Mind Management, Not Time Management With David Kadavy

How do we make time for original insights that set our creative work apart? How do we reframe productivity so it serves our career for the long term? David Kadavy talks about mind management, not time management in this interview.  In the intro, Jane Friedman reports on how the pandemic is affecting book publishing, lessons from Netflix vs the World documentary, news of Joe Biden’s antitrust nominee, Lina Khan, a law professor who has argued that companies like Amazon should be broken up or treated as public utilities (NY Times), Musicians call for the UK government to reform streaming royalties (BBC); and should streaming payments be changed from the shared pool model? (Pitchfork) Today's show is sponsored by my patrons at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn. After 12 years of the podcast, patron support encourages me to continue sharing the author journey. If you find the show useful, please consider becoming a patron. David Kadavy is a creative entrepreneur, nonfiction author, and podcaster. His latest book is Mind Management, Not Time Management. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and full transcript below. Show Notes * How creativity is different to productivity* Time spent thinking vs writing words* Unstructured time and its positive effect on creativity and insight* Multiple streams of income You can find David Kadavy at kdv.co and on Twitter @kadavy Transcript of Interview with David Kadavy Joanna: David Kadavy is a creative entrepreneur, nonfiction author, and podcaster. His latest book is Mind Management, Not Time Management. Welcome back to the show, David. David: Joanna, thank you so much for having me back. It's good to be here. Joanna: You were last on this show in 2018, so we won't get into your history. People can go listen to that. But let's get straight into the book because this is so important. I was reading it and it was fascinating to hear about you reaching the end of your tether with productivity hacks and getting things done and all those things. Tell us about that. How did you get to that? Because we're all self-help people here, and that's part of our life usually. What happened that made you get to the end of your tether with ‘productivity'? David: I was a Getting Things Done early adopter, I guess.