Mark Steadman

While we might not come up with a paradigm-shifting idea, we are capable of putting a dent in the universe, and putting something on the permanent record of the Internet. Support the show from $3 and get * Episodes early and ad-free * Join our listener community * Join Mark for monthly Q&

Mark opens a can of worms full of aspartame, and Brendan has both joined a dodgeball league and started a meditation circle. Now who's being a productive dynamo!? * (00:00) - Now I have a bag of pegs * (00:42) - Dopamine Nation * (07:52) - Does Mark

How you can use this law of nature, work, productivity and creativity to focus on the stuff that will have the biggest impact, and eventually ditch the rest. Support the show from $3 and get * Episodes early and ad-free * Join our listener community * Join Mark for monthly Q&As

Brendan and Mark kind of have a fight a little bit. In as much as two enneagram 9s can. * (00:00) - We're senseless to our selves * (00:59) - Mark's chat history * (05:22) - Brendan and the holy trinity * (13:59) - Mark gets

Being a creative person in this most digital of decades means needing to be good at more than one form of creative expression. That means thinking like a polymath, and luckily we have history’s greatest multi-hyphenate to learn from. Support the show from $3 and get * Episodes early and

Our heroes navigate freelancing and money, and Brendan has an update for Mark on fasting, courtesy of everyone's favourite large language model. * (00:00) - Playing myself at Magic the Gathering * (00:12) - Brendan consulted ChatGPT on fasting * (06:16) - The YouTube diet * (12:31) -

Let’s spend a bit of time today with some of the women of productivity history, some of whom you know, some we’ll meet for the first time. Support the show from $3 and get * Episodes early and ad-free * Join our listener community * Join Mark for monthly Q&

Brendan's not eating again, and Mark has opinions about education. * (00:00) - Cheesecake * (04:46) - Brendan is not eating * (17:32) - Teaching by experience vs study * (19:47) - Profit vs compensation * (28:20) - Study vs experience revisited * (47:04) - Finding intrinsic confidence

If you have to meet any kind of regular publishing schedule, you’ll know how time can stretch out into infinity until the night before you have to hit Publish, when suddenly it feels like you have to cram 8 hours of work into 30 minutes. But Benjamin Franklin had

Mark's vibrating internally but has got some funky stuff cooking, and Brendan still wants Mark to stop using TikTok. * (00:00) - Brendan's tree joke * (00:20) - Manic Mark * (03:18) - Undo update * (08:52) - It's all coming together * (22:17)