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Podcast

For the curious and the ambitious. And anyone who knows the answer that works today may not be the one they need tomorrow.

Pulling on the threads of work, ambition, health, relationships, and what comes next.

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Episode 02 9:49

#2: You get about 4,000 weeks. Getting more done is the trap.

You get about four thousand weeks if you live to eighty. I used to try to win that number with better lists and Getting Things Done (GTD). The list never caught up. The faster I got, the more work showed up.

Show notes

You get about four thousand weeks if you live to eighty. I used to try to win that number with better lists and Getting Things Done (GTD). The list never caught up. The faster I got, the more work showed up.

This episode is five ideas from Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman. Why doing more keeps you rushed. What to neglect on purpose. Where distraction comes from. Why boredom usually means you started. And why ordinary days count.

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Transcript
Episode 01 8:21

#1: Four timeless lines from Rumi on becoming who you really are

I came across a four-line poem by Rumi recently, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.

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I came across a four-line poem by Rumi recently, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.

Walk before the path appears. Become nothing to find your true being. Make yourself small, and the world won’t be big enough to contain you.

The more I sat with those contradictions, the more I realized they were asking something uncomfortable: what if the identity you built to understand yourself has become something you need to protect?

This ended up being a thread about clarity, ambition, status, personal growth, and the question beneath all of it: who are you when nobody is around to impress?

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