Episode
Your Personal Process Has Debt Too
- Podcast
- Process Debt
- Published
- Jul 3, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 1331
- Processing state
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Summary
You spend your days diagnosing why nobody updates the board and why the dashboard tells three different stories. But when's the last time you audited your own process? This week, Chris and Toby turn the lens inward. Turns out the habits you run your life on — the reactivity, the phone-on-the-nightstand morning, the work-until-you're-empty grind — mostly aren't yours. They were trained into you by corporate environments that rewarded looking busy over being effective. And like every other kind of process debt, you never decided to take it on. It just accumulated. They get into BJ Fogg's behavior model and why most change fails on the prompt, not the motivation; the weekly retrospective that buys you permission to play hooky; the Hemingway trick for making hard work easier to return to; and the surprisingly short list of things you actually control. Same problem we always talk about. Just smaller scale.