The Holiday Season is just around the corner. But how do we, as Stationery Nerds, leave hints for gifts? This episode answers all of those questions and spends your own money too!

It's almost mid-year - and 6 months after Stu and Justin started planning for 2022. How did we do? We explore our progress this episode and talk about the impact of mental health on productivity.

Justin and Stu talk about STUFF. We all have it. What cognitive load does it present? How can we separate our perceived value of the stuff from the reality of what it's worth?

Can music help deep work? Justin argues that the triggers that music creates can be a valuable prompt for deep work time blocks. He may have convinced Stuart and at least gave him lots of homework. And, of course, we talk fountain pens.

Justin and Stu talk about corporate motivation and the differences between the entrepreneurial and corporate environments. Stu has some timely examples of the how the differences affect us.

One tool to rule them all? Justin and Stu discuss our process for looking at some of the more common collaboration tools, refine our decision process, and provide some guidelines in case you are looking to implement a similar tool in your life.

Accountability. Corporate. Personal. Justin and Stu discuss the pros and cons of personal accountability and give some ideas of how we achieve our own systems.