Eric Pratum

I host The Unfolding Thought Podcast, where I talk with people about how they think, what shaped that thinking, and what it changes.

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You can’t productivity-hack your way out of a culture that punishes focus.

Deep Work, Atomic Habits, and Indistractable can help. They cannot create the conditions for your best work.

Your boss must change.

https://t.co/I2hDns2UQn

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Punished at work for being productive? You’re not alone.

Shawn Vanderhoven found that people protecting deep-work time can be labeled disconnected or difficult, even when their work is excellent. @WisemanGroup1

Watch: https://t.co/KLI3sk56XM

#DeepWork #Productivity

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“I’ve never had a manager who made my priorities clear.”

After interviews across 150+ companies, Shawn Vanderhoven was stunned by how many leaders said some version of that. @WisemanGroup1

Watch: https://t.co/Q0SDF3ocbw

#Leadership #UnfoldingThought

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Distraction at work is a social problem. It is not an individual problem.

When responsiveness signals commitment and focusing looks like disengagement, no personal system can solve the underlying problem. What must your boss change?

https://t.co/I2hDns2UQn

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Will AI reduce the need for deep work?

Shawn Vanderhoven says that’s backwards. Using AI requires more protected thinking time, not less. Are AI-friendly bosses just driving companies toward the cliff faster? @WisemanGroup1

Watch: https://t.co/kY1cL4uohJ

#AI #DeepWork

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How can a five-minute request torch someone’s entire workday?

Shawn Vanderhoven offers two questions that turn drive-by delegation into a real conversation about priorities. @WisemanGroup1

Watch: https://t.co/gzBTiRYUfk

#Leadership #UnfoldingThought

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From a podcast host: how to write a good pitch and get onto podcasts worth your time.

Start with fit. Understand the format. Pitch one chapter, not the whole book. Let the email earn research; let your track record earn the reply.

https://t.co/WUu8SEN0bA

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Is American Christianity circling the drain, or on the edge of revival?

Jonathan Rauch sees two futures: partisan capture and collapse, or young people building a practical, less political Christianity from the street up.

Which future?

https://t.co/T7byNC2tHh

#Christianity

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@jacobli99 Both. At least in marketing, AI is being used to help people do the work and to take over parts of the work entirely. The tools get better, more gets delegated, and the marketer’s job shifts toward judgment, context, and getting the organization to act.

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Did liberalism become the acid that dissolved itself?

Jonathan Rauch explains the postliberal argument: rights and freedom weakened faith, family, nation and tradition, creating a vacuum authoritarians promise to fill.

Full conversation: https://t.co/cxIYQiYouH

#Postliberalism

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Want to know why Thanksgiving dinners with relatives on the other political side are so hard?

Jonathan Rauch can tell you.

What happens when one system loses influence, another gains it, and the replacement cannot meet all the needs the first one did?

https://t.co/EOEU4XfteS