Useful systems for overloaded workdays.
How I Work is a tactics-first workplace show about designing better days. Recent episodes move between AI workflows, meeting tools, writing habits, work routines, and the harder problem of protecting attention when work keeps expanding.
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How I Work is a practical show about the mechanics of modern knowledge work. It is interested in the calendar, the meeting, the prompt, the note, the first draft, and the tired person trying to make all of that function. The show’s recent run leans strongly into AI at work, but it keeps the technology grounded in ordinary problems. Which tool should handle a pile of documents? When is a project better than an agent? Why does talking to AI often produce a better first draft than typing? Those questions are answered in plain workplace terms, with examples from CRM projects, standard operating procedures, meeting notes, scheduled research briefings, and writing cleanup. The show is also still very much about attention. Sabri Subhi’s subtraction method, his meeting filters, his 4 p.m. planning routine, and his protected deep work blocks turn focus into a set of boundaries rather than a mood. Solo Q&A episodes bring a reflective edge, especially around burnout, energy management, hijacked calendars, and the trap of feeling busy without seeing meaningful progress. The interview format gives guests room to explain their systems, while the host prompts usually pull those systems back toward application. The co-hosted How I AI episodes have a brisker, tool-testing feel, with Neo Applin helping sort out confusing product language and the practical differences between platforms. Across both modes, the show is strongest when it translates messy workplace pressure into one behavior to try next. It is not especially glossy. That is part of the appeal. The copy, examples, and corrections often sound like a real working conversation, with enough structure to keep the lesson clear. For listeners surrounded by meetings, messages, drafts, and new AI features, How I Work offers a measured way to redesign the day one workflow at a time.
Made for: For knowledge workers, managers, founders, and team leads trying to make better use of time, attention, meetings, writing, and AI tools. It suits people who prefer concrete workflows over motivational productivity talk.
What sets it apart: The show pairs interview-led work routines with hands-on AI explainers, so abstract productivity advice becomes a calendar rule, a prompt, a meeting habit, or a repeatable review process.
You know those annoyingly successful people who seem to have it all figured out? Time to steal their playbook. Organisational psychologist Dr Amantha Imber gets world‑class achievers to spill their secrets - the daily strategies behind their success through to life hacks and productivity hacks they’d rather keep to themselves. We’re talking practical tips for boosting your output (including clever AI tools and shortcuts that’ll make you look like a genius), managing overwhelm without losing your mind, and optimising both work and wellbeing. No motivational fluff. Just battle‑tested tactics from people who’ve cracked the code.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
How I Work tests productivity claims against calendars, meetings, workplace tools, and the daily decisions that determine whether a system helps.
How I Work turns productivity advice into operational questions: which meetings deserve real-time attention, how a calendar protects focus, and when technology actually reduces work.
A meeting gets replaced by a Loom, and suddenly your calendar looks negotiable.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Sabri Subhi makes focus feel like pruning, screening, and protecting time.
Sabri Subhi treats focus as something gained by taking things away, and the episode stays on that logic through his King's audit, his rule that meetings live on Mondays and Fridays, and the fixer who screens requests before they reach him.
A practical listener Q&A on AI, meetings, and energy for people who finish the week busy but unsure what they achieved.
Dr. Amantha Imber makes How I Work feel like a practical listener-led Q&A, taking on the pressure of feeling busier than ever, AI that can feel more draining than useful, meetings that take over the calendar, and to-do lists that do not always help with prioritising.
A behavioral-science case for planning the hard moment, not just picturing the finish line.
Vision boards, manifesting, and the imagined finish line get a practical behavioral-science audit in this single-episode review of a conversation with Nia Eyal, behavioral scientist and author of Beyond Belief.
A practical reset for listeners ready to question the beliefs shaping what they see and do.
Belief, not effort or discipline, is framed as the main barrier behind stalled goals and repeated patterns. That point lands through rumination, venting, and a reality log, which are treated as behaviors with consequences rather than abstract self-help language.
Sabri Subhi turns focus into a disciplined practice of subtraction.
Sabri Subhi, founder of King Kong and a shark on Shark Tank Australia, makes focus feel less like adding more and more, and more like stripping the noise away.
Purposeful connection beats accidental office time.
This episode treats Atlassian's Team Anywhere model as a practical question: how do you make connection happen on purpose, instead of hoping the office does it for you? Avani Pruvakar is strongest when she stays concrete.
Career power without apology.
Career confidence with a leadership edge.
Career clarity with backbone.
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Sabri Suby, founder of King Kong and a Shark Tank Australia investor, explains his 'subtraction' philosophy for productivity.
This episode features an interview with educator Lael Stone about learning to set boundaries by recognizing and overcoming patterns of saying yes when you mean no, to reduce resentment and align with personal values.
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Christian O'Connell explains on How I Work how his “woodshed” notes file captures small observations so he always has stories available for radio and social conversations.
This episode explores why using voice input instead of typing with AI tools can boost productivity, covering when it's effective, different voice modes, and practical software recommendations.
Sabri Subhi treats focus as subtraction.
This episode explores the problems with traditional AI meeting recorders and introduces Granola as a frictionless solution that records and transcribes meetings in the background without disrupting participants.
Joseph Lyons, President of ELMO Software, shares practical AI applications for executive productivity, including daily intelligence briefs, strategy workshop analysis, and role-playing difficult conversations.
This episode discusses how to prevent AI from making writing sound robotic by identifying overused phrases and providing specific instructions to maintain a human voice.
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How I Work talks with Nia Eyal about why vision boards, manifesting, and finish-line visualization can work against the people using them.
Nia Eyal and the host dig into the idea that beliefs can be the real thing standing in the way of stuck goals.
This episode features an interview with Tim Duggan discussing five key skills needed for career promotion in today's rapidly changing work environment, based on LinkedIn data showing 70% of required skills will change in the next five years.
This episode explores practical questions and strategies for intentionally designing a meaningful 2026 through reflection, daily planning, and mindset shifts with expert Lisa Leong.
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This episode features an interview with Atlassian's chief people officer, Avani Pruvakar, discussing the company's Team Anywhere model and how it intentionally builds stronger team connections in a distributed work environment.