For Spark Boulder's Get S.E.T. Series presents: "Hack Yo' Self Before You Wreck Yo' Self" with Micah Mador of Foundry Group You will walk away with high-level frameworks and tools to best manage your effectiveness and learn about digital efficiency. Starting with knowing what your personal tendencies and weaknesses are, Micah will teach you to hack your own productivity with goal planning, email tricks, calendar tactics, neat apps, game-changing extensions, distraction blockers, and other strategies for prioritization during this one-hour workshop. Micah is a technology enthusiast who loves using, working with, learning and teaching technology. He works at Foundry Group - a VC firm focused on investing in early-stage information technology companies. Previously work includes: Associate at Techstars, the global ecosystem that helps entrepreneurs build great businesses and Analyst at Signals Intelligence Group, an Israeli technology company that specializes in new product development innovation. Micah has a passion for nature, technology, entrepreneurship, people and their ideas. When not geeking out, you can find him skiing, hiking, biking, reading, camping, backpacking or lounging in a hammock with his dogs.

1. "Hack Yo' Self Before
You Wreck Yo' Self"
Micah Mador
@micahmador
micah@micahmador.com
bit.ly/micahhacks

2. bit.ly/micahhacks

3. Agenda
• Frameworks & Thoughts
• Goal planning
• Productivity tools:
• Email tricks
• Calendar tactics
• Neat apps
• Chrome extensions
• Distraction blockers

4. –Thomas Edison
Vision without execution is hallucination

5. GSD*
&
Doerocracy
*GSD - Gettin' Shit Done. Usually referring to some sort of
work.

6. Hedgehog Concept
from Jim Collins, Good to Great

7. North Star Goals
• Always keep top of mind
• Help guide activities and time allocation

8. “Weakness is an exaggeration
of your strength”

9. Measure
• Just like a startup you have to measure things in
order to improve: personal KPI's
• Quarterly and yearly goal planning Forms
• Form to customize then fill out
• Point output to google sheet so you can track
your progress over time

11. On becoming
indispensable:
1. Take the unwanted job
2. Go the extra mile- more
service, better then you are
paid to render, smile, all the
time
3. Work harder when
unsupervised
4. Get credit for the group
5. Be aware of your supervisors
needs
6. Make your boss look good
7. Handle key client development
8. Become a member
9. Develop diagnostic should - ask the
right questions
10. Be prepared - preperation
proceeds power
11. Understand the power of the little
things
12. Develop relationships of trust

12. –Johnny Appleseed
–This turtle and many successful people

13. Calendar
• Live by it!
• Automate meeting scheduling
(mixmax, assistant.to,
calendly, youcanbook.me,
clara, x.ai, etc.)
• Work blocks vs. events
(different colors or calendars)
• Sync across all devices

14. General Communication
• Team projects: Slack
• Other tools
1. Call/Text
2. Voxer
3. Slack
4. Email
• Develop a sustainable and
consistent frequency and
notifications for each

15. Email
• Inbox, Gmail, Mail, Outlook
• NEVER leave something in
your inbox
• Answer, snooze, archive or
send to a to-do list
• Learn to BCC
• Grammarly

16. Organization
• Wunderlist, Trello, Asana,
Evernote
• Don’t spend all your time
creating them
• Keep it simple
• Write everything down and
keep it searchable
• Sync on all devices +
keyboard shortcuts

17. Chrome extensions
• Password Manager
• Dashlane
• LastPass
• 1Password ($$)
• Save articles/links to Pocket

18. Other Tips & Tricks
• Text expander (don’t type the
same thing twice!)
• IFTTT & Zapier
• Starred pocket items to
Evernote through IFTTT Recipe
• Profiles on Google Chrome

19. Distraction blockers
• Stay focused - chrome extension
to bock time wasting sites
• Rescuetime - track time
• Toggl - quick and easy time
tracker

20. DEMO!

21. • Ideal Setup - Mouse speed, Keyboard Shortcuts, F.lux
• Organization - Wunderlist, Trello, Asana, Evernote
• Email hacks - Textexpander, Steak, Assistant.to,
Mixmax, Calendly
• Chrome extensions - Adblock, Pocket, FullContact,
MatterMark, LastPass or Dashlane, Grammarly, Search
Current site,
• Other cool things - Accompany or Charlie, IFTTT &
Zapier, Toggl, Magnet
• Apps (Share iOS screen with quicktime via USB cable)
DEMO

22. Questions
Additions
Suggestions

23. micah@micahmador.com
bit.ly/micahhacks