Get Your Digital Sh*t Together
Talk presented at Product Camp Melbourne 2024 on how to create time in your life and build your second brain.
Context
Product Camps are an unconference for those that want to create awesome products! They are free, non-profit, user-driven, collaborative and professional 'unconferences' for anyone who builds, designs, markets or manages a product or service. Product Camps started in Silicon Valley but are now held in 50+ cities across the globe.
Unlike a regular conference, most of the agenda isn't decided upon in advance but decided by the attendees on the day. This adds an element of excitment for presenters as not only do you have to have your talk prepared but you have to pitch it (in 30 seconds) to the audience who then vote on the sessions they wish to attend!
In Melbourne this year there were 250+ attendees and a total of 28 talks to choose from over the coure of the day.
Reflection
My talk was a follow up to the previous talk I presented at Product Anonymous on being a Killer PM. Many of the questions I had after that session were about how to get organised and build your second brain. I tried to check out the product-market-fit before the event by doing some off the cuff market research at the meet-ups before the camp to see if the talk concept resonated!
My pitch was:
- Are you being eaten alive by emails and terrorised by your to-do list?
- Are you drowning in DMs and does Notion give you nightmares?
- Can you ever find a file or does that just trigger fight or flight?
Today I’d love to share with you how to be less of a wreck at work and get your digital sh*t together.I want to change the way you think about being productive, help you form a framework for your own systems and I’ll share real life examples of my set up and tools you can use.
Fotntely the topic resonated with enough folks to be voted in, and I was able to present in one of the afternoon sessions. The very talented Rebecca Jackson joined my session and created the marvellous sketch-notes summarising the key talking points.