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Calendar Spread

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

Started my career betting on time decay in options markets. Then built a business selling my own time by the hour. Th...

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When parents join their kids’ social media

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

There’s a pattern to how platforms rise and fall. Critical mass looks permanent, until a whole generation quiet...

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Future of Relaxation

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We’ve become so overstimulated by technology that we now need technology to help us relax. A new category of &#...

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Prestel LA 2026-03

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

I’ve spoken at family office conferences about succession and governance many times. This was different: I spok...

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Victoria School Phone Ban

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

Victoria just expanded its school phone ban to smartwatches and headphones. Good. But let’s not confuse a schoo...

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What term to use to describe “it”

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

“Social media” is the wrong name for the problem. And because we’ve named it wrong, we keep solving...

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Proxies

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

Cheap dopamine is the Trojan horse of modern misery. And the antidote isn’t another app.

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Dedicated Screen Free Time

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We all wish we had more time with our families. So, the question becomes: how to make the most of the time you have w...

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Generational Change & Tech

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

We used to sort people into neat generational boxes. Boomers. Gen X. Millennials. But that model is breaking. The sam...

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Productivity culture runs like a hamster wheel. It just keeps running, at the same pace, going nowhere.

Do you manage your time like a hamster wheel or do you put a training program in place and find time to rest?

There's a scene in "Mad Men" where Don Draper is asked what he thought about Hawaii, and instead of talking about beaches, he talks about becoming someone else. Not a version of himself with better tan lines and a Mai Tai. A different person. One who, for a few days, didn't miss

I recently took one of the best holidays of my life, and I never left the resort.

Turns out the destination is beside the point. What you're actually chasing is a change of pace, and if your holiday runs on the same schedule as your working week, you've just moved the treadmill

We have strategies for our careers, our finance, our help.

Pleased to announce a program to help answer an important question: “what’s your strategy for your time?”

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