Month: April 2019

In this episode of ProductivityCast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity, we have the pleasure of bringing you our very first interview! They won’t be often, but sprinkled in, we think that hearing outside voices of productivity experts would be a valued addition to the personal productivity conversations we have. This week, we’re delighted we got to sit down with Taylor Jacobson, founder and CEO of Focusmate, a virtual coworking platform for personal productivity enthusiasts like you. Listen in our conversation with Taylor about his story, what virtual coworking with Focusmate does for your productivity, and what the future holds for this unique productivity tool and virtual coworking community rolled into one. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit http://productivitycast.net/049 for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.) Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening! If you'd like to discuss this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). In this Cast | Virtual Coworking with Focusmate Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Taylor Jacobson, Focusmate Taylor Jacobson is the founder of Focusmate, a behavioral technology company helping remote workers improve their productivity. He's a trained executive coach with clients like Yale, Cornell, and Wharton, a wannabe adventurer, and a recovering pizza addict-turned-holistic health aspirant. His work has been featured in CNN, GQ, The Huffington Post, Men's Health, and more. Show Notes | Virtual Coworking with Focusmate Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. Four Tendencies Quiz The Four Tendencies - Productivity Book Group Group versus individual performance on tasks requiring ideational proficiency (brainstorming): A review Estimating the Difference Between Group Versus Individual Performance on Problem-Solving Tasks 7 Studies That Prove People Work Better in Teams Implementation Intentions and Goal Achievement: A Meta‐analysis of Effects and Processes Republic.co Accredited investor (IRS) B Corp Focusmate Raw Text Transcript | Virtual Coworking with Focusmate Raw, unedited and machine-produced text transcript so there may be substantial errors, but you can search for specific points in the episode to jump to, or to reference back to at a later date and time, by keywords or key phrases. The time coding is mm:ss (e.g., 0:04 starts at 4 seconds into the cast’s audio). Read More Voiceover Artist 0:00 Are you ready to manage your work and personal world better to live a fulfilling productive life then you've come to the right place productivity cast, the weekly show about all things productivity. Here your hosts Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud with Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:17 Welcome everybody to productivity cast the weekly show about all things personal productivity, I'm Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud 0:23 And I'm Augusto Pinaud. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:25 And we are back with an episode where we are doing something we have not done before here on productivity cast, we have not done an interview, we've not actually had a guest on the show outside of our normal contributors, Francis Wade, and our gal wicks. And so today on the show, we are going to be talking about virtual coworking for being more productive. And we thought, Well, why don't we have somebody on the show who can actually cover this topic in and with expertise. And so today we are really excited to have on the show, Taylor Jacobson, he is the founder of focus mate. It's a behavioral technology company, helping remote workers improve their productivity. He's a trained executive coach with clients like Yale, Cornell and the Wharton School of Business at Penn.

Today, so much of our lives are lived in the ever-flowing river of data that we produce, consume and discard. But, what if you lose that data? What if your data gets compromised by some bad actor on the Internet? Do you have a plan in place to backup that data? That’s the topic of today’s cast -- creating a data backup storage system. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit http://productivitycast.net/048 for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.) Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening! If you'd like to discuss this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). In this Cast Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Francis Wade Art Gelwicks Show Notes | Creating a Backup Storage System Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. Google Drive iCloud OneDrive Evernote OneNote Dropbox pCloud iDrive Google Docs Google Backup and Sync Time Machine Duplicati Phones and tablets (Android and iOS) - backed up using https://www.sync-droid.com. Google Drive gets downloaded and converted to native MSFT files (using https://www.driveexport.com/) and then saved to an external HDD which is then backed up using Duplicati to the cloud; and for G Suite users, enable Google Vault and also see: https://spinbackup.com/ https://spanning.com/products/google-apps-backup/   Raw Text Transcript | Creating a Backup Storage System Raw, unedited and machine-produced text transcript so there may be substantial errors, but you can search for specific points in the episode to jump to, or to reference back to at a later date and time, by keywords or key phrases. The time coding is mm:ss (e.g., 0:04 starts at 4 seconds into the cast’s audio). Read More Voiceover Artist 0:00 Are you ready to manage your work and personal world better to live a fulfilling productive life? Then you've come to the right place productivity cast, the weekly show about all things productivity. Here are your hosts, Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud with Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:17 Welcome back everybody to productivity cast, the weekly show about all things productivity. I'm Ray Sidney-Smith and I'm joined here with Unknown 0:28 Augusto Pinaud Francis Wade Art Gelwicks Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:29 So much of our lives are lived in the ever flowing river of data that we produce, consume and discard. But what if you lose that data? What if your data gets compromised by some bad actor on the internet? It happens? Do you have a plan in place to backup that data. And that's the topic of today's cast. Francis originally generated this topic idea. So I'm going to turn it over to you, Francis to talk a little bit about the background that led you to come up with this topic in the first place. Francis Wade 0:55 Let me let me go back in time a little bit when I started leading time management programs about 10 years ago, one of the skills that defined was something called storing. And it was really all about people. And what's happened over time is that it's of course changed. Because who uses paper anymore? Right? Most of us are using digital information. And the challenge is that many people have not made that transition from storing stuff on paper to storing stuff digitally. So they don't have the skills of having great backups. So what me battery backup is when a disaster occurs, you are completely protected. So tsunami or a hurricane hits, and there goes your laptop, and your phone and and all of your this gets and hard drive external hard drives? And what do you have to store your contacts, your appointments, all the critical information that you needed all your passwords? Where is all that information? And how can you keep it stored on over regular basis so that you're completely protected no matter what happens? And recently,