Reading After a Heavy Day

David & Mike catch up on listener feedback and discuss productivity myths, focus struggles, and their favorite episodes from the last year.

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Links and Show Notes:

Deep Focus: Extended ad-free episodes with bonus deep dive content.

Video for this episode

Focused YouTube channel

Give the Gift of Relay

The Focused Calendar

Tiny Experiments by Anne-Laure Le Cunff

Time Timer

The Personal Retreat Planner

The Blanc Media 8-Week Work Cycle with Sabbaticals

Focused #239: How to Focus Like a Roman Emperor, with Donald J. Robertson

Focused #225: Tiny Experiments, with Anne-Laure Le Cunff

Focused #232: Useful Not True, with Derek Sivers

Focused #242: The Case for Analog

1911 KOP Ebonite Naginata-Togi Fountain Pen

Pen Review: Pilot Custom Heritage 912 with PO Nib | The Gentleman Stationer

Diamine Writer's Blood Ink Review | The Pen Addict

Why My Platinum Century 3776 Fountain Pens Have Architect Grinds | Chicana Writes

Ink Review #189: Robert Oster Bondi Blue | Mountain of Ink

Rolls MS111 Mic Switch Latching or Momentary Microphone Mute Switch | Amazon

Toxic Grit by Amanda Goetz

Apple in China by Patrick McGee