Chris Guillebeau
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 30 Jul
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And I think those those tools have a place, you know, but also, as I said, if you're not careful, you get really good at doing the wrong things.
And ultimately, these all these tools and systems, they just they just kind of create the the potential for more, right?
And is more really what you need in your life.
And also like there's, there's going to be more after that.
It's not like you're going to reach a point where you're like, okay, now I am more productive.
Now everything is all buttoned up.
No, you'll just continue to, to make more and more.
So I think the whole like productivity industrial complex is something that I was, I very much embraced for a long time and then kind of just have become more and more skeptical of because I think like productivity without purpose is ultimately meaningless.
Yeah.
I think if you can, something I've tried to do is replace productivity with value or just thinking of the word valuable as opposed to productive and just asking myself not how can I use my time most productively, but how can I use my time in a valuable way?
One little trick I have is from time to time, maybe once or twice a day, I'll
look back on the last 40 minutes and be like, what did I do the last 40 minutes?
How valuable were my last 40 minutes?
And so the valuable is the key works.
It's not just how productive, you know, like value can be found in a conversation with a friend or,
Value could be found in rest.
Value could be found in going for a walk, anything that you choose to be valuable.
But I think there's also times where you could look back on your last 40 minutes and say, actually, it probably wasn't that valuable.
I'm not really even sure what I did.
Maybe I was here at my desk and I...
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