Simplicity: Confront, Delete, Amplify — Getting 50% More Done with 50% Less with Roy Schwartz

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I'm your host, Eric Fisher. Most people who write productivity books arrive at do less. as a strategy. My guest today arrived at it as a survival skill. Roy Schwartz is a co-founder and president of Axios. He came up as a management consultant, and he's dyslexic, which meant that long before it was a method, stripping things down to what actually matters was just how he kept up. That instinct became smart brevity.

It became a company. And now it's a book he's co written with his Axios co founders. Simplify. Do fifty percent more. With fifty percent less. Roy.

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