I’m super thrilled to finally release this podcast with Nir Eyal on how you can become indistractable and reclaim your life. I read his first book Hooked: How to build habit-forming products, a couple of years ago. And ever since then I’ve followed his work.

Nir’s second book Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Lifedeals with a topic that is very close to my heart. If you’ve followed this newsletter, you know that I’ve struggled with distractions all my life. This new book is easily the most definitive take on dealing with distractions.

Nir also founded two tech companies since 2003 and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford. He blogs on NirAndFar and is featured often in The Harvard Business Review, Time Magazine, and Psychology Today.

Here’s what we broadly talked about in the podcast.

Four strategies to deal with distraction

Mastering internal triggers

Make time for traction

Hack back the external triggers

Prevent distraction with pacts

How to create an indistractable workplace

Creating psychological safety

Forums to talk about issues

Management exemplifies indistractable work culture

Some techniques to

Deal with email overload

Make meetings more productive

Deal with the tyranny of the to-do list

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