The Productivity Field Guide
Video course and book that builds a personal system from your roles, not your tasks
A video course with a 42,000-word companion book, sold once with lifetime access rather than by subscription. It opens on a question most productivity material skips: who you want to become in each role you hold, as parent, professional, partner or creator. Planning follows from that answer. The course covers a quarterly, monthly and weekly review cascade, block scheduling, one priority a day and a shutdown ritual. Aristotle, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius supply the framing, on arete, excellence of character.
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- David SparksRecommends
Apple productivity writer · MacSparky
His own course and 42,000-word book, built around naming the roles you play and who you want to be in each one. He read through modern productivity writing and went back to Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, and says the quarterly reviews, the scheduling and the single daily priority all follow from the roles work.
Source: MacSparky: The Productivity Field Guide
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