Systems Episodes

Sönke Ahrens has developed a method for you to organize your ideas and notes in the most efficient way possible. Using psychological insight and battle-tested techniques, Sönke's insight will help you accomplish more and learn faster.

The path to success doesn't have to be as hard as we make it. In our pursuit of over-achieving, we tend to overwhelm ourselves until we burn out. According to Greg McKeown, this desperate pursuit of success gives us even …

To-do lists abound, our streets get wider, ideas flow and more is never enough. Our world is getting smaller with every new thing we add to it but do we ever stop to subtract? What can we take away from …

Learn how to master your craft, regardless of industry or job role, by learning from people who are already successful. Ron Friedman shares knowledge on how the most accomplished people in the world use a different framework of learning to …

According to Aubrey Marcus, a lot of heath and fitness programs right now have an overload of information. Too many people fail on a 30 or 60-day plan. That’s why he came up with the idea of owning your life …

Tim Harford introduces us to the messy world around us with an insightful new perspective. Tim explains that gifts of character like creativity, responsiveness and resilience are not found without the disorder, confusion, and disarray to produce them. ...

How can we maintain clarity in the dealings of organizing our lives, from our homes to the workplace and beyond? Daniel Levitin uses neuroscience and his knowledge of music to explain how you can de-clutter your brain and overcome the …

Jeffrey Shaw has written a book called The Self Employed Life, which teaches you how to manage the uncontrollable roller-coaster of being self employed. With a nod to bio-mimicry, Jeffrey teaches us how to engineer an environment optimized for sustaina...

In the age of computers, our communication channel is almost always open to anyone who wants to reach us. For knowledge workers, this means their inbox becomes inundated with emails, leaving them mentally tired and unable to work efficiently. Cal …

Join us for Part 2 of our conversation with Ashley Stahl. Are you stuck in a job that doesn't make use of your talents? Do you know what you want to do with your life but have no idea how …

Are you stuck in a job that doesn't make use of your talents? Do you know what you want to do with your life but have no idea how to get there? Career and life coach Ashley Stahl knows the …

Oliver Burkeman challenges our age-old pursuit of happiness with a surprising way of thinking about life. Is it our very pursuit that brings us misery? Perhaps setting the best goals for the new year requires a contrarian approach. Visit Oliver …

Essentialism is a different way of doing everything. Being an essentialist will set you free from becoming too thinly spread, from having your time slip through the cracks and from feeling burnt out with little to show for your efforts. …

Gareth Pronovost is a data specialist who helps businesses make more profit by saving them 10's of hours of work every week through automation. In Part 2 of our discussion, we talk about the paradox of resilience, how Gareth ran a …

Gareth Pronovost is a data specialist who helps businesses make more profit by saving them 10s of hours of work every month through automating heaps of processes on Airtable. In this episode, we get to learn how a catastrophic accident changed...