How I Work
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How I Work explores practical ideas on work habits, productivity, decision-making, and building more sustainable ways of operating.
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Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Overcoming people-pleasing to become a more effective leader
How I Work
January 7, 2026
Identity & self-belief
9
Communication
8
Resilience & grit
8
- Needing everyone to like you is leading from fear, not vision
- Withholding feedback to protect feelings sets people up to fail
- Reading troll comments was a self-imposed whip — not a driver of success
Sahil Bloom on building a scoreboard that reflects what matters
How I Work
December 31, 2025
Goal setting
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Relationships & family
6
- Wrong metrics drive wrong actions — money alone is a broken scoreboard
- The new opportunity test: assume twice as hard, half as rewarding — still yes?
- Tiny consistent relationship actions compound more than occasional grand gestures
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Journaling and saying no: Michael Bungay Stanier's practical systems
How I Work
December 24, 2025
Productivity & habits
9
Time management
8
Goal setting
6
- Four daily questions that replace 40 years of failed journaling attempts
- A five-criteria filter that makes saying no structural, not emotional
- Two words for the year beats one — they need to be in tension
Productivity & habits
Podcast
25 lessons on work, wellbeing, and AI from 2025
How I Work
December 17, 2025
Productivity & habits
8
Identity & self-belief
7
Communication
7
- Energy management beats time management every single time.
- Psychological safety is not the same as psychological comfort.
- Treating Gen AI as a coworker — not a tool — changes everything.
Quarterly in-person sprints that keep distributed teams connected
How I Work
December 14, 2025
Management
8
Processes & SOPs
5
- Sporadic office days don't build connection — purposeful gatherings do
- One quarterly 2–3 day sprint sustains team bonds for months
- Atlassian optimises for the remote person, even when others are in-office
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Designing your best year ahead with intention and reflection
How I Work
December 10, 2025
Productivity & habits
9
Goal setting
8
Mental health & wellbeing
6
- Write next year in past tense — it unlocks better planning
- Vision boards work via brain science, not wishful thinking
- Three daily big rocks beats a year of vague intentions
What leaders get wrong about apologising at work
How I Work
December 7, 2025
- Over-apologising confuses teams and undermines your authority as a leader.
- The best apology is short, unconditional, and followed by silence.
- Granting others grace for mistakes is what earns grace for your own.
Structured year-end reflection methods for making sense of 2025
How I Work
December 3, 2025
Goal setting
8
Productivity & habits
7
Relationships & family
5
- Forward-looking reflection questions reveal more than backward-looking ones.
- An energy audit across all life domains exposes patterns you'd otherwise miss.
- Culture can rebound within months — fast when the right decisions are made.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
How asking "how good could it get?" breaks the catastrophising loop
How I Work
November 30, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
7
- One question shifts your brain from threat-scan to possibility.
- External success rarely satisfies — recognition must come from within.
- Unconscious family loyalty often drives self-sabotage, not fear of failure.
AI tools & automation
Podcast
How Dr. Samantha Imber uses AI and tech to work smarter
How I Work
November 26, 2025
AI tools & automation
10
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
8
- Task-specific GPTs beat generic prompts for recurring work
- Split deep and shallow tasks across separate tools and systems
- WisprFlow, Granola, and Snipd are her top productivity picks
Mental health & wellbeing
Podcast
Why your default behaviour isn't actually yours — and how to change it
How I Work
November 23, 2025
Mental health & wellbeing
8
Identity & self-belief
6
- Your automatic reactions were inherited in childhood, not chosen
- Imprints persist even when you learn better tools or strategies
- Feeling disloyal to family can silently block personal change
MVP & prototyping
Podcast
How Elan Lee built Exploding Kittens into a 100-game empire
How I Work
November 19, 2025
MVP & prototyping
9
Iteration & feedback loops
8
Niche selection
5
- Deliberate errors on a preview page turned observers into launch-day advocates.
- Rejecting 'yes, and' improv: kill ideas fast, generate thousands instead.
- One question decides if a game ships: 'Do you want to play again?'
AI tools & automation
Podcast
Exploding Kittens CEO uses AI as a silent thinking partner on daily walks
How I Work
November 19, 2025
AI tools & automation
9
Deep work & focus
6
- AI is most useful when it asks you questions, not answers them
- A daily 2-3 hour walk with ChatGPT in silent-listener mode
- Fill your head with raw material first; let AI help you combine it
AI tools & automation
Podcast
How to use AI without losing your critical thinking
How I Work
November 16, 2025
AI tools & automation
9
AI strategy & adoption
8
Deep work & focus
6
- AI first drafts for original work quietly erode the skills that matter most
- Run the same prompt across Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini — they reveal blind spots
- Draw a hard line: own the integration, outsource only the raw material
Founder interviews
Podcast
Refusing to shrink: Dr Catriona Wallace on identity, parenthood, and AI leadership
How I Work
November 12, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Identity & self-belief
7
AI strategy & adoption
6
- Turning down million-dollar investments to keep her nose ring
- Bringing kids to VC meetings instead of chasing work-life balance
- AI's capacity to lie means ethics must be built in from day one