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Podcast: Frank & Paul Get Schooled
Listen to our latest episode on our site or on your favorite podcast app (e.g., Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, etc.). We have a special guest on this episode. Dr. […]
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Is Busyness Old News?
Paul and I were holding our weekly meeting regarding the business side of The Busyness Paradox. Believe it or not, we are not just winging this whole thing, unless that’s […]
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The Thing About Email
Today we’re releasing Part 2 of The Email Paradox: Inefficient Efficiency, which continues our discussion of email overload and it’s impact on productivity and personal well-being. A third episode on […]
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Niksen: The value of doing nothing.
by Frank Butler This idea of nothing is derived from the Dutch. The general idea is that you take some time out of your day to intentionally do … nothing. […]
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How I Learned to Love the Lockdown
By Paul Harvey Covid has, obviously, been bad. Nothing that we’ve gained has been worth even one of the lives lost to the disease that’s kept most of us in […]
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Podcast: The Email Paradox: Inefficient Efficiency
Email is one of the most efficient forms of communication ever created. Email is almost universally viewed as a threat to efficiency, on and off the job. How can both […]
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Google’s Search Results Have Gotten Worse: My Take
Frank and I don’t do these posts on any sort of schedule (clearly…), we just wait for inspiration to strike. Sometimes it strikes in sort of tangential ways, like when […]
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The need for office space
by Frank Butler The WSJ posted an article about startups not needing office space, especially early on. Certainly has a significant impact on the cash flow and equity needs when […]
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Podcast: BS Jobs
Bologna Sandwich maker? Barber Shop singer? Nah, not those BS jobs. In this episode we dive into what the late David Graeber defined as jobs that are “so completely pointless, […]
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Podcast: Margin of Error: When Good Polling Goes Bad
What happens when you ask the wrong questions? You get the wrong answers. Then you make the wrong decisions. Then you look silly. Whether you’re a pollster predicting elections or […]