Episode 14: Productive Plants

Fitness tracking followup, setting goals and how to manage them, aspiring towards Inbox Zero, the benefits of side projects and time scheduling, the manager-self versus the worker-self, and the sensitive plant revisited.

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Fitbit Followup [00:41]

• Previous Fitbit discussion in Episode 06
• The health hazards of sitting
• What sleep tracking apps can and can’t tell you

Are you a goal setting kind of person? [04:38]

• Cortex podcast by CGP Grey and Myke Hurley
• Tom uses OmniFocus for daily task management
• Ped uses Todoist
• Getting Things Done
• Managing your email with Inbox Zero
• Big Rocks First metaphor for scheduling your time
• Time chunking with the Pomodoro Technique
• 7 Ways to Maximize Misery - video by CGP Grey
• And the Reddit discussion
• The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment by Thaddeus Golas
• Harry Potter’s Pensieve

Drop testing plant memory [35:17]

• Previous discussion of plant memory in Episode 13
• Mimosa pudica, the sensitive plant
• The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird
• Experience teaches plants to learn faster and forget slower in environments where it matters - Gagliano, M., Renton, M., Depczynski, M. et al. Oecologia (2014) 175: 63. doi:10.1007/s00442–013–2873–7
• What are mechanoreceptors?
• Clever Hans and the observer-expectancy effect
• Human memory versus computer memory

Music by Lee Rosevere (CC by 4.0)