How They Get Stuff Done

Peter Akkies
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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. 04/22/2024

    Judson Rollins - What To Do When Work Is Like Drinking From a Fire Hose

    Is working in management consulting as glamorous as it seems? What’s the best thing you can do to improve your public speaking skills? How can you use different pricing strategies to scale up your business? Welcome back to How They Get Stuff Done. Today I’m speaking with Judson Rollins. Judson is an aviation strategy consultant and a monetization architect for expert service providers who want to decouple their revenue from their hours. Judson and I discuss finding the middle ground between perfection and acceptability, the pros and cons of time blocking, Judson’s favorite ways to capture ideas on the go and even in the shower, and more. Enjoy the conversation. Find Judson: Website: ScaleWhisperer.comJudson on LinkedIn

    59 min

  2. 03/28/2024

    Derek Sivers - What Do You Need to Believe Right Now?

    Why does Game of Thrones cost $70,000 to watch? What happens when you choose to believe that everything is your responsibility? And why do smart people not think that others are stupid? Welcome back to How They Get Stuff Done. Today I’m speaking with Derek Sivers. Derek Sivers has been a musician, a circus performer, an entrepreneur, and a TED speaker. He’s the founder of CD Baby, an online distributor of independent music. He’s written several books, including How to Live and Hell Yeah or No. Most recently, he’s been working on his latest book, Useful Not True. Derek and I discuss choosing your beliefs, taking radical responsibility for whatever happens to you, the benefits of not having a to-do list, walking away from what doesn’t work for you, and more. Enjoy the conversation. Find Derek over at sive.rs.

    1h 27m

  3. 10/20/2022

    Jack Ellis - How to Run a Company People-First

    Jack Ellis is the co-founder of Fathom Analytics, a privacy-first Google Analytics alternative. Jack also teaches an online course on Laravel, a popular PHP framework, and hosts his own podcast, Above Board, where he discusses running an indie and bootstrapped software company. Jack and I discuss: How he runs his company people-firstWhat happens when you judge your employees on their work, rather than on other measuresLightweight ways of collaborating with a small teamThe importance of online privacy and how his company enables thatWhy running a lifestyle business is just the bestOvercoming analysis paralysisThe big downside of working remotely—or is it even a downside?Why I don’t give specific advice for people with ADHD (or other conditions)And much more. Enjoy the show! Find Jack: JackEllis.meFathom Analytics, privacy-focused website analyticsServerless Laravel, Jack’s course for Laravel developersAbove Board, the Fathom Analytics podcast, which Jack co-hostsAlso mentioned: Things 3, my favorite task managerLinear, a collaborative software development appTuple, a remote pair programming app

    1h 11m

  4. 01/22/2022

    Floris van der Pol - Living Without a Smartphone and Reading 100 Books a Year

    Floris van der Pol is a Dutch philosopher, writer, and self-described “reading addict”. He publishes book reviews on YouTube as well as videos on reading more generally and on living without a smartphone, which he has done for years now. Floris also writes a newsletter with essays on philosophy and literature. I met Floris in a course I was taking on YouTube—the Part-Time YouTuber Academy by Ali Abdaal, if you’re curious—in which Floris gave me fantastic feedback on some of my own YouTube videos. We got to chatting and some of his YouTube videos impressed me so much that I wanted to get him on the show. Floris and I discuss: How he reads 100 books a yearWhat it’s like to live without a smartphoneHow he designed his life to improve his attention spanGetting stuff done with a baby aroundWhether video gaming qualifies as an addictionAnd much more. Enjoy the show! Find Floris: FlorisLeest.nl (in Dutch)Floris Leest on YouTube (in Dutch)

    1h 1m

  5. 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

  6. 10/13/2021

    Dianna Allen - From Writing About Garage Doors to Building Two Successful Businesses

    Dianna Allen is the founder of two businesses: TERRA, a lifestyle shop that focuses on scented candles and Inventora, an app that helps businesses who handmade products track their inventory. I first heard about Dianna earlier this year—or perhaps it was last year—when my girlfriend mentioned some girl who said she was starting a candle shop and was tweeting about her journey publicly. A bunch of time passed and then recently, my girlfriend said hey, remember this girl I mentioned who started her own candle shop? I think it has really taken off. She even has a spin-off business now. So I was intrigued! I quickly found out that Dianna’s story is so inspiring and that’s why I wanted to get her on the podcast. Dianna and I discuss: How she went from writing about garage doors to starting and growing two successful businessesHow a combination of hard work and good time propelled her businesses forwardHow she and her boyfriend work together and split their time between the businessesAnd much more. Enjoy the show! Find Dianna and her businesses: Lifestyle and candle business TERRA: TerraSimply.comInventory tracking business Inventora: Inventora.coDianna on Twitter: @diannamallen

    1h 1m

  7. 09/25/2021

    Steph Smith - Why There Used to Be No Such Thing as “Priorities”

    Steph Smith is a growth marketer, writer, and indie maker. She works for The Hustle, helping to run one of the world’s largest newsletters. But she has lots of her own projects. She has written a book about content marketing, she runs an online course about time management, and she has a podcast about, quote, “shit you don’t learn in school”, unquote. When I first encountered Steph on Twitter, I sensed that she and I have very similar views on productivity, so I was keen to get her on the podcast. Steph and I discuss: Why in the past there was no such things as “priorities”—just the singular “priority”Steph’s method for choosing which goal to work on nextWhy asynchronous communication is often more efficient (and how Steph does it)Whether you should set arbitrary deadlines for yourself (Steph likes them, Peter doesn’t) And much more. Enjoy the show! Find Steph: stephsmith.ioSteph’s open page, including her current goalsSteph’s book, Doing Content RightSteph’s course, Doing Time RightSteph’s podcast, Shit You Don’t Learn in SchoolAlso mentioned: Loom, for recording & sharing videos easilyCalendly, for scheduling meetings without the back-and-forthGet TikTok Famous Fast, a fun little book about… well, that’s obviousZapier, an “if this then that” serviceBannerBear, an app that automatically generates social media visuals etc.

    1h 22m

  8. 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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  • Creator
    Peter Akkies
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2024
  • Episodes
    22
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    Explicit
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    © Peter Akkies Consulting
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