Adelyn Rosa

This is my first product launch, so I'm a mix of excited and nervous!

I'm part of the team behind AQX, but I'll be straight with you I'm not the one building our AI voice agent platform. I'm the one responsible for making sure people discover what we've created and (hopefully) see the value in it.

I sometimes feel like health and work is a zero sum game. When I focus on one, the other tends to suffer, making it hard to keep my progress. However, I know that staying healthy will actually help me be more productive in the long run, decreasing my risk of getting sick, improving my mental and cognitive health.

In these past few years I've learnt from my mistakes and there's 2 main lessons I want to share:

1. We tend to do too much too fast. Whenever we decide to get into fitness we typically are in a rush to get results. We feel guilty for what we haven't been doing and we try to compensate. This is not sustainable and after a short while it starts affecting our work, we lose consistency and often give up.

2. Building on lesson 1, we can actually get pretty good results with a relatively low amount of time dedicated to fitness (talking about 3-5 hours / week), if we actually use the time well. In short, getting a little high intensity strength work and cardio in, then using the rest of the time at a low intensity gives great results while allowing for enough rest to recover and be productive with your other demanding activities.

Notion, Obsidian, and Roam are great, but they re not for everyone. Maybe you found something simpler, faster, or just less overwhelming. What s the one productivity tool you actually stick with the one that makes life easier instead of adding more work?