The Subtle Problem with Productivity

Quick one first. There's a word we lost somewhere between the factory and the laptop. My new book is called Productiveness, and mikevardi.com slash productiveness is where you can get it. Okay, in we go. What if being busy is the biggest lie you're telling yourself?

Not a small lie, not a white lie, but a lie that you've been telling so long that it feels like identity. I've been podcasting for well over a decade now. In fact, we just celebrated as we're recording this a couple weeks ago our 650th episode of A Productive Conversation, formerly known as the Productivity is podcast. But I podcasted well before that, uh, thousands of conversations.

We're talking Mics on Mics with my old podcasting partner, Michael Schechter. We're talking the Work Awesome podcast. We're talking iterations of my solo podcast, Productive Arty, where I would do solo episodes, but also have guests on as well. We're even going back further than that to things like Discultured, which was a Canadian pop culture show that I did with my friends Anthony Marco, Shane Burley, Andrew Curry. And there's some people who actually have made friendships with that discovered me through that podcast.

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