238: Knitting Our Parachutes

David & Mike catch up on listener feedback, including how to say no more often, deep vs. shallow work, and when to abandon a focus area. Also, David made an app?!?

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Links and Show Notes:

Deep Focus: Extended ad-free episodes with bonus deep dive content.

Relay for St. Jude

Practical PKM (Mike's Newsletter)

David's Newsletter

The No List (David's app)

Knitting Your Parachute | MacSparky

Focused #237: Everything is Figureoutable, with Max Roberts

Mike's YouTube channel

Practical PKM Hybrid Cohort

The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey

Eat That Frog! Fourth Edition by Brian Tracy

ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study | TIME

Field Notes | Memo Books, Notebooks, Journals & Planners

The Capture System | Ugmonk

Numerics

Zapier: Automate AI Workflows, Agents, and Apps

The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul

Focused #146: The Extended Mind, with Annie Murphy Paul

Nintendo Switch 2

Zelda Breath of the Wild Upgrade Pack

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor by Donald Robertson