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A Productive Conversation · 2026-02-11 · 52 min · 7,386 words

PM Talks S3E2: Poise Under Pressure in a Fractured Moment

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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 Productiveness, and mikevardi.com slash productiveness is where you can get it. Okay, in we go. Patrick, uh we are on episode what, two?

of season three at this point. The subject matter is poise. That's what we're going to talk about. But truth be told, it's not exactly poise is hard to come by uh when there is so much That is rating your attention.

And I'm using the term rating on purpose. We I will speak a little bit and we don't normally go down this path, but I think it's important to go down this path. And when we have these conversations, uh on on whether it's just a productive conversation or this series, um, we live in time and our ability to have poise within time is both an internal uh element, but also is fashioned by external forces. Again, I'm using the term forces.

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