We treat procrastination like a willpower leak, but Robin J Emdon argues why we procrastinate is emotional — a survival instinct you can’t discipline your way past. Here’s why goals can quietly make it worse, and why a clear sense of who you’re becoming pulls you forward when motivation runs dry.
We treat “tolerance” as a moral word, but it’s also an engineering one — the range of variance you’ll accept before something stops working. Mike Vardy and Patrick Rhone explore why tolerance is a range, not a target, and how knowing yours changes everything from minimalism to your next trip to Costco.
The harder you try to fall asleep, the more stubbornly awake you stay. Sleep coach Shimin Ooi of Sleep Reset explains why effort backfires — and why permission, not pressure, is what finally lets rest in.
Distraction was never the real problem. In this solo episode, Mike Vardy maps the four spheres of attention — noticing, awareness, focus, and concentration — and shows why learning to move between them, not living in any one, is the actual skill.
Most productivity conversations start with systems. This one starts with what’s underneath them — six principles author Heather Jo Kennedy says we’re all overlooking, and why fixing those changes everything else.
Prudence has almost vanished from our vocabulary — but it hasn’t vanished from our lives. In this PM Talks episode, Patrick Rhone and I dig into what prudence actually means, why speed culture pushed it out, and why it might be the most underrated productivity virtue we have.
Kyle Austin Young joins the show to talk about why mapping what could go wrong — specifically and deliberately — gives you better odds of success than positive thinking alone.
The word “intentional” has been overused to the point of meaninglessness. This episode and companion post restore its operational weight — and give you the one question that changes how you spend your time.
Dawna Ballard has spent decades studying time and human communication. Her research reveals why slowing down is often the fastest strategy — and what we get wrong when we treat speed as the goal.
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