Cortex 3: Good for Brain Health
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man that was the longest boringest way you could possibly have described Launch
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Center pro you've been very busy this week Avenue like this feels like a week
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of gray productivity and like I've ever seen before
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yes I have been have been unusually busy this week I was very surprised this
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morning to see another episode of Helmand
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like two episodes in a week it's magical yes within a week there have been two
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episodes of hello internet because we just put up our special Royal Society
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episode this morning then I put a video yesterday and I am recording cortex with
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you right now which will go up on Friday and at some point this week I'm also
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recording another episode of hello internet so yes it is it is unusually
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busy week for me this week I'm going to take credit for that
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like you know we started a show where you're looking at your productivity in
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your productivity has increased fourfold you can take credit for that if you want
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but their total I like when I go back to just a normal week next week and then
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it's fine I have no problem living a lie if you're taking credit you also have to
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take blame that's how this works I'm fine with that I would definitely like
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that ok there was something that you've been doing has obviously as part of your
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productivity blitz you were posting pictures of your only focus all day like
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it's fine if you go if you like looking in some apps show like the recent media
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and it's basically just a grid of the focus icons people who follow me on
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know already that the usually pretty obvious when I am animating because I am
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on Twitter all day long
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when I'm doing the animations for a video because I find the animations just
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a very tedious process and Twitter while while it is normally just nothing but a
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distraction I i think i work better with Twitter open because it's a bit of light
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steam vent of just I can I can kind of poor a little bit of frustration out on
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on to Twitter and so yes whenever I'm very active on Twitter it's usually when
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I'm I'm animating and that day in particular because I'd originally
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planned to post two things I had this only focus badge that I was I thought it
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happens to start out at over 100 I'm going to post this and I i really just
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that I want something like I'm going to war with this number today as I was
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trying to launch 22 projects on the same day and then as time went on at all I
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just kept posting like milestones as the day when I was a little bit was a little
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silly and I often feel like I need to apologize to the people who follow me on
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Twitter like this is taking down as they was going on it was funny it was you
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know people I see what we can you in like you know I never expected today
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will be the day that would follow along with you because the bad guy cons yes
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very exciting I wouldn't expect you to be a badges man like to have the number
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on your Apple icon that doesn't feel like it fits with your thoughts of your
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homescreen balance now know it it does not and if you looked at the screen
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shots from from the phone that we did last time there was no badge on army
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focus this is one of these things where I do constantly try to think about my
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system and try to make little changes and it occurred to me I don't know about
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a week ago that I really do hate badges on the phone I have I have some severe
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thoughts about badges and and how people allow them on their phone and I dislike
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them I generally don't have badges for almost anything but I thought maybe I
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can use my intense dislike of the badges as a kind of productivity fuel and I i
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spent and I know it was it wasn't very long but I spent maybe half an hour or
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region green my only focus a little bit to try and pull out a selection of items
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that need to be done by the end of the day
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day and to just have on the focus display a badge for for those items I
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was thinking back to when I used to be a teacher I used to have a a series of
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printed pieces of paper one for each day of the week and on them were written the
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things that had to get done before I was allowed to go home at the end of the
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work day of course there are always an infinite number of things that you can
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do on a work day but it was helpful to have just a list of the things that have
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to get done before I can go home and so in OmniFocus I was thinking maybe my
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current working life is quite different but maybe there's a little bit of this
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that I can I can recreate and so that's what I was attempting to do with the
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badges is to make more visually obvious items that really have to get done on
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this day before I can even remotely pretend like of the work day is over
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that's what I set up an army focus and that's what I was that that's what I
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have been playing around with for the past week and I would say that initial
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results are promising I think for me and for most people like you have to balance
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the idea of anxiety reward with the badges so i'm i'm very I have some App
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Store I allow badges to be on but it's very specific to do that like I allow
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messaging apps for example slack or I message and stuff like that if their
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direct messages to me I will be there so I know because they tend to be more
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things that need more attention and only focus I have it only show a badge for
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overdue items so on something passes did the time that I set for it pops up
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because seeing badges can make me anxious because it's like I know that
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this stuff in there that needs to get done and I'm not doing it hence why the
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badges but then you also have the reward party which you're going through which
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is why have these things here and I get to watch them go down and that's a good
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feeling but I think you kind of have to to to work out what side of the
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what kind of tired of the claimed you you land on you have to feel like this
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is the way that I wanna go about this I want to even feel like I've got
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something that is trying to grab my attention or I have something that is
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making me feel good in general my philosophy with notifications and badges
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is is sort of along those lines of I just I just see so many people who have
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iPhones that just just beep or or have badges on them for all all kinds of crap
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and I think you really need to to look at those notifications and say ok a
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notification in a perfect world it should be something about which I need
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to take action and the more interrupted the notification is the the more
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immediate the action should be and I see lots of people who just don't you don't
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do this and that the badges are our little bit low down on that notification
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hierarchy because most of the time with apps that will show a badge
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don't also have them interrupt me and alert to something but I can see the
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badges on the phone and I think ok something is in this app that needs to
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be cleared but I've seen people use badges on apps for things that I just
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think are crazy I've seen people do stuff like oh I want my read it later
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appt you just have a badge on it
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of how many articles I have in this read it later what are you crazy why do you
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need to see two hundred and forty-seven as a red badge on the top of your
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reading application
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didn't you put those articles in there don't don't you know that they're in
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there and what about this is remotely urgent you know you can't possibly have
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247 must read items so I really try to limit badges and notifications to the
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bare minimum it can possibly be and always run it through this spectrum of
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if the app is going to notify me about this thing one is there an action that I
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need to take and two is that action
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relatively immediate and and if the answer to both of those questions is yes
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then I'm going to have some kind of notification for the moment only focus
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is really the only thing on my phone that has always present red badge on it
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is really the only one that gets that so that's why I think it is effective at
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least in the moment for making me want to grind through the items that are
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there because I want to get rid of that badge and then returned to a nice clean
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iPhone or iPad screen it's interesting that you have allowed one to break
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through that but I think that on the focus is probably the kind of that would
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be allowed on the focus is really the dashboard for my whole life is about it
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and so if anything deserves to have a badge on it focuses it and I haven't put
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the badge on four years because of my dislike of badges and my desire for you
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clean iPhone screen but like I said before it occurred to me who I could I
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could use my desire for the clean iPhone screen as a kind of a little bit of an
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additional push and so too intensely a glyph I my iphone screen on my iPad
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screen a tiny bit to get a little bit more work out of myself this is our
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first show having follow-up yeah I achieved practically the entire show is
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gonna be follow up with some description we have now turned over the showed
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people and the people have many questions that we have we have received
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many tweets many comments many screenshots from listen to the first two
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episodes were gonna get to that but there was something that I wanted to
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give idea many other podcasts as some people may know what one could even say
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you have a whole network of podcasts that would be correct one of them at the
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moment I'm actually talk to people about their favorite albums and out of pure
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just serendipity this week's episode with serenity Caldwell by more she
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picked all day by goal talk which we've spoken about how many people familiar
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with that album that maybe one before but if you wanna hear
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her talk about that and listen to two people can do 290 people trying to wrap
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a little bit as that happens I would suggest listening to them it's fun to
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hear more about that album and it's really interesting to hear how so many
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people use it as a way to focus their attention is a very strange album for
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that like but it seems like so many people use it for that reason very
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interesting and one of the biggest questions one of the questions I saw the
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most on I think it's about episode 12 people were asking why you had a
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personal assistant so many people are really interesting this kind of stuff
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there are things you say during an episode and they're just like throwaway
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comments but they seem to lock in with people and it is interesting that you
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have a personal system like people don't understand why our house set up so we're
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actually going to address this in a later episode we're gonna turn into a
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bigger topic talk about that kind of stuff just teasing the people now is
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that what you're doing I just want people to know that I'm not ignoring the
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question very important that people understand our listeners understand I
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listened to them that's my that is my role here is like you know to to to take
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the suggestions from the audience here one of them and we will talk about that
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later but we should talk about some screens because this is the one I seen
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the most there are so many people that hate this show for this reason because
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they are completely like it's like a love hate relationship because they have
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completely like I did up ended their phone and it's all over the place
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ice when I wasn't able to be disturbances in San Francisco Apple's
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WWDC event and there were people that were actually going through the process
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at that point they'd listen to the absolute
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showing me what they were doing and how their life was ruined because I didn't
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know any of their Abdullah
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their life has been improved because I pointed out how horrible most people's
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iPhone screens are so they've improved their iPhone screen so their life is
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better to have a more aesthetically pleasing environment in which to iPhone
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there is there is a significant problem which I'm still going through which is
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the fact that now everything is not where
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that is a problem there are ways transition costs but these transition
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costs are worth it so I have the follow up for my own phone I have no change my
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wallpaper great no longer have prominent I'm actually I'm currently rocking the
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official cortex wallpaper but we haven't we have an official wallpaper I did he
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designer put together for us which I am now using there is even a CGP grey
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version of the wallpaper which takes into account the way that you set up
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paper I want to see it on your phone I need to talk to you about this very
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second because we're not doing this again are we the official cortex
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wallpaper for the listeners is it it's like very dark graph paper you know how
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graph paper has thicker lines and thinner lines it's a very good looking
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wallpaper I have to say but Mike is just sent me a picture of his iPhone screen
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much improved its a dark background so the icons standout you still have four
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icons on the dock which is unfortunate but it seems like you're just not going
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to fix this however I don't know if you noticed this but you have misaligned the
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grid from the icon yeah I'm trying to i've tried very hard to get this to work
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I mean this is immediately this is the only thing I can see when you send me
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the screenshot is that your wallpaper is is shifted slightly to the left of the
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icons are not centered which is I spent a very very long time trying to get this
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right you may have spent a long time on it but you have not spent enough time on
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it I think you need to turn off prospective zoom you're going to use
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this what he did and I'm still struggling I'm gonna fix it
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gonna fix it was on the air right now I'm gonna try anyway no you're not going
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to fix it while on the air right now because you're ready said you spent a
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lot of time trying to do this right and you obviously failed and so let's let's
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like you can fix this later but hit the way better like a guy I know I'm giving
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you a hard time it's a way better than then how you started the difference
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between the regular edition edition from from the words of a designer is your
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mission is a four icon grill top and a three icons at the bottom that's a nice
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tight slender very nice touch with the transparency for the doc think the
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designer for me so frank does great work and he wanted to make sure that you had
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an addition that you may be happy with to use some point I will once again go
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back to the drawing board and attempt to fix the grievous error I have made
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because that's seems to be what I do now many many people great when it's in a
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way you came from I think this is actually the most requested thing people
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want to know where you're from I don't remember where I found it originally
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people want to know great they gotta get to tell the people what my wallpaper
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actually is is there is a style of art which is called low poly which is a
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little short fellow polygons a kind of become the video game world basically
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but it's a particular way of of simplifying and image so I did a whole
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bunch of searches for a low poly artwork and eventually stumbled upon that one I
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have the full document on my computer but I don't know the original source of
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this because I think this was the topic of one of the hello Internet podcast but
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has been a very long time trying to search for and find just the right
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iPhone background so I will see if I can track down the original artist so we can
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put that Lincoln and give them credit I had a few people suggest including Derek
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on Twitter a segment of the show which I've really loved the idea of would like
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to convince you about this every week
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you grade listeners on screen now this is a terrible idea
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know this is a great idea this is a terrible idea because because iPhones
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don't have a lot of degrees in in which they can be good or awful there are very
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very very few things that you have to do right to make your iPhone screen
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acceptable it's just that most people never think about it most people just
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start casually adding apps and picking a random wallpaper and and they just they
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end up with something that looks horrible not on purpose but all of the
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horrible iPhones are are horrible in in similar ways and I don't think there is
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there is much room to expand on how a particular person's iPhone screen is
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particularly awful you know they're always going to have the same thing
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clown vomit backgrounds for like a baby photo as the background and a bunch of
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just apps with badges all over them that's how I phones are are bad and the
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way to make iPhones look good is to limit the number of apps that you have
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on your phone and to select a wallpaper that works a wallpaper has two jobs it
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should be aesthetically pleasing and it should ideally at a minimum not be
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distracting but at best it should show off the icons even better which is why
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you generally want a dark background you don't you don't want your baby's face in
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in a bright sunlit area as the background of your phone then just looks
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just looks awful that that's all there is to say about iPhone set-ups there are
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people in the world that want to receive the criticism I received I don't know
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why but they do I don't know that other people
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what is your iPod home screen look like as we look to your iPhone right so what
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what how does this differ how do you set that up I don't have a screenshot to
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send you back right now I just bought a new iPad and I am in the process of
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trying to get it setup still you know I don't know where everything goes yet
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I have worked out the placement and I'm using the cortex wallpaper so we know
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that that's good but now I'm still in the process of trying to work out where
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everything goes looking for inspiration
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ok it's shockingly different from my iPhone as you will see when it when it
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comes through ok 23 gray why there are three icons in the dark because as I
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explained last time I want the doc to be the same on all of the devices that I
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little bit different because my iPad is arranged much more as a work device so I
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have some things on there like me out liner and numbers and never know that I
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seems to be less than there is no fun unless there's like a thousand apps in
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the folder there are a ton of apps in that folder there probably less apps on
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my iPad that on my iPhone yeah there's there's a ton of stuff that shoved in
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there in that folder but the only reason that one folder is there is because
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there are more I convert I want on the iPad but I still they still do want to
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have a one page set up which I realized who I can do if I have a centered folder
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and just shove everything in there so this is this is the way my iPad looks
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now have to say I really like the centerfold I think I'm gonna be stealing
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that you can steal my sent folder that looks nice well I mean so you're missing
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your health and your London and other folder which are in your iPhone so I
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assume things like health in London probably are in their right cuz that's
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like stuff that is to be out and about with which I guess not used as much in
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that regard as like tracking things and finding your way around
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and the London folder from my iphone is a bit of a cheat because I'm actually
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using that as a good maps transit local staff folder + rarely used after they
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use for travel just in general who's really like up leases folder that is and
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then yes of course the health app is because while the health or the health
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of older is there because the health app is only on the iPhone and there's a
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bunch of things that are related to health it only on the iPhone
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the two different devices served two different purposes which is why their
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setups are slightly different but the iPhone is much more of a general-purpose
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device and the iPad is very clearly a work device and that's why the anything
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that is different it can boil down to that so i feel myself with my phone
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getting closer to the one-page method because I don't know where anything is
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some searching and if I'm searching more it doesn't matter where things live
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that's exactly right that's why you can have one page is it simplifies in your
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mind what you do when you're looking for a nap I can either see the app or I'm
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going to search for the app end of story there are no other options that's all
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you do that's the philosophy so I'm getting closer because I want that I
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want it you know I look at that one page and I'm gonna keep my ipad2 one page cuz
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you know that that feels like a great thing to do keep it all on one page in a
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plan like you had less on my iPad I have my phone cuz I'm going to try and keep
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this as a work devices while I have some some people were were very perplexed
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with some of the decisions that you made about your iPhone home screen for
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example sage on trisha has asked how can you have no browser on your phone home
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screen how do you look at the internet I don't look at the internet telephone I
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have restrictions the browser on my phone hang on a minute ago what is that
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there is no Safari on my phone how do you follow links
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you know what this is again this is how do you tweet and the answer is that I i
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dont i dont so let's say you're in London you're out and about in the
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street and you see something you like I need to look this up to you never looked
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ok we do need to do we need to discuss do we need to discuss iPhone philosophy
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here for a moment I guess I think we're gonna have to yes I guess what I'm gonna
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try to do here is answer a bunch of questions and so we don't have to go
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through why don't you have access on your phone I have a lot of that we may
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as well just trying to give I'm going to try to give an overview here what's
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going on and my philosophy is that I am I am trying to reduce distractions on
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the iPhone and distractions I mean it in a very broad sense that there are the
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obvious distractions like the worst thing you could possibly do I have to
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put it on my phone and it notifies me every time someone favorite the thing
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that I tweet right that is just the worst possible scenario of I want this
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thing to vibrate every every time someone has sent me a tiny bit of
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Internet love you just begging for non actionable distraction all day long
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that that that's the absolute worst version of that can be but even if you
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have Twitter on your phone and you say oh I like in person I'm going to disable
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all notification from Twitter because i dont i dont need that there's nothing
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actionable here when someone retweets thing that I've said the problem is
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still the problem is still did you you can then self-generated distraction and
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that self-generated distraction is I want to go look at what's on Twitter I
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want to go check the phone hasn't distracted you you have distracted
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yourself with the option that is available so that's that's why I don't
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want Twitter on my phone is because
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I am aware that when I had to it on my phone
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Twitter became this this default go to activity when there was two minutes of
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spare time at any moment in my life so I'm standing on line there's two people
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ahead of me you know to get to the the self-checkout machines well I have 30
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seconds I might as well open up Twitter in and see what's going on and I don't
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like that kind of activity I don't think that kind of behavior is is helpful and
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i also think you create some bad habits in your brain to create some bad
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reinforcements loops of never allowing your brain to be bored at any moment I
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actually think that being bored is good for Brain health and there are ways in
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which I I tried to encourage that little bit so not having Twitter as a kind of
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distraction on the phone not even having the option to look because it's just
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simply not installed is 11 version of this and that applies for lots of apps
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now the browser seems kind of crazy to not have on there whilst I don't feel
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the same as you do I understand the Twitter argument because that is just
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you're just not going to bring that in there but the browser is so it feels so
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important to the device like it was one of the three pillars when Steve Jobs
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introduced the breakthrough into communication device had the browser now
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so they were talking about having an iPhone browser is a very very
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decision to make well my iPhone is still and Internet communicator it just
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doesn't use the browser to browser is simply 11 window through which to view
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internet but I can still look up restaurants and directions and other
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kinds of things that I might need while I'm wandering around the city and I
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don't need the browser to do that I can I can see when is the post office open
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without having to open up a browser how well you can see you can search for it
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for example on Google Maps or you can search for it on Yelp and then it will
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list the menu for this restaurant here here the opening hours turning off the
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browser was an interesting decision because I thought this might not work
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out this might not be a practical thing to do but having done it for a while
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it's it's again a case of oh I can get by without this and if there is any way
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that I can reduce options or potential distractions for myself I am very happy
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to do that and so it turns out that I almost never need the browser on my
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phone and so since the browser is also another potential portal of distraction
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let go let me go to some website to check what's going on I would rather not
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have that on my phone which again is just in my pocket all the time available
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for for distraction so I I disabled it and I'm totally fine without it the
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funny thing here is that I of course I do know the code to enable the browser
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and every once in a while there are scenarios under which like you know what
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I do need the browser on my phone right now and so if I ever absolutely need to
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get it I can re-enable it and I do that on occasion but 95% of the time that the
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browser just isn't even installed on my phone and I want to take away the option
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for me to mindlessly just search for Safari open a browser and you know to
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start looking around on the internet do you have a browser on your iPad I can't
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see it yes the browser is on my iPad but it is it is a way shuffled away many
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many pages away on network folder because I can see what you're saying
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huge but only get to that in a minute but like you said you didn't have on the
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iPad I would have just I wouldn't have been able to accept that I mean I hear
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the things that you say to me and the words that you speaking makes sense in
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what you're saying I can hear what you're saying is that ok that makes
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sense I couldn't do that cuz that would break so many things in a way that I do
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stuff because I do a lot of fun and what I hear when is that you are and I news
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one of the reasons I wanted to talk to you about this stuff you make very
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strict restrictions in your life to enable you to do the work that you do
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and clearly you know that if you have the ability to just surfed the internet
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on your phone all day that's all you'll do that's actually not true
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this is when I talk to people I have a very hard time conveying why make this
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decision and it's actually not that oh if I did have the browser on their I
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would serve all day because I had the browser on my iPhone for the vast
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majority of time that I've had an iPhone
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think they probably are probably only turned off the browser in the last year
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so so it wasn't as though I have some kind of problem with the browser that I
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am I am trying to remove but that's the way the conclusion that people draw its
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this much more comes out of a whole field of cognitive science which has
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demonstrated that if you have options even if you don't exercise those options
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it is a drag on your brain and I have found this to be very interesting that
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under circumstances where I can limit options even if they are not options
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that I would exercise it feels it feels cleaner and so the the functions of my
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phone are very clear in my mind
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what am I going to do on this device as opposed to something like the browser
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which turns it into a much more expansive device you know what
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anything I need to do on the internet I can take out my iPad and do it on the
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internet if I need to or I can do it from my desktop computer at home but I
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don't need to do whatever that is the instant that pops into my head anywhere
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I am whenever I have my phone it's not like oh I would just be browsing all day
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long if I had the browser on my phone because I have the browser on my
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computer I have the browser on my iPad if that was the problem I have a really
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big problem it's it's much more about limiting options to places where there
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there those options are just necessary so it's necessary to have the browser on
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my iPad because it's a necessary part of my workflow on my iPad I couldn't do
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half of the research I do without a web browser but on my iPhone I don't do that
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kind of research work on my iPhone and the other things that are browser would
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enable me to get access to I have other ways of getting on the phone so I don't
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really need it there so I might as well get rid of it if I don't really need it
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does that make sense do you believe me again I can understand and I can see how
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this makes sense for you wouldn't it just I just don't think it would make
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sense for me I'll I hear the words that he say and they make sense in my brain
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but I'd that is did meet touching myself from there I'm not applying my own ways
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of working but I think for me it would make it harder for me to do my work but
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I hear the weather you work and I can see how it makes it actually better for
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you can improve your life in that way so doing this changes the nature of my
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phone in some ways because it not having the browser which could be absolutely
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anything then it affects my conscious decisions about the apps that are on my
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phone and so when I removed the browser
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then a much more likely to do something like go read the read the articles that
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are in my Instapaper cue if I'm sitting down for a moment and i'm taking a
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little break so it is also directing myself towards activities and I would
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rather do I would rather read an article that I have purposefully saved in
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Instapaper then browse the internet if i'm taking a ten-minute break that's a
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that's a better behavior to do is not a big deal but I think places where you
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can push yourself a little bit one way or the other it it's helpful to do that
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I'm going to assume you also do not look at read it on your phone I can't look at
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it because i dont have a browser and if i dont have to be installed on my phone
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I certainly don't have something like alien blue installed on my phone
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ok so there is there is no read it on my phone I will to be clear I want to make
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up a little bit of an exception to that which is usually the twenty-four hours
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after I have put up a video
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most of the time I will temporarily install Twitter and alien blew up my
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phone because I want to keep an eye on how is the video going
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room so this idea what that that is something which is not only the time
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leading up but I know that you go listen to stuff like an internet for a long
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time ago I know that you go into like a different mode once you post and I'm
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interested in with those we talked about that next time but but the thing that it
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does relate to today is this is the other reason why I very much like to
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have the extra rows on the bottom of my phone and on the bottom of my iPad
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because it allows the temporary edition of apps that are they don't get to live
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there permanently and and even then I find it helpful that if I put to it or
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an alien blew up my phone
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the twenty-four hours after a video for now the phone is all asymmetrical those
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two apps just hanging off of the bottom and I don't like that at all and it's a
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reminder that you don't really want these things on your phone they're just
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here temporarily while you want to keep on top of the situation but you're going
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to delete these as soon as
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that situation is over and then get back to the pleasing state of your phone this
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is a temporary edition and on occasion when I'm traveling or something also
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having that bottom row for travel related apps is handy so you don't have
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to rearrange your entire iPhone screen that's that is one of the main benefits
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of the space on the bottom blues one of the most confusing outside ever used
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along with the rest of credit which I'm trying to get to grips with now that we
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close this you know you post the show and i've been there and I've been trying
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to interact I find all of rennet confusing I find alien blue extremely
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confusing like the way the UI works in the application is it's like a mystery
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to me there last year I change was not for the better I like when you press
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buttons animals like this
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diagonally scrolling list of settings I don't even understand you are not a good
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alien blue there was not a good decision talking about reddit we have received
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questions and read it as well as on the ask grain tank for Twitter one of those
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came from Conrad and Conrad ask the question again the many people have
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asked which is great why don't you jailbreak your phone now before you say
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the reason that many people said it will they they believe would fix some of the
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complaints and issues that you have like for example it would allow you to
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install apps that all extensions that allow you to change the color of your
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phone there's one called efflux which you probably use on your Mac I reckon I
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used books on my Mac which allows you to change like the temperature of the
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screen basically like the color temperature allergy to make it nice and
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warmer nights is better in your eyes so harsh you can have systemwide dark mode
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you can put blank icon you can move your screen around you could hide the text
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beneath the icons all of the things planned about an episode 1 but Conrad
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says you must have a good reason why you not jailbreak what is it
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a I appreciate that he's giving me the benefit of the doubt therefore having a
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good reason people know how you think gray the usual case on the Internet is
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people just yell at you for being stupid for not doing things the way they do it
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as opposed to thinking oh maybe they have a reason though that I have a
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reason there there are a few reasons but I would say that the primary one is that
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the way jailbreaking works is that it's it's a security exploit Apple Apple
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doesn't want jailbroken phones and the very fact that you can jailbreak phones
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is not something happened that you do on purpose you you have to crack through
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the security of the phone in order to accomplish that and so you have put the
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phone in a in a weaker security state than it otherwise would be because now
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you're also installing jailbroken apps and I don't want to have an argument
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about how much less secure it is because people always only a tiny bit less
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secure I am not willing to make that trade off with something like my Apple
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devices for I know that I can fix a lot of the little nit picky things that
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bother me with jailbreaking I am very aware of that people tell me about it
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all the time on Twitter but I'm not going to make the trade off any decrease
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in security to fix what are basically nitpicking things that bother me that is
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really why primarily I don't jailbreak the phone that was the reason I is the
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reason I don't do it i dont wanna on open myself to any bomb abilities it's
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just not something I want to do these DS systems and the absence of that coming
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from people that I don't know I don't know if I can trust them but like with
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Apple stuff it doesn't matter if developers because they have to go
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through Apple system which I do trust well with with trust is why don't argue
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about how much more insecurity is because with the currents
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date I have to trust apple and Apple system but if I'm jailbreaking it ok I
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have already have to trust apple an apple system but now I have to trust the
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person whose written the jailbreaking code and I have to trust the individuals
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who are also writing the software that I'm installing on my phone and even if
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even if the probability of his security exploit of some sort is only raised by
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point 2005 percent over the course of a year I'm not willing to make that trade
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off to hide the words underneath my app icons and that's partly because my phone
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and the whole iOS ecosystem arse are so connected with lots of things are hugely
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important to me and and that's why it's like I i'm not i'm not going to do this
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it's not going to happen so you are man in the public eye but being that you
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raised the probability of somebody trying to talk to you don't want to open
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up the stuff like that let's just say that yes as a as a person who makes
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videos and things that are seen by millions of people are not going to do
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anything to decrease the security of my system Brendan on Twitter would like to
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know what case using your iPhone I i do not have a case case on my iPhone I use
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a skin on my phone so this was this originally recommended by MKB HDR
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YouTube which was the thing that I thought I would never liked but it turns
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out I really do like which is just it's almost like a piece of groupie plastic
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that's maybe a quarter of a millimeter thick that attaches to the back of your
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phone and it doesn't really serve to protect your phone except for very minor
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scratches the primary thing it does is it just makes the phone a little bit
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bag and one in the office said they are used because you know you mentioned you
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frequently yet it is fair to say that there are three infrequent use that's
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that's fair how do you keep them in sync because obviously a change in a
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placement drive you crazy if something was different
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moved the data that is in the devices you need to be everywhere so you can
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thing they just like hanging around you trip over one sometimes how do you make
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with all your action and if they can turn off making me go through that
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pain in the butt anus is my new favorite phrase I love that I heard that before
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even works I must be the eg east edge cases of anybody who usess OmniFocus the
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disaster yet with only focus because the system installed everywhere it's on the
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computers of them I found it on the iPad's
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their their system is very good I'm always impressed that only focus is able
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synchronized you mean we went to triplicate everything that you have in
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data losses like a great great thanks a lot guys the short answer is oftentimes
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great read it names by the way
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found a post in the only group forum from CGP grey saying I'm considering
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switching to only focus but there is one question I have difficulty finding us
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into how to make repeating checklists my situation is that I make videos to
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usually working on 35 videos a time is there anyway when I decide to make a new
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video that I can create a new product project and only focus of all 50 actions
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already in the list this was in 2012 grasses question and then there is a
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productivity I was so happy so so happy I remember what I remember when I was
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did not I ran into the issue in this is this is the thing I have discussed
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correct and that was when I was becoming aware of I need to use a system that has
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remember the milk is like now because I haven't used it in years but at the time
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actions it was just a list of things and i was aware that this was starting to
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repeated lists because they were very easy ways and Remember The Milk to do
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when you decide to I'm really going to switch applications and remember
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remember doing that big moment it's a piece of history it is it really is
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assumption because you use the app what she'd used anymore you've switched
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he's probably saying that because I mentioned on hello internet that I did
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think that I wasn't using anywhere so now that you've gotten rid of that what
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the Fitbit was a way that could keep you awake is beautiful little way so how do
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solved at the moment I'm gonna go on a side engine here I'm going to hope for a
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moment that someone who's very high up in the design of the Apple watch
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listening to this podcast right now which will be tu que ya johnnie I want
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to make sure that you hear me because I have a very particular thought about the
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iWatch of the senate longer a guy would stand in my highlights running OSX is
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this is this is going to be our little apple diversion for a moment but Apple
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in keeping things dinner this is apples apples amo look at the Apple watch I
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happens with the next version because more than any other device I think if
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they go forth dinner without improving the battery life I don't think that's a
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good sign because if I was in charge of the Apple watch hardware design this
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can wear it while they are sleeping and that it should be able to charge in 30
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to change the user behavior with charging the watch that instead you wake
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grab it when you're on your way to work that that's when it should charge charge
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quickly in that window because I think this sleep tracking is a huge huge
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health feature for the watch but it's something that that will know they're
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not even thinking about and they're not even trying to approach if they just
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constantly push for the watch to be thinner and lighter and not improved
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battery life so what I want is I want my Apple watch to be able to track my sleep
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wake me but not disturb my wife in the morning that that's what I want out of
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Apple watch i dont wanna thinner Apple watch I don't want to later a porch when
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Apple watch that I can wear overnight and they can charge quickly in the
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sleep cycle is its purpose is to be a sleep tracking app for your iPhone and
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to put the iPhone underneath the top seed of the bed and let it run sleep
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cycle all night and it tries to track how a week it thinks I am by motion
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give it a window in which it can try to wake me in the morning and it doesn't
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it's not an alarm for 6:30 in the morning it's an it's an alarm range
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the time when it's it's best to wake me up
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that's what I'm currently using but it is suboptimal for a variety of reasons
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for tracking sleep and secondly the iPhone six-plus motor is loud it is not
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motor itself is just loud enough and the vibration is strong enough that I can
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wake up with advice instead of just me so the current charge time which is one
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this can be achievable if they can increase very slightly though the rate
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making the smaller and instead taking advantage of the much slower but still
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increase in battery technology over time you can increase battery capacity and if
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once they start tracking a whole bunch of data you can then start making
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comparisons on the iPhone about what affects your sleep how does your
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activity during the day affect your sleep and I think sleep is enough of an
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issue for enough people that it could be a really great selling feature out we're
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that could be a really big deal let's talk about launched into pro this was
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many many people want to know about why use it what it is what's in there you
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to do things people wanted to know basically if I was cheating by having my
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iPhone looks so clean because there's actually a huge mess that hidden under
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have jury rigged Launch Center pro to be a custom time tracking app for myself so
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when I open up Launch Center pro I have a bunch of icons that represent the
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various kinds of work that I do can you show me this can I say this I will show
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this image it to go into the show runs I don't for a variety of reasons right now
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different kinds of work that I do and when i press those buttons I have set up
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to that Launch Center pro through Dropbox automatically adds our road to a
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spreadsheet that's on my computer that basically logs the time that I have
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spent on these various activities so this is this is 99.9% of my Launch
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on a particular area of work I don't like to mix different areas if I'm
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working on YouTube stuff I'm just going to work on YouTube stuff for 40 minutes
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to do another units and I also then quickly just open Launch Center pro and
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that if I I don't feel like oh I actually did a full units worth of work
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I do not log that time so my under my assumption that this is those
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spreadsheets become chance that allow you to see how your time is spent so
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you're able to work out if you spent your time correctly
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basically this feeds into a spreadsheet that allows me to see one how much time
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spreadsheet also then calculates my hourly rate overall and my hourly rate
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this is something that I want to come back to that ok
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simply because unlike I should probably has something like this
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and I think I'm struggling to understand the reason why so over 1997 and asked
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who edit this podcast many people were like very confused about one that this
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show even exist in the first place because they're interested about you
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know the fact that you found the time for it which I really appreciate that
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many people were asking if you who gets the final edit it now this feels like
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something in the cannon I am missing I think people are are mostly just asking
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edits and and really all of the editing on on hello internet and hello Internet
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this podcast with you was that you are taking on the vast vast majority of the
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work of this agreement was that I can show up
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and I can talk but you are handling all of the add stuff you're handling all of
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essentially all of the editing and I am NOT taking that on because if I had to
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no way there's no way it would it would work but we do have right now is the
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technology that I think will impact the way do you work and I'm interested to
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see today how you feel about it so we are recording this episode on the 17th
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of June 2015 and last week Apple which has to come get you any products foreign
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12 in their ecosystem as we had discussed the upset of many they had
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updates to the iOS operating system one of those came many advancements for the
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iPad like multitasking where you'll be able to have split screen applications
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around and stuff like that have you taken a look at this
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have you had the India have you had the inclination to want to play a round of
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yourself and do you think that this kind of setup is going to affect your work in
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15 so I have definitely have a keen interest in in watching those because
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this one I was particularly pleased to see the way that they are improving iOS
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side by side that I am extremely interested in trying out and seeing how
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that works because right now I'm I tended to a kind of funny thing with my
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scripts where the scripts are are a single text document but I'm very often
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one place and so I will I will paste pieces of research into my script and
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else and keep rearranging those and put pieces of the script below it and then
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anymore because it's not relevant or whatever and that has partly developed
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because on iOS there is a limitation of I can only see one screen and I want to
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other is mind-blowingly wow this is going to radically change the way that I
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work so I am I am extremely interested in trying this out I've signed up to be
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part of the public beta program so hopefully that will come out pretty soon
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there is gonna be a public major in July do you think you don't you drive in
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on my iPad right now when it's the developer beta that's a little too
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little too soon and if there's some kind of problem where crash the losses data
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working machine but I will I will be willing to try out and see what the
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state of the public beta is when it comes out in July so I am I am
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anticipating that I'm very much looking forward to that I bought this iPad here
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to do that with it I have insult you have I was not installed right now is it
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stable yes I have run into no problems but do not take my word for this so
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perfectly stable and it will cause no problems that's what I'm hearing what I
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problems right now but I cannot guarantee that that would be the case
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for everybody you are guaranteeing that it's perfectly fine you don't let yes ok
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the rumors right now is gonna be a larger iPad iPad maybe like a 12 inch
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meeting you want oh yeah yeah of course
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screen size twelve point nine inch iPad screen and immediately took out a ruler
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very much like this
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iPad the iPad perot as it were to have something that's much bigger because
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reshuffle but at some point I thought you know what I'm just giving up on
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you used in ads up about that some of the advancements are drawing tools now
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drawing tools suggest a drawing implement
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right like you would write cursive on a piece of paper on an iPad you lose your
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really a latency issue with trying to get iPad stylus that works like a plan
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lot of work going on in that department
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also seems like that there will be a stylist so I think that you know the
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great pat is is being developed to somebody is listening to you agree
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prose style I would be this would be great
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the last thing I asked about the iPod today do you ever envision a world in
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the future where you could make your videos on an iPad she think that that
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could ever happen like this could be like in 10 years time for example but do
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you think that this device could one day become the device where you could do
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your editing and stuff on it what do you think the keyboard and mouse and the
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welcome that you use will always be the preferred input method for this kind of
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amount of time in the animation these at least quadrupling probably because it's
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animated when I'm doing the drawings I'm using a program called Inkscape for the
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moment to do all those drawings and I'm like I know all the keyboard shortcuts
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super fast and it's almost impossible to imagine a touch interface that can
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replicate that speed I don't imagine that that that that will ever be the
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case but one of the reasons why I am interested in the stylus is there are
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animations and so I'm constantly thinking about is there a way that I can
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do more of this work on the iPad and that's partly why and I Pad Pro
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meeting on the iPad is just never going to be practical it just doesn't work
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with the position of your hands and and the tools are available but if we can
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have an actual pen input I can imagine offloading some of the animation works
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some of the very early enemy should work to the iPad which is something I would
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a full haptic simulation of a clicky keyboard you know if if that's the state
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of the technology will then yes maybe I could but now we're talking about
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something which is unrecognizable as an iPad you never know let's see what
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happens in October then we can move forward from there I don't think they'll
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be replicating with haptic technology keyboards just yet but someday someday
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they'll do that for such stuff I mean I don't do I think that this is very early
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people saying the agency that kind of thing I think that's years away but the
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stuff that happens during a force targeting is the beginning of that oh oh
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yes the haptic such as very impressive I've seen a few demos with a few other
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pieces of technology of of haptics being able to simulate something like the feel
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of a button and it's it's very impressive currently we're at the stage
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of concerns about energy consumption in space in the device but if you are
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unconstrained by those you can do some pretty impressive stuff with with
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haptics and yes I do think that the watches the very very beginning of that
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stuff and it will it will progress to further places but for the foreseeable
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future it's still pretty hard to imagine something that can beat a Mac and a
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keyboard in terms of just speed and efficiency it's the same thing with the
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podcast in the yeare I could edit the podcast and do everything they need to
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do on the iPad but it's just going to take way longer a meeting with hello
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Internet it takes so long to edit that and if I was doing it on the iPad it
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would take so much longer but it's possible now it possible to do but
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they're just not optimal so people will have heard in this episode
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lots and lots of feedback I hope that spurs on people to planting more because
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I think what is shown as part of the show I think a lot of the show into the
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future will be built around people asking questions and it's really
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so next week and as I said we're going to talk about what it looks like from
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the moment great decides he's going to put a video up and how those like 24 to
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48 hours look like by will also want to do a bit more ask ray this you know
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people I think the best way for me to see this stuff is the people to tweet
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with their questions and their thoughts because if they used a hashtag ask ray
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it will get clicked into a document for me is very easy but I do look in the red
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and a lot of the stuff you've heard from Redick questions and things like that so
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you can ask your questions and give your feedback in the reddit go into the post
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of still trying to get the vernacular correct rate hike into the post that you
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make on reddit which will be for this episode has done the right thing to say
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they can leave a comment on thread one day I'll get it I promise I will get it
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one day so they can do that and then people say that I've been there I've
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been trying to understand what to do one day we will talk about read more in
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depth on the show once I actually can navigate the website and all the apps
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the associated with the website but you can also find us on Twitter craze at CDP
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grain to time I like I'm wakey funny shirts for this week's episode
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relayed on FM / cortex / three thanks to our sponsors for helping us out this
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week and will be back next time by by Mike
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