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In this Cast | ProductivityCast Live, 100th Episode
Ray Sidney-Smith
Augusto Pinaud
Art Gelwicks
Francis Wade
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Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:01Hello, and welcome everybody to productivity cast to Episode 100, our live episode. So, for those of you who are listening to the podcast, welcome back to ProductivityCast, the weekly show about all things personal productivity. I'm Sidney-Smith.
Augusto Pinaud 0:23I'm a good scooping up.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:26You're muted Francis.
Francis Wade 0:30I'm Francis Glade.
Art Gelwicks 0:32And Hi, Mark ellex.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:34Oh, Welcome, gentlemen. And welcome to everybody who is watching us live. And so just a couple housekeeping items. Since we are doing this episode live, those of you who are listening after the fact, you can go ahead and of course, you know, listen, those of you who are watching live, you can comment. So wherever you are watching across the many different platforms. Go ahead and comment and we'll see that comment here in the dashboard, and we'll be able to respond to them. So if you have a question or a comment, feel free to, you know, share those, and we can go ahead and place them on screen as well as discuss those items. What I wanted to do today, in and in honor of our 100th episode, I can't believe we have gotten through this many episodes together. And I'm very excited for us to have gotten to this milestone, both at 50,000 downloads in under 100 episodes. And now here at our hundredth episode and running, what I want to do is just cover a little bit about what has been kind of our most popular content on on so far. So some of you may not have listened to all 100 episodes, as I have in preparation for today. And then when when all of us kind of started in the process of joining ProductivityCast. And doing this, we each have come across in our past 100 episodes, some of our favorite episodes. And so I wanted us to kind of go round robin and discuss maybe some of the more favorite aspects of some of the episodes throughout that. And then we'll close out with some of our thoughts for what we might cover in future productivity casts. And maybe get some of your thoughts as well, because I'm sure that you all have some suggestions maybe that you would like to hear from us discuss in that category. So with that out of the way, let's talk about the first thing, which is what has been our Julie best raise, noting that you're muted is the catchphrase of 2020. You're absolutely right, Julie.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 2:38It is, it is the thing that I feel like I say the most to people in every zoom meeting and every other kind of video chat meeting as well. But I thought this was really fascinating. And what I wanted to do was kind of cover the most viewed episodes of all of our world, we distribute ProductivityCast not just through the podcast, but also through YouTube and a number of different other channels. Because of that, and and what I what I found was that the ProductivityCast itself ranks in the top 10 in global ranking according to listen notes. So on my first and foremost thought is just thank you to all of you who listen and watch the episodes on YouTube. And otherwise, I mean, you guys really have made this such a wonderful community and a wonderful aspect of our week. You know, a gousto Francis and art, we we get together every Monday morning and record. And it's the first experience I have of every week sitting down with these gentlemen and talking about personal productivity, something that we're all passionate about and passionate about helping you all be more productive, and spreading the word that people can have more successful and just stress free lives. Through implementing the strategies that we talked about, that are not all ours, you know that we're really standing on the shoulders of giants, and sometimes standing on the shoulders of just everyday people who have had great experiences, and they've shared those experiences. And then we share those with you. And some of the topics that I just thought were really interesting. One is that our topic on indecision is by far our most listened to podcast episode, and followed up by that is the productivity planners episode. So if you have not listened to those two episodes, those by far are our highest listen to episodes in terms of podcast episodes, followed just shortly behind that by personal compound. Now if you combined episodes into topics, I just thought everybody would like to know that GTD is by far the most listened to topic listened to on the ProductivityCast world and that doesn't make that makes quite a bit of sense. Considering the amount I talk about GTD all the time, but we have 13 episodes dedicated to getting things done and the various aspects of it and so it makes a lot of sense that that ends up being a quite a big part of it. evening routine And morning routines are a big topic. So our bullet journal. Now if we turn to YouTube, this is really fascinating to me, because by far on YouTube, the most listened to episode is the one on mind mapping, it continues to skyrocket in terms of numbers. So there's something about YouTube and the people on YouTube that just really love to listen and learn about mind mapping. And, and some mind mapping is the is the biggest one that we have found on YouTube. So I just thought it would be interesting that if you have not listened to any of those episodes, it's full well worth listening to, or, you know, those episodes because they happen to be our most popular ones. So it must have been our best content, right. So with that in mind, let's turn ourselves over to the topics of our favorite topics so far. And I'm going to turn it over to you art, what was your first favorite episode of our past 100. And why?
Art Gelwicks 6:01It's interesting, because when we started this exercise, we realized we were getting to 100. And going back and looking at some of the old episodes, I was trying to figure out which episodes got me the most fired up about the particular topic, and also retains relevancy today. So the one of my top ones is Episode 59. It's where we dove into the idea of Open Office plans and the benefits and the downsides of operating an open office. And initially, I'm like, well, Does that even make sense anymore? Is that even remotely relevant, especially with where we are right now? And then I realized that, yes, it is totally, completely 100% relevant, because so many of these open office layouts now, we can't use, they aren't set up in a way that work with this new world that we're operating in. And we have to start thinking about, how does, how does this change, where we are trying to get work done. And now we're going to go back to an environment that is completely altered from the way we left it. So digging into this idea of open office spaces, to me, is a continuing, ongoing, evolve, evolving conversation that we need to have. Not only is the people who work in the environments, but the people who make the recommendations. And we have to start pursuing this even in more detail now. So this is one of those episodes that I love to go back and listen to because we haven't had an answer for it yet. And I don't think we're going to anytime soon.
Augusto Pinaud 7:48It is interesting, because that episode, the set of conditions that exist before that, that are assumptions we have when we record that episode, I'm not sure they even exist anymore. So we will need to go from back to the drawing board and reconfigure things that even at this particular point, we don't know.
Art Gelwicks 8:12Right, I that's one of the things that jumped out at me. When we recorded it at that time, the client work I was doing, I was sitting at basically a communal table with five other people 10 monitors across five people, or 12 monitors across six people, just a tight, close knit environment. And the way the office plan was laid out, you were in a spot and literally, you could just reach over and touch the person next to you, you were that close. That's not going to be the case. And that's a completely different ballgame. And if we think about people who are now working remotely, and then going back to that those designs have to be reset. And if we're used to working certain ways in those environments, being able to lean over the person next year and talk to them about something that's not going to be the case anymore. So our productivity will naturally have to change as the geography of where we're working changes as well.
Raymond Sidney-Smith 9:13Yeah, definitely see this being interesting,
