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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

How do you know if you're investing wisely in your productivity setup? I suggested one question in my latest newsletter to help you figure it out: thetechcoach.io/newsletter/a...

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

The systems that worked best were ephemeral. They were adapted to my current hurricane of obligations. 6 months later, they felt rigid and redundant. That's ok. It means they served their precise focus, instead of becoming a time-wasting obsession.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

It’s funny how easy it is to look back and see precisely zero correlation between my system of choice and what I was achieving at the time.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

In my 2 decades of building products, teams and companies, I’ve also cycled through all of the Todo apps: Todoist, Things, Workflowy, Reminders, Notion, a complete second brain (🤮), bullet journals, Obsidian, random pieces of paper...

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

For those who suspect their Read-It-Later queue is a lie substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Hoarding-type Scrolling

A minor epiphany about mindless scrolling

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The difference some space can make: danbartlett.co.uk/the-differen...

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The feedback I get most from facilitating TRE sessions is that a little space makes a big difference.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Today, I'm launching the new face of my coaching practice ✨ I'm combining my experience as an accredited coach with my 20 years of industry experience, offering something unique to people working in Tech. If you know anyone who you think might be interested, please pass along

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

You can read them all here: danbartlett.co.uk/solo-retreat...

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

A bundle of reflections from the tail-end of my last silent retreat.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I've been toying a lot, on and off retreat, with interrupting (not suppressing) narratives. This narrowing happens not just conceptually, but perceptually, as a contraction that collapses your natural openness.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

“Blessing, infinite in its modes and colours, often seems to me to be the very nature of all things, of all existence.” —Rob Burbea, in one of his final emails

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Many meditators have a warped view of acceptance: danbartlett.co.uk/meditators-h...

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

It's interesting how easy it is to be a real dick to yourself in the name of acceptance. Now that I facilitate TRE with other meditators, I've started seeing this pattern repeat.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Our habits garner coverage in self-help bestsellers. Yet you, as a conscious subject—a living presence—have no place in this story. Somehow, we have all but written ourselves out of our own story.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Our material bodies have a place in physics, subject to its laws. Our biology has a place in our textbooks and the story of evolution. Our behaviours receive attention in psychology.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Full post: danbartlett.co.uk/curiosity-is...

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Stress is another form of narrowing, and curiosity is a way of reversing it.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

If your interest is piqued, I wrote more on this here: danbartlett.co.uk/widen-the-vi...

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

You don't always need to debate a belief or "see through" it. You can, instead, expand your view so that it occupies less real estate in your experience. This feels inherently good once you get the knack of it.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Link: www.nobt.co.uk/p/nobody-is-...

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

🆕 This week's writing and recommendations: • The difference some space can make • How we've confused contemplation with rumination • Everything that we think of as self is made up of not-self • Painful teenage memories

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I am a degenrate Daoist. I get intoxicated, take things too far and then, realising my mistake, violently careen in the other direction. After reviewing the rubble, I can see where the middle ground is. I care a lot about balance, I just don’t get there gracefully.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Meditation allows you to widen your view. The same thoughts and emotions can arise and pass, but they have more space. They've lost the narrow frame that made them feel big. Without that frame, it's easier to see them as they are: autonomic, alive & fleeting.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

That could be a flash of insight in meditation or the slow cultivation of wisdom in relationships. These profound shifts come about through full-contact living, not the adoption of a belief.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

We live in a belief-centric society. We, as a society, think that changing beliefs is the best way to improve ourselves. I think this is a mistake for many reasons, the biggest of which is that it is blind to transformations in perception.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Simple practices can be transformative. But there aren’t many people actually doing them.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I find the same when I teach people to shake spontaneously! Simple but powerful.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

But when you spend so much time disproving something, you unintentionally give it a reality it does not possess on its own.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

People want to be less stressed and more productive. Yet they obey a host of ideas about how productivity requires high stress. They want recognition. But they believe they’re an unworthy imposter. Instead of questioning the beliefs themselves, they work harder to disprove them.

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Fire Captain 🔥 @rescuecaptain.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

#maddow Science break. This kayaker gets approached by an otter every time he visits a lake. The otter was orphaned after the mother was in an accident, and the man helped it throughout it's rehabilitation process to later release it back into the wild. Volume up.🔊

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

If you’re interested in founder pitfalls, how AI can and can’t help you, and how to bulletproof your own resilience, give it a listen! Full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imem...

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

A few weeks ago, I sat down with Darrell from the Purpose People podcast to talk about my journey into Tech, the mess behind the success of running a high-growth startup and how I ended up coaching.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Link: www.nobt.co.uk/p/the-unassu...

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

My weekly newsletter is out! I'm experimenting with a different format that includes what I've been doing, books and videos I've been enjoying, and the writings I've published this week. Check it.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Cultivating state means stepping back, temporarily. Tending to something more nebulous and having the confidence that a well-tended mind will be your best weapon in getting things done.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

• Stretches beyond the default assumption of one small human interacting with one big LLM. • That leans into the AI-to-AI dialogues that will soon become the norm. Thanks @DrJohnVervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and @jgreenhall www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Jw...

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

A conversation on AI that: • That wonders how intimate AI can buffer us against the incentives of larger LLMs. • That considers how a personal AI might help us foster integrity and wisdom.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

News flash: the world needs you to consume less news.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I find leaning into what's obviously harmful helps elucidate what's indirectly damaging.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Nice—how do you bring them alive for you?

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

“The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers” —Richard Powers

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

When people are struggling with energy they often look for some hack or new signal. But your body has been giving you real-time feedback the whole time. The anxiety, fatigue, demotivation. These are the signals you’re looking for, not the hurdles you need to clear.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Physical training is very conducive to the other work I do: a run is the quickest way I know of turning a day around. My mind and body are invariably changed on the other side of it. So many new ideas also come to me whilst walking and hiking, a kind of thinking in motion.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Having the questions asked one at a time and needing to answer on the spot also creates a little rush. It helps you lean into getting your thoughts down without over-thinking. Sometimes you just need to be asked.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

You can then ask it to put the answers together into a rough draft. It’s fascinating to see what themes emerge. I wouldn’t use the resulting draft as is, but the difficult work is done.

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Dan Bartlett @dan-bartlett.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

After I typed each answer, it gave a summary and then moved on to the next question. Each time I answered I got a little dopamine bump.

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