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00:00:00 ◼   ► so I've been away for a few weeks and I [TS]

00:00:02 ◼   ► haven't been playing as much attention [TS]

00:00:04 ◼   ► to the internet as I have been [TS]

00:00:06 ◼   ► previously and then I'm sitting in my [TS]

00:00:10 ◼   ► office yesterday and I get a push [TS]

00:00:13 ◼   ► notification from YouTube that cgp grey [TS]

00:00:15 ◼   ► is live like this is new oh so I open [TS]

00:00:20 ◼   ► the YouTube app and there is this big [TS]

00:00:23 ◼   ► screen with a chat window on the right [TS]

00:00:25 ◼   ► hand side and all these numbers and it [TS]

00:00:27 ◼   ► says intermission so I'm like what's [TS]

00:00:31 ◼   ► this chat thing so I go up and I sign up [TS]

00:00:33 ◼   ► for discord and I appear in this chat [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► room and then I am entered into the [TS]

00:00:38 ◼   ► world of CGP grey gaming livestreamer [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► hmm no yeah what is going on what of I I [TS]

00:00:46 ◼   ► feel like I've caught you in the act [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► that's how it felt to me it's like all [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► of a sudden I go to see GP play which [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► was set up a long time ago yeah it's [TS]

00:00:56 ◼   ► like six videos there they're all like [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► two hours long you're talking about your [TS]

00:01:01 ◼   ► levels and your framerate and like who [TS]

00:01:03 ◼   ► is this person and I pop into the chat [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► and and then you started laughing [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► because you knew I'd found you at that [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► point and you've been rumbled that was [TS]

00:01:13 ◼   ► you didn't find me I thought I was busy [TS]

00:01:15 ◼   ► I was just doing I'm just doing my own [TS]

00:01:17 ◼   ► thing and and you you finally finally [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► noticed that's all all I will say is [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► wait we have a very good working [TS]

00:01:24 ◼   ► relationship me in you and we share [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► things like this with each other when [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► we're trying new stuff out you didn't [TS]

00:01:29 ◼   ► tell me about this one you just you just [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► well off on your own and got your gaming [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► software that's like I don't like the [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► implication there first of all Mike [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► there are many things that you don't [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► know about right I have like a whole [TS]

00:01:42 ◼   ► secret life of secret projects well I [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► have secrets too okay it's not a [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► competition it's not a secret [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► competition like wait cut if it's a [TS]

00:01:52 ◼   ► sacred competition we wouldn't even know [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► about it right well you know I guess I [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► guess yeah maybe not um yeah I just you [TS]

00:02:01 ◼   ► know I'm just just trying something out [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► just playing around I'm just messing [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► around on the Internet Mike mm-hmm don't [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► don't you worry don't you worry I call [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► my eye on you you're off to something I [TS]

00:02:11 ◼   ► don't know what it is yet but I know [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► you're up to some [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► I'm not up to anything I don't even know [TS]

00:02:17 ◼   ► what I'm up to [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► happy episode 50 gray it is our golden [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► anniversary happy cortex over Surrey now [TS]

00:02:26 ◼   ► I think that cortex over Surrey is held [TS]

00:02:28 ◼   ► back for birthdays after shower as it [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► was that for birthdays for this yeah [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► yeah we fell into that hole while ago I [TS]

00:02:36 ◼   ► realized that we've actually used a name [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► before but we could maybe call this a [TS]

00:02:40 ◼   ► cortex over Surrey - it can be many [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► contexts of bursaries like how the Queen [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► has many birthdays we have many contexts [TS]

00:02:45 ◼   ► of bursaries yeah it's like she gets to [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► cheat she was like three birthdays like [TS]

00:02:49 ◼   ► wait a minute how did you wrangle that [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► out the answer is she's the queen yeah [TS]

00:02:53 ◼   ► if you can make up all the rules I'd [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► have 10 birthdays one up bring me all [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► the presents give me a parade I want a [TS]

00:03:00 ◼   ► parade it's my birthday twice a day you [TS]

00:03:02 ◼   ► have to bring me two presents yeah I'm [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► kind of surprised that there hasn't been [TS]

00:03:06 ◼   ► a parade for episode 50 at the show but [TS]

00:03:08 ◼   ► like you know whatever people don't want [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► to put that together that's fine here we [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► are it's it's episode number 50 and I [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► mentioned this in our last episode that [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► I wanted to take episode 50 as a time to [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► look back on the show a little bit yes [TS]

00:03:23 ◼   ► we've been doing we've been doing this [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► for what five years now it's not think [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► of something like that I actually [TS]

00:03:29 ◼   ► genuinely don't have any idea how long [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► we've been doing it it's about two years [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► Wow which I never quite remember that [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► it's been that long like it doesn't feel [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► it doesn't feel like it's been two years [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► yeah that doesn't feel right at all in [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► my head either yeah we started the show [TS]

00:03:46 ◼   ► in June 2015 [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► so we're rounding up on two years yeah I [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► guess that makes sense right because [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► last summer or how do i phrase the way [TS]

00:03:55 ◼   ► my brain is putting this together I was [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► going to say last summer existed and was [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► not the Knightmare summer of when we [TS]

00:04:03 ◼   ► started cortex yep and we're coming up [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► on a new summer so yeah I guess yeah [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► that would make sense about two years [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► but yes so over this time I think we [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► have implanted our old wisdom that we [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► have right we're out of wisdom this is [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► actually the last show no don't say [TS]

00:04:20 ◼   ► stuff like that because when you say [TS]

00:04:22 ◼   ► folks are we not supposed to tell the [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► people that this is the last show don't [TS]

00:04:25 ◼   ► do that [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► don't do it [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► not fair you're being mean now to the to [TS]

00:04:30 ◼   ► the listeners that's not fair to me that [TS]

00:04:32 ◼   ► way oh you want a different impression [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► ha ha oh I thought we were doing a very [TS]

00:04:38 ◼   ► different show today what uh sir sorry [TS]

00:04:40 ◼   ► to say buddy check the contract who is [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► still going you ain't get away from me [TS]

00:04:43 ◼   ► yet Oh No [TS]

00:04:45 ◼   ► why did I sign this you ain't getting [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► away from me I've got you we're gonna be [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► doing this for a long time to come to [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► send a message to my lawyer [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► well it's too late for that I've [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► employed a vast team to make sure that [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► you're not gonna get out of my clutches [TS]

00:04:59 ◼   ► but we are gonna take some time to look [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► back at the show and a couple of things [TS]

00:05:05 ◼   ► I asked our listeners and also listeners [TS]

00:05:07 ◼   ► to provide us with some times where we [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► said some stupid things and also for [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► people to tell us what they've learned [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► over the show every now and then if [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► you've said they SH you got it we got a [TS]

00:05:16 ◼   ► review and summarize and this this is a [TS]

00:05:18 ◼   ► review and summary of the last 50 [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► episodes I think who think we should [TS]

00:05:23 ◼   ► start off with some of the stupid stuff [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► we said okay so this does one for me and [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► one for you here which it which I think [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► kind of hilarious mmm Bernardo wrote in [TS]

00:05:32 ◼   ► to remind me that on Episode one of the [TS]

00:05:34 ◼   ► show I said I have an iPad I just don't [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► use it ever the only thing I ever use it [TS]

00:05:39 ◼   ► for his video and I remember I bro I [TS]

00:05:43 ◼   ► have vivid memories of recording episode [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► 1 of the show oh do you yeah I remember [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► it vividly and I remember at that point [TS]

00:05:51 ◼   ► I took a look to my right hand side on [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► my iPad was sitting there underneath a [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► book so at that point I really was not [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► on the iPad train in any way no no I [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► think also like I listened to the clip [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► and and you at that point really were [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► not either like you were using them more [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► but like pretty much primarily for [TS]

00:06:15 ◼   ► consumption at that point is that is [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► that how I described at the time kind of [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► like you talked about it being like a [TS]

00:06:21 ◼   ► great entertainment device hmm it's I [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► feel like we have to go back and look at [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► the record because I think maybe I was [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► agreeing with you that as good as an [TS]

00:06:29 ◼   ► entertainment device but like I always [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► wrote scripts on an iPad like a lot all [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► I have Starwood's that you said and [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► luckily there is a record and I said [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► this wouldn't be a clip show but now [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► we're only five minutes in and I'm gonna [TS]

00:06:43 ◼   ► play a clip is it fair to say maybe your [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► iPhone is the most important of the two [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► that's a hot if I had to pick between [TS]

00:06:54 ◼   ► the two if I could only have one that's [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► a difficult question I'd have to sit [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► down and think about that for a while [TS]

00:06:59 ◼   ► that's not immediately answerable wow [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► that's surprising to me I guess that [TS]

00:07:04 ◼   ► shows a difference in the way that let [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► me and you work like I don't even use an [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► iPad I have one I just don't use it ever [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► right um because you know my iPhone is [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► like that's like the most important [TS]

00:07:13 ◼   ► device I own I think yeah it's it's [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► closer it's closer for me it's it my my [TS]

00:07:19 ◼   ► iPads do not live unloved on the floor [TS]

00:07:22 ◼   ► somewhere in my house is presumably [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► yours does it's like somewhere if I ever [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► need it I always have to search for it [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► it's never it's never in a place that's [TS]

00:07:30 ◼   ► immediately obvious mmm like the only [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► thing I ever ever use it for is to watch [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► video on yeah but they're very good for [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► browsing stuff I feel like I using an [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► iPad for writing was always the thing [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► that attracted me at the very first to [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► the eye apparently there's a little [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► reason I bought an iPad was I remember [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► looking at my wife's iPad which I [TS]

00:07:51 ◼   ► originally thought was like oh this will [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► just be a thing used for video and then [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► I saw her using I was like ooh that [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► looks really interesting um and like I [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► think I think I might started using this [TS]

00:08:01 ◼   ► since I was borrowing hers all the time [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► like back and back in the day but yeah [TS]

00:08:05 ◼   ► it's I mean no matter no matter what I [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► said in the clip the mic just played [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► like without a doubt uh you know the [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► iPads were were way closer to toys [TS]

00:08:15 ◼   ► two years ago yeah than they are now [TS]

00:08:18 ◼   ► yeah like even if you were doing a bunch [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► of writing on them and like and I went [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► I've been through phases whether they [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► were useful for me from a Productivity [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► perspective or not over the last you [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► know seven years the iPads have been [TS]

00:08:28 ◼   ► around mm-hmm but I wasn't in the place [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► with them ever than what I am now and I [TS]

00:08:34 ◼   ► think it was the same for you right [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► where if somebody asks you what is your [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► primary computer you said we would both [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► say iPad but we weren't in that point [TS]

00:08:42 ◼   ► then yeah that just wasn't really [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► possible previously not because of [TS]

00:08:45 ◼   ► software limitations and because of [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► hardware limitations and yeah I think I [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► think both of us have have come to the [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► conclusion that we think [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► of our IMAX now as production machine [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► what stations yeah like yet workstations [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► to be set up yep like with particular [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► tools for particular purposes and that [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► our iPads have taken over the role as [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► general function computer right the [TS]

00:09:11 ◼   ► device that can do a bunch of stuff that [TS]

00:09:13 ◼   ► was definitely one of the really [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► interesting things that I noticed by [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► looking over the arc of the shownotes [TS]

00:09:18 ◼   ► basically a couple of weeks after we [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► started the show iOS 9 was released well [TS]

00:09:23 ◼   ► like we know it was previewed at WDC oh [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► wow ok interesting and then that starts [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► everything right because it was iOS 9 [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► that enabled people to be able to use [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► iOS more productively on an iPad and [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► then it kind of moves on from there all [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► the way up to the point where I buy one [TS]

00:09:40 ◼   ► iPad on a whim and then the second one [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► just because yes yes this could go from [TS]

00:09:48 ◼   ► having one iPad under a book to two [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► iPads and constant use yep [TS]

00:09:53 ◼   ► Multi pad lifestyle yeah it's important [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► Richard wrote in to say the UH nepo [TS]

00:09:58 ◼   ► sewed for you said there's no point for [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► anyone in the world to have to Apple [TS]

00:10:02 ◼   ► watches okay I feel the need to contest [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► uh-huh this like you're probably going [TS]

00:10:09 ◼   ► to have to pay another clip we go really [TS]

00:10:13 ◼   ► far another clip show yeah this is not a [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► clip show but except except what uh I [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► feel it's such a disadvantage because I [TS]

00:10:21 ◼   ► feel like I'm gonna be arguing I can [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► marketing without hearing what I said [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► back in the day but I'm because I am [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► willing to bet that what I was [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► discussing was that was in the context [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► of the limitations of the Apple watch at [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► the time because if you remember when [TS]

00:10:37 ◼   ► the Apple watch first came out there was [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► no way to have more than one Apple watch [TS]

00:10:41 ◼   ► right they paired to a phone you can't [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► make the argument that like I said [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► something because I didn't know the [TS]

00:10:46 ◼   ► future that's not how this works right [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► well that's all I'm saying is if the [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► context of this is we say stupid stuff I [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► think the full context of that quote is [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► not dumb it's like oh given the [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► limitations at the time it would have [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► been dumb to have two watches but then [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► mine's fine too because back then the [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► iPad really was [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► really good for video and not much else [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► I think I think I was making that [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► argument for you earlier it's not that [TS]

00:11:10 ◼   ► like me and you a categorically stupid [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► it's that given what we know now with [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► hindsight these things are funny mmm [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► that's what this is I don't know I feel [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► like everything oh well let listeners [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► decide when they listen to that clip but [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► I bet there is some context about given [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► the limitations of the device at the [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► time it would be dumb to have more than [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► one watch now it's obviously great to [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► have two watches yeah I guess maybe even [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► three what you don't do you know I don't [TS]

00:11:37 ◼   ► know I don't I don't know but it has [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► crossed my mind like oh I could imagine [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► a situation where three would be really [TS]

00:11:41 ◼   ► useful well four huh [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► well now four is crazy there's no reason [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► in the world for anyone for watches [TS]

00:11:53 ◼   ► episode 75 and episode 50 I think my [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► contract ends at episode 74 Dustin I [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► just don't do this to people you know [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► you have to unpair the watch and like go [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► rego through a kind of load from backup [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► irritating semi set up process for [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► switching over the watches so even if [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► you wanted to be a crazy person who had [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► redundant watches which i think is a [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► little bizarre Apple is saying no on [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► this one there they're putting down [TS]

00:12:28 ◼   ► their foot and going you can't have [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► redundant watches I don't know if you [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► can start throwing the bizarre tag [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► around you do have like three iPads in [TS]

00:12:36 ◼   ► use yes but there are uses for all those [TS]

00:12:38 ◼   ► iPads yeah but there will be used for [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► the two watches want to track your sleep [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► want to go about your day with um okay [TS]

00:12:46 ◼   ► but but even even if even if you could [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► pair two watches this is all notion of [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► using the watch to track your sleep as a [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► redundant one that wouldn't it wouldn't [TS]

00:12:55 ◼   ► work anyway the watch isn't designed for [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► that and I don't think this sleep [TS]

00:12:59 ◼   ► tracking with the current state of it [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► would even work over night anyway so is [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► there is no point in the world to having [TS]

00:13:06 ◼   ► two Apple watches there's there's an [TS]

00:13:08 ◼   ► this is a solution for nobody's problem [TS]

00:13:11 ◼   ► that like this this accomplishes nothing [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► whereas you know there are many many [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► cases of more than one iPad being [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► useful there was also a time when you [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► said no more than 10 episodes so you [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► know now look at you yeah overworked [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► doll overworked like a beast of burden [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► that's not what I am like just a slave [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► producing content an endless stream of [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► content that's my life is that is that [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► what you do that's what it feels like [TS]

00:13:44 ◼   ► that's what I feel like I feel like CGP [TS]

00:13:47 ◼   ► grey production of an endless stream of [TS]

00:13:49 ◼   ► Conte it never ends from my perspective [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► what if you keep adding things to it [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► that is true yeah that's that's that's [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► one thing that's the thing you don't [TS]

00:13:57 ◼   ► have yourself to blame it's like a [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► waterfall of content this episode of [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► cortex is brought to you by our friends [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► at Casper the company focused on sleep [TS]

00:14:05 ◼   ► they make the perfect premium mattress [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► and sell it online for a fraction of [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► what it will cost in a store Casper's [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► award-winning mattress was developed [TS]

00:14:14 ◼   ► in-house has a sleek design and is [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► delivered and an impossibly small box in [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► addition to the mattress Casper now also [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► offers an adaptive pillow and soft [TS]

00:14:24 ◼   ► breathable sheets an in-house team of [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► engineers spent thousands of hours [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► developing the Casper mattress [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► it's an obsessively engineered mattress [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► at a shockingly fair price so it's no [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► surprise they have an average of 4.8 [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► stars across more than 30,000 global [TS]

00:14:39 ◼   ► reviews online the San Francisco [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► research and development team have [TS]

00:14:43 ◼   ► developed a proprietary foam that [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► relieves pressure and increases airflow [TS]

00:14:47 ◼   ► they're then combined it with a springy [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► comfort layer to contour to your body [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► and keep you cool [TS]

00:14:52 ◼   ► this means Casper mattresses have just [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► the right sink and just the right bounce [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► Casper makes quality mattresses at great [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► prices and they are designed and [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► developed in America they have cut the [TS]

00:15:03 ◼   ► hassle and costs of dealing with [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► showrooms and are passing those savings [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► directly to you the consumer one of the [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► things always surprises me about when I [TS]

00:15:11 ◼   ► see pictures of people are unboxing [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► their mattresses online their custom [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► mattresses or my co-founder Steven he [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► made a video of his but you periscope to [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► course is because the Casper mattress is [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► they come in these tiny boxes and I say [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► tiny it's not like the size of a shoebox [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► but it's a size that's way smaller than [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► a mattress should be in and then when [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► you take it out of the ball [TS]

00:15:32 ◼   ► Ochs you're able to put it on the bed [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► and you cut open its plastic and unfolds [TS]

00:15:36 ◼   ► and breathes itself to life so the [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► reason they do this is so you can [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► actually get the mattresses around and [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► upstairs and apartment buildings and [TS]

00:15:43 ◼   ► stuff like that [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► makes them so much easier to deal with [TS]

00:15:46 ◼   ► rather than trying to squeeze them [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► around stairs pivoting your way up the [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► staircase buying a Casper mattress is so [TS]

00:15:53 ◼   ► easy it's completely risk-free they [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► offer free delivery and free returns to [TS]

00:15:57 ◼   ► the US Canada and now the UK as well [TS]

00:15:59 ◼   ► with Casper you can actually get to [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► sleep on their mattress before you make [TS]

00:16:03 ◼   ► your decision you try it out for 100 [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► nights and decide that the mattress is [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► what you want to be spending a third of [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► your life on if you don't love it [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► they'll pick it up and refund you [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► everything you can get fifty dollars [TS]

00:16:14 ◼   ► towards any mattress purchase by going [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► to Casper accomplish cortex and using [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► the code cortex terms and conditions [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► apply thank you so much to Casper for [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► their support of this show one of my [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► favorite things about the follow up that [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► we get from this show is when people [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► write in to say that's something that we [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► spoken about has made a big impact in [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► their life and it's kind of like the [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► reverse of care tax which is a thing [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► that we try and do every now and then [TS]

00:16:38 ◼   ► and I continue to encourage people to [TS]

00:16:40 ◼   ► send things like this into us like [TS]

00:16:42 ◼   ► questions you know where they maybe need [TS]

00:16:44 ◼   ► some advice from us if they think we're [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► in a position be able to help but the [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► other side of it is when people write in [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► and say how things that we've broken [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► about on the show have just helped them [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► um and I wanted to cover a few of those [TS]

00:16:55 ◼   ► as well as just some people that have [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► made some interesting changes to their [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► life having listened to the show [TS]

00:16:59 ◼   ► Ariba 66 on reddit wrote in to say if a [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► few things that they have done since [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► listening to cortex and I feel like that [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► they more than anybody encapsulated the [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► whole run of the show into their life so [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► this person says now I listen to [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► thunderstorm sounds throughout my whole [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► day because it occupies the part of my [TS]

00:17:18 ◼   ► mind that can't stand silence but still [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► lets me think ah fantastic yeah they got [TS]

00:17:22 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► except when I'm at the gym when it's [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► girl talks all day which is quite [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► possibly the best motivational album [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► ever created mmm yeah I don't listen to [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► that the gym but that could make for [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► some really good gym music always good [TS]

00:17:34 ◼   ► at the gym is good at the gym you should [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► do that but then you might start writing [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► accidentally and then then who knows [TS]

00:17:40 ◼   ► what's going to happen yeah now the hope [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► the whole point of this is you have to [TS]

00:17:43 ◼   ► train your brain for different contexts [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► so [TS]

00:17:45 ◼   ► it can't be gym music because it's work [TS]

00:17:47 ◼   ► music girl-talk has more than one album [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► now there's only one album that exists [TS]

00:17:51 ◼   ► and that is all day interesting [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► they go on to say I've got GTD systems [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► on every device in my email inboxes [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► always at zero now I'll say they didn't [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► learn that from us because I was gonna [TS]

00:18:01 ◼   ► say how you doing work better than me on [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► that yeah you've definitely passed us in [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► the in the getting your inbox to zero [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► the thing I now have personal finance [TS]

00:18:10 ◼   ► tracker z' that I've built in Excel [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► because no app would do what I needed I [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► understand that yeah I know they can [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► forecast my spending and savings twelve [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► months into the future I want these [TS]

00:18:20 ◼   ► spreadsheets personally okay it sounds [TS]

00:18:23 ◼   ► like sounds like this person has built [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► an unintentional business look like if [TS]

00:18:26 ◼   ► you can you can start selling these [TS]

00:18:28 ◼   ► spreadsheets why Smart Watch notifies we [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► went to do my laundry and charge my [TS]

00:18:32 ◼   ► toothbrush and even go to sleep because [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► it's in my calendar stored on my ever [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► muted phone hmm since I started [TS]

00:18:39 ◼   ► listening to cortex about eighteen [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► months ago I don't feel like I have [TS]

00:18:42 ◼   ► intentionally changed anything [TS]

00:18:43 ◼   ► dramatically I feel more like things [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► that I have learned and dripped that [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► into my daily life and routines have [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► just allowed me to be more myself [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► allowing me to see a future horizon in [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► all the different directions of my life [TS]

00:18:54 ◼   ► I like this paragraph because I think [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► this sums up me hmm I haven't really [TS]

00:19:01 ◼   ► tried to make any big changes [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► specifically because of that what I've [TS]

00:19:06 ◼   ► learned over this show and later on in [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► the show I'm gonna say what I feel like [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► I have learned and I how I have changed [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► but most of the things that I've done [TS]

00:19:13 ◼   ► they've just happened because of us [TS]

00:19:17 ◼   ► talking about this stuff I don't think [TS]

00:19:19 ◼   ► there are many things if any that I did [TS]

00:19:21 ◼   ► is like this big experiment with maybe [TS]

00:19:23 ◼   ► the exception of time tracking yeah no I [TS]

00:19:27 ◼   ► totally agree with you and I like this [TS]

00:19:29 ◼   ► comment as well it's funny I was I was [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► actually just talking to talking to my [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► wife about this the other day about how [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► again it is it is rare that there's a [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► big conscious thing that changes your [TS]

00:19:43 ◼   ► life for the better like those events [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► happen but most of your life is about [TS]

00:19:48 ◼   ► constantly making small little changes [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► over time and then it's only like when [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► you look back you realize like oh I've [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► changed over the past year I've changed [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► 12 things [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► each of which has had a positive [TS]

00:20:00 ◼   ► influence on the way that I live or the [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► way that I work and like that that kind [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► of that kind of slow small even sort of [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► like semi unintentional positive changes [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► like those are the things that really [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► make like daily life more frictionless [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► and-and-and like really add up at home I [TS]

00:20:24 ◼   ► am a better more relaxed a more [TS]

00:20:26 ◼   ► available person to the people I care [TS]

00:20:28 ◼   ► about then I was before a work I can [TS]

00:20:30 ◼   ► tell you that I have spent exactly 45 [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► hours 48 minutes and 37 seconds on my [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► current web development project moving [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► outside of work I'm meeting with an app [TS]

00:20:39 ◼   ► developer tomorrow to start work on a [TS]

00:20:41 ◼   ► side project Oh exsiting side projects [TS]

00:20:43 ◼   ► are always exciting I would love to know [TS]

00:20:46 ◼   ► because this person wrote in to us a [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► while ago and I've been saving it mmm [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► I would love some follow-up Erebus 66 [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► how is that side project going I'd love [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► to know an honest 1642 am at have both [TS]

00:20:59 ◼   ► switched to using the Dvorak keyboard as [TS]

00:21:02 ◼   ► their primary keyboard I would say that [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► Ana's 1642 am at Godspeed to you but I [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► think that you're both very brave for [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► doing this I'm gonna get you to switch [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► to Dvorak Mike that's something I'm [TS]

00:21:16 ◼   ► telling you will not happen it's gonna [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► be really easy especially when you're [TS]

00:21:19 ◼   ► using an iPad all the time that Dvorak [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► is gonna be super easy to switch to [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► hasn't changed there's nothing so that [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► can do that for you [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► no no Apple developers if you're [TS]

00:21:28 ◼   ► listening just just um just go throw it [TS]

00:21:30 ◼   ► out there Dvorak layout what about [TS]

00:21:32 ◼   ► Bluetooth keyboard like it do you use a [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► Dvorak keyboard for your iPad yeah [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► luckily that is that is a setting that [TS]

00:21:39 ◼   ► has been in there for forever that when [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► you're using an external keyboard you [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► can set it to be Dvorak but it's just [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► the annoying thing is like I would use [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► the glass keyboard more if I could use [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► that as as a Dvorak layout but I just I [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► just can't so I always have to type [TS]

00:21:54 ◼   ► really weirdly and slowly that way but [TS]

00:21:56 ◼   ► yeah those those brave souls who switch [TS]

00:21:59 ◼   ► to Dvorak I wish you the best I do [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► really like it like it has personally [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► benefited me but I can't I can't exactly [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► feel like I'm a huge evangelist about [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► this because it is [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► it is like having a lobotomy when you [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► first try to switch it's like you've [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► just lost part of your brain yeah I'm [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► not interested in the switching costs [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► for that one I'll tell you that for free [TS]

00:22:23 ◼   ► yeah and there are annoyances forever [TS]

00:22:27 ◼   ► when you switch Dvorak again worth it [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► for me I've never had RSI problems in my [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► hands with regards to typing since I [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► made the switch which you know I didn't [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► have before which is again thing I'll [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► just mention for anybody who's having [TS]

00:22:39 ◼   ► that this might be this might be a very [TS]

00:22:41 ◼   ► good reason to switch to Dvorak and I [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► congratulate those who have come to the [TS]

00:22:46 ◼   ► Dvorak master race but there are always [TS]

00:22:48 ◼   ► Lori's know you conscious attached [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► master race to anything did you think is [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► better because then you're gonna get the [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► pcmasterrace on your case well you know [TS]

00:22:57 ◼   ► unluckily for them they're the inferior [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► race they just don't know it well I [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► don't know man your iMac frame rate [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► would maybe suggest differently [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► I'm just haven't gotten the settings [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► right yeah okay good good I'm still [TS]

00:23:10 ◼   ► working on that it is funny to hear you [TS]

00:23:12 ◼   ► say on your gaming livestreams about [TS]

00:23:14 ◼   ► having a top-of-the-line iMac and then [TS]

00:23:16 ◼   ► everybody just laughs at you we think we [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► can come to that later oh yes Joshua [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► started his own company oh wow [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► which is kind of incredible [TS]

00:23:28 ◼   ► congratulations to you mm-hmm [TS]

00:23:30 ◼   ► Alex started using a task manager sleep [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► tracker on a time management system and [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► Rosemarie was joined Alex in using time [TS]

00:23:38 ◼   ► tracking and overhauled their to-do [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► system I like all this feedback what one [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► thing I think I have found interesting [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► from our more recent shows is how the [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► time tracking sections feel like they're [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► the divisive sections yet people are [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► either super into the time tracking they [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► just do not like it yeah or feel like [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► they're going to die listening to people [TS]

00:23:59 ◼   ► talk about down tracking I find I find [TS]

00:24:02 ◼   ► that very interesting [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► yep that that there's there's like of [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► almost any topic I feel like there's no [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► topic that has a stronger mmm [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► disagreements in the everything we have [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► done I mean so like people will fight [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► over Android and iOS yeah and stuff like [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► that but they're not necessarily [TS]

00:24:21 ◼   ► fighting against us yeah they did [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► overtime tracking [TS]

00:24:25 ◼   ► yeah where is it like I've definitely [TS]

00:24:27 ◼   ► been on the receiving end like please [TS]

00:24:29 ◼   ► tell me more the exact details of your [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► time tracking system and also for the [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► love of God never talk about time [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► tracking again yeah it's like it's like [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► it's like getting my teeth pulled I [TS]

00:24:39 ◼   ► can't stand it I guess there's something [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► about that I find really really [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► interesting and that actually does make [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► me want to evangelize even more the [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► benefits of time tracking do everybody I [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► feel like no like no you people who are [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► anti time tracking you just don't [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► understand how how life-changing and how [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► fantastic this can this can be it really [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► is it's changed everything we're not [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► going to get into it now because we [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► don't want to start this oh but but like [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► I have to say you know I mean people [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► know we started talking about time [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► tracking a lot in the beginning of the [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► year because I was trying to do this [TS]

00:25:13 ◼   ► thing of time tracking lots of hours in [TS]

00:25:16 ◼   ► the day and I've got to say like I can [TS]

00:25:18 ◼   ► feel like this is this is a thing that [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► makes a huge difference and if you are [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► if you are an anti time tracking person [TS]

00:25:25 ◼   ► I'm like I'm gonna say it again like [TS]

00:25:27 ◼   ► just start small like just just track [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► your prime working hours it's like a [TS]

00:25:33 ◼   ► little gateway drug to seeing how useful [TS]

00:25:36 ◼   ► and helpful this is I think I've got to [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► pull the ripcord on this wherever one [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► turns off we will come back to time [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► tracking again one day yeah we will give [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► a lot of notice so people can just skip [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► if they're not interested yeah but I do [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► just find it interesting so divisive I [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► tested Edina right because when we were [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► getting the feedback from people at the [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► saying they weren't enjoying it I asked [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► I was like what did we talk about in the [TS]

00:26:00 ◼   ► episode and she didn't know mm she [TS]

00:26:03 ◼   ► couldn't answer when we were talking [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► about time tracking so I added that she [TS]

00:26:07 ◼   ► switches off to that to his time [TS]

00:26:10 ◼   ► tracking doesn't look like anything to [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► me yeah so don't worry listener if you [TS]

00:26:13 ◼   ► were unhappy about our time tracking [TS]

00:26:15 ◼   ► conversations people in my own house [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► wear as well so you know alone I will [TS]

00:26:21 ◼   ► ask you though because though many [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► people that brought up their [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► productivity management has there been [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► any movement on your productivity [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► management are you using any type of [TS]

00:26:29 ◼   ► to-do app anymore or you just you still [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► living like a man on the wind is that [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► why you're driving trucks more cuz you [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► don't know what your tasks are no [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► it's a you know it's a free lifestyle [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► being a trucker on the road you don't [TS]

00:26:41 ◼   ► have to keep track of tasks it's just [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► there's only ever one thing just you [TS]

00:26:44 ◼   ► feel and the delivery right that's all [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► it takes yeah it's like where am i [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► bringing this truck full of Lego - oh [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► I'm bringing it over there man I haven't [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► played trucks him in a while I'm getting [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► that pull man would ya you miss it you [TS]

00:26:55 ◼   ► miss a dose I'm gonna go by the truckin [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► yeah you're going to UM but but to [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► answer the question what I what I have [TS]

00:27:03 ◼   ► been doing is I was living just totally [TS]

00:27:07 ◼   ► unhinged for a while and I have very [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► very little money special see just be [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► great totally on him um I have very [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► slowly been bringing some stuff [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► mindfully back into OmniFocus so I [TS]

00:27:28 ◼   ► actually cleared out the whole of my [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► OmniFocus database Wow just to start [TS]

00:27:33 ◼   ► over fresh wow you burned it down huh [TS]

00:27:36 ◼   ► yeah I did I did I totally burned it [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► down because it was again a thing of [TS]

00:27:40 ◼   ► like I want to I want to think about how [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► am I going to use this and I still don't [TS]

00:27:47 ◼   ► have a full system set up in a [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► meaningful way but I am using OmniFocus [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► to again do all the like the templating [TS]

00:27:56 ◼   ► stuff that we've discussed previously [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► that they can do for a bunch of [TS]

00:28:00 ◼   ► checklists so I have returned to using [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► OmniFocus for those checklists but I'm [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► using it less than I did before but [TS]

00:28:08 ◼   ► again this is an intentional like slow [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► rethinking of how do I want to use some [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► of these tools so there is a system but [TS]

00:28:16 ◼   ► not a full system yet so this is just a [TS]

00:28:19 ◼   ► selection of the people that wrote in to [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► say that they're using these systems to [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► do management time tracking mmm sleep [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► tracking stuff like that mmm not one [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► person wrote in to say about the email [TS]

00:28:31 ◼   ► habits changing that no one wrote in to [TS]

00:28:36 ◼   ► talk about the email apps that they're [TS]

00:28:37 ◼   ► using nobody brought in to talk about [TS]

00:28:40 ◼   ► like adopting your VIP system nobody we [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► spent so much time on email that should [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► have been the divisive topic but it was [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► not mmm but nobody wrote in to say [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► anything about there [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► no habit I guess I guess it's because [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► people's email that they've all got it [TS]

00:28:54 ◼   ► locked down yeah everybody's everybody [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► is perfectly happy with their email [TS]

00:28:58 ◼   ► clients everybody's doing great I'm [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► using a mail still by the way in case [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► anybody's gonna keep in school I'm back [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► to mail Dada [TS]

00:29:06 ◼   ► Oh again because uni box like it updated [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► the week before I mentioned it on the [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► show and it never updated again oh I [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► think it's dead oh no it was like not a [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► novel one yeah it was like mentioning it [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► on the show like oh is the kiss of death [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► we had to stop talking about things we [TS]

00:29:25 ◼   ► like you know that right yeah we had to [TS]

00:29:27 ◼   ► keep it secret eh so was convinced to [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► buy an iPad pro so that it's basically a [TS]

00:29:32 ◼   ► monster reddit email Netflix and YouTube [TS]

00:29:35 ◼   ► device which I can get behind you know I [TS]

00:29:37 ◼   ► like to do my work but I also love to [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► watch YouTube on it how else was how [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► else will i watch grey drive across [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► America on my iPad that's where I do it [TS]

00:29:47 ◼   ► yeah so it's big enough you can see the [TS]

00:29:49 ◼   ► chat something like that dave says that [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► they refuse to put any apps on the [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► bottom row of his home screen or more [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► than three apps in the dock yeah that's [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► the way to do it that's the way to do it [TS]

00:30:01 ◼   ► really yeah the three app that I don't [TS]

00:30:04 ◼   ► know why I disagree with this so much [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► with the three apps in the dock it looks [TS]

00:30:06 ◼   ► so nice let's push wasted space and the [TS]

00:30:09 ◼   ► empty bottom row it's for temporary apps [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► I fill up my entire screen now grey I [TS]

00:30:13 ◼   ► know you do and it looks like garbage [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► the whole thing the whole thing is full [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► of apps now yeah if it works for you [TS]

00:30:20 ◼   ► that's fine I have too many things to do [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► but I do many things to do so you need [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► all those apps yeah I need them all [TS]

00:30:29 ◼   ► there where else am I gonna put my time [TS]

00:30:31 ◼   ► tracker I don't know if it I don't think [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► that that's not a valid that's not a [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► valid conclusion they are you doing to [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► me like perfectly valid you are you are [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► a podcaster mm-hmm like I'm a podcaster [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► educational video producer live streamer [TS]

00:30:43 ◼   ► hey hey I'm a I'm a business owner [TS]

00:30:46 ◼   ► podcaster and youtuber alright I'll wear [TS]

00:30:51 ◼   ► those hats I still don't think that [TS]

00:30:54 ◼   ► justifies all the apps on your phone but [TS]

00:30:56 ◼   ► you know if you like it that's fine so I [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► have a seeker about you this is [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► something that I've been holding on to [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► for about six months and have not [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► mentioned it [TS]

00:31:05 ◼   ► but I think now is the time to address [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► it mmm so you have been a proponent of [TS]

00:31:11 ◼   ► the iPhone se right that has been [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► something that we've spoken about in the [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► past you love the little phone it's the [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► perfect phone and all that nonsense when [TS]

00:31:18 ◼   ► you moved away from the big phone about [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► six months ago when we were in Ireland [TS]

00:31:23 ◼   ► together I spotted you and you knew I [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► saw you using an iPhone 7 ooh [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► the regular-sized iPhone 7 whoo [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► you know you don't use the iPhone se [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► anymore do you gray oh we we can't get [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► into this Mike this is like is this like [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► your whole thing uh-huh we can't get [TS]

00:31:42 ◼   ► into this now all right this is we can't [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► we can't do this right now [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► it's too much it's too much okay now is [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► that we I wanted to tell I want our [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► listeners to know all right [TS]

00:31:53 ◼   ► need to know that you've been living a [TS]

00:31:55 ◼   ► lie for this time is not living a lie I [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► haven't mentioned anything you're living [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► a life of a mission yeah that's that's [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► what being a being a public person in [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► the world is like hey guess what you [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► don't always mention absolutely [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► everything you do all the time yeah sure [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► well I mean we talk about every product [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► Under the Sun that we buy on this show [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► but you neglected to mention this one [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► cuz it's like it's the whole thing I [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► don't want I don't want to get into it [TS]

00:32:21 ◼   ► right now it's like a big story well I [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► want to listen this to know we're gonna [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► get into this no okay all right I won't [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► ever want to go to the reddit and and [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► say about how much they want us to [TS]

00:32:32 ◼   ► discuss this the fact that you neglected [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► the SE and have moved to the iPhone 7 [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► because I think everybody deserves to [TS]

00:32:39 ◼   ► know why yes a mic doesn't even know [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► what I've done Mike doesn't even have [TS]

00:32:42 ◼   ► any idea and it's gonna be tumbleweeds [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► in that reddit all I know that is that [TS]

00:32:46 ◼   ► you've done it and I spotted you and [TS]

00:32:50 ◼   ► even then you refuse to talk about it [TS]

00:32:52 ◼   ► you think you think you know you think [TS]

00:32:54 ◼   ► you know but you don't know Mike I was [TS]

00:32:56 ◼   ► in SC in a big case well tough yes yeah [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► we'll talk about it some other time [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► we'll talk about some other time right [TS]

00:33:03 ◼   ► now I'm enjoying how we've improved [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► people's lives Mike oh yeah we don't [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► need to get into like a big phone big [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► phone sign tangent right now right yeah [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► okay should we go back to talking about [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► the people yeah let's go back to talking [TS]

00:33:16 ◼   ► about the people your favorite topic [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► yeah my favorite topic I think things [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► were and to say this show has taught me [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► that nobody is born a youtuber or [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► podcaster now that line is the most [TS]

00:33:30 ◼   ► beautiful backhanded compliment I've [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► ever received how is that backhanded [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► it's like because it's like these two [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► not very good they found their own way [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► they don't have that I hope natural-born [TS]

00:33:42 ◼   ► Talent proceeded like it was spoken [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► about it but that makes it sound like [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► you believe you were predestined to be a [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► podcaster right you're like who's this [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► who's this person telling me that I was [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► not born to be a podcaster hmm I don't [TS]

00:33:59 ◼   ► know about that one I know what they're [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► trying to say but it's a part of me [TS]

00:34:02 ◼   ► that's kind of just like he doesn't have [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► any real talent listen I think things in [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► the reddit I really like that line I [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► appreciate it don't listen oh I do [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► appreciate it but I also see a different [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► side to it I'm choosing to believe that [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► they mean it in a good way [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► mmm before the show in my head gray was [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► just meant to be a youtuber and you just [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► had the talent of a podcaster the course [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► of this show helped me to realize that [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► you're just a once bank manager or [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► marketer who spent enough time doing [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► something interesting that you became [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► very good at it 104 it gray is just a [TS]

00:34:34 ◼   ► high school physics teacher who got fed [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► up and wanted to do something completely [TS]

00:34:37 ◼   ► on his own and just got good at making [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► interesting videos I don't say this is [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► an insult there you go see see think but [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► they know that it can be right I don't [TS]

00:34:47 ◼   ► say this is an insult I say that as a [TS]

00:34:49 ◼   ► realization that all the people in [TS]

00:34:51 ◼   ► internet celebrities I know are no [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► different than me except that they tried [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► something and succeeded and now I'm [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► trying something to and drive him for [TS]

00:34:57 ◼   ► success so thanks yeah that's that's [TS]

00:34:59 ◼   ► fantastic I was making fun I was making [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► fun oh don't get all sensitive now Mike [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► how come why'd you make me out to be a [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► bad person yeah god I can't allow that [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► you left yourself open I know I did I [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► know that was a bad move I made a [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► misstep that's it I mean it is a good [TS]

00:35:17 ◼   ► point because I think it's something [TS]

00:35:18 ◼   ► that me and you have tried to to talk [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► about a lot and there's a couple of [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► strands to it you know like we talked [TS]

00:35:23 ◼   ► about the fact that people have talent I [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► mean there are people that have [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► differing skills and some people who are [TS]

00:35:28 ◼   ► better at some things than others [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► but really you can get by in a lot of [TS]

00:35:33 ◼   ► ways by just really trying hard and [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► working at something you know and [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► because you know I don't know if [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► necessarily me or you have any real [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► talents that that make us good at what [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► we do except we put in a lot of time and [TS]

00:35:45 ◼   ► work to try and get to the places that [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► we're at like I really like this because [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► you know I've met I mentioned before [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► back when I was just a physics teacher [TS]

00:35:55 ◼   ► like I was always trying to encourage [TS]

00:35:57 ◼   ► the the kids who were like interested in [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► doing a thing that you could just start [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► in life like just like just get started [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► like that's it is at the same time like [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► the most useless advice you can possibly [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► give someone and the most true advice [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► that you can possibly give someone right [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► it's like just if you want to try to do [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► a thing like just try to do the thing [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► you know you don't you don't need [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► certification or predestination from [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► from somebody else like you can just you [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► can just give it a go and and and try [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► and repeat and iterate and see what [TS]

00:36:33 ◼   ► works and see what doesn't work and try [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► to follow the path that seem like [TS]

00:36:37 ◼   ► they're more promising than the paths [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► that are less promising and yeah I think [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► that that is the big difference like the [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► difference between someone who tries [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► anything at all and doesn't try anything [TS]

00:36:46 ◼   ► is it's just like infinite like so you [TS]

00:36:49 ◼   ► just just give it a shot it's good [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► advice but it's such a nice it really is [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► yeah like I know how it I know how it [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► feels to hear that from people it's like [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► the same one as when someone says how do [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► I grow my youtube channel or podcast and [TS]

00:37:03 ◼   ► the answer is keep making great things [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► yeah right it is good advice but the [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► worst advice yeah it or or it's like [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► Nike telling you that with regards to [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► exercise just do it I am like go fuck [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► yourself Nike oh yeah like I know I know [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► how the feels right but that is at the [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► same time as like well I guess they're [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► not wrong about like you know going for [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► a run I guess I just have to do it right [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► but like no one don't want to hear for [TS]

00:37:32 ◼   ► me right like I've got it yeah exactly [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► yeah it doesn't help that that's still [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► telling you to just do it yeah and and [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► and it is it is strange to be in the [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► situation where I remember being on the [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► other side [TS]

00:37:44 ◼   ► that like I remember being the student [TS]

00:37:45 ◼   ► and hearing other people say this kind [TS]

00:37:48 ◼   ► of thing and so then it's weird being on [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► the opposite side be like no but for [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► realsies yeah like you really just you [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► really just have to register YouTube [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► account and just try but but that is the [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► truth like I still have like really [TS]

00:38:02 ◼   ► strong feelings like emotional feelings [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► of memories too like when I was trying [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► to make something of myself and I would [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► see people like overtake me mm-hmm [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► and it was like why did I get to you [TS]

00:38:15 ◼   ► know and you know we're at the point [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► where I feel like I was good enough and [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► I felt like people with equal skill to [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► me were having more success and and it [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► was I remember feeling like why is this [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► happening you know I remember all that [TS]

00:38:29 ◼   ► stuff there's like a conversation that [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► goes around all the time about like how [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► much of success is the result of like [TS]

00:38:35 ◼   ► hard work and how much of it is luck [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► right and this is like conversation that [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► happens all the time and you know people [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► say like oh it's it's it's all luck [TS]

00:38:44 ◼   ► right or it's all hard work it's [TS]

00:38:47 ◼   ► obviously some combination of the two [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► yeah and I think you can drive yourself [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► crazy because you can see situations [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► like like what you're just describing [TS]

00:38:57 ◼   ► there where you Mike are trying to get [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► started and you can see people who you [TS]

00:39:03 ◼   ► think have the same level of skill as [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► you surpassing you and at a certain [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► level like yeah how successful someone [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► is does largely come down to a question [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► of luck like it definitely does but [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► regardless of that you have to work to [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► put yourself into a position where you [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► can be exposed to lucky situations yep [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► right and so when someone says like oh [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► it's all it's all just luck right if [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► people do well in the world or not it's [TS]

00:39:35 ◼   ► like well nobody gets lucky by sitting [TS]

00:39:37 ◼   ► on a couch all day doing nothing all [TS]

00:39:39 ◼   ► right like that happened to nobody even [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► the people you suspect may have done [TS]

00:39:44 ◼   ► very little to get their successes like [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► they've done more than you think and so [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► that's why the you have to just make a [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► youtube channel or you have to just [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► start with the podcast or you have to [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► just start your project on the side [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► whatever it is [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► that that's why that is the most [TS]

00:39:59 ◼   ► important thing because it puts you in a [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► position to potentially be lucky and and [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► that's the big difference like that that [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► is what can make all of the difference [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► yeah and even if luck is what gets you [TS]

00:40:11 ◼   ► there it's hard work that keeps you [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► there right like you can be lucky I can [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► it kind of goes around right like hard [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► work ish to the place that you need to [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► be to be lucky but then you can't ride [TS]

00:40:21 ◼   ► the luck then in some ways have to work [TS]

00:40:23 ◼   ► harder because you're in a place now [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► yeah you have to do maintenance on it as [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► well like it's a it's a little feedback [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► cycle but I I get I get bothered by it [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► sometimes because when I see people say [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► like Oh success is entirely dependent on [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► luck and say well that sounds like a [TS]

00:40:38 ◼   ► great excuse to do nothing is what that [TS]

00:40:40 ◼   ► sounds like right like that's kind of [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► that's kind of what you're telling [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► yourself like oh if I sit here and never [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► start any side projects [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► maybe I'll just be lucky like Steve Jobs [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► like I think it's gonna happen right [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► that the way this works was be lucky I [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► don't know yeah he was para doesn't [TS]

00:40:57 ◼   ► thrown in with some brief thoughts on [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► how to cortex has changed their life [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► I found the show in the late summer in [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► 2015 when I was drowning work because [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► one fifth of our department was out on [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► maternity leave and I was picking up a [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► lot of the slack it was too much and I [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► was too unorganized and into compound [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► matters some RSI problems were occurring [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► I think that I'd already jumped to a Mac [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► and I was certainly on an iPhone at this [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► point but I wasn't all-in on Apple and I [TS]

00:41:19 ◼   ► wasn't really thinking about workflow [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► and productivity in the terms the grain [TS]

00:41:22 ◼   ► might presented it I then bought my [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► first iPad bought another iPhone bullpen [TS]

00:41:26 ◼   ► tablet Mac's at home as well as work [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► much more careful and thoughtful use of [TS]

00:41:30 ◼   ► email calendaring rules iOS notes tasks [TS]

00:41:32 ◼   ► list of under lists workflow the whole [TS]

00:41:35 ◼   ► nine yards cortex helped me get [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► organized during a difficult time and [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► sent habits that served me well ever [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► since and made the transition to a new [TS]

00:41:42 ◼   ► job much easier well congratulations [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► guess it's someone who maybe used some [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► of our email knowledge did they mention [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► email in there I don't even think they [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► did like thoughtful years of email okay [TS]

00:41:54 ◼   ► all right there you go [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► you have something to hang your head on [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► this does remind me about RSI stuff the [TS]

00:42:00 ◼   ► Wacom tablet has become so indispensable [TS]

00:42:04 ◼   ► for me over time there we go [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► yeah I mean I couldn't imagine using a [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► desktop computer [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► No yeah see that's it's one of those [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► things like once you start using it as [TS]

00:42:16 ◼   ► as your main input device you feel like [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► how do I ever use a computer before this [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► yeah it really is awesome I recommend [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► people try out and remember set the [TS]

00:42:26 ◼   ► settings to pen mode it's very important [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► that you do that the one-to-one mapping [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► of the screen to the tablet is very [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► important you're not gonna like it at [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► first but trust us is your way to go the [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► only way to go [TS]

00:42:36 ◼   ► I do continue to really like the combo [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► of the Wacom and the Magic Trackpad [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► mm-hm like that really works for me so I [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► kind of operate a Mac with two hands [TS]

00:42:47 ◼   ► you've got to make a video of that for [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► your vlog one day so you can actually [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► just show people what you're talking [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► about yeah is this is this reminds me of [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► when people asked me to make like a [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► video about making a show like recording [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► like everything that goes into making a [TS]

00:43:01 ◼   ► podcast mm-hmm and I'm like I don't [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► think you know how boring that would be [TS]

00:43:04 ◼   ► to watch [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► that falls squarely in that that pocket [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► I think no but Mike you're you're a [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► vlogger now you have to use use tricks [TS]

00:43:13 ◼   ► like you have some exciting music you do [TS]

00:43:15 ◼   ► a bunch of rapid cuts fireworks yeah and [TS]

00:43:17 ◼   ► you make assembling a podcast look like [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► it's an exciting event as opposed to [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► just hours of silence I guess that's the [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► challenge right how can I do that how [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► can I make it look like my work is [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► really interesting every moment yeah [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► yeah that's what that's what you're [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► doing you're painting a picture of your [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► life which is not accurate at all I [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► don't know when I'm gonna do this but I [TS]

00:43:36 ◼   ► accept the challenge [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► I will make it work it'll be like 25 [TS]

00:43:41 ◼   ► seconds long that's how I do it a bunch [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► of whiz-bang today's episode of cortex [TS]

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00:45:41 ◼   ► blue apron calm sasha cortex and we [TS]

00:45:43 ◼   ► thank them for their support of this [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► show and relay FM blue apron a better [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► way to cook Jon created some artwork to [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► show off how the show has changed things [TS]

00:45:55 ◼   ► for him and I have included a link in [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► our show notes for this week's episode [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► so you can go and look at the artwork I [TS]

00:46:02 ◼   ► like this I would say that the one thing [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► that's changed for Jon if not before is [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► just general look is a lot like me you [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► know [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► bearded and glasses so Bravo on that one [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► to start with you're always trying to [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► infect people with your beards some [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► things that have changed for Jon [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► checklists are in there we can see [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► checklists [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► reviews to like performing reviews which [TS]

00:46:26 ◼   ► I know is is a big thing for you you [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► still unseasonal [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► yeah I still like seasonal seasonal okay [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► being packed up for a trip in advance [TS]

00:46:33 ◼   ► something that we both believe in quite [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► strongly redundant bags on [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► that another person listening to Girl [TS]

00:46:39 ◼   ► Talk although their plot they're not [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► listening to all day by looks at the [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► artwork it's one of the other ones now [TS]

00:46:46 ◼   ► one of the other albums one of the ones [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► you don't believe in and using an iPad [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► pro and Apple pencil fantastic computer [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► oh and I see a one roll of toilet paper [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► means I really have zero rolls of toilet [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► paper this typed away in the corner over [TS]

00:46:58 ◼   ► there it's a very important life lesson [TS]

00:47:01 ◼   ► very very important [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► there are a couple of people that wrote [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► in with some of just their favorite [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► things that have happened in the show [TS]

00:47:07 ◼   ► mm-hmm Brent reminded me of the story [TS]

00:47:11 ◼   ► when you bought the first iPad pro in [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► London oh god that's so good I don't [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► like to think about that that's that's [TS]

00:47:18 ◼   ► that's such a good episode I'll put a [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► link to that episode [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► Jonas is so funny when you were just [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► like having the most unsee GP grey [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► experience of your life yeah that it was [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► great all of the interaction so close to [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► meeting Tim Cook I'm glad everybody [TS]

00:47:37 ◼   ► enjoyed that but mostly for me it felt [TS]

00:47:39 ◼   ► like why has God made my life so hard [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► just you deserve it now this is a name [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► that like if I say this name I'm gonna [TS]

00:47:51 ◼   ► be performing the cardinal sin of [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► triggering Amazon echoes mm-hmm so I [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► can't say it it's you're too sensitive [TS]

00:47:57 ◼   ► about this Mike all right there we go [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► then sorry everyone you just say Alexa [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► no no don't do that you can't throw them [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► in there no you can no you can't throw [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► them in there like that yeah you say [TS]

00:48:08 ◼   ► Alexa subscribe me to see GP gray [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► alright and then that's that's how that [TS]

00:48:12 ◼   ► works [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► okay Alexis says oh no mine is not gone [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► off it was making a flashing light I [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► thought it was gonna get me but it [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► didn't get me [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► they now have backups of everything and [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► two is one one is none people still say [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► that to me all the time you know see [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► it's it's a catchy it's a catchy phrase [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► it is it is you created that phrase [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► right no that's not that's not right [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► that's not how that works [TS]

00:48:36 ◼   ► no okay the popularizer of the phrase [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► right this is I still can't remember [TS]

00:48:43 ◼   ► what the feedback was what was it like [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► my impression was it was originally a [TS]

00:48:47 ◼   ► military phrase but maybe am somewhere [TS]

00:48:49 ◼   ► else I think it's a military [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► but maybe it's you know like you go back [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► to the Pharaoh's tomb in Egypt and [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► they're like oh one pyramid is okay but [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► two pyramids is better like yet we might [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► just have been like a very old phrase [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► yeah that that happens like those things [TS]

00:49:01 ◼   ► were like oh Shakespeare wrote an emoji [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► right like it ups of things this you [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► know like they come back to gay I do [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► think about that quite a lot too is one [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► one is none that made a big impact [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► impact on my life it's important why [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► don't we talk about what we have learned [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► from the show what did you learn from [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► cortex Mike I think one of the biggest [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► changes in my life as I alluded to [TS]

00:49:22 ◼   ► earlier is the multi pad lifestyle [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► mm-hmm being a person who not only uses [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► the iPad primarily but multiple I know [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► many people that use the iPad not many [TS]

00:49:33 ◼   ► people understand multi pad I feel like [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► we're a persecuted bunch we persecuted [TS]

00:49:37 ◼   ► misunderstood group right that's the [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► multi iPad lifestyle people I've kind of [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► settled into how I use mine more now hmm [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► I tend to use the large iPad pro at home [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► and the smaller iPad pro when I'm out of [TS]

00:49:52 ◼   ► the home hmm interesting [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► I find the smaller iPad pro is easier to [TS]

00:49:57 ◼   ► travel with right because it's smaller [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► and I used a Logitech create keyboard [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► case which is a vastly superior keyboard [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► case to apples mmm but on the big iPad [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► pro it's just too big and heavy like [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► it's just not very nice to use so even [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► though I keep that large iPad pro at [TS]

00:50:14 ◼   ► home I just don't like the case on the [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► big iPad pro it just it it kind of ruins [TS]

00:50:19 ◼   ► it for me a bit to be honest but on the [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► smaller one is perfect as backlit keys [TS]

00:50:24 ◼   ► and everything and I really really like [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► it for that I just I just think that's [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► funny because that's the exact opposite [TS]

00:50:29 ◼   ► of what I do like my smaller iPad is the [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► home one and the bigger one is the go [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► outside one interesting and I actually [TS]

00:50:35 ◼   ► just had you know again one of these one [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► of these days where it feels like oh [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► this is this is a really nice use of [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► technology where I just I just went out [TS]

00:50:44 ◼   ► intentionally just for the morning and I [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► only brought like I didn't bring my [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► backpack I didn't bring anything I just [TS]

00:50:49 ◼   ► grabbed the iPad pro and like walk [TS]

00:50:52 ◼   ► through the park and then sat at cafe [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► and did some work I ended up just [TS]

00:50:55 ◼   ► spending the whole day out doing work at [TS]

00:50:58 ◼   ► various locations and there's one these [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► pecans were just felt really nice so [TS]

00:51:02 ◼   ► like oh I have this clipboard sign [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► thing that is a functional [TS]

00:51:06 ◼   ► general-purpose computer and I can I [TS]

00:51:10 ◼   ► feel like I can just grab it and just go [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► out and be relatively unencumbered and [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► not have to have anything else and it's [TS]

00:51:17 ◼   ► really nice to work that way it really [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► is there is one thing that might kind of [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► help dictate that my choice here which [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► is that my smaller iPad is the one that [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► has an LTE connection okay well yeah [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► that's going to make a difference so [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► that that is another reason why I use [TS]

00:51:35 ◼   ► that one for travel more than than the [TS]

00:51:37 ◼   ► big one you know if we ever get the iPad [TS]

00:51:40 ◼   ► that we want the 10-inch one that kind [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► of sits between the middle of them I [TS]

00:51:44 ◼   ► wonder if and how things might change [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► for us because you know that's a small [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► iPad of many of the benefits of the big [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► one such as the rumors but I don't think [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► Apple's ever making new product so it's [TS]

00:51:54 ◼   ► not a problem [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► time tracking and deciding hourly rates [TS]

00:52:00 ◼   ► has been a big thing for me not so much [TS]

00:52:03 ◼   ► a big thing for all of our listeners but [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► I told you a couple of weeks ago that [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► whilst I have not done anything as [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► scientific as you I have sat down and [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► worked out from a basic perspective what [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► I own from the work that I do I will buy [TS]

00:52:18 ◼   ► our I'm not gonna lie I feel like this [TS]

00:52:20 ◼   ► is a major accomplishment on my part cuz [TS]

00:52:22 ◼   ► I have been bullying you about this yeah [TS]

00:52:24 ◼   ► since before we started cortex right [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► like since probably since the first time [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► I met you into like oh you got to do [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► this you've got to work out what your [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► hourly rate is it informed a couple of [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► small changes for me mmm small as in not [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► huge things but they've make either [TS]

00:52:40 ◼   ► making a big impact mmm it's just [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► getting myself some time back for stuff [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► that I was making barely no money for I [TS]

00:52:47 ◼   ► was very interested that like most of my [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► recording falls have been arranged like [TS]

00:52:51 ◼   ► all of the shows that I do who fall [TS]

00:52:53 ◼   ► within a range which I'm happy with I [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► didn't really have many really big [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► outliers but I plan to revisit this more [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► scientifically at some point in the [TS]

00:53:05 ◼   ► future but I just wanted to sit down one [TS]

00:53:07 ◼   ► day I had some spare time and just like [TS]

00:53:09 ◼   ► pull up a couple of episodes below a pen [TS]

00:53:11 ◼   ► and paper and just just scribble some [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► numbers down and I was pleased by what I [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► found honestly [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► one of the reasons that I've avoided [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► doing this as I thought it was going to [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► expose some horrific truths yeah you [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► were expecting to be made very sad yeah [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► but it turns out that it's it's not as [TS]

00:53:28 ◼   ► bad as I thought it was going to be [TS]

00:53:29 ◼   ► maybe if I do some real scientific [TS]

00:53:32 ◼   ► tracking I will learn something [TS]

00:53:35 ◼   ► different [TS]

00:53:35 ◼   ► but just my back of the envelope math [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► was good yeah but I thought that's all [TS]

00:53:40 ◼   ► anybody needs right it's just just a [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► back-of-the-envelope calculation just [TS]

00:53:45 ◼   ► just to give you some vague boundary to [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► think about I know I get I think [TS]

00:53:50 ◼   ► everybody imagines that I'm I'm like [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► calculating this down to the second into [TS]

00:53:54 ◼   ► the penny but it's like you don't need [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► it that precise right you just need like [TS]

00:53:57 ◼   ► a one significant figure number right [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► just to have as a ballpark for when [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► you're thinking about making decisions a [TS]

00:54:03 ◼   ► lot of the stuff that I've learned and a [TS]

00:54:05 ◼   ► lot of stuff that I've moved with his [TS]

00:54:07 ◼   ► stuff that we've kind of come to a [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► decision together or we've worked on [TS]

00:54:11 ◼   ► something in a way that we're moving [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► together towards something you know and [TS]

00:54:15 ◼   ► I think a lot of the iPad stuff is that [TS]

00:54:16 ◼   ► way I think the thing that has made the [TS]

00:54:18 ◼   ► biggest impact on my life is something [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► that you have taught me which is that [TS]

00:54:22 ◼   ► work should be able to happen without [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► you and this has made the single biggest [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► impact on my life over the last two [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► years and that comes in sometimes in the [TS]

00:54:31 ◼   ► sense of automation which is fine and [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► that's that's great but the biggest one [TS]

00:54:35 ◼   ► is hiring someone and having somebody [TS]

00:54:38 ◼   ► who helps you having an assistant [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► it hasn't been very long that I've had [TS]

00:54:42 ◼   ► an assistant it's maybe a couple of [TS]

00:54:44 ◼   ► months if that but the change this is [TS]

00:54:46 ◼   ► made on my life I cannot even begin to [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► describe to you you don't you don't have [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► to describe because I understand like I [TS]

00:54:54 ◼   ► completely understand its massive it's [TS]

00:54:58 ◼   ► just massive the amount of hours that [TS]

00:55:01 ◼   ► I'm saving they're not like 50 hours a [TS]

00:55:05 ◼   ► week right I'm saving a handful of hours [TS]

00:55:07 ◼   ► at the moment and it's increasing over [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► time as we're learning which and what [TS]

00:55:13 ◼   ► things will be given to my assistant [TS]

00:55:15 ◼   ► mm-hmm but it's just what it's doing for [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► my general mental state mmm is fantastic [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► it's so good I'm so happy to hear this [TS]

00:55:25 ◼   ► and I also just want to take this moment [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► to to stress that this is this is [TS]

00:55:29 ◼   ► connect [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► did to the previous thing about having [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► an ID like a ballpark idea about what [TS]

00:55:34 ◼   ► your time is worth per hour [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► because this is like having someone to [TS]

00:55:40 ◼   ► help you with anything you don't have to [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► be running like a gigantic youtube [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► channel or a podcasting empire in order [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► to be able to do this like if you just [TS]

00:55:50 ◼   ► know what your time is worth the only [TS]

00:55:53 ◼   ► question then becomes like are there [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► people who can help you with things for [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► less than that many dollars per hour and [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► if the answer is yes then you might want [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► to consider this and I think I think [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► I've told you I don't know if I've [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► actually told you this or not but like I [TS]

00:56:08 ◼   ► when I was a teacher I came very very [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► close to shipping my students homework [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► to India to have it marked did have it [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► shipped back no you not told me this [TS]

00:56:22 ◼   ► yeah okay so I like I came very very [TS]

00:56:24 ◼   ► close to doing it in the end I decided [TS]

00:56:26 ◼   ► not to not because it wasn't a brilliant [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► idea and and my ROI calculation said [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► that this totally made sense in terms of [TS]

00:56:34 ◼   ► like how much would it cost me how long [TS]

00:56:37 ◼   ► could it take to get it overnighted to [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► India like to have it returned right and [TS]

00:56:40 ◼   ► like I was I was trying to think about [TS]

00:56:42 ◼   ► all of this these kind of things like [TS]

00:56:44 ◼   ► how to make this work I was like I had I [TS]

00:56:45 ◼   ► had it all like ready to go but then I [TS]

00:56:48 ◼   ► but then I realized like I will be fired [TS]

00:56:50 ◼   ► immediately like if anybody finds out [TS]

00:56:52 ◼   ► that I have done this right this is [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► you'd never be able to get a job again [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► and teaching you'd be done yeah that was [TS]

00:56:57 ◼   ► the reason I was like you know what this [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► is too far it's like I have lots of [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► little tricks as a teacher that I'm [TS]

00:57:02 ◼   ► using to save time but this but this is [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► one where it's like there's there's a [TS]

00:57:07 ◼   ► downside which is essentially like an [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► insta-kill downside and that was thing [TS]

00:57:11 ◼   ► like man if sucked like if some truck in [TS]

00:57:13 ◼   ► India turns over and all the homework is [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► lost like I'm like right now I'm in real [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► trouble so I didn't actually do it but [TS]

00:57:20 ◼   ► it didn't change the fact that like when [TS]

00:57:23 ◼   ► I was a teacher I did have some small [TS]

00:57:27 ◼   ► stuff that I was I was outsourcing right [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► through overseas outsourcing companies [TS]

00:57:32 ◼   ► like to just have people help me with [TS]

00:57:34 ◼   ► stuff all right and it was like it's [TS]

00:57:35 ◼   ► super cheap and it get worked in my [TS]

00:57:38 ◼   ► favor and so like this is this is not [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► just like you're running a successful [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► podcast and [TS]

00:57:44 ◼   ► this is what this is why like I think [TS]

00:57:46 ◼   ► it's really important to know how much [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► is your time worth so that you can think [TS]

00:57:51 ◼   ► about having somebody help you or even [TS]

00:57:54 ◼   ► just like this is how this is how [TS]

00:57:55 ◼   ► specialization in the economy works like [TS]

00:57:58 ◼   ► is there just a service that can be [TS]

00:58:00 ◼   ► provided that will take less time to do [TS]

00:58:02 ◼   ► this then you would take to do it like [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► maybe that's worth doing it's just it's [TS]

00:58:06 ◼   ► like it's such an important way to think [TS]

00:58:07 ◼   ► about stuff but like III do have to [TS]

00:58:10 ◼   ► agree with you Mike like it when when [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► you start doing this again it is just [TS]

00:58:15 ◼   ► like the hiring thing you know we see [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► like oh you always hire too late if [TS]

00:58:19 ◼   ► you're if you're a business I think it's [TS]

00:58:22 ◼   ► a similar thing of like getting someone [TS]

00:58:24 ◼   ► to help you everybody does this too late [TS]

00:58:26 ◼   ► and when you do it it makes such a such [TS]

00:58:29 ◼   ► an enormous cognitive difference even if [TS]

00:58:34 ◼   ► it isn't saving you huge numbers of [TS]

00:58:36 ◼   ► hours I just know that there are things [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► that I don't really enjoy doing somebody [TS]

00:58:43 ◼   ► else might Lulu and that's the [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► experience that I've had so far and it's [TS]

00:58:48 ◼   ► wonderful and the reason that I don't [TS]

00:58:52 ◼   ► enjoy some of these things as I've done [TS]

00:58:54 ◼   ► them for nearly three years every week [TS]

00:58:56 ◼   ► and they were fun initially but after a [TS]

00:58:59 ◼   ► while the faun wears offs on these tasks [TS]

00:59:02 ◼   ► and now I don't need to do it anymore [TS]

00:59:04 ◼   ► or like there were things that I was [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► doing but kids nobody else would or [TS]

00:59:08 ◼   ► could but then not my skill set and it's [TS]

00:59:12 ◼   ► somebody else's skill set yeah and [TS]

00:59:14 ◼   ► there's also a way in which sometimes [TS]

00:59:17 ◼   ► it's it's easier for somebody else to do [TS]

00:59:19 ◼   ► a thing because they don't have like an [TS]

00:59:21 ◼   ► emotional baggage attached to whatever [TS]

00:59:22 ◼   ► the task is again and this this is also [TS]

00:59:25 ◼   ► an interesting phenomenon of trying to [TS]

00:59:26 ◼   ► get people to help you is is you realize [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► like oh for this other person this task [TS]

00:59:30 ◼   ► is way easier and way faster to do than [TS]

00:59:32 ◼   ► if it is for me to do because for them [TS]

00:59:34 ◼   ► it's just a task but for me it's [TS]

00:59:35 ◼   ► something that's like that comes with [TS]

00:59:37 ◼   ► emotional baggage oh so yeah like or [TS]

00:59:40 ◼   ► I've been doing this for so long or like [TS]

00:59:42 ◼   ► oh this is a thing that I just don't [TS]

00:59:43 ◼   ► want to think about and for the other [TS]

00:59:44 ◼   ► person like it has none of those [TS]

00:59:46 ◼   ► connotations yeah a lot of this stuff [TS]

00:59:47 ◼   ► gets done faster because I was putting [TS]

00:59:49 ◼   ► it off yeah yeah that has been my [TS]

00:59:52 ◼   ► experience is there's a whole category [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► of things [TS]

00:59:56 ◼   ► that it's not like I couldn't do them [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► but if I [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► but if I [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► had to be the person who would do it I [TS]

01:00:01 ◼   ► just know they would never happen and [TS]

01:00:02 ◼   ► and so that makes a huge difference I've [TS]

01:00:05 ◼   ► learned that they will never be a [TS]

01:00:07 ◼   ► perfect email app no Mike you gotta hold [TS]

01:00:10 ◼   ► out hope now right [TS]

01:00:12 ◼   ► I've given up no I still have home I [TS]

01:00:15 ◼   ► still given up I've given up gray there [TS]

01:00:17 ◼   ► will never be a perfect email app [TS]