The Voluntary Life

Here are the three best journalling techniques that I know to improve productivity:

• The list of tasks completed today
• The core dump
• The incredibly simple week plan.

Listen to the episode to learn how to use these techniques and kickstart your productivity!

Show Notes:

• Other TVL Episodes on productivity
• TVL Episode 191 Task Management
• Support TVL on Patreon and get bonus episodes and other rewards
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• Becoming an Entrepreneur by Jake Desyllas Audiobook, eBook, Paperback
• Job Free by Jake Desyllas Audiobook, eBook, Paperback

To be productive you need to know your goal, and you must know the best action that you can take to move towards that goal at any given moment. This episode is about managing the split between planning and execution. How can you get into the right mindset for planning work, and then switch mindset for execution? How much time do you spend planning, and how much time should you spend? How can you track the amount of planning you do? What can you learn from tracking? Listen to the show to hear the answers!

Show Notes:

• Support TVL on Patreon and get bonus episodes and other rewards
• Support TVL on BitBacker with cryptocurrency
• Becoming an Entrepreneur by Jake Desyllas Audiobook, eBook, Paperback
• Job Free by Jake Desyllas Audiobook, eBook, Paperback

This episode is a critique of the popular idea of forcing children to share and a discussion of a great alternative approach.

Show Notes:

• It's OK Not to Share by Heather Shumaker

• TVL Episode 336 A Review Of Jordan Peterson's Parenting Principles

• TVL Episode 278 Three Principles Of Philosophy Applied To Parenting

• Grit by Angela Duckworth

• Should Libertarian Parents Be Strict or Permissive? By Steven Horwitz

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An introduction to the concept of Unjobbing, from the audiobook of Job Free by Jake Desyllas.

Show Notes:

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• Job Free by Jake Desyllas Audiobook, eBook, Paperback

This episode discusses a thought-provoking alternative theory about who Jesus was and whether he existed as a historical person.

Show Notes:

• Episode 361 A Secular Look At The Bible Part 1
• On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt by Richard Carrier
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Michael Ostrolenk interviews Dr Jake Desyllas on The Michael Ostronlenk Show. The interview covers leaving a career behind, redesigning your life, minimalism, travel, and more!

Show Notes:

• The Michael Ostrolenk Show
• Becoming an Entrepreneur by Jake Desyllas Audiobook, eBook, Paperback
• Job Free by Jake Desyllas Audiobook, eBook, Paperback
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Part 1 of the audiobook of Negotiate For Mutual Profit by Jake Desyllas. Part 1 covers constructive communication. Part 2 covers the win-win negotiation method, principles, and good habits. The full audiobook is available to supporting listeners on Patreon and Bitbacker.

Show Notes:

• Join the TVL mailing list for a free PDF copy of Negotiate for Mutual Profit
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Free To Learn by Peter Gray is one of the most influential books about alternative approaches to education. In this review, Jake highlights the most useful ideas in the book, especially the focus on the role of play in learning and the explanation of how school interferes with learning.

Jake also provides some criticisms of the book, such as the ideas that Peter Gray has about what hunter gatherer societies can teach us and his advocacy of Sudbury schools.

Show Notes:

• Free To Learn by Peter Gray
• TVL 366: Three Alternatives To School
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• Bonus Episode 39: School Is Prison For Kids
• Bonus Episode 24: Why I'm Skeptical About Sudbury Schools
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Going to university often leads to living in a kind of the cultural bubble for the rest of your life. Being conscious of the ways in which you are living in a bubble is the first step in breaking out of it.

Show Notes:

• On Becoming A Person by Carl Rogers
• Coming Apart by Charles Murray
• Was Modernism Meant to Keep the Working Classes Out? by Matthew Wills
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As soon as you become an entrepreneur, you're in the selling business. Entrepreneurship is fundamentally a process of experimental learning through selling. This episode is a chapter from the audiobook of Becoming An Entrepreneur by Jake Desyllas.

Show Notes:

• Audiobook of Becoming an Entrepreneur by Jake Desyllas on Audible
• Becoming An Entrepreneur by Jake Desyllas on Amazon
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