I’ve spent hours reading Richard Branson’s blog the billionaire behind Virgin Group, with over 400 companies. I got curious about how he manages, deals with his tasks, and stays productive with ADHD.
So here's my summary of his approach to being productive while managing his humongous work
I keep things simple by setting aside blocks of time to focus on just one task, and I avoid checking emails or messages during that period.
Another big help has been reducing context switching ie switching between different apps/screen - I found it not effective for deep work at all
A tool like https://saner.ai/ can help extract information faster without having to switch around many apps which increasing context switching
I started as a Notion user, but then it gets complicated and overwhelming quickly. It can be a good database and beautiful system, but for individual use cases, it’s too much for ADHD.
I tried to use Apple Notes and Docs from then, but with too many notes, insights get buried and cannot be found easily.
So I built an AI note app called saner.ai since & it worked better for me at least.
I remember how tricky it was when I first started doing user interviews, so I thought sharing some interview templates might be helpful for other founders
The goals of an interview are different depending on what you’re exploring.
For me, these chats focused on understanding user struggles and needs.
My template is built from a combination of insights from:
1) A must-read for user interviews: The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick. It shows you how to uncover user needs with as little bias as possible.
2) Another great read: Demand-Side Sales 101 by Bob Moesta & Greg Engle. It helps you understand the user's “job to be done,” so you can align your product and messaging with their needs.
3) Other newsletters, and blogs I came across
So here's the template that guided me through 200+ interviews.
P/s: I’d love to hear your thoughts or feedback —feel free to drop a comment!
I'm building a new kind of knowledge management app called https://saner.ai/ :0
Where you can connect all your knowledge sources, query them with AI and create new content based on them with many AI model
I am also thinking and planning about similar system for interactive and intuitive prompt based queries ala ChatGPT but it is for comprehension rather than generating new documents or data. The main aim is to have easy access to knowledge and information on various government documents on laws, regulations, procedures, etc, and since it utilizes some confidential documents the contents should not leave local HPC.
I would recommend to try out some AI knowledge management app :) it reduces the need to be super organized, I'm building one name https://saner.ai/ if you are interested in checking out
So here's my summary of his approach to being productive while managing his humongous work
Hope this is helpful :)
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