Sometimes You Should Be Late: Alex Snider on Forced Pauses | Alex Snider, Author of "Sometimes You Should Be Late"

Most People Don't... But You Do! · Oct 1, 2026 · 43m

Alex Snider spent fifteen years inside federal work, in domestic policy, at the State Department, at the World Bank and in the Senate. Then a bicycle accident stopped him, and he came out of it having written a book arguing that you should sometimes be late on purpose.

He is careful about what that does and does not mean. He is not a productivity guest, he does not do tips, and when Bart asks him for the one thing people should do to slow down, he says he cannot answer that and will not try. His argument is that how you receive an idea is so different from how anyone else does that handing…