#046 Finding Your Peak of Productivity: Ultraworking with Sebastian Marshall

Topics:

(1:46) - Who are your heroes?

(7:25) - Sebastian’s affinity for studying history, sports, art & professional gamers

(11:30) - How do you take lessons learned from these studies and apply them to entrepreneurship?

(13:01) - Why do you approach life and work with a lens of ruthless optimization?
(18:12) - Breaking down the concept of ‘productivity’

(26:56) - Non-value producing work

(28:11) - Do you find that you have a higher sense of baseline after experimenting with
optimizing your entire life?

(34:25) - Maximum sustainable pace vs. Maximum possible pace

(39:44) - Optimizing for fun

(44:34) - Can you expand on the growth of Ultraworking?

(50:04) - Improving scope-to-quality of work

(55:36) - Sebastian’s period of life attempting to visit every country in the world

(1:00:59) - Sebastian’s writing eras and how they changed him

(1:14:40) - Agree or disagree: Self-measurement is self-punishment

(1:19:51) - Monthly themes for life

(1:22:45) - What is the mental model you find yourself implementing in your life the most?

Links:

Ultraworking (ultraworking.com)
Sebastian Marshall on Medium (medium.com/@sebastmarsh)

The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt (amazon.com/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp…)

Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon by B. H. Lidell Hart (amazon.com/Scipio-Africanus-Greater-Than-Napol…)

On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle (gutenberg.org/files/1091/1091-h/1091-h.htm)

You and Your Research by Richard Hamming (d37ugbyn3rpeym.cloudfront.net/stripe-press/TAO…)

Stedi Annual Letter - Operational excellence (stedi.com/blog/excerpts-from-the-annual-letter)

Gateless by Sebastian Marshall (gatelessbook.com)

Extreme Productivity by Robert Pozen (amazon.com/Extreme-Productivity-Boost-Results-…)

Product Hunt (producthunt.com)

Clockwork Nutrition (clockworknutrition.com)

To support the costs of producing this podcast:
>> Buy a copy of the Navalmanak: navalmanack.com
>> Sign up for my online course and community about building your Personal Leverage: ejorgenson.com/leverage
>> Invest in early-stage companies alongside Eric and his partners at Rolling Fun: angel.co/v/back/rolling-fun
>> Join the free weekly email list at ejorgenson.com/newsletter
>> Text the podcast to a friend
>> Give the podcast a positive review to help us reach new listeners
>> Name-your-price subscription monthly, annual, or one-time: app.omella.com/o/9Bufa
>> Follow me on Twitter: @ericjorgenson (twitter.com/ericjorgenson)
>> Get in touch about sponsoring this podcast by replying to an email or DMing me on Twitter (twitter.com/ericjorgenson).