How to Get Things Done, With Productivity Expert David Allen (RECAST)
The Upgrade by Lifehacker
Lifehacker
4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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This week we chat with productivity legend David Allen about GTD, his gold-standard time management philosophy. Lifehacker staffers share their productivity secrets as well.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I've great listeners. |
| 0:01.1 | We know pandemic burnout is affecting a lot of us right now, |
| 0:03.7 | so we thought we'd bring a recast of one of our episodes about tackling your to-do list. |
| 0:08.5 | So please enjoy how to get things done with productivity expert David Allen. |
| 0:12.7 | And we'll see you next week. Hello and welcome to The Upgrade, the podcast from the team at LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time. |
| 0:33.9 | I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of Lifehacker. |
| 0:36.8 | And I'm Alice Bradley, Lifehacker's deputy editor. |
| 0:39.5 | And today we're tackling some of the best productivity hacks with some of the best |
| 0:43.7 | productivity experts around, including us. That's right. Alice, yes, Melissa. Do you remember that |
| 0:49.7 | productivity deck I gave you a couple years ago? You mean the one that's sitting on my desktop right now that I refer to on an almost daily |
| 0:57.2 | basis? |
| 0:57.8 | What? |
| 0:58.4 | It's true. |
| 0:59.4 | I'm so flattered. |
| 1:00.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.3 | It just really keeps me focused on what's like what I need to do all the time. |
| 1:06.4 | So let's talk about how the deck came to be. |
| 1:08.8 | Yes. |
| 1:09.2 | Because I'm a total geek. |
| 1:10.6 | I communicated with you via deck. So we were talk about how the deck came to be. Yes. Because I'm a total geek. I communicated with you via deck. |
| 1:12.7 | So we were talking about productivity. |
| 1:14.8 | And I realized that while I would never have said that I was like a productivity geek necessarily, |
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