Mailman Podcast

At Mailman Podcast, we talk to productivity nerds about their lives, productivity routines, systems that they follow to save time or to just get more done in their days.

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Manish Vakil – We don’t need more time; here’s what we need instead

People keep saying they need more time. More time to get more done, more time to spend with family, more time to go on a hike, more time to watch that new web series. But actually, we don’t need more time. What we need instead is to organize time better. The ability to see what’s essential and what’s not essential and doing them based on that priority order. That’s the skill we all need to learn and implement. If we’re able to do this well, we’ll not feel the lack of time because there’s plenty ...

Apr 05, 2021•44 min•Ep. 6

Brenden Mulligan – Building 10 products in 12 months

Just imagine, you have just successfully sold your startup that you worked on for years to a company like Google. What would you do next? Maybe go on a trip to the Bahamas? Or start an investment firm? Or just chill around for a while and do nothing? Brenden Mulligan, the person who sold his startup “LaunchKit” to Google, did none of those. Instead, he decided to go all-in on his love for building products. Over the next year of selling his company to Google, he built ten products in 12 months. ...

Mar 29, 2021•41 min•Ep. 5

Paul McKellar – How to maintain calendar sanity?

Maintaining a sane calendar is hard, especially if you’re someone who likes helping people a lot but struggles to identify who deserves your time and who doesn’t. I struggle with this a lot. Whoever asks for my help, I say ‘yes’ to hop on a call and later regret finding them under-prepared. I just fail to qualify who deserves my time and help. This was until I heard from Paul McKellar something that he does to fix it. He has an exciting yet straightforward way of qualifying who is serious enough...

Mar 22, 2021•27 min•Ep. 4

Zach Phillips – How to do many things without overcommitting?

Zach Phillips is a husband, father of 2, runs a film-making studio and an internet startup. Besides all this, he also manages to find time to write every day and has been doing so for the past 40+ days (at the time of interview). The question is, how does he manage so many things without driving himself crazy? When I asked Zach, he gave a very self-contradictory answer and explained precisely how it plays out for him. Well, he’s a storyteller; he can grab your attention, hold it, and then lead y...

Mar 15, 2021•41 min•Ep. 3

Adam Suzor – Productive team meetings by way of controversy

Meetings are highly unproductive. Most meetings just go on for an eternity without anything coming out of them. Half the people speak, the other half sit and listen. Some speak with authority, while others shrink. Some are too loud, some too vulnerable to even voice their opinion. How do we have productive meetings then? Is that even a possibility? Or just a utopian dream? I had almost given up on the idea of productive meetings when I heard this unconventional meeting hack from Adam Suzor – “CO...

Mar 09, 2021•37 min•Ep. 2

Brett Farmiloe - CEO with 3 kids and 2 companies to run

"It's impossible to work in the mornings," says Brett when asked about how he spends his day. It isn't that Brett is not productive in the earlier part of the day but mornings are when his three kids are home. In his opinion, working before the kids leave for school is calling for frustration for the rest of the day. Yet, in the end, when asked about what would he do if he had 1 extra hour in the day, he held up the coffee mug on his table with pictures of his 3 kids and wife and said, “I’ll roc...

Feb 24, 2021•31 min•Ep. 1

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