David Brackin - Battling Your Work To-do List Like a Horde of the Undead

05/23/22 • 33 min

David Brackin - @drbrackin - is a leading entrepreneur in the circular economy. As founder of Stuff U Sell, the eBay selling assistant and managing director of ReThread, the circular fashion marketplace, he deals with thousands of items of unwanted goods and clothing for people and businesses across the UK. After studying mathematics at Cambridge and spending several years at McKinsey, David has spent most of his career working in and around small businesses, including his own, and he believes that small businesses often reveal the truths about work that can be hidden in larger organisations. Outside of work he chairs his local council and runs a club for improving driving skills and an educational charity.
What we discuss with David Brackin

Zombie jobs, how your to-do list comes after you like the undead
David's experience running the biggest eBay trading system in the UK
How talent in his generation has been wasted
Putting off doing work just in case it's not needed, and how that can backfire
How he prefers to work when it's dark and why
How losing his mother at a young age impacted his view on life
How to-do lists are rarely to-do lists at all
And much more...

Links relating to this episode

Follow David on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drbrackin
David on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbrackin/
Stuff U Sell: https://www.stuffusell.co.uk/
Tim Urban, Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_master_procrastinator
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: https://amzn.to/3wKdUvs

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05/23/22 • 33 min

Rebel Diaries - David Brackin - Battling Your Work To-do List Like a Horde of the Undead

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Intro teaser
[00:00:29] David: I have this idea of zombie jobs. Right if you don't kill it, if you don't kill a task, it'll come back and it rises up from your to-do list. Like a zombie lurching towards you. And that's fine. You can deal with one zombie. Zombies are really dangerous when there are 30 of them.

[00:00:42] David: I worry that a lot of my generation, some of the brightest minds did not go off to make those flying cars. Th

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