powerful premise. Stoicism is a mental martial art that allows us to defend ourselves against the outrage machine of social media.

Our guest:

Author and cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist, Donald Robertson. He may be reached at https://donaldrobertson.name/.

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Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

To get started in most endeavors it’s best but not required that you be “directionally correct.” 

What is not required is for you to be perfect. Start. Evaluate. Iterate.  

After checking in, we talk about getting off our "buts" and getting started in our new projects. We've got some real opportunity in the moment. We talk about how to get yourself started by avoiding perfection paralysis.

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Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

We've got an exercise for you. It's time to rethink what comes next for you. How do you decide what you are going to carry with you? It can happen for lots of people in lots of ways, but right now, it's happened for everyone. Something big came along and mashed the reset button. It gave us a moment to think. We can reposition. We can approach what comes next from a different angle.  Are we thinking about that? Have you decided how to repack that heavy backpack of skills, behaviors and attitudes you've been carrying around? Maybe you've stopped thinking about what doesn't work for you anymore. But, maybe, you are ready for some change. Maybe you are ready to drop the weight that is no longer meaningful to you and move quickly into the what's next. We've got some ideas on that.

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Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

We've got a brand new program coming from Tech After Five. You've said you want more content. You want to meet and talk to experts from all over. We are going to make that happen.  Want to know more? This is the episode for you. We've got someone special and unexpected in the episode! Check it out.

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Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

This week we do a friendly checkin and discuss some feedback we've gotten on our Zoom Interview show. We then talk about the benefits of a Mastermind and why now might be exactly the right time for you to get into a Mastermind to advance your career or business.

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Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

We open up with a some observations about the week with us and our clients. The tech industry is chugging along. Businesses are beginning to think about what comes next and how they go back to work. But, still, we've got lots of concerns. How do we handle that?

Advice from the Top

Next up, we grab some of the lessons from top industry executives and see how they are responding to a workforce that's largely at home. How do you keep up innovation when people aren't together? What happens when we mix personality types on video calls? How do we keep people working with each other and aligned with the company?

Is Zoom Dead?

Lastly, we talk about the recent changes in video conference tools and what's coming out next. Google and Facebook are not standing still while Zoom gobbles up the market. What comes next? Why should we care? Is it too early to get married to a platform?

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Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.

We came across the blog post "It's Time To Build" by Marc Andreessen.  He points out that we weren't prepared for a massive shock to our infrastructure.  Why? We haven't been building resilience into our infrastructure. We are operating at max capacity almost all of the time. There is no buffer. Is now the time to build that buffer?  We talk about that.

Also, we talk about the test we might apply to figure out when is the right time for business to go back to work.

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Looking to connect with Carol Hamilton? Look for her on LinkedIn. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolhamiltonlive/)

Scott Pfeiffer helps entrepreneurs succeed and partnerships thrive @ Mind Your Own Business.

Phil Yanov is the Founder and Lead Community Organizer of Tech After Five.