The Productivity Show
Episodes
Why Your Calendar Breaks by 10 AM (And What to Do Instead)
Host Tan from Asian Efficiency shares five strategies to make productivity planning resilient against daily disruptions.
The Productivity Content Trap: When Optimizing Becomes Procrastination (TPS627)
Tan and Brooks explore the fine line between optimizing workflows and actually getting work done, warning against traps like endless tool switching and planning as avoidance.
The Knowledge Worker’s AI Operating System: From Inbox to Deep Work to Done
Host Tan Pham argues that AI fails when added to broken systems, proposing instead a five-layer operating system: capture, triage, planning, execution, and review.
Why Productivity Systems Don’t Work for You (And How to Build One That Fits) (TPS626)
Tan and Brooks discuss how AI is transforming productivity systems by collapsing traditional workflows like GTD into simple capture and review phases.
AI Fluency Is the Real Advantage
Tan Pham discusses AI fluency, a three-level framework progressing from manual assistance to automated agents.
Time-Blocking Is Broken: 5 Adaptive Planning Methods That Work Better (TPS625)
Tan and Brooks discuss how AI agents are reshaping productivity, shifting focus from single-tasking to managing multiple concurrent workflows.
The Goal Was Never the Point
Host Tam Pham shares a personal story about dropping out of college in 2009 to pursue a dream of buying a Lexus IS300.
The Knowledge Worker’s AI Operating System: From Inbox to Deep Work to Done (TPS624)
Hosts Tan Pham and Brooks Duncan explore integrating AI into productivity across five layers: capture, triage, planning, execution, and review.
Your 10-Minute Habit That Ends the Chaos
AI Is Boosting Productivity, But Only for the Fluent (TPS623)
Hosts Tam Pham and Brooks Duncan discuss AI adoption in productivity, outlining a three-level fluency framework: assistants, workflows, and agents.
You Are Drowning in Micro-Decisions