David Seah: Video Game Designer Turned Cult Productivity Guru

David Seah is possibly the most interesting man in the world. Growing up in a seminary on the top of a mountain, he has evolved from video game designer to JavaScript developer to cult productivity internet superhero.

His carefully-crafted, user-focused productivity tools help ADHD lawyers and non-ADHD lawyers alike grapple with their most important priorities and vanquish their most challenging struggles.

Learn More about David Seah

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Two Quotes

“The big secret with productivity systems is you can follow any of them and they work... so long as you keep following them."

"A Gantt chart is a way of visualizing how much time a set of tasks will take to complete a project... It's great at Thanksgiving when you're cooking all these things at the same time and only have four burners on your oven. So I actually make a Gantt chart every year for my Thanksgiving dinner. That's how nerdy I am."

ADHD Resources in this Episode

• The JDHD Landing Page at DavidSeah.com!
• All of Dave's productivity tools in one place!
• The Emergent Task Planner StickyPad on Amazon
• The Emergent Task Planner
• The Emergent Task Timer
• Manual Gantt Charting in Excel
• The Concrete Goals Tracker
• The Task Progress Tracker
• The Day Grid Balancer
• The Task Order Up!
• Time Tracking in Excel
• Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande

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Chapters

• 0:46 Hello from Marshall and updates about TheJDHD.com
• 2:32 Meet David Seah.
• 4:07 Why productivity, who am I, and where do I fit in?
• 6:10 Building famous video games, and Marshall the lurker.
• 9:16 "I wish I had a boss." "I don't REALLY want a boss." "I'll create my boss out of paper."
• 13:49 Information design and UX design unleashed.
• 20:25 Creating feedback loops that don't diminish you. Don't track things that make you feel bad.
• 21:15 "The one main reason... is because there are so few examples of the reality of how hard it is to do these things, how long it takes to do these things... and that demotivating emotion prevents you from doing anything."
• 23:27 The big secret with productivity systems is you can follow any of them and they work so long as you keep following them."
• 27:55 The Concrete Goals Tracker
• 30:58 Community is one of the oldest desire loops in my life... the desire to be back on a good team."
• 36:56 The Task Progress Tracker (An "I did" list, not a "to do" list).
• 40:36 The Emergent Task Planner
• 43:45 The Compact Calendar
• 44:14 The Emergent Task Timer
• 46:08 Productivity without getting your ass kicked.
• 48:34 Gantt charts, project management, and Thanksgiving dinner.
• 51:39 "I like Groundhog Day because..."
• 55:12 Where to find David Seah.