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Eat Sleep Work Repeat

Beating the To Do List

Eat Sleep Work Repeat

Bruce Daisley

Management, Workplace Culture, Science, Work, Business, Culture, Social Sciences

4.7989 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Oliver Burkeman was a productivity geek. He was the guy trying to get it all done. He was that person, convinced he could optimise living to get the most out of life, writing about it in a wry, detached way in a Guardian column.


In this episode we talk about his pursuit of elite productivity - but also what it taught him about the ultimate goal of managing one's time. A truly brilliant discussion.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:03.4

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0:06.7

It's payments, point of sale and reporting all in one.

0:10.1

It also connects your front and back of house, which you nail every order and Square's reporting feature can help you save hours on accounting every week.

0:18.0

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0:22.0

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0:26.1

Money Regulations 2011.

0:27.7

Registered reference number 900846. Hello, it's sleep worker Pete, I'm Bruce Easley, to podcast about making work better.

0:44.2

I hope you're well.

0:45.5

I was just reflecting as I was getting ready to start talking here.

0:49.7

I was thinking, you know, maybe I'll share a couple of things that I've done at the moment that have been

0:53.6

interesting and it's an illustration of what a life bankrupt from excitement that I'm

1:00.3

leaving at the moment that I couldn't think of anything that sprung to mind.

1:03.4

In fact I saw by chance that Kirby's enthusiasm started at the weekend and I've totally

1:08.3

that totally passed me by so maybe that's what I'll do after I've recorded this. Now today is a really nice discussion.

1:15.5

I always try and tread a fine balance because it's one of those things when you're talking to authors.

1:21.3

Sometimes you feel unabound to, well look basically talk about their boys. to necessarily think that their book is the best thing I've ever read

1:33.3

Marcus Buckingham episodes that would want that was one that was one that would

1:36.9

spring to mind where you feel look you know there's some interesting stuff in here but people could save themselves

1:44.8

a ten or fifteen pounds by just listening to this podcast rather than going out and buying it

1:50.3

however there are some books may the Rutka Bregman episode be the exemplar of this, where I adored

1:59.0

the book and I enjoyed the process of either reading or audio booking the book so much that I'm like this

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