Cortex 24: Open Field In Every Direction
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so we're recording earlier than usual
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today and I woke up
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luckily in time just barely you woke up
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10 minutes before we're supposed to be
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recording I'd forgotten we were
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recording today super professional yep
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why were you such a lazy bones waking up
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so late so i went to sleep at 3am ok
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that's not an excuse because i was
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playing pokemon oh well here's the thing
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here's the thing with most people he
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would say that too they would chastise
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you for being terribly irresponsible but
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I as a fellow gamer though I do not play
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pokemon i have ever played pokemon i
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completely understand the notion of oh
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it's after dinner I'm going to start
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playing a video game and then
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oh it's three in the morning when did
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I have no idea when this happens so you
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have my sympathies because basically the
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is 20 years since the original pokemon
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games came out yeah yeah I've seen the
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pokey heads all over Twitter talking
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about 16 time for all of us and they
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re-released the original games on the 3s
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so I was playing pokemon yellow which is
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my favorite of the originals those kind
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of not slightly original just so upset
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out so don't get to follow up but i
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think people understand what I'm getting
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at and there is a Pokemon the 115 first
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pokémon called Mew great mu is
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extremely rare and you can actually
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catch Mew in the game but you would use
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to be able to get codes from like game
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stores or events to unlock the character
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but there is a glitch in the game and
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I'd never done that before and I figured
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why not give it a go
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took me four hours and 22 get it to work
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there's a lot of steps that you have to
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do on one of the steps is basically just
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a ton of grinding until you can catch a
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specific pokemon that you need so it
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took me a long time and then when I got
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close to it happening
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I then had to finish it and then 3am
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rolled around but you got your mew I
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take get me yeah i am at least familiar
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with you because i had a friend in
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college who watched the pokemon TV show
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so I've seen episodes of it such a great
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is on Team Rocket okay enough no yeah
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the cat on Team Rocket the ones who
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always known over the horizon at the end
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no that's me listen I'm a pokey expert
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here all right because that's like four
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sides of a TV show in a random order
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like 12 years ago 15 years ago I know
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what I'm talking to you got it the team
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rocket cat that's the one talking about
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that yeah that's what I'm talking about
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yeah yeah yeah okay we're on the same
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page yeah you bang on with that one
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great great thank you
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what's your email address again it's
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none of your business at cgpgrey com
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you should have that as an email address
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we're talking about this message the day
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we were talking about business cards
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yeah you are going to the business
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dinner for the UK top tech people think
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uh-huh and you're making me thinking
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like oh I need a business card and of
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course then it's like oh well have
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actual work to do let me speak out of
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business card for myself instead on
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move.com like this is but this is a good
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thing to do which then of course
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derailed into like Oh what contact
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information am I going to put on this
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business card because i don't want to
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give out my actual daily email address
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like I want to have something different
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which then devolved into a good 30
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minutes of trying to think of a cool
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email address to put on my card that I
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could use a filtering systems that if i
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do hand someone my card their email will
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go through the high priority queue
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because I know like oh yes this is a
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person I've given a business card too
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so you've given this person a piece of
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paper like that is a you know that's
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high on the gray system i think yeah
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okay what did realize like okay I have
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spent 30 minutes trying to come up with
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something kind of cool and interesting
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as a secret email address for my card
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eventually came up with something that I
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quite liked which I'm obviously not
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going to share on the podcast right now
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but this is a business looks like you i
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think i need to design a business card
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even though i have had no reason to hand
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out of business card to anyone in maybe
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the past six months
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business cards when you do that type of
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stuff that we do ever really interesting
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thing because i have maybe five or six
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times a year that i would be in a
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situation where i would hand out
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business card and about point 1 times a
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year where I do it
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like it just never happens so much so
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that last year I thought I had some
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business cards made this is maybe last
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year or the year before I had some
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business cards made and I took them with
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me to a trip and I think I left them in
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the hotel so I lost like a hundred fifty
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business cards but had like a one in my
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bag of maybe 25 also i still have them
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write like therefore better still got
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so we're all good but I i I'm thinking I
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should probably order some more again
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why I don't know because i never had
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them out to anybody but just in case you
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want to be in separate we had them and I
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did handout one business card at my
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business at my business dinner
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see there you go so I'd I've done my
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yeah that's the thing with the business
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cards right is is you almost at least in
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our situation anyway you almost never
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need them but on the rare occasion when
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you do it's really helpful to have it
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just to be able to give someone a piece
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of paper and say here is how you get in
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touch with me if you ever want to and
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you don't have to faff around with
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spelling out an email address making
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sure the person's typed it correctly you
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don't have to deal with anywhere and it
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can be handy because mean you are both
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in the situation there are names don't
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immediately just pop into somebody's
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head is how you spell them because i use
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Y and you use an e right where I don't
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use it's in there but also you've got
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the letters right which people get wrong
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constantly yeah so it's useful to have
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it written down or something
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I was just trying to find my first
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business cards that i posted on Twitter
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a while back I'll send this to you
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this is from 2012 obviously we can
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actually post this because it still has
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my email address on there so I'll have
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to be sure to get rid of that his
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background his background as a fool
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would just give up my act of email
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yeah yep i'll paint the other word
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picture shall I yeah you paint a word
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picture it looks like you made in kina
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yeah I think I did
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yeah it's just black with cgpgrey on one
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side with the dots in the middle
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yeah which I don't think you do
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girlfriend d 0 d this is like a style
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guide thing right how do you how do you
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actually want to write it and I used to
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always write it with the dots but i have
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moved away from the dots
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ok this is gonna sound a little a little
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overly picky but I moved away from the
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dots because to get the dots to look
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right so that they're actually initials
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like they're supposed to be the kerning
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never works with the dot after the p
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versus the dots after the sea and the G
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so it always looks like the dot from the
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pieces floating off in space and on a
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few things where I have it like I think
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on my website I've manually current over
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the dot so that it looks right but most
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of the time when you type it looks
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terrible so this is why i have now just
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gone to c GP without dots as though that
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is my first name which basically feels
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yeah that's the other thing is i don't
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think the dots work because cgp is your
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yeah it's not see g.p yeah right like
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it's not that I completely agree
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actually do have a text document on my
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computer which is a pretty cool i called
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like the gray style guide we're gonna
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make these decisions i write them down
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sometimes when I forget things like
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there's a couple little picky things
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about how do i wanna do stuff and where
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the way i'm riding on my website or with
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where link things and yeah what a while
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back I made the decision to get rid of
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the dots and I think it was the correct
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decision i think that was a good way to
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go and then on the flip side you have a
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bunch of links you have that cgpgrey you
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have cgpgrey dot-com with a www.start
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nice yeah that's like you know it's 2012
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up then you have secret email address
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youtube.com slash cgpgrey ya think i'm
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trying to find which I can't find and i
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enjoyed quite a lot was I that was the
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very first card that I had made up but
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the second time I went to a conference I
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made up a card that said cgpgrey and
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then for my title beneath my name i
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wrote a professional explainer but with
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a question mark because i think i like I
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didn't even know how to describe what i
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was doing and so we're trying to make it
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as like a joke on my own business card
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like ohio st to be great
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what do you do for living i'm a
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professional explainer I guess right
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like that that was like the shrug that
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I was doing which was not a very good
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idea if I have time I'll see if I can
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give you a copy of my current business
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card will look like when i get them
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printed and sent to me i will put a link
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in the show notes to my my car business
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oh yeah yes yeah they look at you have
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you have the multiple color business
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yeah that wasn't an idea from our
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designer he he put together my card for
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me i'm going to get them reprinted like
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that because I like them a lot I don't
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mind just say it has a logo on it says
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Michael co-founder as my email address
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my phone number my twitter handle and
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then kind of a little bit of what real
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anthem is on the card I think they look
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good because they're also the vertical
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business card which i think is a good
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move it looks like yeah yeah that was
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another thing he just kind of the design
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came through it was inverted cross like
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okay that's what we'll do it this time
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its work and it also has the official
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real a slogan which I never remember it
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yeah which nobody ever uses including us
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only ever gets really used on our
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business cards and sometimes on twitter
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headers but it's at the bottom of our
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website because I never remember this
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like all right yes that's it
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alright we have some extremely important
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follow-up oh yeah I guess we do
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probably the most important follow-up
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the wheeler half yes it is exciting news
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that Apple has made a PR announcement
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huh that using the pencil for navigation
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is going to be restored in the next
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version of the iOS beta
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yes i am very much looking forward to
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that as always with these things I still
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always feel nervous about something
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until it actually happens and at the
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time that we are recording the next beta
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has not yet come out
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although if the past cortex releases are
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anything to go by Apple seems to wait
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for us to put up a show and then
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releases the beta so we will see how
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that works out but i guess i am
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extremely extremely pleased and relieved
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that this is what's going to happen in
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the next beta thank you have all thank
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prosperity should i do a little chain of
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events what happened from the last
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episode of this episode of people
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listening in the future we'll have
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context you have for the archives
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yeah right ahead so after our episode
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last week this situation side to pick up
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steam a little bit as well as us
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continuing to talk about this a bunch
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there was an article written on I'm or
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by friend of the shows Frederico low and
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you were quoted in the article by direct
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quote online at not just from the show
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that's how people on Twitter knew that I
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was really serious because it's like you
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talk to a reporter you never talked to a
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reporter that he was like yes I'm here
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this circumstance for an issue as
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important as the Apple pencil i will
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talk to a reporter then a macrumors.com
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ran a piece where they incorrectly
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attributed the court from you to me
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saying sources in the note confirm the
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moving the functionality pencils a
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decision inside of Apple it's not a bug
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right which mean you know to be true at
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the time was so they ran that so that
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was good and then I got picked up by a
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few other places and basically over the
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space of like 24 hours i think from the
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last episode posting this became a thing
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that was popping up in a lot of places
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to with Apple then release that
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yeah it looked like basically this
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little steamroll happened that our
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episode went up the article on I more
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went up it got picked up in a few more
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places and then ultimately landed on the
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front page of daring fireball
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yeah and it i think all of this together
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was enough of the thing that Apple
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started worrying about this becoming a
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much bigger story and I was like this is
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picking up steam a little too fast a
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little too quickly and so they release
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this announcement which there has been
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some debate about this announcement
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because it's a little bit strange
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because the pr announcement says that
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Apple was always planning to bring back
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the navigation and that they just
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temporarily turn it off while they were
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working out some bugs and this is one of
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those moments to your listeners where
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you have to decide who you're going to
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because all I'm going to say is that i
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have several people in the know who
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confirmed to my satisfaction that that
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was not the case that there was
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definitely a debate inside of Apple that
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went one way to change things so it's a
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bit of it's a bit of a weird thing like
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I'm very happy that Apple has taken
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feedback and they have changed their
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mind on this topic but it's also a
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little weird that they released a press
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announcement giving the impression that
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they had never changed their mind so
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it's just it's a bit strange but i'm i'm
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very happy about it and it seems like
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yes so there's one of a little thing I
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somebody suggested this to me and I
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think it's very funny so I want to bring
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up those there was rumored to be an
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apple event happening on the fifteenth
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of March mm it's now been pushed back
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apparently to the 22nd has and I think
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you're responsible
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oh yeah you think this is my fault yeah
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yeah i think they've had to leave
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they've had to leave 9.3 in the in the
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in the oven for another week because of
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us and no I see right because this
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wasn't planned to be in the actual
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release know that they're busy ripping
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out all the code
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yeah which tells the pen pencil is your
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inputs and so they need another scrum
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week to get the 9.3 release out
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that's what I think it is I don't care
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if you're right i'm going to think that
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you're right because it's funny
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is there somebody said to me and was
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like there's no way that's the case
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however i think that's hilarious
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so I'm gonna run with it
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I like it I like it very much we also
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have a very important announcement
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yeah the official campaign logo for
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great holy 2016 has been created
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ok SI you have gone crazy with it made
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you made this offhand joke in the last
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episode at the very end about great
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early 2016 when we both at the same time
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that Apple should do the right thing a
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little joke i like okay that's funny
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little joke it's great keeping the
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podcast but since then you have had the
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relay designer working haha my campaign
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posters and photo shopping stuff and you
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keep sending me this stuff I message was
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like you know we're not actually running
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for president like Bridget like getting
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getting the posters already this was
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just one of those little things that
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mhm so I just asked Frank if he would do
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something and I think he's turned out
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pretty fantastic logo he has he has
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agree it looks very good
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it looks very American it fits in with
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all of the design language for campaign
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posters so i presume it will be in the
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yes people to check out okay yep and I'm
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yeah I'm just thinking now well else we
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can focus our campaign so we have that
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going for us clearly we've been very
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successful so far
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yeah in our only real official point
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we've we've completely unsuccessful mr.
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we have made the ipad great again
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yep we sure have bumper stickers
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okay so while this has been all fun and
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I do have one very sad very tragic piece
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of Apple pencil related news with
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personal to my life
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the Apple pencil that I got back when
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they were first made available that's
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been working with me tirelessly every
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day since I got it
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inevitably tragically it had a fatal
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interaction with a washing machine huh
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it was only a matter of time but sure
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enough it was left in my pocket my own
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carelessness led to the death of such a
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all i can say though is I'm at least
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glad that my pencil lived long enough to
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know that the campaign that it was
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fighting for for the right of Apple
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pencils the world over to be able to
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interact with the navigation that this
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campaign was victorious
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so while my pencil has fallen pencils
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around the world will be able to rise up
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and take their proper place in the apple
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ecosystem but i will ask out of respect
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for our fallen hero for a moment of
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silence this episode of cortex is
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for the next edition of the cortex book
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club coming very soon to this very show
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so i'll start off with the
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recommendation so the next book that we
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have decided to do on the cortex
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business book club is creativity ink by
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EDD cattle who is one of the cofounders
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of pixel and he has managed creative
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people for years and years and he just
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kills everything that he has learned
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into this book creativity ink so I'm
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looking forward to reading i haven't
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read it yet but I have heard great
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things so I'm looking forward to this
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one this is actually my pic is it was a
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book that I really wanted to read so you
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can go to audible.com and you can get
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creativity ink now and you can listen
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along and then when me and great talk
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about it in our next episode you will
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know exactly everything that we're
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talking about now the second book that i
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want to recommend is a book called the
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second coming of Steve Jobs this is my
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favorite book about Steve Jobs so this
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book was written in 2001 long before the
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iphone came around
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so a lot of this story actually does
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focus on pixar because at this point and
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Steve Jobs his life this would also
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become a huge accomplishment of him and
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helping build pics are up to be the
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animation juggernaut that it became so
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you'll be able to take a listen to how
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Steve Jobs got involved in Pixar and
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then kind of how he helped build it up
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it really is a very interesting look
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inside the story of pixar so that is
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another test that recommendation maybe
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inclined but you can choose from any of
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much to audible.com for their support of
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the show and really FM this is turning
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into a pretty monumental episode great
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oh yeah yeah i mean we've had our first
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real success as a show and now we're
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finally going to be addressing a topic
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from at was brought up in episode one
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that I think I still hear about every
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week for people ask me what we're going
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to talk about it
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mm and it's calendaring oh yes
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calendaring so we would we will address
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today my original claim to you that even
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sleep is blocked down your counter which
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was a fact i discovered during our
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conversation of evergreen to do the show
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together this was a conversation we had
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even pre cortex conversations yeah just
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talking about work in general and this
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came up as a thing but if I think it was
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when we were sitting
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dinner hashed crashing out the idea to
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do the show yeah maybe maybe that sounds
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right because you had things happening
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on your counter because I'd over on my
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time with you that
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yeah that's right my guy i was i was
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counting the grains of sand as they fell
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out of the hourglass of how much time
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you have left with me that's all that I
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wonder if I could pee pre-computer
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cgpgrey he would have used systems like
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that i can only imagine you just have
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you'd be carried around like a trailer
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full of our glasses that just took off
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the certain things you have to do each
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day i'm pretty sure that if I was a monk
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or something i would be using our
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glasses because i use timers all the
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time maybe the idea of a timer is not
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intrinsically connected to my phone or
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my watch so i'm pretty sure that yes I
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if I was a monk 200 years ago you know
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doing whatever monks to transcribing
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books all day or something I would be
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doing the exact same thing of working in
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units for her mind turning my hourglass
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over and over again and having a smaller
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hourglass for breaks
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you know just using that one of them i
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am confident that's what I would be
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doing this point in the direction I
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wasn't anticipating historical cgpgrey
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yeah let's start with what apps and
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services we both use the calendar and
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because I i use the calendar right like
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many people I think it might be
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interesting to position how i use a kind
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of how you counter and how they're
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completely different living
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reply what we're trying to get them i
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use fantastical em on all of my devices
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which it's a iOS and mac app that I
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really love my favorite thing about
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fantastical is the natural language
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input so you for example would type
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lunch receipts to be gray and it enters
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all of that into your calendar right so
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it's all you can set up lunch cgpgrey at
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the lunch place then it would put an
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event that says lunch to be great
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location will be lunch place and it
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would know the time you put twelve
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o'clock or whatever and enter it that's
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what i really like about it mainly is
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that natural language stuff because it
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makes more sense the way that I want to
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do things rather than check in a bunch
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and I use a combination of iCloud
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calendars because i have been using it
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for years and calendaring on iCloud is
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one of the things i have no problem with
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you know we'll talk another time about
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address books or something
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nothing just nothing I put something in
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one device never comes up on the other
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1i got changed your little icon from
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waving grade to the gray logo couple
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weeks ago I had to change on all of my
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devices independently
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okay well that that's how thinking work
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like oh yeah forgot that you are the
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sync service i have so I'm the
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go-between and i also use a little bit
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of google calendar of stuff because
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people sent me invites to my email
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address right which is a google apps
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account but what do you use I use a
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combination of fantastical and apples
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built-in calendar that's what I'm i'm
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using for for different reasons on
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different devices and the way they
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display different things I think maybe
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details of it is likely there's like a
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big question about how you use calendars
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like what's your calendaring philosophy
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and what is your calendaring philosophy
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Mike so I'm you're the person who has to
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actually deal with lots of stuff
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happening at specific times for my life
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my life mike is just an open field in
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every direction right with the wind
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gently blowing now it sits nice and
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relaxed and and zen and your life as we
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have discussed before is is like this
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horrific obstacle course with jail bars
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that you build for yourself about that
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constrain where you can be at specific
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times and all kinds of a complicated
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landscape and so it seems like a
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calendar is a tool that you have much
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more need for than I do
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yeah thanks for that accurate
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description of how our lives are my
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calendar is used for appointments so
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things that happen at certain times or
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if I am away order from holiday i'll
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so I know it's happening on certain days
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that kind of thing so for example today
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i have record cortex on my kinda have
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recorded upgrade on my calendar so the
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shows but I record all on my calendar so
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i know that if i get any requests for
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meetings or appointments or calls that
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time is blocked out i can see at a
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okay i know that i'm going to be doing
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this then then i put in things that I do
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with my girlfriend we have a shared
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calendar that sort of stuff goes on
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there so if we're going somewhere then
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I'll put it on there and i also use our
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shared calendar as a way to update her
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about certain days out that i'm going to
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be taking so she has an idea where I am
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at certain times if needs be
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and I is also put like conference calls
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and meetings and things like that so
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it's purely appointments and events that
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will take time up
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what I don't put on the calendar of
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things like edit cortex-m because for me
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that doesn't need to happen at a
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specific time that is a task for me and
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I will have it trigger a certain time
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and only focus to tell me to start doing
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it then and then I will do it then if i
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can do it right then I'll move it around
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so i use ice use those two things very
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differently and I considered anything
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that's a task anything that requires a
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completion will go and only focus
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anything that is happening at that fixed
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time because you've agreed it was
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somebody else goes in my calendar
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mm that's my calendaring philosophy
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yeah so this this to me sounds like it
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lines up very closely with what is the
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strict getting things done
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interpretation of calendaring which is
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only events that happen at a specific
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time where there is an external
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requirement in the world that you be
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doing something at exactly that time and
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so the rest of your calendar is
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presumably clear-rite nothing is nothing
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is listed on there
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exactly and it sounds this is almost
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sounds like a dumb thing to say like how
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you put appointments on a calendar but i
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think a really important thing to keep
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in mind is just like to be
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very clear on what is this tool for what
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is it not for and so yes if if if you
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don't want to put something like editing
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cortex on the calendar that's quite a
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reasonable thing to do because you think
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like okay well this can happen at almost
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any time whether it like it is not the
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same thing as like if we didn't we know
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we're recording an unusual time this
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this week if we didn't record this
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episode now we wouldn't be able to
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record this episode for maybe another
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you're going to sleep every day right
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that like that is gonna happen right
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sleep will occur because it kinda has to
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eventually lose that battle it's going
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to happen exactly even if you're busy
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catching muse eventually it's going to
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you could stay up too late but no
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calendar event was going to make me go
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catching them all man
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calendars is ok will you have this idea
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of ok here are my appointments they're
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try and get a handle on how much time do
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the calendar as a self-employed person
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how much time do I want to have for
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fantastical particularly on mac is
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two-week view which is much more useful
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that sink back and forth with so many
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people and for so many different things
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which is kind of like that action
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calendar but then I have a whole other
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set of calendars that i use to just plan
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out how in theory do I want to spend my
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my calendar is because the first big
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unmovable block always when planning out
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in theory when do I need to go to bed
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see look man if you're working the whole
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when do you need to go to sleep by and
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visually see it on a calendar when i'm
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planning my theoretical perfect
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two week time period that's why i put
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sleep on the calendar let's listen to
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that mean you don't like that at all but
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you wouldn't share something at like 3am
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right now I'm not going to schedule
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something at 3am you okay look you know
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I understand why do understand i just
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saying you just want to be able to see
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it visually it's not because you might
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accidentally put something and I've just
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wanted to say you wouldn't show you
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something at 3am to you for about six
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months so i have to get out
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yeah that's fine let me send you
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something like you're doing something
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I hate to keep bringing up the samsung
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damn trip I'm gonna bring it up again I
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don't bring it up people because again
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it was like the great incorporated
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retreatants I got all these great ideas
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and had this huge effect on me so I
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apologize if I keep mentioning this trip
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but it really didn't matter so on the
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most recent trip i didn't use a calendar
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i used the ipad pro to do it let me send
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you Mike me putting together a sample
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two-week period for myself so I'm going
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to instant message you something right
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now so you can see actually you can put
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ok what if i just sent you Mike the
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scribblings of a madman
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it looks like the look at it look like
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the scribblings of a madman I think not
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i think the listeners can decide
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alright so okay because radio is a
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theater of the mind we have across the
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top we have Monday Tuesday Wednesday
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Thursday Friday it carries on
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I think you got what three weeks planned
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see and then down the the button which
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see this is where this is where i am
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trying to get away from sin x axis and y
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axis because I can never remember which
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can you help the people it's the
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negative y-axis see this is why I can't
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do it is getting more computing on the
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negative y-axis we have it starts at six
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right six in the morning until four
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that's that what you're looking at is a
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piece of graph paper where I was sitting
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scribbles that's the one thing that
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commission right i was sitting down and
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trying to plan out a theoretical two
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that would be perfect like a two-week
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block of how do i want to spend my time
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forever over my working career I like
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look like in my life and so this is an
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exercise that is extremely helpful so on
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this piece of graph paper each block
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each of the blocks for how much time do
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I want to spend on this how much time do
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I want to spend on that you know what
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activities are going to happen when and
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in the theme of the year of less it's a
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very eye-opening experience to do this
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and again to be forced to look at the
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constraints of how much time do you
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actually have available to do various
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things and so yeah and in theory my
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workday here is really no starts at six
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and sort of ends at four and there's a
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bunch of things that I want to do and he
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was like oh there's actually not a whole
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lot of time in here like it of this
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things that i am going to schedule
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there's less than you think there is so
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this handwritten thing I eventually
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converted into a bunch of calendars that
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are in my system so that i have it on my
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computer and everything but this was me
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brainstorming and thinking about how do
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I want to arrange this kind of stuff in
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my life I can see me on this Conda oh
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yeah you can see you what do you think
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you are Mike pc and CC oh yeah that what
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you think you are ya good podcast cortex
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oh yeah I don't know what the sea would
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stand for because I would expect that to
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be an e editing cortex and i came to
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this because there's a ph and a CH and I
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assume that's podcasting hello internet
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and I don't see is hello Internet can
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think what was C this is now you you
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like the Enigma Mike you're not going to
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crack this code constructing it was not
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gonna have creating craft thing
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correcting that that film ok that feels
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more like wait what is it was the sea
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I'm going to leave it then we leave it
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to your imagination well I like though
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is the hello Internet has two full days
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to like day entries here
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presuming that the hello Internet
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editing which you are totally right yeah
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hello Internet takes up way more another
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three that's three editing things here
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and that is because we share the data in
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load which i think is different hello
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internet right so i take a parson you
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take a plus i think that's what is that
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yeah that's it that's exactly why it's
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it's it's different on the different
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what's the C stand for i can tell you
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just because it's fine and this also
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would leave the listener something to do
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yet please suggest listeners what that C
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stands for if you assume that what we're
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doing is it cutting i'm not i'm not
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telling you anything
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okay just leave it leave it man i can't
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handle this episode of cortex is brought
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would buy and wear everyday i spent
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forever looking for color
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so what this would suggest them
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is that you're moving away from putting
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sleeping at condo you're transitioning
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to a new more logical system
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no you don't understand like this is the
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only reason sleep isn't on here is
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because the graphing paper isn't big
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like I just pulled up the graphing paper
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template on my iPad brown and here i
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don't need to have 24 hours
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to self-sustaining on their own or I
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podcasts and they tend to be on my
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calendar who I have a price feel like
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what I can complete every week
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mhm and because my work is more
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structured than your work
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mom I know if I just already know always
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if I can take on a new project on that
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because I know what my structure is yeah
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your calendar because your life is so
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appointment constraint-based your
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calendar in a way is more naturally like
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an exercise that it has utility for you
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than it does for me I still think it
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would be interesting for you to try to
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map out all the time around that just to
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see what you want to be doing with the
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other time that is available but yes the
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more the more of a schedule you have
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because of external constraints the less
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value that is and it's like I never felt
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the need to do something like this when
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I was employed whereas now it feels
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vital that it feels like how like
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i started doing this maybe about a year
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ago I feel like how did I even get by
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without thinking about this in the two
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does anything else does any normal human
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activity other than sleep make its way
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onto your calendar now I believe if
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memory serves the reason this originally
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notification when we ride in that time
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telling you is time to read
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conversation think it to just come out
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watch which at the bottom allows it to
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display what your current calendar item
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of the meta because my meadow my life is
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calendar in the way it would do for
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it always shows me at the bottom what
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did past you think would be the best
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thing for you to be doing right now and
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when you happen to check the time as you
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do many dozens of times over the course
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of the day my watch always shows me at
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you should be doing right now and i find
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a northstar sort of always pointing the
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way towards what you should do
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see it's not judgment at all it is just
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guidance because this is one of the
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things that is very hard for me to
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communicate to people even though i'm
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computer that has a two week time frame
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where literally every single hour is
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blocked off what that is is guidance to
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me write it is not a requirement and
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week has actually been a great example
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for the last seven days i have totally
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calendar because i have been busy
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animating and and getting a note and
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getting a video ready to upload which is
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actually processing in the background as
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we record this episode up but so I don't
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feel like my calendar is judging me
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because I'm not following through on on
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instead it feels like now I am a person
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who was made a decision that if I want
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to get this video up by this particular
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date i'm having to blow everything off
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on the calendar that's that's part of
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what it is like this can be revised its
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that is adaptable and when I'm being
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particularly good about things
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I will just delete everything off the
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calendar now when i make that decision
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for like the past few days I have had
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nothing on the calendar because I know
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like I'm just gonna be animating as much
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as I can and taking breaks and I feel
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like I need to and then going back to
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animating and there's no point in trying
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to put this on the calendar i'm just
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going to be grinding through stuff so
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it's it isn't judgment its guidance it's
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helpful guidance from a past me
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that's what it is do you have lots of
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shared calendars mean you share a
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calendar do you do so people
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oh my god okay let me let me tell you my
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calendars here Mike before we talk about
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shared calendars
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okay i have UK holidays us holidays
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posts which is any kind of things i'm
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going to post on the website changes a
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social calendar personal calendar a work
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miscellaneous calendar a hello Internet
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calendar cortex calendar a free time
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calendar a health calendar a
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high-intensity work calendar a
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low-intensity work calendar and
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landscape calendar these are all the
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calendars that I have late most
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oh man landscape is super useful ok
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landscape is a thing where I want to be
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aware of something that is going on in
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the world that doesn't necessarily
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affect me directly so for example I have
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you on my landscape calendar on this
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thursday as Mike in dallas anytime
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somebody else is doing something that I
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want to be aware of that goes on the
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landscape I think of this is like the
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landscape of people around me and how
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accessible are there you could also call
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it stalking calendar it's not stalking
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calendar i only put it on if it's ever
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going to matter like sometimes I might
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need to get in touch with you and it's
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helpful to be aware of
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oh you aren't around yeah so for example
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hello Internet Brady's doing just a ton
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of traveling this year so i have a bunch
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of things where I know he is not going
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to be around where I have it marked off
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as like Brady is not going to be
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available i even put on things like uh I
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have WWDC marked off which is this
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don't have any plans to go to WWDC but a
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lot of people that I interact with i
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know will be less available during that
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week or on the YouTube side of things
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like I have VidCon marked off on my
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calendar in landscape again I have no
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intention to go to VidCon but I need to
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just be aware like if I'm trying to
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reach some youtube people like there is
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going to be very hard to read them on
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that day because it's VidCon and so
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anything like that i like to put on that
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landscape calendar future potential
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conferences that people make reference
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to travel plans for other people just
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anything that's going on that might
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affect my ability to get in touch with
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other people or might affect what's
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going on in my own life I will put on
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there another example of a thing that I
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put on that which is useful is on the
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occasions I've had family visiting me
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here in London I want to be able to
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block off like when is this going to
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happen so that i'm aware if someone else
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wants to try to schedule something say
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during a week if my parents are visiting
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or something like I am less available to
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other people during this time so that's
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what the landscape calendars for it's
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very useful i highly recommend it
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you know that one does sound pretty
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useful going to say yes thank you i'm
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convincing you hear you sounded so
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skeptical at first but this is good
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ok so shared calendars then my god
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so you have shared counters of lots of
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yeah is anybody allowed to put something
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with my wife which is for various social
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events so I'm aware of when she will be
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out of the house or when we are doing
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obviously that shared between my wife
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and I and for the most part my wife add
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things to that because i am anti social
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hermit crab-like of social things like I
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don't want to plan for or put these
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things on a calendar so if if I had to
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do all of our social arrangements we
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would have no social arrangements it's
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probably more accurate accurate to say
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that your wife has a social calendar
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that she invited you to that is actually
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what happened yeah
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it's so we have that that social
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calendar the hello Internet calendar
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obviously is shared between myself and
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recording there's a cortex calendar
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which is shared between you and myself
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which is also used for planning the
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recording but on all of those shared
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calendars i also have my personal
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assistant shared across those things so
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she is aware of when I have available or
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not available for things
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yes I found out to my surprise one day
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well yes you you were annoyed because I
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had my assistant bulk update a bunch of
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cortex posting dates because it so much
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that I was annoyed
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it was like who is this person in my
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calendar right who just added 20 events
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over the next couple months 4 episode
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release date yes but the most important
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calendar that my assistant is in charge
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of which is shared between us is the
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calendar that I call changes and you
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know how in three laughing at great name
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what's with either by the name changes
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it's just funny thing about it like what
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don't know I don't know
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just the the calendar with the name
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changes is just a very peculiar name to
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ok so changes is for anything that is
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different in the week that I almost
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certainly need to be notified that it's
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so this is for like looking at my
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changes calendar for this upcoming week
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i listed on there like tomorrow i have a
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boring business bank appointment that I
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have to go to on thursday i have a
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medical examination that I need to go to
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so those two things are listed on this
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changes calendar because i'm going to
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want alerts ahead of time to remind me
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to pop up on my watch or whatever that I
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need to go to these things but like a
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bank appointment is not going to be a
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recurring event like this isn't going to
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be every other week i go to the bank
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it's just going to happen this one time
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isn't this just like an appointment
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calendar them why is it changes it isn't
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this just an appointment yeah I mean I
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guess it could be appointments but to me
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changes feels like the right word
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because I mean I guess I gotta know in
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in some ways I could almost title this
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calendar interruptions to my life but
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changes is just a shorter way of saying
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that's like there's a normal week and
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then here are the changes in that week
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so the I guess it is an appointment
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calendar really ok changes the word the
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reason i ask that then I've been that's
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appointments that get scheduled that's
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calendar where I get it so homeostasis i
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get a notification that something has
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been added to that is like here comes an
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appointment I can't wait to find out
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when something gets added that like out
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gotta go to the bank gotta go to the
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dentist gotta go to the doctor you don't
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my sister has a bunch of rules about how
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she is to add things to this calendar so
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1pm unless there's absolutely no other
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no preferential days about when it
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should be added so it's like okay
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tuesdays are the best days to add
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calendar events and thursdays of the
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worst days to add calendar events and
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then a few other things like if there's
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let's book as many things on that
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Tuesday as we possibly can
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four appts than four days with one
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appointments and so that kind of gets
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all clumped together if possible that's
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to be easier just easier to deal with
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yep but yeah so I do have very many
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shared calendars looking at all those
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little radio icons on my little sidebar
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there and yeah the the whole
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notification system with calendars a bit
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weird when other people and stuff for
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you add stuff like everybody gets
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notified that could be a little bit
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annoying but it's the best thing that
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works as we said before i use iCloud to
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keep it all synchronized and pretty good
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pretty good i don't have any problems
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so all those little icons in different
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colors eyes as i said i use colors full
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of mine and I know all of my calendars
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by the colors and kind of think of them
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in color other than what they are
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oh yeah color color is vitally important
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like but they can't be enough colors in
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this in the system to hold all the
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calendars you have oh ok so the number
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of times i have thought human vision is
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too constrained for how many colors i
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want my calendars right because we
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really have essentially seven colors
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that a human can really clearly at a
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glance distinguish yeah yeah you're not
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you're not looking for Lila confusion
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yeah 77 is not enough seven is not
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so just just runnin runnin through my
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own colors which it's so personal but
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it's like oh I can't envision it any
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other way it's been this way for many
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years and years but work stuff is blue
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personal stuff is green health stuff is
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I have free time is blocked off in
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yellow the changes calendar it's very
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important I use the color orange for the
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changes calendar not because that's the
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color that I want to use but it's
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because it's the color that stands out
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the most on Apple calendar one thing
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that i am kinda frustrated with the
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Apple calendar thing is how it wants to
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make everything super pale which is very
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frustrating but they're orange color
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happened to stand out the most
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even when it was pale so like eight
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years ago because of this way that Apple
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calendar works like I chose orange as my
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changes color like forever until the end
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of time now changes always will be an
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orange I think about the song is gonna
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be in my head all day now and i have
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holidays as pink and posts and podcasts
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and stuff are also blue because from my
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perspective they are a subsection of
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work and purple i use for nothing
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because purple is an abomination
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so because of the amount comes i have I
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effectively don't have any color overlap
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so I have podcasts calendar which is
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orange and on that calendar is my
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recordings but also calls and
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appointments related to podcasts go in
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I have a cortex calendar which is yellow
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mhm adina that's no yellows free time
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though Mike that's all wrong
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wow I thought I could do about it hang
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on a second is there a gray color sleep
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is growing all right i need to have to
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change the color of my contacts calendar
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to gray how did I not think of this
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partner who from edina has a camera that
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she shares at me which is just kind of
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things that she's doing and that's green
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my general calendar is blue
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this is all wrong this is subjectively
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alright subject there you go that's it
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subjectively all wrong
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I have a can of the cord work which is
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also green but nothing goes on there
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anymore because I don't have a job I
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have a red calendar called holiday mom I
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have a yellow canonical gigs for
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concerts but I don't go to concerts
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anymore so cortex and gigs being the
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same thing like pigs it hasn't been used
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in years what a bizarrely specific
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calendar to have I used to go in my in
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my prime I used to go to about two
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oh that's why that that's okay and then
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me and Audrina have a shared calendar
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which is purple but now any gigs and
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concerts and stuff would go in the
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purple calendar because most likely me
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and it would be going together i also
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have a dark blue calendar which is our
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live show schedule calendar but I'd hide
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that I don't see it because i already
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have all of that and orange that I need
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to know about and I have a dark green
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calendar which is invites to my google
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account there you go little tip here for
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you might get together that that gives
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calendar I do have one other calendar
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which is gray which is just called old
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calendars when you go to delete a
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calendar that you no longer need apples
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calendar program asks if you want to
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move it to move all of the past events
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to a different calendar and so I have
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one calendar called old calendar that is
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just a collection of things that don't
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exist anymore like all of the various
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calendars I used to have to manage
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school stuff i've deleted those
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calendars because i don't use them
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anymore but the events are still all
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there in this great out old calendar so
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i can go back and look and say oh what
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was my schedule like when I was teaching
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six years ago a tech school in case I
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ever need to see it so that that's a way
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that you can still keep all of the old
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stuff without having to have your
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sidebar cluttered up with calendars that
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you haven't used in years like you do so
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nothing here that I'm currently changing
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there we go to the record cortex condors
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is now is now grey there you go that's
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that's what I'm proud of myself now
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fantastic and it is still the wrong
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color because greys for sleep or for
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archives calendars
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oh yeah yeah I can i go how can I got in
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that room that use that
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yeah it's just like hearing you even
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describe something like whatever was
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just a work calendar being green my
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brain just rebelles against that was
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like two green it's for personal data
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but fantastical on iOS doesn't have a
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gray color so it's going back to yellow
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you can pick an exact color and
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fantastical it'll it'll just sink over
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on iOS Oh didn't it didn't do that oh my
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god now my colors are changed
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why did that happen I can't give you
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live tech support while recording a
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podcast Mike why they changed the colors
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are all garbage anyway so it doesn't
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matter that quick calendar tip which i
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really like this thing is a thing that I
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fantastical on iOS has a today widgets
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that you can install the thing that I
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like about it is that you can set only
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some calendars to appear in the today
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widget and this is one of the little
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habits that i have that every morning I
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swipe down on notification center and
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look at that little widget because it's
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a great way for me to just see what
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things have to happen today
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so in fantastical i have it set so that
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my changes calendar
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hello Internet calendar the cortex
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calendar and the posts calendar are the
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only things that show up in that
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fantastical widget right so like when I
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swipe down on it today
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it shows me there are 2 items that are
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all day items which are the posts which
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is the next video in the next episode of
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Hello internet are each going up today
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and then it lists record cortex and it
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shows the exact time so i really love
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that too always just have a quick little
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overview of I don't want to see the
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whole calendar i just want to see a
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subset of my calendars and i love that
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like I use that every morning every day
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to kind of orient myself about what what
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is going to happen today big picture
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is there anything in this system that's
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missing like it is that they're things
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that you wish your system did better or
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things that you've tried to implement
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and have failed to do the one thing that
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I would like that I've i have tried to
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replicate in in some ways but I wish
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there was was better notifications for
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different kinds of items so I would like
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to know that like that the do app timer
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that that app has this great feature
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which is like this little remind me
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every five minutes when the timer goes
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off feature i absolutely love that and I
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wish a calendar app had something that
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was similar to that like keep bugging me
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about this thing when it's supposed to
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start like don't just again because so
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many of the things on my calendar art
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things that don't absolutely have to
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happen so like with with going to the
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gym for example I would love to be able
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to have my calendar nag me about that
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repeatedly instead of just once having a
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little notification come up that's
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probably the only thing that I would
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like there are there are a couple ways
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that I'm getting around that using a few
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apps we might talk about it some point
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in the future but it would be nice if
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that was directly built into a calendar
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i think anything i'm missing is for a
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kind of their app to complete all the
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things on my calendar for me without
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media into anything so maybe i can join
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you in the meta that would be that would
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be quite nice i would like that too
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same with the new app if i get to do app
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that would actually do the items for me
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that'd be perfect
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cool do but none i don't do anything
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they don't do anything that's worthless
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where he could not do right undone
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that's going to be the name of my to-do
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not found us an office space i will
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never find us on office space never say
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I'm saying Never Never Say Never already
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did Mike what if it's huge
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what if i win the lottery and offer to
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apply a massive complex for the two of
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us but you just need to find it and it's
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big enough that we'll never run into
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each other but it will be the same
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ok listen i will agree to that
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if we have separate elevators on
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separate sides of a building that go to
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separate floors at that that's my
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conditions there you go Mike
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all I know what I'm trying to do is
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understand the parameters so i have now
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established them that's fine so now you
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never with a master's got em
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where to go with that you don't need to
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I don't know what to say so how is your
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officers going not well Mike no no not
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well it's not going it's not going well
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uh-oh i'm assuming is nowhere can
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office space have revealed that the
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open-plan office is a virus that has
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taken over everywhere and so okay when
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father is self employed as a lawyer and
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when I was a kid he had various offices
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that he rented in different locations
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like then they were office buildings
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that had many offices that people could
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rent and this is sort of what I had in
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my mind that I want to try to find
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something like this but looking around
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all of the relatively new office
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buildings and buildings within like the
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last 10 years are all built as single
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endless open floors
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yeah so that they're like the building
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itself doesn't even have any structure
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within its to provide for private
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offices for people it's just endless
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open floors and so when i try to contact
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some places and say oh do you have
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office space for rent
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they say why yes we do
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how many tables do you need as I oh no
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what do you mean like oh well we have a
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grid of ten by ten tables / floor that
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we're friends out to companies how many
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of those tables would you like on the
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floor you gotta be kidding me
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that sounds awful for companies that's
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not at all what I'm looking for you have
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any private space and like what do you
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mean by private you mean like with the
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door now we don't do doors that's that's
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the response that i often get but I say
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the open plans thing is like a virus
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because even trying to find office space
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and what to me look like older buildings
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it seems like many of them on the
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interior have converted as much as they
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can to open plan space so I've seen a
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few buildings were thinking surely
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building when you were originally made
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because this is london right so the
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building's thousands of years old
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you weren't built with an open-plan
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office in mind but clearly at some point
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you realized it was more profitable to
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sell office space by the desk and by the
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floor and so you just got rid of all of
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the interior walls so it has not been
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promising so far Mike it has been it has
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been disappointing to be looking for a
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place that is private as opposed to a a
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place that is just a table in a room of
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other tables so you've been conducting
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this such personally I have been
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personally approaching buildings that
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i'm aware of and I've had my assistant
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searching out various options and
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neither of them have returned promising
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results so far I feel like you might
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need to go to accompany you know that w
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can provide you can just provide this
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search for you i was wondering if such a
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thing exists i go there but there must
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be companies that can do this there has
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to be if there are letting agents for
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personal property there are letting
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agents for commercial property
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yeah i guess there i guess they have to
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be but the problem is is I am on a very
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strange scale of it i don't think so
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you're a small business there are small
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businesses looking for offices
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yeah maybe I don't know everything I've
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come across is just weirdly wrong in a
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in a bunch of ways and it's it's just
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frustrating because it feels like I
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in central London there are offices
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everywhere this commercial real estate
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in every direction as far as the eye can
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see they're sad office drones working in
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every building i think through all the
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windows and many of those buildings have
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phone numbers on them that you can call
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about for office space but just none of
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them so far I've had private office
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the only places that do have private
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office spaces that have found so far are
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unacceptable because they are out of
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central London yeah and then suddenly is
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like wait a minute i can get some nice
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offices that might work for me just as a
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single person but then suddenly i have
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made for myself the morning commute it
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like that huh i have worked too long and
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too hard to work myself back into a
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commute like no no I have done that for
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many years and I cannot imagine like I'm
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not getting on the underground at six in
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the morning for a 30 minute train ride
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out to the outer rim of London just to
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have a private office like a no this is
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and come join us out here the office
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space is plentiful you're not 30 minutes
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away you're like two hours away about
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I'm 45 minutes from the center of London
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45 minutes from the center line you
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might as well you're just you're not
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even in London technically are you know
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yes there you go it's just too far i'm
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in another County yeah that's no good no
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good at all like out there with your
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tumbleweeds not interested I'm very
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aware of that the don't need you to tell
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me but that is exactly the problem like
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here is here is the seductive part about
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living in the center of the city even
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for all of the the problems that has
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like incredibly high costs frustratingly
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small places to live the seductive part
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about where I live is everything I need
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in my whole life is within walking
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distance and so my co-working space my
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gym several grocery stores a couple of
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parks even my wife's place of employment
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and is within walking distance and so
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like I've occasionally met her after
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work to walk home like ninety-nine
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percent of everything I need I can walk
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to within 15 or 20 minutes at the
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that's just absolutely great and so what
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I would just I just want like magically
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there to be an office space that i can
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rent that is also within this tiny
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radius of of my world but so far so far
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nothing like it is sad is disappointing
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we did have some follow-up about your
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working environment in general because
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there were quite a few people taken with
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how you were working and the kind of
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constraints that you put yourself in
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during the location to who and and
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fireballs 73 on reddit pointed out
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something that you were surprised about
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the iphones very interesting which is
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the idea that many bands go to remote
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locations to record their albums this is
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a very normal thing so for example a
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band from London may go to a recording
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studio in LA to record their album and
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this can be for for a few different
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reasons but sometimes it's just to get
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the feel of a different city to help
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them with the music right like to kind
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of inspire them creatively that are in
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different surroundings and it might make
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them record different sounding music you
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know some people will go to a specific
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place because they're trying to capture
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the sound of that place therein no music
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and some people do it so they just away
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from the usual distractions of their day
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i'm not sure if you were trying to
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capture the sights and sounds of
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amsterdam for your recent video or not
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you know I guess people can make their
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mind up about that depending on how many
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colors are in the video i guess but this
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is something that you're clearly not
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alone in doing i know i'm not alone
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yeah I didn't know I didn't know about
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bands yes I'm not interested in the
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world of music really but yeah i was i
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was surprised by like always this thing
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and apparently it is the thing but it it
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makes sense in retrospect that like oh
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yeah of course that that is something
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that i could see bands definitely doing
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for the exact same reason that i did
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having a different environment and also
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having a environment where you are out
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of the normalcy of your life is very
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effective for limited periods of time
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and also meet by on reddit wondered if
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and I i thought was quite an interesting
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idea if your brain could maybe be
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tricked by different lighting into
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thinking that you're working in
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different scenarios that you consider
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something like this so they suggested
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maybe one of these bulbs that you can
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change the lights of like a Phillips you
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or something like that
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Oh Mike my house already has a few
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lightbulbs in every socket
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what do you use them for I first thought
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that this was i don't know like a
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gimmick the hue light bulbs
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I can't remember why i got the very
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first one but I had some specific reason
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why I want to just try one out and then
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as soon as you have one
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yo I want every light bulb in the house
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to be just like this they are
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surprisingly surprisingly handy and the
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the thing that's really great is again
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on notification center when I pull it
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down on any of my iOS devices i use an
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app called i connect Hugh and this
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allows me to have presets for the lights
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in the house so at any point I can turn
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all the lights on and off or change it
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to a whole bunch of presets that my my
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wife and I have made and it is just
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really great and really convenient to be
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able to do that so we have different
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settings for movies we have we have two
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movie settings one which is called
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serious movie and then we have another
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one which is called not-so-serious movie
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which is depending on how much we want
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the lights up or down we're watching a
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movie together but not so serious movie
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has brighter lights because we're going
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to be getting up and going to the
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kitchen and moving around more because
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we're not paying attention as much
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there's a setting that I use all the
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time which is that i tend to go to bed
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much earlier than my wife does but she
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doesn't want the the lights in the
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bedroom all the way off when she comes
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to bed she can't find her way and the
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room like it doesn't want to stumble
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over stuff to have a setting that i use
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which has the lights very low
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and very red in the bedroom when i'm
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going to sleeps like it doesn't bother
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me but it's still visible for her to to
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move around like boy is that great use
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them every single day
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there are a few other things that we use
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them for but this person mentioning
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about tricking with the lighting like my
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wife does have it set so that all of the
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lights in the house
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slowly come on when she gets up in the
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morning she wakes up later than i
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usually do and think that is a very nice
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feature she also has one of these
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Phillips sunrise alarm clocks which
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tried to wake you by having this kind of
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fake sunrise happen in the room i wish i
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could use these because I wake up
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earlier than my wife and it doesn't make
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sense from the for her to wake up at the
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time that i'm going to wake up so if one
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of us is going to get the sunrise it's
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going to be her but let me tell you
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anybody out there who's trying to wake
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up in the mornings the the light trick
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is amazingly effective like it really
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does help you wake up quite naturally to
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have the lights slowly come on like the
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half an hour before you want to wake up
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you should totally do it
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I really want one of these
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I really want one of these light bulb
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systems the only reason we haven't done
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it is i don't know what the light
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fixtures are going to be in the house we
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move to so I don't want to go ahead and
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buy all of that stuff now and then have
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to change in six months
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it's a big investment like the hue light
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bulbs are not cheap they're not cheap at
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all so you don't want to buy a whole
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bunch and then and then realize you need
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different ones in six months that that's
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so have you tried anything like this to
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to maybe have a setting for podcast
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editing a setting for script writing and
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to maybe try and trick your brain into
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the different location that way i don't
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explicitly do that with work I do so I
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do sort of do it because i like the
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lights at a different setting that my
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wife does so I like them much whiter and
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brighter than she does
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and so when she's gone I set them that
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way and then I have them actually
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automatically slowly
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set back to her preferred setting around
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the time that she comes home so there is
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this interesting thing that happens in
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your brain like I'm ambient Lee you
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aware of about the time she is coming
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home because the lights have changed
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ever so slightly
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it's interesting that your brain does
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learn to pick up on these q's i am not
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sure that like the lighting effect I
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imagine is maybe five or ten percent
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helpful and I think ninety percent of
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the battle for me is having a different
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location that i can go to that is not
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working in my house so why like it's
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like oh yeah maybe they would be helpful
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really what I still just want to focus
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on is trying to find an office and a
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dedicated space for writing and editing
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work and things like that that that's
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going to help me way more than messing
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around with the lights and trying to
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train my brain like you when the lights
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you're supposed to be writing and
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Gabriel's suggested the idea of if mean
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you were to ever share just space and
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it's never gonna happen
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yeah we're not going to share it is ok
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it would make for a fantastic sitcom
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which I agree with and I i have a title
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for that sitcom if we ever decided to go
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ahead and make it maybe you two can
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throw some of that red money our way now
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and we can make an original and I feel
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like we should call it the gray area no
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such a good name
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I'm just saying youtube if you want to
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throw some money because he you know
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gray will bend to this if you throw
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enough money at him you said before they
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will sell out so you can you can call me
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up with a picture my business cards in
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the show notes so summon up make it
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gray area you need to be so many zeros
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so many zeros they got the money
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can we just briefly mention American
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Truck Simulator I have nothing to add
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about this i think it's like it just it
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let's not talk about that now i want to
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talk about because I've been playing the
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hell yeah i know you have but let's save
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it until next time the hell out of it
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I have made many trips i'm saving for a
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truck I'm sorry we'll talk about next
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