Armand Uno is host of The Playhard Podcast. He interviews entrepreneurs and founders about the habits and hobbies that keep them healthy.

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1. JC: What projects are you concentrating on during your focused hours?

- Podcast

• Diverse guests
• - Motorcycle racer

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- 9-5 job: product developer for cyber security

• Cyber security LinkedIn posts to help with sales

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- Projects

• eBook
• - What’s it about?
• - - Rapport, deep communication
• - - - Deepening weak ties
• - - - Super interesting, would be great to go deeper if we had more time. Maybe an encore in the near future?
  
  
  

2. JN: How about the rest of the time? What do you enjoy doing in your off time?

- Musician - fun

• Brother is a professional musician

- Reading

• “Build” Tony Fidell - head of iPhone dev at Apple

- Motorcycle riding

3. JC: What does your morning routine look like and how has it evolved over time?

- Has cut back his morning routine

• 5/10 mins
• 10 mins journal
• Hour of writing book
• Gym workout

- Previously

• Longer workout

- Waking up

• Alarm at 6am

- Mindset:

• Discipline = freedom
• Remove decision making from mundane matters

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4. JN: What do you do to optimise productivity during your working hours?

- Public accountability

• Having a team where another person gets the consequences of you not following through

- Activating hyperfocus

- Pomodoro timer

- Binaural focused beats

- Extrinsic motivation

• How to keep the intrinsic so that the extrinsic doesn’t take over?

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5. JC: How do you switch off at night?

- Avoiding screens 1hr before bed

- Reading (physical books)

- Talking to family

• Playing music with bro
• - Jam/Improv
• - Trust musical instincts instead of following tabs
• - - Play along to random songs - try to

- Planning tomorrow’s todos

- Gratitude

- Reflecting on what can be done better

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6. JN: What resources (books, philosophies, apps) do you find most helpful for productivity and habit formation?

- Ship 30 for 30: digital writing - LinkedIn post -> Twitter thread -> Blog -> Book

- “Build” Tony Fidell - head of iPhone dev at Apple

- Atomic Habits

- Miracle Morning:

• Silence (meditation)
• Affirmations
• Visualisation
• Exercise
• Reading
• Script (writing)

- Play hard podcast

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7. JC: It’s been a pleasure having you on, where can people stay in touch with you and find your work?

- LinkedIn

- Insta: @armand_uno

Email: armand@playhardpodcast.com