All Episodes
Focused — 100 episodes
266: The Ultimate Shiny New Object
265: How to Try Again, with Steve Kamb
264: The Accountability-Shaped Hole
263: Removing the Roadblocks, with Cat Mulvihill
262: The Strategic Deployment of Friction
261: Metrics of Success
260: Quarterly Planning and Riding Roller Coasters
259: Nobody's Perfect, with Kathy Campbell
258: Personal Defaults
257: I Go By Vibes, with Stephen Robles
256: Calendar Modes & Transitions Rituals
255: Get Your Machete Out
254: Battling Burnout
253: Finding Focus in the Midst of Chaos, with David Roth
252: Donkey Work
251: Not Throwing Away My Shot, with Joe Casabona
250: Planning Your Week
249: What if This Were Easy? with Ernie Svenson
248: Seriously, A Heroic Journey
247: Getting Intentional, with Chris Bailey
246: A Cleansing Palette of Joy
245: Fashionable & Functional, with Patrick Rhone
244: You're Holding It Wrong
243: The Single Source of Truth is On the Fridge, with Thom Gibson
242: The Case for Analog
241: Less But Better, with Austin L. Church
240: Q4 Planning
239: How to Focus Like a Roman Emperor, with Donald J. Robertson
238: Knitting Our Parachutes
237: Everything is Figureoutable, with Max Roberts
236: Focus Traps
235: Practical Wisdom for Mindful Living, with John Chandler
234: Intentional Friction
233: I Wanna Be Me When I Grow Up, with Kara Monroe
232: Useful Not True, with Derek Sivers
231: Overwhelm, AI, and Life's Balancing Acts
230: Journaling & Intention, with Joe Moyer
229: Workflow Check-In
228: Time Surfing, with Paul Loomans
227: Quarterly Planning
226: The Importance of Review
225: Tiny Experiments, with Anne-Laure Le Cunff
224: Chasing Valuable Rabbits, with Chenell Basilio
223: Solving the Actual Problem, with Ian Byrd
222: The 2025 Productivity Field Guide
221: A Focus on Creativity
220: 2024 Retrospective
219: A Focused Smorgasbord
218: Turning Down the Volume, with Stephen Hackett
217: The Anxious Generation
216: Wholehearted Transformation, with Amy Wicks
215: The Sparky Language Model
214: Solving Gnarly Problems, with Clarke Ching
213: Developing Skills
212: Living the Llama Life, with Marie Ng
211: The Focus MOB
210: Media Strategies for a Focused Life
209: A System for Writing, with Bob Doto
208: Moving the Needle Revisited
207: What Would Sparky Say?
206: Rapt
205: Tasks & Calendars
2024 Member Special: Productivity Origin Stories
204: Analog Productivity, with Jeff Sheldon
203: The Little Lies You Tell Yourself, with Jason Snell
202: Slow Productivity
201: When Things Don't Go Your Way, with Haemin Sunim
200: Favorite Productivity Hacks
199: Repotting & Retirement, with Jim Eager
198: Revisiting Journaling
197: Feel Good Productivity
196: Focus & The Reading Life, with Maryanne Wolf
195: The Productivity Field Guide
194: I'd Like to Take a Mulligan
193: The Problem with Mise en Place, with Justin Khanna
192: Flow State
191: Multi-Scale Planning
Overdosing on Gratitude, with Karl Staib
189: Focus & AI
188: Q4 Planning & The PKM Stack
187: Drop Zones & Launch Pads, with Jesse J. Anderson
186: The Burden of Opportunity, with Shawn Blanc
185: How to Be Miserable
184: Solving Problems, with Jay Clouse
183: Practicing Focus
182: Building Focused Flywheels, with Nathan Barry
181: Walking Your Own Path, with Justin Moore
180: A Focused Hodgepodge
Focused: Disney Adults
179: Ideal Weeks
178: Mike's Big Adventure
177: The Care and Feeding of Technology, with Mike Rohde
176: Doing Less
175: The To-Don't List
174: Deep Work, with Cal Newport
173: Life Has Lifed You, with Mark Metzger
172: Journaling & Focus
Communication & Focus
Holistic Productivity, with Tim Stringer
How to Calm Your Mind, with Chris Bailey