I’m Mike Vardy, and I help people build a better relationship with time — not by controlling it, but by working with it. Through my writing, courses, and community, I explore how intention and attention shape a more meaningful life — one rooted in the original idea of productiveness over productivity.
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The Practice of Productiveness
I’m Mike Vardy, and I help people build a better relationship with time — not by controlling it, but by working with it. Through my writing, courses, and community, I explore how intention and attention shape a more meaningful life — one rooted in the original idea of productiveness over productivity.
The Lantern by Mike Vardy Vol. 1, Issue 38| November 15, 2025 Hello Reader, Lately I’ve been noticing how haste hides well. It doesn’t always look like rushing—it often looks like helping. Like wanting to get the next idea into someone’s hands before it’s ready. Like tightening the prose just a little too much so it “lands.” Like turning a living concept into a system before it’s had the chance to breathe. In my work, I’ve learned that haste makes waste isn’t about losing time—it’s about...
The Lantern by Mike Vardy Vol. 1, Issue 37| November 8, 2025 Hello Reader, There’s a kind of wealth in caring — not in the Hallmark sense, but in the sheer fact of having the bandwidth to care about something deeply. I was talking with a friend this week about energy, attention, and effort — those things we protect in the name of focus. But the conversation took a turn toward care. We don’t often think of care as something that needs guarding, but it does. There’s only so much of it to go...
Hello Reader, The latest monthly essay I write for Medium — The Sound of Time — started as a small reflection on why vinyl feels better than streaming. But beneath the surface, it became something else: a meditation on how time behaves when we stop trying to control it. Then there’s this week’s episode of A Productive Conversation with James Kimmel Jr. — an episode we recorded months ago that finally drops in audio format today. (Want to watch the full, unedited video interview? Here you go.)...