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#046 Finding Your Peak of Productivity: Ultraworking with Sebastian Marshall

Sep 6, 2022

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Scope to Quality

01:21

What Was It Like Going Through That Epic Writing Sprint?

01:59

What's Yours?

01:25

Who is a hero

01:19

Introduction

2min

Is Tostarwin, Who Are Your Heroes?

4min

What I Love About Mustapho Kimal

2min

Military History - What I Like About It

4min

Is There a Zero Some Game?

2min

Optimizing Life Is Not Your Next Yo

5min

Is There a Morenean Way to Define Productivity?

4min

Productivity Is Not About Squeezing the Last Drop Out of the Fruit

4min

Getting Rid of Toil Is a Great Idea

2min

10.

Overtime

3min

11.

Is There Going to Be a Big, Big Change?

3min

12.

What's the Core of Ultra Working?

6min

13.

Optimizing for Fun

3min

14.

Is There Stuff That's Not Productive?

2min

15.

We're Going to Be Able to Link Up in Person.

4min

16.

I've Been Doing Monthly Planning for Almost Two Years Now.

5min

17.

Scope to Quality Project Management

2min

18.

The Last Generation of People That Didn't Know Where to Go

6min

19.

What Was It Like Going Through That Epic Writing Sprint?

4min

20.

How to Affect Me and Influence Me

3min

21.

Clockwork Nutrition

6min

22.

Self Measurement Is Self Punishment?

4min

23.

I'm Doing This Because It's Really Good, and People Might Not Like It

2min

24.

Quantitative, Qualitative - What's the Difference?

3min

25.

The Mental Model, Euristic, That You Find Most Commonly Applying

3min

26.

What's Yours?

2min

27.

Is the Same - I'll Programm Your Meals

2min

28.

A New Form of Leverage

2min

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:

Ultraworking

Sebastian Marshall on Medium

The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt

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

Product Hunt

Clockwork Nutrition

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#046 Finding Your Peak of Productivity: Ultraworking with Sebastian Marshall

Scope to Quality

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Who is a hero

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