
Productivity Tips and Tricks
11/09/20 • 49 min
If you often find your days spiraling out of control, you’re not alone! Ensuring you have a productive workday isn’t always easy. There are many ways you can structure your day, and everyone has a different method that works best for them.
This week on the podcast we’re giving you a rundown of our favorite productivity hacks you can use to improve your everyday life, both at work and at home. Let’s dig in!
Show Notes
2:30 - Take care of your physical and mental health
11:33 - Scheduling your day and week
15:46 - Prioritizing your work
21:40 - Motivation
28:04 - Communication
37:13 - Taking notes & to-do lists
39:48 - Forming habits
41:59 - Batching
43:11 - Balancing work and life
45:20 - Shoutouts
Resources
- The Power Of Habit
- Atomic Habits
- Me & White Supremacy
- Brain Science Mireille Reece
- Get Things Done
- Ashley McNamara: The Thing About Burnout
- Becoming Super Woman
- Why We Sleep
- Notion
- Todoist
- Asana
- Radical Candor
- A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
Transcript
Here is the transcript for this week's episode.
If you often find your days spiraling out of control, you’re not alone! Ensuring you have a productive workday isn’t always easy. There are many ways you can structure your day, and everyone has a different method that works best for them.
This week on the podcast we’re giving you a rundown of our favorite productivity hacks you can use to improve your everyday life, both at work and at home. Let’s dig in!
Show Notes
2:30 - Take care of your physical and mental health
11:33 - Scheduling your day and week
15:46 - Prioritizing your work
21:40 - Motivation
28:04 - Communication
37:13 - Taking notes & to-do lists
39:48 - Forming habits
41:59 - Batching
43:11 - Balancing work and life
45:20 - Shoutouts
Resources
- The Power Of Habit
- Atomic Habits
- Me & White Supremacy
- Brain Science Mireille Reece
- Get Things Done
- Ashley McNamara: The Thing About Burnout
- Becoming Super Woman
- Why We Sleep
- Notion
- Todoist
- Asana
- Radical Candor
- A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
Transcript
Here is the transcript for this week's episode.
Previous Episode

Git & GitHub
Git is both simple and complex. You can usually get through your workday by memorizing a few commands, but under the hood there’s so much more to it. Today we will dive deep into Git with a special guest, Monica Powell. Let’s dive in!
Shownotes
- 2:08 - Monica's introduction
- 2:44 - GitHub & other remotes
- 7:50 - Common Git commands
- 22:23 - Branches
- 31:26 - Debugging
- 36:01 - Workflows
- 41:43 - GitHub features
- 47:12 - Contributing to open source
- 50:33 - Shoutouts
- 52:40 - Where can you find Monica on the internet?
Resources
- Monica's Egghead profile
- Understanding Git
- Git Lens
- Bisect conference talks
- Ladybug Testing 101
- Ladybug Hacktoberfest episode 1
- Ladybug Hacktoberfest episode 2
- Monica's portfolio
- Monica's Twitter
- Egghead.io
- Working In Public
Transcript
Here is the transcript for this week's episode.
Next Episode

Creating Digital Content
Blogs, YouTube videos, podcasts, e-books, and online courses are all types of digital content. If you’ve ever wondered how you can get started creating digital content of your own, then look no further. Today we’re joined by Sidney Buckner, a Software Engineer and YouTuber, to discuss how we got started creating digital content, how much you can make from publishing content, and more! Let’s get started.
Shownotes
03:00 - What kinds of content do we create? 06:08 - Pros of creating digital content 14:19 - Cons of creating digital content 19:01 - Online courses 24:27 - YouTube 37:38 - E-books 41:17 - Blogs + podcasts 44:17 - How to monetize your digital content 47:13 - Shoutouts
Resources
- Sidney’s Twitter
- Sidney’s YouTube
- Sidney’s Periscope Q&A
- Sidney’s email list
- Sidney’s Instagram
- Ladybug Blogging Episode
- Emma's blog
- Emma's blogging book
- Ali's blog
- Ali's blogging advice
- Fiverr
- Canva
- Payhip
- Leanpub
- Podia
- Blurb
- ConvertKit
- MailChimp
- How I Made $40,000 Off A Book Before I Published It
- Tube Buddy
- Kelly Stamps
- Black Tech Pipeline
- Black Tech Twitter
- Pariss Athena
- Ladybug Side Project Episode
- You are a badass book
Transcript
[](https://github.com/ladybug-podcast/ladybug-website/blob/master/transcripts/57-digital-content.md)Here is the transcript for this week's episode.
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