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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AI tools & automation
Podcast
Designing prompts that save you hours every week with Dropbox's Morgan Brown
How I Work
September 17, 2025
AI tools & automation
9
Automation & tools
6
- Give an LLM your operating manual before asking anything
- A daily AI agent filters all AI news to what matters for your role
- Use LLMs to pre-test 100 ideas before spending a minute with real users
AI tools & automation
Podcast
Using AI as a critical thinking partner, not a yes-man
How I Work
September 14, 2025
AI tools & automation
9
Vision & mission
6
- AI is built to agree — here's how to make it push back
- Simulate any audience's perspective with a single prompt
- Use AI as a pre-test sparring partner before real stakeholders
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
How to stop saying yes when you mean no
How I Work
September 10, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Communication
6
- Your gut is the veto — wait for a full body yes.
- Family success scripts run silently, causing self-sabotage at work.
- Listening to fix is the opposite of making people feel heard.
AI slop: why low-value AI content is flooding workplaces and how to stop it
How I Work
September 7, 2025
Communication
8
Processes & SOPs
6
- Effortless AI generation is burying teams in low-value documents.
- Summarising slop with AI loses the original intent entirely.
- Volume is no longer performance — targeted content with clear call-outs is.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Two questions to stop overthinking and reset your story
How I Work
September 3, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
7
Mental health & wellbeing
6
- Two questions that interrupt mental spirals before they take hold
- Childhood imprints run adult behaviour around money, risk, and relationships
- Boundaries feel dangerous because saying no once threatened survival
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Career-aligned identity is not a problem to fix
How I Work
August 31, 2025
Identity & self-belief
8
Work-life balance
6
- Career-identity alignment energises you — workaholism depletes you
- Losing people connection, not job passion, signals a real problem
- Abundant thinking removes the need to fear career-identity risk
AI tools & automation
Podcast
How futurist Bob Johanson uses AI to think better and get unstuck
How I Work
August 27, 2025
AI tools & automation
9
Deep work & focus
8
Identity & self-belief
5
- Augmented leaders will dominate; unaugmented leaders will be out of the game.
- AI's real value is getting you unstuck, not saving you time.
- The world is now BANI — brittle, anxious, nonlinear, incomprehensible.
Mental health & wellbeing
Podcast
The "did today matter?" question for more intentional days
How I Work
August 24, 2025
Mental health & wellbeing
7
Productivity & habits
5
- A stressful day can still matter — good/bad is the wrong metric.
- The 40-minute check lets you reset before wasting hours.
- Rigid systems kill reflection — cycle practices before they go stale.
AI tools & automation
Podcast
How a CEO used AI to reclaim 25 hours a week
How I Work
August 20, 2025
AI tools & automation
9
Delegation
8
Automation & tools
6
- Built a custom GPT that cuts interview admin from hours to 45 seconds
- An AI writer's room challenges her thinking without writing for her
- Every recovered hour goes straight to people and long-range planning
AI tools & automation
Podcast
How Flight Story built 48 AI tools and saved 62,000 hours
How I Work
August 20, 2025
AI tools & automation
9
Automation & tools
7
Customer discovery
5
- A $20,000 internal competition produced 48 tools and $1M savings
- AI tool predicts breakout podcast guests before they go mainstream
- 5,000-person pre-watch tests remove editor bias before episodes publish
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Why inbox zero is a myth and what to do instead
How I Work
August 17, 2025
Productivity & habits
8
Time management
7
Work-life balance
6
- Guilt, not forgetfulness, is why email piles up
- Responsiveness and excellence are not the same trade-off
- Archive everything unanswered each January and start fresh
Deep work & focus
Podcast
How AI is reshaping thinking, teaching, and judgment at work
How I Work
August 13, 2025
Deep work & focus
9
Management
7
Goal setting
5
- First drafts from AI quietly kill the skill of original thinking.
- Consulting's Gutenberg moment: AI may hollow out the next generation of leaders.
- Adaptive capacity — metacognition, equanimity, paradox mindset — beats raw intelligence.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
How to identify your values and stop feeling stuck
How I Work
August 10, 2025
- Avoidance behaviours are a reliable signal of values disconnection.
- The 80th birthday exercise surfaces what you actually care about.
- Values are bi-directional — kindness to others requires kindness to yourself.
Leadership burnout, radical transparency, and rebuilding team trust
How I Work
August 6, 2025
Management
9
Resilience & grit
6
- Your team senses your burnout even when you hide it.
- Long tenure can kill innovation — new voices leave unheard.
- Exploring worst-case scenarios breaks paralysis faster than hope.
How to prioritise when everything feels important
How I Work
August 3, 2025
Time management
8
Work-life balance
7
Identity & self-belief
5
- Why even skilled leaders fail at prioritisation consistently
- Paying customer first: the fastest way to cut through ambiguity
- Unfocused work hours directly cost you time with family