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 money he makes off the back of Spotify subscriptions to fund military drones.This is via a company called Helsing, who provide what they call “precision mass and autonomous capabilities to democracies so they can deter and protect”.I’m removing Undo and all of my other content from Spotify, as I don’t want my content to fund any kind of military operation. The world is already full of white men with no necks who have rigid hardons for war, and I don’t want any part of enabling them. Support the show from $3 and getEpisodes early and ad-freeJoin our listener communityJoin Mark for monthly Q&AsSupport Undo via Patreon
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 whether it’s in the distance or right up in your grill, and more importantly we’ll look at what we can do about it.Check out our guest's podcast, You Are Not a Frog.Am I Stressed, Overwhelmed... or Burning Out?Get your free guide to help you tell the difference Support the show from $3 and getEpisodes early and ad-freeJoin our listener communityJoin Mark for monthly Q&AsSupport Undo via Patreon
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 oppression.Check out our guest's podcast, You Are Not a Frog.Am I Stressed, Overwhelmed... or Burning Out?Get your free guide to help you tell the difference Support the show from $3 and getEpisodes early and ad-freeJoin our listener communityJoin Mark for monthly Q&AsSupport Undo via Patreon
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 a Frog.Am I Stressed, Overwhelmed... or Burning Out?Get your free guide to help you tell the difference Support the show from $3 and getEpisodes early and ad-freeJoin our listener communityJoin Mark for monthly Q&AsSupport Undo via Patreon
Highlights from Mark's podcast dedicated to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which covers – if not skewers – the subject of productivity in the loving image of Douglas Adams. Support the show from $3 and getEpisodes early and ad-freeJoin our listener communityJoin Mark for monthly Q&AsSupport Undo via Patreon
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. Support the show from $3 and getEpisodes early and ad-freeJoin our listener communityJoin Mark for monthly Q&AsSupport Undo via Patreon
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 our listener communityJoin Mark for monthly Q&AsSupport Undo via Patreon
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 getEpisodes early and ad-freeJoin our listener communityJoin Mark for monthly Q&AsSupport Undo via Patreon
Modern work needs a more modern approach than Taylorism's simple "one right way". Enter systems theory, and one of its greatest proponents. Support the show from $3 and getEpisodes early and ad-freeJoin our listener communityJoin Mark for monthly Q&AsSupport Undo via Patreon
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 mysterious and complex, but goddammit he gets results.So what can Baker Street’s most famous resident teach us about how we do our most important work?Special thanks to this week's guest, Matthew Bellringer. Support the show from $3 and getEpisodes early and ad-freeJoin our listener communityJoin Mark for monthly Q&AsSupport Undo via Patreon
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 help keep you on track? Support the show from $3 and getEpisodes early and ad-freeJoin our listener communityJoin Mark for monthly Q&AsSupport Undo via Patreon
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 getEpisodes early and ad-freeJoin our listener communityJoin Mark for monthly Q&AsSupport Undo via Patreon
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 getEpisodes early and ad-freeJoin our listener communityJoin Mark for monthly Q&AsSupport Undo via Patreon
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 getEpisodes early and ad-freeJoin our listener communityJoin Mark for monthly Q&AsSupport Undo via Patreon
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 getEpisodes early and ad-freeJoin our listener communityJoin Mark for monthly Q&AsSupport Undo via Patreon
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 a neat little system that helped him keep on top of his commitments, and all it takes is a pen, some paper, and a watch. Support the show from $3 and getEpisodes early and ad-freeJoin our listener communityJoin Mark for monthly Q&AsSupport Undo via Patreon
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 perspective, and became one of the Internet’s true treasures. Support the show from $3 and getEpisodes early and ad-freeJoin our listener communityJoin Mark for monthly Q&AsSupport Undo via Patreon
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 preventable deaths, and it’s stuff we can use to make our own lives run more smoothly.Thanks to Ayesha Khan of Every Single Sci-Fi Film Ever* for lending her voice to Mark's silly opening sketch. Support the show from $3 and getEpisodes early and ad-freeJoin our listener communityJoin Mark for monthly Q&AsSupport Undo via Patreon
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 difficult times, no doubt, but two outliers a hundred years apart, fought oppression, propaganda, and dehumanisation all while under their own personal dark clouds. Support the show from $3 and getEpisodes early and ad-freeJoin our listener communityJoin Mark for monthly Q&AsSupport Undo via Patreon
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 things “super aesthetic”? And, if we can learn what we need to about the system in 3 minutes, why does it cost three and a half grand to learn to teach it? Support the show from $3 and getEpisodes early and ad-freeJoin our listener communityJoin Mark for monthly Q&AsSupport Undo via Patreon