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A Productive Conversation · 2026-06-10 · 54 min · 9,061 words

The Wisdom in Waiting: Rediscovering Prudence (PM Talks S3E6)

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Quick one first. There's a word we lost somewhere between the factory and the laptop. My new book is called Productivess. And Mike Vardy.com slash productiveness is where you can get it. Okay.

In we go. I wanna talk about it. Prudence. And it's one of those words I was just having a conversation uh in my community about the idea of efficacy because efficiency comes up, right? And people talk about efficiency and then someone started getting the idea of effectiveness. I'm like

I those two words combine kind of lead to efficacy and we don't hear the word efficacy very often. We hear effective, we hear efficient, we don't hear efficacious or efficacy,'cause it just is a word that I think a lot of people have a hard time figuring out what it is or whatever. And I wonder if the same thing happens with prudent. I mean the most often I've heard that word Other than you know, me digging into it a bit is Remember when Dana Carvey used to do the impression of George H W Bush, where he would do wouldn't be prudent at this juncture. Wouldn't be prudent. Yep. And I think then Bush would say. And and that's that's the the kind of the buzzword, the thing that I think of.

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