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Maya Prohovnik: preference

28 Sept 2023 Lenny's Podcast Building Anchor, selling to Spotify, and lessons learned | Maya Prohovnik (Spotify’s Head of Podcast Product)

“I write everything down because I think I'm one of those people I remember things best when they're written down and then I obsessively put things on my to-do list.”

— Maya Prohovnik

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Speaker
Maya Prohovnik
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preference
Recorded
28 Sept 2023
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

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…So that touches on another area I wanted to touch on, which is productivity. I hear you're very good at being productive and making the use of your time. I guess one, where do you think that comes from? And then two, just any other tips, tactics, tools you find to be really effective in staying productive? Yeah, where does that come from? I think I am OCD. I think I'm an overachiever. I don't know, it's really important to me. I think when my team says that I'm very productive, the feedback I hear from them is they're impressed that they send me a doc and then I always read it. I think that's more about prioritizing my team and making sure that they're unblocked, which I take very seriously. I don't know other tips that I would give people. I write everything down because I think I'm one of those people I remember things best when they're written down and then I obsessively put things on my to-do list. Anything that anyone asks me to do goes on there, and then I have that method for organizing it later in the day. Do you have an app for this or do you write it on paper?…

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