A new way to think about productivity

Daniel Sih is an award-winning author and speaker on productivity, digital wellbeing, and human-centric AI.

A new way to think about productivity

Daniel Sih is an award-winning author and speaker on productivity, digital wellbeing, and human-centric AI.

The old maps no longer work.

Productive teams adapt by
keeping pace and making space.

A hand writing with a purple pen in a notebook. The text reads 'Deep work' Deep work
Daniel wearing a headset. Text reads 'Fast work' Fast work
Daniel pours water from an orange jug into a glass, with text 'Making space' Making space
Daniel holding a sand timer, with text 'Keeping pace' Keeping pace
Daniel looking out onto the ocean, as waves crash in the background. Text reads 'Saying yes' Saying yes
Daniel pointing to a red 'no' button, with text 'Saying no' Saying no
Adding rocks to a jar Adding
A hand moving around coloured circles on a table Subtracting
Code snippet with text 'Artificial Intelligence' Artificial
Intelligence
Daniel plays a board game with text 'Organic Intelligence' Organic
Intelligence

Hi, I’m Daniel Sih

I’m deeply aware of how busy and overloaded most teams feel today.


As an award-winning author, TEDx speaker and founder of Spacemakers®, I’ve spent more than 20 years helping leaders and teams navigate the intersection of performance, technology and human flourishing.


At the heart of my work is a simple idea: the future belongs to teams who embrace ‘both-and’ thinking.


Rather than simplistic solutions, we need to navigate competing priorities in creative ways: work and life, productivity and wellbeing, more technology and less technology.


That’s what it means to keep pace and make space.

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Productivity isn’t about doing more.

(It’s about making space for your best work)

A new type of productivity

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Get your team humming

Help your teams reduce busy work, improve focus and create more capacity for deep, strategic work.

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Use powerful technology in an intentional, deeply human way.

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Make space for a productive and meaningful life.

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Raise healthy, whole-hearted children in a digital world.

In a fast-moving, demanding world, our instinct is to keep adding more.

We throw more time, more resources and more technology at the problem, yet somehow find ourselves falling even further behind.


What if sustained productivity requires us to get better at keeping pace and making space?

I help teams step off the busywork treadmill long enough to rethink how we work together: when to add and subtract, where to speed up and slow down, and how to adapt without simply adding more.

Here’s the thing…

You can’t outrun busyness.

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