Smart Friends
#046 Finding Your Peak of Productivity: Ultraworking with Sebastian Marshall
Episode guests
Topics:
(1:46) - Who are your heroes?
(7:25) - Sebastian’s affinity for studying history, sports, art & professional gamers
(11:30) - How do you take lessons learned from these studies and apply them to entrepreneurship?
(13:01) - Why do you approach life and work with a lens of ruthless optimization?
(18:12) - Breaking down the concept of ‘productivity’
(26:56) - Non-value producing work
(28:11) - Do you find that you have a higher sense of baseline after experimenting with
optimizing your entire life?
(34:25) - Maximum sustainable pace vs. Maximum possible pace
(39:44) - Optimizing for fun
(44:34) - Can you expand on the growth of Ultraworking?
(50:04) - Improving scope-to-quality of work
(55:36) - Sebastian’s period of life attempting to visit every country in the world
(1:00:59) - Sebastian’s writing eras and how they changed him
(1:14:40) - Agree or disagree: Self-measurement is self-punishment
(1:19:51) - Monthly themes for life
(1:22:45) - What is the mental model you find yourself implementing in your life the most?
Links:
Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon by B. H. Lidell Hart
On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
You and Your Research by Richard Hamming
Stedi Annual Letter - Operational excellence
Gateless by Sebastian Marshall
Extreme Productivity by Robert Pozen
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