Month: May 2020

We originally recorded this episode in July 2019 and the discussion we had couldn’t be more salient today--remote work. Remote work, working from home, digital nomadic lifestyles and more were trending upward before the COVID-19 pandemic, and now we are grappling with the realities of the shifting world of work out of necessity. In this blissfully-unapparent-of-the-future dialog, the ProductivityCast team discusses the positives and negatives of being in the age of remote work productivity, then how to be most productive while working remotely. (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/069 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 continue discussing managing digital notebooks from this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). In this Cast | The Age of Remote Work Productivity Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Art Gelwicks Francis Wade Show Notes | The Age of Remote Work Productivity Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.  What Is Remote Work? 10 remote work statistics you should know about Dice's 2019 Tech Salary Report Remote Work Employee Policy Template Example of flexwork policy The Five-Hour Workday: Live Differently, Unlock Productivity, and Find Happiness by Stephan Aarstol Hoteling (or, office hoteling) Remote: Office Not Required by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson Focusmate (virtual coworking) 049 Virtual Coworking for Being More Productive with Taylor Jacobson, Focusmate Raw Text Transcript | The Age of Remote Work Productivity 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 host Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud with Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:17 And Welcome back, everybody to productivity cast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity, I'm Ray Sidney Smith. Augusto Pinaud 0:24 I am Augusto Pinaud. Francis Wade 0:26I'm Francis Wade. Art Gelwicks 0:27 And I'm Art Gelwicks. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:26And we are back with an episode on a topic that is quite a bit in the news lately and I thought that it would be really interesting for us all to have a discussion on the topic of remote work and really how to be productive in and when you were remote working. And so, today we're going to talk about what remote work is kind of defining it and and understanding some of the the trends that are around remote work. What are the benefits and disadvantages are the advantages and disadvantages of remote working? And finally, I want us to talk about how to be most productive while working remotely. Because remote working does provide its own set of opportunities and challenges to being productive as an individual in the greater workforce. And so I thought it would be really good for us to be able to kick the idea around and have a discussion around that. So let's start off with what is remote work? How do you define remote work? Art Gelwicks 1:26Well, I can start you with my definition. And that's it requires a benchmark and the benchmark is remote work requires you to have a designated location that you would normally work from and then not working in that location being able to be as effective in s...

We get your listener messages and we love them! So, keep them coming! We try to respond to most of them via email response when we get them. For those that require more than an email, we have started to respond to them here in episodes together. And, this is the premiere edition of our Ask ProductivityCast episode series. Whenever we get a few questions that require some heavy lifting, we’ll put out an Ask ProductivityCast episode. So, keep those questions coming! (If you’re reading this in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://productivitycast.net/068 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, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). In this Cast | Ask ProductivityCast, 1st Edition Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Francis Wade Show Notes | Ask ProductivityCast, 1st Edition Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. Personal Kanban | ProductivityCast Trello ToDoist What Is the Bullet Journal? | ProductivityCast 10 Big Ideas on Productivity from Getting Results the Agile Way Patrick Rhone’s Dash/Plus System GTD Connect Episode #44: GTD for Creative People Musician Evan Taubenfeld and entertainment lawyer Danny Passman join David Allen and Coach Kelly Forrister in an inspiring conversation about GTD for creative people. Lots of wonderful nuggets in this episode about finding the creative spark within the structure of a GTD system. Getting Things Done (Series) | ProductivityCast (check out Episode 041, Organize) Raw Text Transcript | Ask ProductivityCast, 1st Edition 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 host Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud with Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:17 And Welcome back, everybody to productivity cast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity, I'm Ray Sidney Smith. Augusto Pinaud 0:24 I am Augusto Pinaud. Francis Wade 0:26I'm Francis Wade. Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:25Welcome, gentlemen. And welcome to our listeners to another really exciting episode. I think today we're actually going to be answering listener questions. And so we have had a few questions that come in. Typically, I actually get emailed based questions from our listeners, and I respond back. And so if you ever do send an email, I'm usually behind the helm answering those questions, and they're just usually simple ones that I can usually respond to pretty quickly and easily. But once in a while, we get some questions and we thought, well, let's actually put these together and answer them here on The podcast would help the the entire community listening. So today we've chosen three different questions that we've received over time. And we're going to answer those questions for the specific individuals, but also for you as a broader community. So let's start off with our first listener question. Our first listener question comes from Dave. So let's get into it. And so our first listener question, as I said, is from Dave, Dave says that he's a longtime GTD practitioner, he has pulled in elements of personal Kanban JD Myers getting results, the agile way. And recently, he's been using the bullet journal by Ryder Carol. And so he feels like the layers are weighing him down.