Love Your Work
Love Your Work is the intellectual playground of David Kadavy, bestselling author of three books – including Mind Management, Not Time Management – and former design advisor to Timeful – a Google-acquired productivity app.
Love Your Work is where David shows you how to be productive when creativity matters, and make big breakthroughs happen in your career as a creator. Dig into the archives for insightful conversations with Dan Ariely, David Allen, Seth Godin, James Altucher, and many more.
"David is an underrated writer and thinker. In an age of instant publication, he puts time, effort and great thought into the content and work he shares with the world." —Jeff Goins, bestselling author of Real Artists Don’t Starve
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 323
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2023
63. Peter Bragiel – Make your dreams reality (building a travel show on YouTube)
Peter Bragiel wanted his own travel show. So, he got a camera and started traveling.
At first, not much happened. Peter Bragiel just kept stowing the tapes away in a box.
But, eventually, his adventu…
62. My top rejections
Rejection hurts. Sometimes it hurts a little more than other times, but it still does hurt.
But, rejection is a part of life. If you never get rejected, you’re not really trying. In 2016, I quadruple…
61. Ignore Everybody. Hugh MacLeod of Gapingvoid (originality, & the courage to be different)
Hugh MacLeod (@hughcards) is a hero of mine, who helped me find my own path.
It was 2004, I was sitting in a gray cubicle in Nebraska. And I discovered a PDF on the Internet called "How to be creativ…
60. Focus with practical minimialism
I talked about minimalism with some of my guests. I talked about it with Craig Benzine on episode 39, and with James Altucher on episode 53.
I'm not an extreme minimalist. I don't count the number of…
59. The net appears. Vinnie Lauria of Golden Gate Ventures, Singapore (leaving a secure job, traveling Asia, overcoming emotional barriers, power networking)
Vinnie Lauria found his calling after backpacking around Asia.
He had just sold a company. He had just gotten married. He feared that if he spent a year traveling, he'd run out of money, and he'd run…
58. How I quadrupled my creative productivity (writing, healthy habits & routines, & facing fears)
57. How Noah Kagan manages his mental energy (productivity, sleep, time management, & creativity)
Noah Kagan first appeared on Love Your Work back on episode 41. On that episode, we talked about why discomfort is your compass, and learned that Noah even makes his bed in hotel rooms.
I asked Noah …
56. See you next year. Here's why. (New Year's resolutions, & the importance of sleep & rest)
Over the past year, pretty much every week, I've released a new episode of Love Your Work. This will be my last episode this year. I'll be taking a break for a few weeks.
We've come so far since exac…
55. Make your bed, change THE WORLD!? (ft. James Altucher, Dan Ariely, Jason Fried, Ryan Holiday, Tucker Max, Noah Kagan & more)
There's this sort of productivity meme going around that you should make your bed.
But, isn't making your bed kind of a waste?
And isn't making your bed especially wasteful if you're busy?
Here on Lo…
54. 8 Things I Wish I Had Known About Building Online Courses (having an impact, & self-motivation through product development)
One of the best ways to impact others, while making money, is through building online courses. And, if you're considering writing a book, developing an online course is a great way to validate your i…
James Altucher
52. My $40,000 DIY MBA (investing in your self-education)
Dan Ariely
50. Productivity isn't about Getting Things Done anymore (mindfulness for creative breakthroughs)
The current productivity wisdom is all about getting things done. Now, productivity is about making creative breakthroughs happen.
Getting Things Done brought us beyond todo lists and priorities, and…
49. Medium.com Writing, Book Positioning & Marketing Psychology – Nir Eyal & David Kadavy
Nir Eyal, author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, has been on the show before. We had a little debate about digital distraction back in episode 21.
Nir and I have both been exploring n…
48. Make it easy to do what's good for you (digital detox & building healthy habits through design)
If you have certain behaviors that you want to encourage in your life, you can be intentional about making them happen. Here's a trick I devised to make it easy to do things that are good for me, and…
47. Getting the most out of email: Jocelyn K. Glei (productivity & business networking through email)
Jocelyn K. Glei is author of Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done. You can buy the book at kadavy.net/email It's an awesome book that I really wish I had…
46. #YOLO, so point your face at a blank wall (building discipline for creative habits)
Back when I was writing my first book, I was shocked how hard it was. I was spending all day just trying to get into that flow state.
So, here's one way I've found to help make that flow state happen…
Max Temkin
Cards Against Humanity's Max Temkin (@maxtemkin) is co-creator of Amazon's #1 selling card game – actually the #1 seller in all of the whole Toys & Games category. It's a game for horrible people, an…
44. I Failed. (overcoming rejection & ego in book publishing)
This week, I share you a story of failure. I know everyone seems to be obsessed with failure lately, and I always thought it was strange. I didn't usually look at things as failures, but as lessons l…