Undo – How history's outliers got stuff done
Episodes
Why I'm ditching Spotify and why you should too
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recently it’s come to our attention that Daniel Ek, the CEO of Spotify, who Forbes estimates is worth over $10 billion, is now investing some of the...
Congrats, you’re burned out! Here’s what to do next
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Burnout is something that affects neurotypicals and neurospicies alike, so today we’re going to find out what it looks like so you can spot it wheth...
You aren’t lazy; you’re fighting a broken system – Ignacio Martín-Baró
08 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Modern work pressures call for some radical resistance, and we’re going to look for it where resistance is needed most: the frontline battle against...
“Busy is the New Stupid” – What does Warren Buffett know about real work?
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is there anything this 94 year-old business mogul can teach us about our attitude towards work and busyness?Check out our guest's podcast, You Are Not...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Productivity
25 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Highlights from Mark's podcast dedicated to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which covers – if not skewers – the subject of productivity in t...
How to remember everything — Tiago Forte and his Second Brain
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We need a system to keep our brain clear of all those nagging little tasks and bits of info we arry with us, so it can focus on having better ideas. S...
How to build a car or plan a wedding using Kanban
11 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We can learn a lot from the world of manufacture and bring it into the work that we do. Support the show from $3 and getEpisodes early and ad-freeJoin...
Why giving less than 100% is better for your health
04 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The whip-cracking "give it all you got" business bro bullshit isn’t just insensitive – it’s actually wrong. Support the show from $3 and getEpis...
Buckminster Fuller and the system of You
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Modern work needs a more modern approach than Taylorism's simple "one right way". Enter systems theory, and one of its greatest proponents. Support th...
What Sherlock Holmes can teach us about productivity and our brains
20 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
He’s the world’s first and only consulting detective, and his mind has fascinated us for over a hundred and thirty years. His methods are mysterio...
How to stick to it when the novelty wears off – Atomic Habits
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Could there be more to habit building than “just showing up”? On those days when you can’t find the inspiration, is there anything you can do to...
How to turn your side hustle into your main gig – “The One Thing”
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 rec...
20% of your effort makes up 80% of your success — The Pareto principle
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
How to be a polymath – Leonardo da Vinci
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 lik...
The super-productive women missing from time management history
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
How Ben Franklin used timeboxing to stop missing deadlines
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 h...
What happened to the Inbox Zero guy?
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Inbox Zero is a pretty good way of organising your email, but behind the system is a dude who stepped off the hamster wheel of productivity, got some ...
How to make fewer mistakes – The Checklist Manifesto
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Simple mistakes are more common than it’s comfortable to admit. But there’s a dirt-simple technique that has dramatically reduced the number of pr...
How to work when the sky’s caving in — Lincoln vs Churchill
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When things look bleak, either in your head or out in the world, being “productive” is probably the furthest thing from your mind. We live in diff...
Bullet Journal – Productive or performative?
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can this analogue system for a digital age really help us get more done? Has it strayed from its roots and become synonymous with people who call thin...
How to get into the zone — Flow
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Time stands still and you’re in that sweet-spot where the work you're doing is challenging enough to hold your attention, but not so difficult that ...
The tomato of productivity – the Pomodoro Technique
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s four o’clock in the afternoon, and you’re thinking over your day. Did you actually get anything done, or were you just reacting to a bunch ...
Do the worst thing first thing (”Eat the frog”)
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Eat a live frog every morning, and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day.” So says Mark Twain. Or so says a productivity guru ...
Work expands to fill the time available – Parkinson’s Law
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Studies show if you give people 60 minutes to complete a task that only takes 30, they’ll work the full hour instead of taking the rest off.That’s...
The Eisenhower Matrix – Decision-making in the White House
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you decide what needs to be done now, and what can wait? And how do you take care of the stuff that needs doing now, while not neglecting the t...
Introducing Undo
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Coming January 2025.Humans will do anything to avoid the actual work they said they’d do. While supposedly writing this trailer I checked my slow co...