#12 - Sebastian Marshall | Productivity Principles for "The 5% Life"
About this episode
Sebastian Marshall brings the mentality of an athlete to knowledge work.
He’s a cutting edge productivity expert and the CEO of Ultraworking — a company obsessed with making the nature of work better.
Topics include:
* Why you probably need “weird” practices to live the life you want.
* The power of tracking everything you do with your time (and how to do it).
* More evidence that everyone needs a gang.
* Why religion might be the biggest productivity hack.
* Death and its clarifying effects on your to do list.
* Sebastian’s near death experiences and how they changed his life.
* Why consciously designing your environment is mandatory in modernity.
* How to improve the yield of philosophy.
Resources:
* On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History - Thomas Carlyle
* Daniel’s favourite Ultraworking tool for tracking practices
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