How They Get Stuff Done

Peter Akkies
How They Get Stuff Done

What’s Barack Obama’s #1 piece of advice for young people? “Just learn how to get stuff done.” Whether we’re young or more seasoned, we can all get better at this essential skill. So let’s find out how people do, in fact, get stuff done.

  1. 10/22/2021

    Derrick Reimer from SavvyCal - Can You Regain Your Confidence After Failing?

    Derrick Reimer is the founder of SavvyCal, a tool for scheduling meetings that both you and the people you are scheduling with will love. He's also the co-founder of Drip, a marketing automation tool, and he is the host of the Art of Product podcast.  I have long enjoyed using an app to schedule my meetings. For example, I scheduled meetings with my coaching clients. Rather than going back and forth with endless emails, trying to find a mutually convenient time. I just send people a link so they can book a slot on my calendar. I had been using a different tool, but recently I discovered SavvyCal and it's so much more enjoyable to use. So I looked into who created it and I ended up on Derrick's Twitter account. I learned that Derrick had co-founded Drip, which was one of the first apps I used years ago when I was first building my online business. And I have very fond memories of Drip, even though I no longer use it because Drip went into a different direction.  Anyway, I was interested to hear Derrick’s story—and it turns out there were quite a few ups and downs.  Derrick and I discuss: Regaining your confidence after launching a failed productTransitioning from wearing all the hats in a business to delegating certain tasksSaving your most productive time for your most valuable workFind Derrick and Savvycal: SavvyCal.comDerrick on TwitterDerrick’s podcast, The Art of ProductNote: the link to SavvyCal is an affiliate link. It’s an awesome product and by signing up through this link, you get a free month and you support the podcast. Thank you. Also mentioned: Derrick’s popular blog post, “I’m Walking Away From the Product I Spent a Year Building”Drip, the marketing automation business Derrick co-foundedThe Mom Test by Rob FitzpatrickTiny Seed, an accelerator for SaaS bootstrappersxFusion, which offers support staff for SaaS

    56 min
  2. 06/12/2021

    Andrew Barry - How to Make (Online & Offline) Learning Suck Less

    Andrew Barry helps people teach better online. He owns and runs a training business in which he helps rapidly growing companies educate their people and their customers. Separately, he works with online course creators, helping them to create engaging cohort-based courses. Andrew also hosts his own podcast, titled “How Did You Learn That?”  Over the past few months, Andrew kept popping up on my Twitter feed. Since I sell online courses—meaning, I teach people online—many of his insights resonated with me. I’ve been interested in how to teach and how to learn better for many years.  I remember my “theory of knowledge” class in high school. In college, I was a teaching assistant for a variety of economics classes. I also worked in our college’s writing center, helping students to improve their papers. Today, of course, I am a productivity teacher. But aside from that, learning is how we grow and enjoy life more, so we should all be interested in how to learn better. Andrew and I discuss: Why you want to learn from experts as well as from people who are just a little ahead of youHow to capture and keep people’s attention in online trainingsHow he found the courage to quit his job and start his own training businessAnd much more. Enjoy the show! Find Andrew: Curious Lion, Andrew’s online learning businessAndrew on Twitter: @bazzarutoAndrew’s podcast, How Did You Learn That?If you’re interested in Andrew’s “transformational online courses” program, just email him at andrew@curiouslionlearning.com and include “TOC” in the email subject line. Also mentioned: Peter’s course Big-Picture ProductivityDavid Perell’s Write of Passage course

    48 min
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What’s Barack Obama’s #1 piece of advice for young people? “Just learn how to get stuff done.” Whether we’re young or more seasoned, we can all get better at this essential skill. So let’s find out how people do, in fact, get stuff done.

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