Reset Your Productivity System: The 2026 Refresh Guide (TPS601)

Welcome to the productivity show, a podcast where we believe that people like you can get the important things done without sacrificing your health, family, and things things that matter to you. My name is Tan. I'm founder of Agent Efficiency, where we help people become more productive at work and in life. And together with Brooks Duncan, my cohost here, we do this podcast together. How's life, Brooks? It's great. I was just telling Tan right before recording that I just did a customer webinar, and so I had a collared shirt hanging on the door that I put on quickly, recorded the webinar, but now we're on a audio podcast. So so away goes the collar and, back to back to hoodies and t shirts. Yeah. I'm I'm wearing a t shirt right now. Like, I just finished working out. And so I was like, alright. Let's hop on the pod. Let's talk about, you know, anything that we can help people be more productive. And today's topic's obviously all about that. We're gonna be talking about how you can do a reset for your productivity system. So if you're feeling like you're in a rut or you're feeling like, hey, your systems are aren't quite good or there's a bunch of holes in your systems and you're trying to figure out, like, hey, should you just try to plug the holes or start fresh and start from the ground up? We're we're gonna share some ideas on some of our experiences of resetting productivity systems. And as always, we'd like to start off our episodes with our top three favorite resources. So, Brooks, what are they? Yeah. So my first resource is a book that we've talked about in the podcast many times, but I still I think it pairs well with this episode, and that is 4,000 by Oliver Burkeman. And I know, Tan, you did a podcast with the author talking about his book, so I'll make sure to link that in the show notes as well. It's just a great opportunity for a reset and a mindset reset, that book. So I would start there. Resource number two is also a book. It's The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul. Talks about a lot of things, but the part I wanted to specifically highlight is that it talks about how the tools and your environment can really increase your thinking capacity and it's almost like an extension of yourself as you're working on your productivity systems. So as you're working on yourself, don't forget to look at your tools, your environment because they all play a role. It's not just things that are between the ears. That's number two. And number three is field notes notebooks. So I thought I'd put a an analog one in here. So, 10, you and I love our digital tools, but field notes are great little notebooks that they fit in your pocket. You can take them anywhere. …