Do Busy Right - The Task and Attention Management Podcast
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Do Busy Right - The Task and Attention Management Podcast is a business podcast hosted by Larry Tribble, Ph.D.. It has 100 episodes, with the latest published October 2025.
If you're like most people, there's lots of stress in your life around your level of "busy". Funny thing: we're never taught how to manage the 'stuff' that delivers that stress. The key is to set up tools and workflows that allow you to better manage your tasks and your attention. That's what Do Busy Right means - manage your tasks and attention in such a way that you get things done with less stress. We are learning that here. Happy to have you.
business ·en-us ·100 episodes
Why Self-Improvement Should Be a Group Activity - DBR 100
Cognitive Ergonomics for the Pain of Productivity Anxiety - DBR 099
The Art and Science of Focus for Knowledge Workers - DBR 098
Fables of Work: Hard Work #2 - Beyond the "Brute Force" Model - DBR 097
What is Attention Compass and how will it help me? (Classic Episode) - DBR 096
From Sirens to Tags: Categorizing Information for Executive Function - DBR 095
The Hidden Personal Secret to Group Information Management - DBR 094
The Strategic "No" - the Master Skill of Attention Management - DBR 093
The Enduring Principles of AI for Knowledge Workers - DBR 092
Architecting Your Digital Sanctuary - an application of 'monk mode' - DBR 091
Master Your Tasks & Time with a Backlog Refinement Rhythm - DBR 090
PIM is Critical for Knowledge Creation - DBR 089
DBR 088: Meetings and Death By Them - Is It Inevitable?
Be Your Own Executive: Mastering Productivity Through Executive Function - DBR 087
Not As Busy As We Think (Maybe) - DBR 086
From Guild Secrets to Modern Work: Process Thinking is the Key to your Productivity - DBR 085
Digital Moderation and How To Decline a Technology - DBR 084
How to Process Incoming Information - DBR 083
Don't 'manage time'; time is the constraint - DBR 082
WFH: Don't Fall For The Hidden Challenge - DBR 081
Information Overload Is Simpler Than You Think - DBR 080
Work-life Balance Is Nothing (... but an Attention Management Problem) - DBR 079
Watch Out For The Three 'Micro' Wastes of Productivity - DBR 078
Over-allocated Attention and the Associated Stress - DBR 077
Yes! You CAN Be Happy At Work - DBR 076
Pessimism Cloaked as Realism Considered Harmful - DBR 075
How We Got Here and Where We're Going - History of Knowledge Work Productivity - DBR 074
Fable: Productivity Rain Dances - Watch Out - DBR 073
The Modern Productivity Paradox, What Should Knowledge Workers Do? - DBR 072
"Attention Crisis"? What is the Argument and the Evidence - DBR 071
The Wrong Mindset May Be Causing Bad Results - DBR 070
Why you need commonplace books and how to create them - DBR 069
The History of Paper as a History of Personal Information Management - DBR 068
Operating system for attention, tasks, information (and time) - DBR 067
Top 10 Productivity Tips? NOT - DBR 066
Knowledge Work Careers via Resistance and Linchpin - DBR 065
Invest in Technique to Get Better at Knowledge work - DBR 064
What does proactive have to do with busy and productive - DBR 063
Don't Like Work? Why? - DBR 062
Humans Monotask; Computers Task-switch; Nothing Multitasks - DBR 061
Do I Have a Context Problem? - DBR 060
Smart Glasses, Book Notes, and a Memex - DBR059
No 60-0-60 Thanksgiving - DBR 058
Protecting Ourselves with a Model of Attention - DBR 057
Say "No" List - DBR 056
Interruption, office hours, and tech-driven chatter - DBR 055
Where Should I Keep My Stuff? - DBR 054
Fable: Your Tasks Are Easy to List - DBR 053
Principles, Philosophy, and Mindset - DBR 052
What Do You Mean? I'm Not Doing Busy Wrong - DBR 051
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