{"id":903,"date":"2020-05-12T15:24:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/?p=903"},"modified":"2020-07-09T21:16:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T21:16:23","slug":"episode-27-doing-more-vs-doing-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/episode-27-doing-more-vs-doing-less\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 27: Doing More vs. Doing Less"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Optimism + Productivity<\/h5>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In this month\u2019s episode of the Good Newscast, hosts Owen, Chelsea, and Andrew discuss\u00a0<b>optimism and\u00a0productivity,\u00a0<\/b>questioning what it means to be productive in today\u2019s world, and how we can approach productivity with an open and optimistic mindset\u2014even if that means doing less.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Owen invites guests Spike Gillespie and Steve Eckleman, co-authors of the new book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleepingbees.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">Sleeping Bees: Why Doing Nothing Matters<\/span><\/a>,\u201d to dive into why being productive doesn\u2019t have to mean staying busy.\u00a0Chelsea tells us about how Austin photographer Marshall Tidrick\u2014who coincidentally is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleepingbees.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Texas Optimism Project contributor<\/a>\u2014 is adapting creative projects during this time. His quarantine photo series, \u201cFront Porch-raits,\u201d can be found on his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/marshalltidrickphoto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">Instagram page<\/span><\/a>. Andrew ponders if we\u2019re even defining productivity the right way.<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?episode_id=27113608&amp;theme=light&amp;cover_image_url=false&amp;playlist=show&amp;autoplay=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400px\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>New episodes of Good Newscast are published every month.<\/p>\n<p>For more inspiration and thought-starters around optimism, sign up for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/paidpost.texasmonthly.com\/sponsor\/frost\/texas-optimism-project\/good-newsletter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bi-weekly Good Newsletter.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this month&#8217;s episode of the Good Newscast, the hosts discuss optimism and productivity.\u00a0Sometimes in order to do more, we need to do less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paid.texasmonthly.com\/texas-optimism-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}