The Personal Productivity Show #008 - The Almost Robert Scoble Show
The Personal Productivity Show #008 (MP3 - 15.5MB - 43min)
During the week, Des and I interviewed Microsoft’s one and only ROBERT SCOBLE for the show.
That’s the good news.
The bad news is, well, I was testing out some new recording equipment and the show ended up missing. Rumour has it, the show was last seen drinking a frappucino in Argentina with Elvis, Hitler, Marilyn and Osama bin Laden.
So, in the absence of the recording of the show with Robert, Des and I decided to talk about what Robert told us about how HE stays productive and what does when he falls off the program.
Robert’s lawyers have been in touch and say their client is willing to settle out of court for damages on the condition we have him on the show again soon. Stay tuned.
On this week’s show, we mention:
SKYLOOK - the new Outlook toolbar for Skype
Microsoft Research - Using Two Monitors
August 10th, 2005 at 7:05 am
You were talking about tricks for combining things together to avoid procrastination? Here’s one for you. I now park a mile away from my office, which: (1) gives me some exercise; (2) gives me time to listen to podcasts; and most importantly: (3) forces me to do the return walk in the heat, rain or snow at the end of the day. And if I’m running late, I have no choice but to run.
For me, making the decision in the morning to park that far away is very easy, because I’m energized and want to listen to my stuff. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if I want to or not - I’m forced to do the walk.
I’ve maintained this regimen for 6 years, so it can’t be all bad!
Carl
August 12th, 2005 at 1:06 pm
Hi Carl
Good trick. Sometimes we need to make the most of the small pieces of time we have.
Do you have to go out during the day, visit customers, suppliers, etc, or are you mostly office bound?
Thanks for commenting
Best wishes
Des
August 21st, 2005 at 9:20 pm
Hi Guys! Love the show… and whilst doing some random research on the internet came across this: http://www.meetomatic.com/calendar.asp. It’s not quite the calender in the sky you’d like, but it narrows down available days and then you could use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/advmeeting.html to work out your exact times. Havn’t used any of them myself, but thought I would let you know the internet is moving towards you! Scarlett
September 6th, 2005 at 10:32 pm
Hi guys,
When is the next episode coming out - I love your show, so I keep checking regularly - hope it is still continuing!
Cheers,
David.