78: Ultraworking with Sebastian Marshall

We all freak out about things from time to time. Ben becomes neurotic about feedback, but fellow Tuple team members have different triggers that put them into a tailspin. Fortunately, Ben has found ways to better handle stress.

In this episode, Ben and Derrick are joined by Sebastian Marshall, co-founder of Ultraworking. In previous episodes, Ben has mentioned Ultraworking and how he has benefitted from it.

Today’s Topics Include:

Using what he learned about monthly planning from Ultraworking, Ben did March for Tuple

Ben met meditation goal via Ultraworking’s Lights spreadsheet, accountability partners

10 to 10: Ben’s theme for March; wants to win the night and beginning of the day by going to bed at the right time and developing a morning routine to be more alert and energetic

Ben’s doing Tuple demos and getting positive feedback; promising things are happening

Derrick decided to move forward with notifications feature for Level; shipping it soon

Note about Level’s performance improvement offers positive sentiment and sanity check

How much do you trust your own emotional memory, if you feel like you’re making progress or not? Do a data-driven review of week to assess and analyze headway

Track where your time is spent using start and end time; only track most important work

Defining wasted vs. leisure time; aren’t they the same? Depends on how you feel afterwards? Good or bad?

Two categories of “bad” time: Neurotic flow and regret agreeing to something

Average day in the life of Sebastian at Ultraworking; what makes or breaks his week

Building a company and keeping it alive; Ben’s “duh” moment about delegating

Ultraworking’s Work Cycles: Doing work (creative, technical, etc.) in structured way

Links and resources:

Art of Product on Twitter

Derrick Reimer Website

Derrick Reimer on Twitter

Ben Orenstein Website

Ben Orenstein on Twitter

Level

Tuple

Ultraworking

Ultraworking: Monthly Planning

Ultraworking: Cycles Template

Ultraworking: Lights Spreadsheet

Roguelike by Sebastian Marshall

GitLab

Bench

Drip

Extreme Productivity by Robert Pozen