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Issue #335  (Getting Past Procrastination) 07/14/25


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If you can have fun in your work environment while still overcoming common pressures associated with your job, that's always a good thing. I don't believe everything I read in meme format, but this particular one made me laugh and if it's true it would be pretty cool to get away with something like this and not get disciplined for it!
 
/r/madlads LinkedIn post

As shown in the screenshot above, it's a post on the /r/madlads subreddit called Mad LinkedIn lad, where the user in the screenshot from LinkedIn explains:
 
"I've started joining every Google Meet 30 seconds early. When you join early, everyone's virtual note takers join early too. I spend the first few seconds screaming about how I'm on the Titanic, we've just hit an iceberg, the end is near, and I need immediate assistance. I then do the rest of the meeting normally. When the meeting ends, everyone gets an emailed transcript where the AI summary is: 'Chris hit an iceberg, is trapped on a sinking ship, and General Q2 pricing updates.'"

Again, it's likely only a joke and not actually something someone has done, but I would definitely envy someone who works in such a chill environment.

Now on to this week's hand-picked productivity links!

 

 

Tools & Apps

White Noise — A secure and private messenger for iOS and Android that’s lightning fast, infinitely scalable, and identity-free.

PocketCal — A open source and easy-to-use calendar and scheduling tool that lets you pick dates and get a link to share your availability with others.

Outtloud — A tool to transform any document into a personal audiobook in seconds, so you can listen on the go and cut your reading time in half.

Clear Mail — A Gmail plugin that helps you clean up your Gmail inbox effortlessly while respecting your privacy, no OAuth required, so you can organize and manage emails right from your Gmail tab.

Refind — Brain food, delivered daily. Every day the team at Refind analyzes thousands of articles and sends you only the best, tailored to your interests. Loved by 540,000+ curious minds.    sponsor  

DeskMinder — A simple and effective Mac reminders app enabling you to create quick reminders and start tasks on your desktop with one click, useful for those who are easily distracted.

123apps — A suite of 50+ web tools allowing you to perform various operations on videos, images, PDFs, audio files, and more, including file conversion and editing.
 
 

Articles & Resources

Getting Past Procrastination Create: Systems That Allow You to Be Consistently Productive"What separates the best engineers from the rest of the pack is that they create systems that allow them to be consistently productive." (Oh and try to look past the fact that they spelled "procrastination" wrong in the title!)

4-7-8 Breathing — A breathing technique developed by Dr. Andrew Weil that helps reduce anxiety, manage stress, and promote better sleep by triggering your body's natural relaxation response and slowing your heart rate.

Stop Scheduling Status Update “Check-Ins” — 56% of workers say scheduling a meeting is the only way to get information. With Jira, use AI to automatically add work from Slack, create subtasks, or attach relevant resources. So instead of scheduling a meeting, check the status in Jira. Easy.   sponsor  

Semi-Sync Meetings: Stop Wasting Our Time — Potential solutions to the problem of meetings being 'single-threaded', that is, only one brain is active while all the rest are idle.

Diagnose and Overcome Common Barriers to Scale — If your product or business has stagnated in growth, it might be time to diagnose and address the underlying cause, which may be one of the 14 presented in this piece.

How to Convince Others that You are Qualified and Ready to Lead (You Know You Are!) — If you feel you have the qualities to take on a leadership role for the first time, but aren't able to break through, this article presents three ways to pitch your qualifications better.

To-Do List Overload? — The solution presented here is simply to clean up your daily tasks list, which allows you to only be concerned with that list each day, rather than an ever-growing one that's hard to keep up with.
 

Suggestions?

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Stay productive!

Louis
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