• 7 minutes 40 seconds
    You Are Drowning in Micro-Decisions

    Decision fatigue is not about mental collapse. It is about subtle quality decay. The more choices your day demands, the more likely you are to procrastinate, default, or choose what is easy instead of what matters. Here are three rules to stop it.

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    22 July 2026, 11:00 am
  • 47 minutes 33 seconds
    Break These Productivity Rules (If They’re Not Working) (TPS622)

    Should you really eat that frog first thing every morning? We aren’t so sure, and in this encore episode, we’re throwing out four pieces of productivity advice so widely repeated that most people follow them without ever asking whether they actually work. From the classics to the modern assumptions, we make the case that some of the most popular productivity wisdom might be quietly holding you back.

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    • 🎧 Top 3 Productivity Resources [1:31]
    • 🌅 Why the early risers really win — and the “time arbitrage” idea behind it [5:17]
    • 📅 The “crazy” one-day meeting fix that gave back the whole week [11:16]
    • 📈 What actually happened after every meeting moved to Wednesday [17:00]
    • 💸 The productivity lever nobody in this industry talks about [24:12]
    • 🙋 No budget? How to buy back time when you’re starting from zero [35:00]
    • 🐸 The take that might get Brooks fired: skip eating the frog [39:56]

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    20 July 2026, 11:00 am
  • 9 minutes 14 seconds
    AI Meeting Assistants: Stop Transcribing and Start Saving Time

    Most AI meeting assistants create transcripts, but few actually save time. We rank the top tools like Otter, Fireflies, and Fathom based on ruthless practicality. Learn how to automate your follow-up, reclaim 10 to 20 hours a week, and close deals faster by eliminating post-meeting admin work.

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    15 July 2026, 11:00 am
  • 45 minutes 40 seconds
    Rethinking Email, Focus & Doing Less w/ Ari Meisel (TPS621)

    How many good decisions do you actually have in you each day? Ari Meisel says the answer is about two dozen — which means your inbox, with its thousands of tiny choices, is quietly bankrupting you before lunch. In this encore conversation, the founder of Less Doing joins us to reframe email as a decision-making problem rather than a communication one, and to explain why he’s replaced almost all of his messaging with asynchronous voice. He shares how he runs a coaching business, closes sales, and stays close with far-flung friends without a single call on his calendar — and how those constraints made him more effective, not less.

    If you’re looking for genuinely unconventional ways to do less and get more done, this one’s worth your time.

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    Cheat Sheet

    • 🎧 Top 3 Productivity Resources [1:43]
    • 🔥 The diagnosis that cut an 18-hour workday down to one [4:05]
    • ⏳ Forget “eat the frog” — the prioritization rule most people miss [6:32]
    • 📥 Why your inbox isn’t an email problem at all [11:11]
    • 🎙 How he closed a $1,500 sale in 8 minutes of voice notes [19:40]
    • ⚡ Drowning in a new inbox? The four-times-speed fix [26:10]
    • 🩺 The hospital night that turned him into a data geek [34:59]
    • 🍽 The one non-negotiable he wishes he’d started sooner [40:35]
    • 👋 Where to find Ari [44:39]

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    13 July 2026, 11:00 am
  • 8 minutes 42 seconds
    Focus Isn’t the Problem You Think It Is

    Why did reading twenty books a year suddenly become impossible? Thanh used to fly through books and podcasts without a second thought — until his ability to concentrate quietly started slipping away, and no amount of blocking notifications or silencing his phone fixed it. The distraction wasn’t coming from his devices. It was coming from inside his own head.

    In this encore episode, Thanh breaks down what actually happened, the strange mix of experiments he ran to fix it, and the concept of attention management that came out the other side — a shift in thinking that helped him concentrate for 90 minutes or more at a stretch. If you’ve noticed your own focus fading and assumed it was just a willpower problem, this episode makes the case that it isn’t.

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    8 July 2026, 11:00 am
  • 45 minutes 21 seconds
    The Subtraction Strategy: Why Removing Friction Beats Adding Goals Every Time (TPS620)

    Most productivity advice tells you to add: more goals, more apps, more habits, more trackers, more systems. But what if the fastest path to better results isn’t adding anything at all—it’s subtraction? In this episode, Thanh and Brooks explore why removing friction beats adding motivation, and how a subtraction audit can transform your productivity faster than any new resolution.

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    Cheat Sheet

    • 🏆 Top 3 Productivity Resources [1:37]
    • ⏱ The weekly review question that uncovers hidden hours you didn’t know you had [7:24]
    • 📥 The one-inbox rule that made it easier to capture — and actually find — ideas later [11:24]
    • 💻 The new device ritual both hosts use to make every app earn its place back [21:44]
    • 🗑 The 15-minutes-a-day method that makes decluttering actually stick [29:40]
    • ✅ Why “maybe” is just another way of saying no [35:45]
    • 🤖 The AI side effect that quietly cancelled Thanh’s app subscriptions [38:50]

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    6 July 2026, 11:00 am
  • 8 minutes 33 seconds
    One Wish vs. a Thousand: A Lesson on Health and Happiness

    When was the last time you actually counted how many wishes you have? In this episode, Thanh unpacks a line that’s stuck with him for years: when we’re sick, we only want one thing back, but when we’re healthy, we have a thousand wishes. That idea comes from one of the most-gifted books in his library, built on interviews with people near the end of their lives about the lessons they wanted to pass on — and it reshaped how Thanh thinks about productivity itself.

    Thanh breaks down why relationships, purpose, and health are the real foundation of happiness, and why optimizing for happiness, not just output, is what actually makes us more productive. He also shares the simple gratitude practice he uses every morning to keep this front of mind. It’s a quick, honest reminder that no task on your list is worth sacrificing the people and moments that matter most.

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    1 July 2026, 11:00 am
  • 54 minutes 14 seconds
    Decision Fatigue: Why Every Choice Drains You (And the 3 Rules to Stop It) (TPS619)

    Ever find yourself staring at your to-do list at 3 PM, unable to decide what to do next? Or ordering the same lunch every day because choosing feels impossible? You are not bad at follow-through. You are drowning in micro-decisions.

    Decision fatigue isn’t a dramatic mental collapse. It’s a subtle quality decay that creeps in as your day accumulates choices—each one nibbling away at your capacity to judge, prioritize, and choose well. By the time you hit the afternoon, you’re not lazy. You’re depleted.

    In this episode, we break down what decision fatigue actually feels like (hint: it’s not what the pop-psych headlines say), where it comes from, and the three rules that stop it cold: decide once, decide earlier, decide smaller.

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    Cheat Sheet

    • 🏆 Top 3 Productivity Resources [2:39]
    • ⚖ The decision-fatigue study you’ve heard a hundred times — and why it might be wrong [6:23]
    • 🤖 Why AI doesn’t reduce your decisions — it concentrates them [10:38]
    • 👔 Brooks’s podcast confession about what he wears every day [18:19]
    • 📐 The simple rule that stops your team from asking ‘can I do this?’ [25:32]
    • 🧠 The one hour a week Thanh blocks off just to think [27:43]
    • 📁 The 70-document folder that makes Thanh’s AI know him better [38:02]
    • 🗣 The 3-step way to make any AI actually know you [42:15]
    • 🛬 The ‘lower the altitude’ trick for decisions that feel too big to make [47:37]
    • ✅ This week’s challenge: find the one decision you keep making over and over [53:01]

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    29 June 2026, 11:00 am
  • 8 minutes 47 seconds
    Summer Reset Framework: How To Be Productive in June-Aug With 3 Tips

    If your brain feels weird in summer, it is not a character flaw. It is a systems mismatch. Learn why your brain works differently in June than January and how to use the Summer Reset framework to simplify goals, anchor routines, and move lower-brain tasks to the hottest parts of the day.

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    24 June 2026, 11:00 am
  • 50 minutes 48 seconds
    AI Meeting Assistants Ranked: Which Actually Save Time (And Which Are Hype) (TPS618)

    Most AI meeting assistants save notes, but fewer actually save time. In this episode, we move past the hype to rank tools like Otter, Fireflies, Fathom, and Zoom AI Companion based on ruthless practicality. We evaluate them to help you find the one that reliably removes post-meeting work rather than just creating prettier transcripts.

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    For problems worth solving go to Claude.ai/tps. 

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    Visit www.asianefficiency.com for more productivity tips and tactics.

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    Cheat Sheet

    • 🏆 Top 3 Productivity Resources [3:01]
    • 🤖 The meeting where AI bots outnumbered the actual humans [5:32]
    • 🚫 Why some meeting organizers are now blocking AI notetakers outright [8:16]
    • 📥 The strange email problem you get when your AI drafts everything for you [12:03]
    • 🛠 The one popular meeting assistant that never actually joins your call [22:39]
    • ⚙ How your action items could update your task list without you lifting a finger [25:16]
    • 📚 How one offhand story in a meeting becomes content gold automatically [32:10]
    • ⚖ The one type of meeting where an AI assistant is a bad idea [40:45]
    • 👓 The parking-lot trick people use to hide that their smart glasses are recording [47:45]
    • ✅ The 15-minute fix that could save you months of repeated meetings [50:03]

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    22 June 2026, 11:00 am
  • 9 minutes 15 seconds
    The Energy Audit: How to Reclaim Your Vitality (TPS617W)

    Stop managing time and start managing energy. Learn how to identify the physical, mental, and emotional drains killing your productivity. We explore the Energy Audit framework, sleep hygiene, and recovery rituals to help you rebuild capacity and perform at your peak. Discover why vitality is the real secret to getting things done without burning out.

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    17 June 2026, 11:00 am
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