Focused 238: Knitting Our Parachutes
Update: 2025-09-10
Description
David & Mike catch up on listener feedback, including how to say no more often, deep vs. shallow work, and when to abandon a focus area. Also, David made an app?!?
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Links and Show Notes:
Deep Focus: Extended ad-free episodes with bonus deep dive content.
Relay for St. Jude
Practical PKM (Mike's Newsletter)
David's Newsletter
The No List (David's app)
Knitting Your Parachute | MacSparky
Focused #237: Everything is Figureoutable, with Max Roberts
Mike's YouTube channel
Practical PKM Hybrid Cohort
The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey
Eat That Frog! Fourth Edition by Brian Tracy
ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study | TIME
Field Notes | Memo Books, Notebooks, Journals & Planners
The Capture System | Ugmonk
Numerics
Zapier: Automate AI Workflows, Agents, and Apps
The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul
Focused #146: The Extended Mind, with Annie Murphy Paul
Nintendo Switch 2
Zelda Breath of the Wild Upgrade Pack
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor by Donald Robertson
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