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00:00:00 ◼   ► so every time that we record i have a [TS]

00:00:02 ◼   ► coffee with me was to help give me the [TS]

00:00:04 ◼   ► energy that I desperately need to do the [TS]

00:00:06 ◼   ► show of you who and I wanted to just [TS]

00:00:09 ◼   ► tell you about the glassware that the [TS]

00:00:12 ◼   ► method of which I'm drinking this from [TS]

00:00:14 ◼   ► today because I think you might enjoy it [TS]

00:00:15 ◼   ► if you become a fancy coffee person is [TS]

00:00:18 ◼   ► yes sitting here [TS]

00:00:19 ◼   ► ok so i have an iced coffee today that I [TS]

00:00:22 ◼   ► made for myself kind of an iced latte [TS]

00:00:24 ◼   ► style yes very nice and my receptacle is [TS]

00:00:27 ◼   ► made of glass [TS]

00:00:29 ◼   ► who and I have cork like a cork grip [TS]

00:00:33 ◼   ► that goes around the outside of that you [TS]

00:00:36 ◼   ► know so i can make sure that I don't [TS]

00:00:38 ◼   ► drop their right and if the the drink [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► inside is hot I'm not touching the hot [TS]

00:00:43 ◼   ► glass right to protect your delicate [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► little fingers yeah i mean they're the [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► moneymakers right Frank yes of course [TS]

00:00:50 ◼   ► and i'm not drinking from the glass [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► itself i'm drinking from a straw now but [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► my stories made a stainless steel I [TS]

00:01:03 ◼   ► think you're beginning to live a very [TS]

00:01:04 ◼   ► strange lifestyle mike i went to the [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► seaside and we went to an iced coffee [TS]

00:01:07 ◼   ► place and they serve me a coffee with a [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► stainless steel straw and I thought it [TS]

00:01:13 ◼   ► was the best thing ever so I went [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► straight to amazon and bought myself a [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► box of 8 are there bends in the [TS]

00:01:19 ◼   ► stainless steel straw i have for that [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► have ben's in them and for don't have [TS]

00:01:24 ◼   ► four straight straws and four straws of [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► a slight bend in them [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► I've only encountered one problem with [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► the stainless steel straw hitting my [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► teeth again yeah usually is not a [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► problem with plastic store soon as he [TS]

00:01:43 ◼   ► said there was one problem yes that is [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► what part of my mind is seems like you [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► can enjoy yourself with this because [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► you're not used two straws being objects [TS]

00:01:52 ◼   ► of potentially cutting power as well [TS]

00:01:55 ◼   ► like little thin edge pressed up against [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► you but it's it's making me take more [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► care when drinking my coffee you know [TS]

00:02:03 ◼   ► which is kinda part of my process now [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► you know that doesn't sound like a good [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► idea [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► you don't know why do you want more [TS]

00:02:09 ◼   ► effort with your coffee drinking [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► because otherwise it's just not worth it [TS]

00:02:14 ◼   ► that makes no sense [TS]

00:02:16 ◼   ► that doesn't make any sense at all I [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► have eight you want one now [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► now I don't do not want one of your [TS]

00:02:23 ◼   ► stainless steel struts they even come [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► with a little cleaning brush and it in a [TS]

00:02:26 ◼   ► frame sientes rise a bit if there was [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► any way you could have instantly made [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► that infinitely unappealing that was the [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► thing [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► yeah tell me that the straw requires [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► cleaning this did not this did not cross [TS]

00:02:44 ◼   ► my mind because it does i'm not like a [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► scrooge mcduck kind of person like I'm [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► not just using him one serving of [TS]

00:02:50 ◼   ► throwing them away [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► they're not the okay you know the little [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► single use stainless steel straws [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► I'm not crazy i was i was more thinking [TS]

00:03:00 ◼   ► that maybe they could go in the washing [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► machine in the dishwasher [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► I'm sure that they can I just don't have [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► 100k you're one of those i just can't [TS]

00:03:09 ◼   ► fit one in the house what do you want [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► for me back one of those unfortunate [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► people whose kitchens too small they are [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► out there in gray mansion when my wife [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► and I moved out of our first flat in [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► London together which was literally a [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► single room with bear partitions I [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► remember the door right i remember the [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► door [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► yeah we upgraded to Doors not one of my [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► absolute requirements was now that we [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► have more than like five square meters [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► worth of space between two human beings [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► we absolutely have to have a dishwasher [TS]

00:03:49 ◼   ► this is this is non-negotiable there's [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► no way this is not going to happen [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► because i just cannot possibly spend any [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► more of my time manually washing dishes [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► like it's the sixteen hundreds of Xena [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► is totally the gray in this situation [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► she is making a very similar demand we [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► got it might talk about this later but [TS]

00:04:12 ◼   ► we're getting ready to move hopefully [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► our own place and the kitchen doesn't [TS]

00:04:15 ◼   ► have a dishwasher right now [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► but it has space for it and it has the [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► electricals for it so at some point in [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► the not-too distant future a dishwasher [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► will be joining the household but [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► following if I actually quite like doing [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► the dishes because it's a chore that I [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► can do which add some real value is an [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► incredibly taxing and I can listen to my [TS]

00:04:36 ◼   ► podcast want to do it but you could do [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► other things you could be driving [TS]

00:04:40 ◼   ► American Truck Simulator what you're [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► listening to your podcast instead yeah [TS]

00:04:43 ◼   ► but then I'm not contributing so much to [TS]

00:04:45 ◼   ► the household but you know what you're [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► not really contributing to the household [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► now write a robot could just do this for [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► you [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► you're just you're just feeling like [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► you're making a contribution here this [TS]

00:04:56 ◼   ► is leo i enjoy vacuuming by hand what a [TS]

00:04:59 ◼   ► pleasant experience this is like or you [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► can get a room behind the roomba vacuum [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► for you [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► I think I'm gonna get ya see I really [TS]

00:05:05 ◼   ► won't want you have one we don't have a [TS]

00:05:07 ◼   ► roomba in our place but we have someone [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► who vacuums so we should have a human [TS]

00:05:13 ◼   ► Roomba i get up i was gonna make the [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► joke but I can't make better i love so [TS]

00:05:22 ◼   ► happy you did but we could go a Huber so [TS]

00:05:32 ◼   ► listen you have to like this is again no [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► you just wanted to tell like a little [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► funny story about your metal straws that [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► should be clean by hand with a tiny [TS]

00:05:40 ◼   ► brush but really what you're just [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► telling me is a story about sounds like [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► you don't value your own time very [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► highly that you're sitting around [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► washing dishes by hand when there's a [TS]

00:05:51 ◼   ► machine that could do it and I am I am [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► totally with adina on this issue there [TS]

00:05:56 ◼   ► needs to be a dishwasher in your new [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► place in our place there was no [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► dishwasher either and we are renting a [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► place it is it is not ours so any [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► improvements made to the place are just [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► like throwing money down the drain [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► except for the fact that we live there [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► so we actually paid someone to to [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► essentially like take out some of the [TS]

00:06:15 ◼   ► cabinetry on the bottom of our kitchen [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► put in a dishwasher that doesn't even [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► really fits because our kitchen is [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► really really small when you go to open [TS]

00:06:24 ◼   ► the dishwasher door [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► it cannot come down all the way because [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► the wall is in the way this is serious [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► dishwasher [TS]

00:06:31 ◼   ► hey hey of it right it is serious [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► dishwashing hate so since i am like I'm [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► very tall it's very awkward for me to [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► kinda get down on the floor basically [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► only the top rack of the dishwasher is [TS]

00:06:43 ◼   ► available from my perspective I can't [TS]

00:06:45 ◼   ► really access the bottom when it's super [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► inconvenient so I just run the [TS]

00:06:48 ◼   ► dishwasher you know twice as much as I [TS]

00:06:50 ◼   ► need to because i only use the top rack [TS]

00:06:52 ◼   ► because that's the only one that I can [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► fully access when the dishwasher door is [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► open but I don't care because I'm not [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► washing the dishes [TS]

00:06:59 ◼   ► the robots washing the dishes so what [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► does it matter if the robot has to do it [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► twice doesn't matter to make dishwasher [TS]

00:07:04 ◼   ► you need to have one without a doubt [TS]

00:07:07 ◼   ► don't spend your time like this Mike [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► hate that you just in our show have [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► moved the priority of the things i need [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► to spend money on what what do you what [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► do you mean I'm trying to help you [TS]

00:07:17 ◼   ► she's gonna hear this right and then the [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► dishwasher is gonna move higher and the [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► priority order right because it's the [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► correct decision yeah let's just because [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► like I'm not siding with anybody in an [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► argument [TS]

00:07:30 ◼   ► I'm simply telling you what the better [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► thing to do is you're siding with your [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► robot kinda know you know I'm just I [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► mean look at those more robots maybe [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► that's better for everybody but look [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► it's the right thing to do so you need [TS]

00:07:42 ◼   ► to get you need to get the dishwasher [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► it's like not having a washing machine [TS]

00:07:45 ◼   ► for your clothes and spinning me some [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► tale about how you really enjoy racking [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► your underpants over one of those little [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► bumpy things that you see in old movies [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► where people are why don't even know [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► what they're called the washing [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► Bordeaux's Mabel alright ya when ya i [TS]

00:07:59 ◼   ► dont you mean yeah right you you're [TS]

00:08:01 ◼   ► there with the barrel and one of those [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► washing boards and scrubbing your [TS]

00:08:05 ◼   ► clothes over that I'd like if you were [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► spinning me at hello i enjoy listening [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► to podcasts while I do that I mean [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► you're just wrong right you to spending [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► your time poorly if the instead you [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► should be spending your time playing [TS]

00:08:15 ◼   ► American Truck Simulator listening to [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► podcasts because it's purely enjoyable i [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► found one setback with the straw method [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► here we go [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► ok that's the setback trying to get the [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► coffee out of the bottom of the it's not [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► as easy [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► enjoy your strong like it sounds sounds [TS]

00:08:34 ◼   ► like an improvement to your life [TS]

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00:10:44 ◼   ► a better way to cook court xmas is [TS]

00:10:46 ◼   ► actually officially over now so like we [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► have this we've had an episode which [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► broke court xmas for the listener [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► mm but now this is cortex mrs. over for [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► us because i heard on the last episode [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► that was an episode out time to out of [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► time and which basically was recorded [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► such a long time ago that neither me or [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► you could remember what we've spoken [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► about yeah it was very strange [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► it was as i predicted the closest i [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► think i will ever get to being able to [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► listen to my own podcast in the way [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► listener does because most of the time [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► when I'm editing podcasts or listening [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► to edits I know what's going to be said [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► like I in my head I know how this [TS]

00:11:39 ◼   ► conversation unfolds i know what i'm [TS]

00:11:41 ◼   ► going to say I know what the next person [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► is going to say and that's part of the [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► process of editing thinking about the [TS]

00:11:47 ◼   ► sentences that are coming up the [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► sentences that just went behind maybe [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► how to rearrange things maybe how to [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► make them a little tighter [TS]

00:11:53 ◼   ► that's part of the whole thing whereas i [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► was listening to this one when i was [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► doing that the the final listen through [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► I just had no idea what was going to [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► happen [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► everything was a surprise oh ok i have [TS]

00:12:05 ◼   ► no idea what's coming up this this me [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► from the past [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► it could be me from a hundred years ago [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► and remembered nothing about that [TS]

00:12:14 ◼   ► podcast and i think it was in actuality [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► three months ago maybe two months ago I [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► don't even know but it was a surreal [TS]

00:12:22 ◼   ► experience to listen to that the funny [TS]

00:12:25 ◼   ► thing for me was when listening back and [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► just shaking my head how pass Mike [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► thought his summer was gonna be awesome [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► it was also but not like he's easy and [TS]

00:12:34 ◼   ► simple as you thought it was going to be [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► a poor guy had no idea [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► yes yes that was there was definitely [TS]

00:12:43 ◼   ► the case which i think is is always the [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► case with when you try to project [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► forward about what you're going to be [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► doing it is [TS]

00:12:55 ◼   ► way too easy to underestimate how much [TS]

00:12:59 ◼   ► stuff you going to do [TS]

00:13:01 ◼   ► how long things take how much stuff is [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► going to take up your time and again I [TS]

00:13:08 ◼   ► was just thinking of the past me in that [TS]

00:13:11 ◼   ► episode and he's talking about how he is [TS]

00:13:14 ◼   ► going to be going to WWDC with you which [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► at that point was like a little secret [TS]

00:13:19 ◼   ► yep and it was so funny because you you [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► were really hesitant to admit that to [TS]

00:13:22 ◼   ► justin area [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► yes whistle in secret-keeping mode there [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► but listening to that i was thinking [TS]

00:13:29 ◼   ► like oh you many months ago gray you [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► don't know how busy that WWDC week is [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► going to be you just have no idea you're [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► still imagining in your mind that it's [TS]

00:13:41 ◼   ► going to be a relaxing time with [TS]

00:13:44 ◼   ► occasional things to do but you don't [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► know you don't know what's going to [TS]

00:13:47 ◼   ► actually happen but also we were living [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► in a different reality then you know [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► before we experience the second reality [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► of virtual reality lives are very [TS]

00:13:57 ◼   ► different [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► that's true that is very true that is [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► the pre virtual reality experiencing us [TS]

00:14:02 ◼   ► that is that big schism in my life now [TS]

00:14:04 ◼   ► preview our and post vr so yes there it [TS]

00:14:09 ◼   ► was basically like listening to the [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► tales of a Deadman right like i was so [TS]

00:14:12 ◼   ► long ago in so many experienced ago you [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► were just like a totally different [TS]

00:14:16 ◼   ► person [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► one of the things that made me check my [TS]

00:14:19 ◼   ► head about myself as i was talking about [TS]

00:14:21 ◼   ► coming out more time you know like have [TS]

00:14:24 ◼   ► quiet days and busier days you know so i [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► had a busy week in the quiet week but I [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► was talking about how my thursdays and [TS]

00:14:31 ◼   ► fridays i was trying to keep them as [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► busy as as empty as possible since then [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► I've now filled them up with new [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► projects and i was listening to myself [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► and be like all that was a nice time so [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► you no longer have the the busy week and [TS]

00:14:47 ◼   ► the not busy week where I'm on the not [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► busy week everybody else is on the busy [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► week [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► everything is just the same I now have a [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► busy weekend a busy week [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► mmm [TS]

00:14:55 ◼   ► what do you think about that Mike I [TS]

00:14:58 ◼   ► don't like it I don't think it's a good [TS]

00:15:00 ◼   ► development now it's a bad development [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► so it was you know how we were also [TS]

00:15:05 ◼   ► talking in that show about like [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► approaching you know with we might come [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► past the halfway point of the year it's [TS]

00:15:11 ◼   ► like there's nothing so like I'm I'm [TS]

00:15:13 ◼   ► inches away from grabbing my iPad and [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► opening notability i genuinely did this [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► yesterday i'm writing out all of my [TS]

00:15:20 ◼   ► projects and working out where they go [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► next year who you know what things have [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► to be adjusted how they're going to be [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► adjusted and i'm also think I'm thinking [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► about some other stuff like just from a [TS]

00:15:30 ◼   ► business perspective not just like all [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► the shows that i'm on but what parts of [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► the business to I maybe need to adjust [TS]

00:15:37 ◼   ► so i can free up time for myself that [TS]

00:15:39 ◼   ► kind of thing so that that is a finely [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► enough to see in all seriousness 2017 is [TS]

00:15:46 ◼   ► going to be the year of less common me [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► oh is it i think so mm so let me ask you [TS]

00:15:53 ◼   ► that some a bit unclear this this [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► situation that you have made for [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► yourself [TS]

00:15:57 ◼   ► yeah well you have a busy weekend a busy [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► your week is this [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► are you planning on this being a [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► temporary thing until the end of the [TS]

00:16:04 ◼   ► year and then 2017 will be nothing like [TS]

00:16:06 ◼   ► this and you'll get back to your busy [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► week and less busy week or or not I [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► don't think I've got the specifics [TS]

00:16:14 ◼   ► nailed down [TS]

00:16:15 ◼   ► all i know is i want to change the [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► current situation [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► Lou so I want to get it back closer to [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► busy weekend quiet week who one of the [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► problems is I've started one new weekly [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► show and who it's taking up more of my [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► time but even within that I'm trying to [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► work out ways to limit those types of [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► things and and and maybe look at some of [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► the other stuff that I do and see if [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► there's any adjustments that can be made [TS]

00:16:41 ◼   ► to the frequencies they're like I did [TS]

00:16:44 ◼   ► start of this year where I just adjusted [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► the frequencies are some of the shows [TS]

00:16:47 ◼   ► that i was recording so i need to do [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► that again but maybe maybe I need to be [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► a bit harsher about it and maybe as I [TS]

00:16:55 ◼   ► selling to look at some things that [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► aren't just recording time who think [TS]

00:16:59 ◼   ► that our business time or even things [TS]

00:17:01 ◼   ► that are production maybe i need to [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► change some production processes as well [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► so this is it you know i i'm gonna live [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► with it for now plus it's been a [TS]

00:17:09 ◼   ► possibly a super busy time for me since [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► june and i think that is adding a lot of [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► weight onto this as well [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► yeah it sounds like it sounds like [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► that's the case you know there's a bunch [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► of stuff going on that we will get to in [TS]

00:17:22 ◼   ► a little bit but I what I'm just [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► wondering is how did you walk yourself [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► into the busy weekend busier week it was [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► it was it one of these cases where you [TS]

00:17:33 ◼   ► just keep slowly adding on one project [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► at a time and then when you look in the [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► when you look in their rearview mirror [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► somehow at the end of the summer [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► all of a sudden you're realizing that [TS]

00:17:43 ◼   ► you have blocked away all of what was [TS]

00:17:45 ◼   ► previously free time like is that how [TS]

00:17:47 ◼   ► you got this this situation pretty much [TS]

00:17:50 ◼   ► and this is it is me is my eternal [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► struggle of being excited about [TS]

00:17:56 ◼   ► something and just doing it [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► whoo-hoo and and that has added more [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► time and so one of the things that I've [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► done some people may notice about me [TS]

00:18:06 ◼   ► some may not [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► I am a fan of professional wrestling i [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► have been since I was a kid I i know [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► it's fake [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► you don't need to tell me or as we like [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► to say great predetermined predetermined [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► ok the things that you're seeing are [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► actually happening and some smoke and [TS]

00:18:20 ◼   ► mirrors but there is an outcome of the [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► end I treat it like my soap opera right [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► that's why I think of it and etcetera [TS]

00:18:26 ◼   ► like I don't need to get into this right [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► now with you i love how pretty defensive [TS]

00:18:30 ◼   ► you are about this like i can i can hear [TS]

00:18:32 ◼   ► you're trying to shut down all the [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► things that people are going to say and [TS]

00:18:37 ◼   ► my feeling is always there's no [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► explaining what people like or what [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► they're interested in it just is it so [TS]

00:18:43 ◼   ► Mike likes wrestling deal with it people [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► it's called my podcast is called the [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► ring post a link in the show notes if [TS]

00:18:49 ◼   ► you're interested go check it out anyway [TS]

00:18:51 ◼   ► ok bring post on FM if it's your if [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► that's your bag but anyway so i did that [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► no this this is a new weekly show of [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► mine and I've been trying to do some fun [TS]

00:19:01 ◼   ► things of it and record like multiple [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► times in the week like I can't keep [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► doing that [TS]

00:19:06 ◼   ► that's one thing and then you know I I'm [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► just that it's been a busy time where [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► we've had the membership stuff looks are [TS]

00:19:13 ◼   ► facilitating all that recording the [TS]

00:19:15 ◼   ► extra episode adding the extra episodes [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► no spending 15 hours on our episode you [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► know I've had just some extra stuff [TS]

00:19:24 ◼   ► going on recently so now as well next [TS]

00:19:27 ◼   ► year I know that I need to structure [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► that time a bit differently in August [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► them i thought that i was doing a good [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► job pre-recording things early but I [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► need to maybe start recording and even [TS]

00:19:36 ◼   ► earlier than i thought so it's just I've [TS]

00:19:39 ◼   ► learned some lessons but there are just [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► some things that I'm adding in which it [TS]

00:19:43 ◼   ► just too much I've and I've overloaded [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► myself again I think and it's it's super [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► easy to do because this is this is a [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► problem with creative people and again [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► in the broadest possible sense of of [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► making a thing whether that's starting a [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► business writer creating a podcast or [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► whatever if you are making something in [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► the world i think by definition you have [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► to be a person who gets excited and [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► interested in things way more than a [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► normal person does [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► because that that is the thing that [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► motivates you to to start creating a [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► thing that's new and so I think if you [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► are of that bent it is very easy to keep [TS]

00:20:26 ◼   ► adding on more and more projects because [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► that you get you get excited about [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► things we've spoken about in the past [TS]

00:20:34 ◼   ► that you have that feeling that you seem [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► to have a better internal barometer of [TS]

00:20:39 ◼   ► letting them goes so far before you stop [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► how I don't know how you do that like [TS]

00:20:45 ◼   ► once I have an idea like the idea of [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► having a show about professional [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► wrestling has been something I've wanted [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► to do for a long time and I had to do it [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► who write that there was no question in [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► my mind like I love talking about this [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► thing i want to talk about the single my [TS]

00:20:59 ◼   ► friends and I want to make a podcast a [TS]

00:21:02 ◼   ► bit but that's what I've always done all [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► of my shows come from a love of talking [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► about something with the people and and [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► I couldn't not do it but you seem to [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► have some kind of barrier that something [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► has to get four like you can be excited [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► about something but you take it so far [TS]

00:21:19 ◼   ► and then you stopped and I don't know [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► how you do it well for me it's easier [TS]

00:21:24 ◼   ► with external projects or things that [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► are new [TS]

00:21:30 ◼   ► lately we discussed a while back you [TS]

00:21:32 ◼   ► know I was getting pretty close to doing [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► something like a like a video game [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► review youtube channel and then I shut [TS]

00:21:38 ◼   ► that down as like now this isn't this [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► isn't going to happen and part of that [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► is is thinking through the you know that [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► the maximum benefit maximum award a [TS]

00:21:49 ◼   ► project like that but it doesn't mean [TS]

00:21:51 ◼   ► that like I haven't spent a bunch of [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► time on it and I think with external [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► projects like a new YouTube channel or [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► say doing another podcast or getting [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► involved with businesses right these are [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► all kinds of things that you know [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► sometimes I say yes to these decisions [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► sometimes I say no to these decisions [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► but I try to think about the risk-return [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► reward like what is the best possible [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► way this could go what how much does [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► this look like what it's going to take [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► up with my time so for new stuff i find [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► it relatively easy at some point to sit [TS]

00:22:27 ◼   ► down and seriously think about it and [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► end to cut stuff but to be perfectly [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► open with you like my version of your [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► podcast stuff is that some mornings when [TS]

00:22:41 ◼   ► I go into work and I go to right there [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► is something that I am really excited [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► about or something that's really on my [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► mind as a thing that I want to talk [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► about in a video and i'll end up [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► spending and you know an entire morning [TS]

00:22:57 ◼   ► or maybe two days working on a script [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► that ultimately doesn't go anywhere [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► right but it's like but this this thing [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► has kind of like taken over my mind for [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► a while I'm really thinking about this [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► thing and I end up writing a whole bunch [TS]

00:23:10 ◼   ► of of stuff that that ultimately goes in [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► nowhere because I eventually decided I [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► don't want to do this video or just it [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► just isn't quite working out but i have [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► no ability to really say no mentally to [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► those kind of things like well you you [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► arrive in the office and whatever it is [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► you want to write about whatever it [TS]

00:23:28 ◼   ► feels like this is the thing that you're [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► going to write about that's what you're [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► going to write about it you don't really [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► have a choice in it I actually I get [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► that but like my point is like you still [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► are able to stop it right like you don't [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► keep going like [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► because many more could be like artists [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► isn't working i need to start again [TS]

00:23:45 ◼   ► thank you know to stop [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► yeah I mean I guess it's a kind of a [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► kind of focus on a sunk cost fallacy [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► that you know just always keep in mind [TS]

00:23:59 ◼   ► that the hours you have put into a thing [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► and the resources that have you you have [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► put into a thing are meaningless the the [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► only thing that matters is thinking [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► about the future hours and resources [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► that you're going to put into a project [TS]

00:24:13 ◼   ► and what you can expect the return is [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► going to be maybe it's just because I [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► don't really I don't really value my [TS]

00:24:21 ◼   ► past self very highly and whatever he [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► has been upto or whatever he has done so [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► maybe that's why I find it a little bit [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► easier to let go or projects or to have [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► been writing something for a few days [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► and then to realize that this isn't [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► going to go anywhere just forget it and [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► just just leave it and not and not feel [TS]

00:24:39 ◼   ► like i am going to spend the next three [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► weeks massaging this into with thing [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► that is ultimately publishable like I'm [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► very happy letting stuff go [TS]

00:24:48 ◼   ► maybe that's why I don't know another [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► thing I wonder is the difference in our [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► attitudes towards the things that we do [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► slow like I was I started podcast is [TS]

00:24:58 ◼   ► just a fun thing little my hobby like [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► the thing i love it and i ended up being [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► my business and I don't think you [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► necessarily feel that way about YouTube [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► videos like it was always intended as [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► like a business endeavor first loop so [TS]

00:25:13 ◼   ► like I have this like once I have an [TS]

00:25:15 ◼   ► idea for podcasting like I got to do it [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► even when you have an idea for a video [TS]

00:25:18 ◼   ► like you get so far and it's like this [TS]

00:25:21 ◼   ► doesn't make business sense anymore em [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► so like it goes back to the original [TS]

00:25:25 ◼   ► feeling about the thing with me it was [TS]

00:25:27 ◼   ► like this seems like it's gonna be so [TS]

00:25:29 ◼   ► much fun i got to do it [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► therefore make any money you're [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► passionate about what you do my do it [TS]

00:25:37 ◼   ► several fire in my belly [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► it is it is your strength and possibly [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► your ultimate downfall [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► mhm it's you know when you go to a job [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► interview in your strength or weakness [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► this is it for me write my strength is [TS]

00:25:50 ◼   ► my witness [TS]

00:25:52 ◼   ► I'm too focused that's my problem i [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► don't know when to stop working [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► I'm too strong of a leader I'm too much [TS]

00:26:03 ◼   ► of a team player [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► yeah exactly how's your summer been [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► I know you've been on vacation well out [TS]

00:26:13 ◼   ► by the way i have to mention this and [TS]

00:26:15 ◼   ► just because it's such a good joke where [TS]

00:26:18 ◼   ► I called your vacations a great vacation [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► right Lou and you called my name I [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► occasion [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► who y-yes that on the red it said surely [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► you mean a holy day how good is that [TS]

00:26:30 ◼   ► have that causes me physical pain it's [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► so good [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► that's how we know it's good because it [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► hurts you just don't think I don't think [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► that the barometer by which we measure [TS]

00:26:41 ◼   ► of things are good because i do not [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► approve of this parameter hydrometer is [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► little good you would without parts of [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► that i don't i don't think i can use [TS]

00:26:52 ◼   ► early days and i'm not sure i can bring [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► myself to do that we've discussed how my [TS]

00:26:56 ◼   ► holy day when this how did your [TS]

00:26:59 ◼   ► gradation go it went well it went well [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► what I had in mind for this hashtag [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► summer of lots of travel and not fun [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► summer you keep changing it did the [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► thing about hashtags and happy the same [TS]

00:27:15 ◼   ► keep changing it doesn't work anymore [TS]

00:27:18 ◼   ► now i think its fine there's twitter is [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► really good about that kind of stuff I'm [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► sure that's just the lot of margin or [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► whatever yeah billion surface [TS]

00:27:25 ◼   ► yeah it's literally perfect my whole [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► frame of reference was last summer [TS]

00:27:33 ◼   ► not the summer most recently passed with [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► the summer last summer yeah you're ready [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► you really helped narrow that down i'm [TS]

00:27:40 ◼   ► just i'm aiming for maximum clarity is [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► you're doing a great job [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► it was a disaster that summer that had [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► passed that was not the most recent [TS]

00:27:50 ◼   ► summer do you mean the one before the [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► one off to the next one [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► no that does not sound right now that [TS]

00:27:55 ◼   ► was around no that's wrong like you did [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► you not you don't know how to do this [TS]

00:27:58 ◼   ► following nationals yeah but so that [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► somebody didn't go well because it is a [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► terrible job of manage [TS]

00:28:04 ◼   ► in work and personal life and a bunch of [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► other things and so my my goal for this [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► summer was it needs to be better needs [TS]

00:28:15 ◼   ► to be better than last time [TS]

00:28:17 ◼   ► what's better better is is measured by [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► 2i feel worse after having taken had [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► taken a vacation or do I feel better [TS]

00:28:30 ◼   ► after having taken a vacation and when I [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► came back from vacation two summers ago [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► I ended up coming back feeling frazzled [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► like I did not feel like I what a great [TS]

00:28:40 ◼   ► break [TS]

00:28:41 ◼   ► I had this was a fantastic time I ended [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► up feeling like I did everything poorly [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► i did work poorly and I did vacationing [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► poorly and it just it wasn't a great [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► experience and ended up leading into [TS]

00:28:52 ◼   ► like a grumpy September gray who had [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► returned it just it wasn't it wasn't a [TS]

00:28:56 ◼   ► good situation [TS]

00:28:58 ◼   ► so this summer when I mean by better is [TS]

00:29:01 ◼   ► it's almost measured by a kind of like a [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► like a mindfulness or or a presence in [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► the moment so that the feeling is [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► whatever I'm doing this summer at that [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► moment that should be the thing that's [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► on my mind I shouldn't be also having [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► other stuff in the back of my mind and i [TS]

00:29:24 ◼   ► would say for the most part I was pretty [TS]

00:29:29 ◼   ► successful this summer it it fell down a [TS]

00:29:32 ◼   ► little bit towards the end of august [TS]

00:29:35 ◼   ► when work life started to intrude again [TS]

00:29:38 ◼   ► but for the most part i was able to have [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► the feeling of like being a WC i am at [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► WWDC this is really the only thing that [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► I have to think about or that I have to [TS]

00:29:49 ◼   ► focus on or again for the most part i [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► was at VidCon and it's like this is what [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► I'm focusing on i'm here at VidCon let [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► me do this thing and then later in the [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► summer it's i am with my family and [TS]

00:30:02 ◼   ► again not entirely but mostly I'm able [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► to focus on this thing right and then [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► there's a family reunion that happens [TS]

00:30:09 ◼   ► later on it's like am I able to focus on [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► this thing again mostly not entirely [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► this is where work starts to intrude [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► like a little [TS]

00:30:17 ◼   ► little bit but it's still relatively [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► minor and then and then after that like [TS]

00:30:21 ◼   ► my wife and I went on our own to las [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► vegas for a bit of downtime it was like [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► yes I'm able to to focus on down time [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► here for the most part where as last [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► year again I just felt like I was trying [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► to do everything at once vastly vastly [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► overestimating how much could possibly [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► be done and this year since I cut down [TS]

00:30:47 ◼   ► the number of videos that i would [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► theoretically be working on over this [TS]

00:30:51 ◼   ► course of time and of course I cut down [TS]

00:30:53 ◼   ► the number of podcast I was doing I was [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► much much more successful in being able [TS]

00:30:59 ◼   ► to be present in the moment for the [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► things that I was doing instead of [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► always having something running in the [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► back of my mind about like you need to [TS]

00:31:08 ◼   ► be thinking about the next podcast of [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► what are you going to be talking about [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► and you need to be thinking about the [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► videos that you need to be writing and [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► what it's like what are you going to do [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► about that i was able to mostly kind of [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► calm that and and move that out of my [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► mind for the vast majority of the summer [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► again only falling down slightly towards [TS]

00:31:25 ◼   ► the end of august but so i would say was [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► mostly success i'm pretty pleased with [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► the way things went [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► yeah it sounds better sounds way better [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► and you were gone for a long time so the [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► fact that you were able to manage that [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► nicely is good [TS]

00:31:37 ◼   ► yeah it did it did work out i think [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► again what one of these things is really [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► trying to just really trying to know [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► about yourself and to make accurate [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► estimates about yourself and and one of [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► those things that I just couldn't ignore [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► when I was thinking forward to the [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► summer was the sheer number of flights [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► that I was going to be getting on and [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► just recognizing like that kind of stuff [TS]

00:32:05 ◼   ► is surprisingly draining for me that [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► there's an any day that involves any [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► kind of plane travel i just have to [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► write off the possibility of even doing [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► work because it's just like it's just [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► not going to happen because i know i'm [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► going to be thinking about the flight [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► for the whole time until I get on the [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► plane and then since I'm going to be [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► moving locations like a kind of spend [TS]

00:32:26 ◼   ► the rest of the day like settling into [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► wherever it is that I am just like you [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► can't possibly do [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► podcasts on any of these days you're [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► never gonna do any kind of quality [TS]

00:32:34 ◼   ► writing on a day like this so just [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► looking at your calendar there's so many [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► days that you're flying [TS]

00:32:39 ◼   ► you just have to knock all of those off [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► and then also the thing that I have to [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► recognize is both times I went to [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► America when I was coming back to the EU [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► I would be coming back from my favorite [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► time zone in the world [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► california time which is just horrific [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► for me for jet lag when I come back it [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► always knocks out a real week before I [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► feel like a normal person coming back [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► and again it's like it's it's easy to [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► look at an empty calendar and to be able [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► to overestimate how much it is that [TS]

00:33:16 ◼   ► you're going to do or to think the days [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► are like normal days but I was really [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► trying to think about that upcoming [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► summer think about things like people [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► that i was going to be interacting with [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► and just accepting and really [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► understanding how much time and focus [TS]

00:33:35 ◼   ► and energy does this really represent [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► not how much you wanted to represent and [TS]

00:33:42 ◼   ► try to plan for that and as always with [TS]

00:33:45 ◼   ► these things even when you think about [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► that there's always going to be more [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► that happens then you expect and you're [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► going to be able to do even less than [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► you think so it's like just trying to [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► just trying to plan for for all of that [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► so no yourself i guess is what I'm [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► trying to say here and i feel like i did [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► a much better job of knowing myself this [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► summer and i think i will will do an [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► even better job of knowing myself next [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► summer about how to how to work and how [TS]

00:34:16 ◼   ► to not work and how to do great [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► vacations I need to know myself better [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► well you know like i said it's it [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► well here's the problem i know myself [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► and what I ignore what I know [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► well that's that's a whole different [TS]

00:34:34 ◼   ► situation [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► well I mean if we imagine a mic early as [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► a black box knowing yourself and [TS]

00:34:41 ◼   ► ignoring what you know about yourself [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► from a black box perspective is [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► functionally equivalent to not knowing [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► about yourself so i don't really give [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► you any credit for that [TS]

00:34:49 ◼   ► ok I'm sorry Mike I'm looking for credit [TS]

00:34:51 ◼   ► that was always committed right and that [TS]

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00:36:50 ◼   ► laugh and part of the problem I have had [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► this summer [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► who is a huge disruption in my life [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► which is taking place over the last few [TS]

00:37:01 ◼   ► weeks [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► yes and that is a second job that I've [TS]

00:37:03 ◼   ► taken on which is trying to buy a house [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► hmm it seems like buying a house i don't [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► know i have this irrational feeling that [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► buying a house should be like buying [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► anything again how hard can it be [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► all i want to do is add house to cart [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► and checkout that's that's exactly right [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► that's what I want to do yeah every once [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► in a while I do look at like property [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► price apps you know to see houses in an [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► area cuz i'm curious about this kind of [TS]

00:37:34 ◼   ► thing I do feel like all of those real [TS]

00:37:36 ◼   ► estate afterwards you can browse through [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► the houses and you're like oh here's [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► here's the house think they should have [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► a little ad house to cart at the bottom [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► i guess i would like to buy this house [TS]

00:37:44 ◼   ► can we just can we just do this can I [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► just press a button and like mortgage [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► approved it all just it all just goes [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► through but now it sounds like from your [TS]

00:37:53 ◼   ► experience that is not nearly [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► it's not really that simple no it's a [TS]

00:37:57 ◼   ► nightmare I can't imagine doing this on [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► my own like a manatee not buying this [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► house together is the only things able [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► to keep me sane because she is a very [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► detail-oriented person and is reading [TS]

00:38:13 ◼   ► all the paperwork on spending time on it [TS]

00:38:15 ◼   ► like things that I don't want to do but [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► while she's doing a lot of that stuff [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► there's just more that's happening in [TS]

00:38:22 ◼   ► your life and it really does feel like [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► having another job because it's adding [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► stress man it's like a new job it's like [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► when you start a job because of [TS]

00:38:32 ◼   ► everything you're learning is completely [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► new who and then you're dealing with a [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► ton of paperwork right so it feels like [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► when it starts it's a new job then it [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► starts to feel like a job that you're [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► settled in with because you then have to [TS]

00:38:47 ◼   ► start chasing people [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► the thing that you need and this happens [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► by email and it happens by phone you [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► start getting a bunch of emails that you [TS]

00:38:57 ◼   ► don't want and the problem that I have [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► found is you have this new job that you [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► have to pay a lot of attention to and it [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► takes up a lot of your time but you [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► still doing the job that you have [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► already as well so I'm working two jobs [TS]

00:39:13 ◼   ► right now so this is part of the [TS]

00:39:18 ◼   ► background radiation behind you the busy [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► week and the busier week is also [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► essentially you feel like you have a [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► whole other job you're trying to find [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► and buy house [TS]

00:39:29 ◼   ► yeah it's it's a real big thing and [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► something that's making it a little bit [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► harder for us there are a bunch of [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► circumstances around the house that [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► we're buying which means that we from [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► putting in the offer have one month 28 [TS]

00:39:45 ◼   ► days to buy the house who this process [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► usually takes 12 weeks three moves to do [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► and we have to compress it to one month [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► so it has been fast paced and action [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► packed exciting i'm sure it is exciting [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► it is [TS]

00:40:04 ◼   ► it's also terrifying it's terrifying [TS]

00:40:08 ◼   ► when you are self-employed who to think [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► about owning a home you know that is a [TS]

00:40:17 ◼   ► scary thing to think about and it's [TS]

00:40:20 ◼   ► something that I am coming to terms we [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► have been trying to come to terms with [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► and I'm sure it's gonna take a little [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► while [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► why do you think it's particularly scary [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► when you're self-employed like what is [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► what is the thing that keeps me up at [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► night it's on you the money that you [TS]

00:40:35 ◼   ► make is on you who now there is as much [TS]

00:40:38 ◼   ► risk of me getting fired from a job as [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► series from my business fall into pieces [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► right in fact if anything I would say [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► it's less likely for my business to fall [TS]

00:40:50 ◼   ► to pieces because if something is going [TS]

00:40:52 ◼   ► wrong by and large I can know about it [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► maybe try and fix it right [TS]

00:40:57 ◼   ► blue and if something's going wrong in [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► the company here employed by [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► most of the time you can't do anything [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► about it right it's not even in your [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► view that there's a problem even if [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► there was you probably couldn't be to [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► want to fix it right right companies go [TS]

00:41:10 ◼   ► bust it happens and then if you want one [TS]

00:41:12 ◼   ► of those companies then you're in [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► trouble so in that sense like okay I [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► maybe I have a little bit more security [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► in a weird way [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► however the money that comes through the [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► company of the money that comes to me [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► i'm responsible for making a lot of it [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► who you know that running you're running [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► this company i am responsible for the [TS]

00:41:34 ◼   ► directions that goes in and that is [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► scary when you then have to couple on a [TS]

00:41:41 ◼   ► financial commitment and our home and i [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► mortgaged it payment that you have to me [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► every month right and having people rely [TS]

00:41:50 ◼   ► on you to bring that money in so you can [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► continue living in the house right that [TS]

00:41:56 ◼   ► is a very very different feeling it is a [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► feeling I didn't expect this quite close [TS]

00:42:02 ◼   ► to what it was like when I originally [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► quit my job [TS]

00:42:06 ◼   ► who because it is the dish it just got [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► real feeling and it's all on you now [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► buddy [TS]

00:42:16 ◼   ► yeah that's how it feels i can i can [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► definitely sympathize with that like I [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► don't even know if I'm how much more [TS]

00:42:27 ◼   ► busy i really am [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► Lou but everything feels more busy so [TS]

00:42:32 ◼   ► I've noticed the think this week where I [TS]

00:42:34 ◼   ► felt that this week that i have been [TS]

00:42:36 ◼   ► jam-packed and my calendar says so that [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► I've had lots of stuff on my task [TS]

00:42:40 ◼   ► manager says I have lots of stuff on [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► however this week every day I've got my [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► task manager 20 which is not something [TS]

00:42:49 ◼   ► that usually happens who usually has a [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► couple of things left i moved to the [TS]

00:42:53 ◼   ► next day by being clearing my tasks more [TS]

00:42:55 ◼   ► and I don't fully understand what's [TS]

00:42:58 ◼   ► going on here [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► Eva I am overworking because i feel like [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► i'm busy blue or more correctly planning [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► things or this is just like a freaking [TS]

00:43:07 ◼   ► aging I don't know what is the cause and [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► effect is here but all I know is I feel [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► like I'm busier and I'm doing more stuff [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► it's very strange and i don't actually [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► think that those two things are [TS]

00:43:17 ◼   ► connected in a weird way like I feel [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► busier and then more work it's not that [TS]

00:43:23 ◼   ► I'm doing more work and then feeling [TS]

00:43:25 ◼   ► busier you think the busyness is causing [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► you to do more where I think maybe which [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► is very strange [TS]

00:43:32 ◼   ► I don't understand how things work in [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► your mind no I think it's like the [TS]

00:43:36 ◼   ► stress of knowing there's so much stuff [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► on its been pushing me to work longer [TS]

00:43:41 ◼   ► hours i think that might be what's going [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► on here [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► right because things are real you have a [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► deadline with this house [TS]

00:43:48 ◼   ► yep it has to get done and it's all on [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► you [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► so somebody has to stay up and do all [TS]

00:43:55 ◼   ► these things because maybe like that the [TS]

00:44:01 ◼   ► fact i have this insane deadline of a [TS]

00:44:03 ◼   ► house is making every deadline feel [TS]

00:44:05 ◼   ► tough back right it's like deadlines [TS]

00:44:08 ◼   ► means something [TS]

00:44:10 ◼   ► yeah this is this is actually a deadline [TS]

00:44:14 ◼   ► means something [TS]

00:44:15 ◼   ► yes I do i do find that one of the [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► things that you learn in life is many [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► deadlines they're not really deadlines [TS]

00:44:24 ◼   ► this is actually very few things that [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► are real deadline so things have to [TS]

00:44:29 ◼   ► happen by a certain date many deadlines [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► have a kind of squishiness to them but [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► it seems like this house deadline is a [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► real deadline like if you don't hit this [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► you lose this house and then maybe you [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► start all over and that's not something [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► that you want to do now you have to [TS]

00:44:44 ◼   ► start all over is one of the worst are [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► all of those you can be at right like he [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► lost the house go back to jail do not [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► pass go do not collect 200 pounds it's [TS]

00:44:56 ◼   ► really stressful man i'm very sorry but [TS]

00:44:58 ◼   ► it's stressful for you I think I'll give [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► a little background but I've never [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► rented a place you know so like there's [TS]

00:45:03 ◼   ► a lot of new things here for me even [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► just like going to look at somewhere and [TS]

00:45:08 ◼   ► I i live at home right now [TS]

00:45:11 ◼   ► and I will be moving straight into her [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► house that I own them so there's so many [TS]

00:45:16 ◼   ► new things happening right now like I've [TS]

00:45:18 ◼   ► never well I move once in my life you [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► know and I wasn't controlling the move [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► my parents did that so oh you mean move [TS]

00:45:27 ◼   ► once just as as a human being ever [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► yeah from born until now until this [TS]

00:45:33 ◼   ► moment yeah what never moved while [TS]

00:45:35 ◼   ► technically it's twice but i don't [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► remember the first one right look at but [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► you know we moved to the place that [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► we're now about 11 years ago who but I i [TS]

00:45:43 ◼   ► wasn't in control of any of that [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► everything was just done around me but [TS]

00:45:47 ◼   ► like this is like everything [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► everything's on on me on us and it's [TS]

00:45:52 ◼   ► just a really strange thing and it is [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► playing into a problem that i have of a [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► feeling of busyness stressing me out [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► you know when I spoke about on the show [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► in the past where like I feel like I'm [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► busy and I'm like get super stressed out [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► about it want to sit down and work out [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► why actually have it becomes a lot more [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► manageable i think a lot of people like [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► to sit down and write a list of stuff [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► you've got it feels better but this time [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► i actually can't do that because I can't [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► write out the house buying process [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► because every day new things are [TS]

00:46:26 ◼   ► happening that I cannot foresee so when [TS]

00:46:30 ◼   ► i do when i put on my to-do list by [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► house I have no idea what that means [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► right until the moment that it's done [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► yeah this feels like one of those [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► moments where you know that someone's [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► going to chime in like oh you just crank [TS]

00:46:42 ◼   ► they're getting things done methodology [TS]

00:46:44 ◼   ► right you just think well what's the [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► next physical action i have to take it [TS]

00:46:46 ◼   ► like you know what for some big projects [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► especially projects where there's just a [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► huge cloud of unknowing ability around [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► them it it's not that simple [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► notebook right like you this is the [TS]

00:46:59 ◼   ► problem of unknown unknowns that you [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► don't know what you don't know yet and [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► and that makes that makes estimation and [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► difficulty level just meaningless just [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► thrown out the window you have no [TS]

00:47:14 ◼   ► ability to know how hard this is going [TS]

00:47:16 ◼   ► to be or how long it's going to take or [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► what needs to happen because you don't [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► know the step that you don't know [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► because you've never bought a house [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► before I have a great example of this [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► Lou this week we knew that we were [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► expecting information from our solicitor [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► little lawyer and we call it was him and [TS]

00:47:34 ◼   ► this was going to be a bunch of [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► information about the property contracts [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► and stuff like that what we need to look [TS]

00:47:39 ◼   ► over so we were expecting these [TS]

00:47:41 ◼   ► documents to come through they said 50 [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► documents right so I knew this paperwork [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► was coming through didn't expect 50 [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► documents that we have to read [TS]

00:47:54 ◼   ► uh-huh did you read the mic i didn't [TS]

00:47:56 ◼   ► know this happens when you say that we [TS]

00:48:00 ◼   ► had to read all I have a stack to read [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► it's just not the full stack ok they [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► have been vetted now I have been giving [TS]

00:48:08 ◼   ► me this is the thing you have to read [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► this read it [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► that's what i've been told i'm very [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► grateful for this but it's like even the [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► amount that i have to read is more than [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► I thought you know like I have like [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► maybe like 15 things 15 document have to [TS]

00:48:22 ◼   ► read [TS]

00:48:22 ◼   ► I thought we were gonna get like five [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► who writes this is like you cannot plan [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► for this but then even in the back of my [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► mind I know I'm not reading on that [TS]

00:48:30 ◼   ► stuff but it's there in my head right as [TS]

00:48:32 ◼   ► this thing that is there that needs to [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► be done [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► I like that you just admitted on the [TS]

00:48:37 ◼   ► show that you have been handed a [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► pre-screen like please read these things [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► all I'm so long list of things but [TS]

00:48:44 ◼   ► you're still not even gonna read the [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► thing is I I did it [TS]

00:48:47 ◼   ► this is the thing that was on me does [TS]

00:48:49 ◼   ► not all those documents we read i would [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► have read an amount of them because i [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► couldn't find the time for like I will [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► within the deadlines that have been set [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► for us there's no way that I would be [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► able to do that land it's because dinner [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► is amazing and she will stay up to a [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► very late doing it like I just can't [TS]

00:49:08 ◼   ► bring myself to do that again it adds [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► into the business feeling right well [TS]

00:49:14 ◼   ► like my brain I'm doing right now my [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► brain is saying you can't there's no way [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► you can do this right yes this is the [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► thing that there is something eating [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► away at your mind even if you're not [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► actually doing it yep it's still [TS]

00:49:27 ◼   ► consuming some part of your brain that [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► worries about it and contribute to the [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► feeling of business if this whole thing [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► is just crazy [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► but the next episode we may own this [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► house which is amazing i'm gonna have an [TS]

00:49:41 ◼   ► office gray who you're gonna have an [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► actual dedicated podcasting office mega [TS]

00:49:48 ◼   ► office is what it's called mega offer [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► yeah i've given it the name mega office [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► i have a Pinterest board setup called [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► mega office now or I'm adding things in [TS]

00:49:57 ◼   ► i'm looking at ikea catalogs who I'm [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► looking at smart home devices and very [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► accept it [TS]

00:50:05 ◼   ► that's what I'm excited about I'm [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► excited about mega office that is [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► exciting that's the reason that you're [TS]

00:50:10 ◼   ► doing this right to get a place that you [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► can make your own space [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► this is one of the key reasons yeah [TS]

00:50:15 ◼   ► we're getting a two-bedroom place and [TS]

00:50:17 ◼   ► when i'm going to finally have an office [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► to work in and we're going to be in the [TS]

00:50:23 ◼   ► inner rim [TS]

00:50:24 ◼   ► oh wow you're really upgrading your life [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► there's a coffee shop I can walk to the [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► potential because another coffee with [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► later we went to view the house again [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► yesterday and I had amazing french toast [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► at this place [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► there is a gym in our building gray [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► oh that's nice where we are moving into [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► civilization that's what we're doing [TS]

00:50:45 ◼   ► here [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► that's very exciting we will be able to [TS]

00:50:48 ◼   ► jump on a train and be in central London [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► in 15 minutes you can fantasize about [TS]

00:50:52 ◼   ► how productive you're going to be in [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► this new environment it's gonna be [TS]

00:50:56 ◼   ► amazing [TS]

00:50:56 ◼   ► I gonna do four times the shows and I'm [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► gonna be a bodybuilder is gonna be [TS]

00:51:01 ◼   ► brilliant [TS]

00:51:02 ◼   ► i can'twe well it seems like a very good [TS]

00:51:03 ◼   ► reason to buy a house that [TS]

00:51:05 ◼   ► yep i mean that in all seriousness like [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► it's going to make big changes to our [TS]

00:51:11 ◼   ► lives in good and bad ways right but i [TS]

00:51:13 ◼   ► think the net result i'm very positive [TS]

00:51:17 ◼   ► that the net result of this is going to [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► be all upside well you know like we're [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► going to have our own space [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► we're going to be happy in it we're [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► going to be back in in London again my [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► clothes into London we actually go do [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► things i think it's going to make a lot [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► of positive effects on our life because [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► if it's going to add some stuff too [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► it's gonna add I feel like a super adult [TS]

00:51:37 ◼   ► back [TS]

00:51:40 ◼   ► this is something something a friend [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► mentioned this to me the other day the [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► term super adult and that is how this [TS]

00:51:44 ◼   ► feels like everything's got an [TS]

00:51:47 ◼   ► incredible [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► we got engaged in between the time of [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► recorded TV shows as well right [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► oh yeah so even mention that on the show [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► and all we did [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► no I asked the DNA to marry me and [TS]

00:51:58 ◼   ► foolishly enough she said yes so like [TS]

00:52:03 ◼   ► him doing everything like [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► congratulations to the two you but this [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► is what you mean by super adults that [TS]

00:52:12 ◼   ► you are engaged you're going to be a [TS]

00:52:14 ◼   ► married man you're going to have a [TS]

00:52:16 ◼   ► mortgage [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► I guess you need you need like a car [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► payment next we're thinking about [TS]

00:52:23 ◼   ► getting a call yeah haha that will also [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► mean I have to get driving license first [TS]

00:52:28 ◼   ► because i don't have one because I'm [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► alumna right right [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► why would you need a driver's license is [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► not exactly have no need for it but we [TS]

00:52:36 ◼   ► get a parking space [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► so now we're thinking about que la now [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► see that's a terrible reason to get a [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► car is because you have a part not [TS]

00:52:43 ◼   ► immediately [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► first we can bring out the parking space [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► yeah rented out thats exactly hit your [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► parking space in London it's like owning [TS]

00:52:51 ◼   ► a goldmine get that out so through that [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► but we are thinking about like [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► eventually getting a car you know like [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► where we're moving head on into adult [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► life here [TS]

00:53:02 ◼   ► wow how do you feel about that Mike does [TS]

00:53:07 ◼   ► it feel like mortality crushing down [TS]

00:53:09 ◼   ► upon you or you mostly excited I'm [TS]

00:53:11 ◼   ► mostly excited [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► good I'm glad you are I haven't had the [TS]

00:53:14 ◼   ► mortality feeling yet just you wait [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► oh yeah those documents right it's not [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► coming my way lots of life insurance [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► paperwork stuff you know who that [TS]

00:53:21 ◼   ► mortality is going to be outlined to me [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► and black-and-white excellent excellent [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► there's a lot going on right now and I'm [TS]

00:53:29 ◼   ► hoping that once i get through this [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► probably year-long process i'll be back [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► to wear to a better feeling against it [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► like my feeling right now in my brain is [TS]

00:53:39 ◼   ► like you are feeling really stressed [TS]

00:53:40 ◼   ► right now you have a lot of things going [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► on you have new projects and stuff that [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► you're working on but in 2017 who you [TS]

00:53:47 ◼   ► hopefully we'll have got through a lot [TS]

00:53:49 ◼   ► of this so then you can start to relax [TS]

00:53:51 ◼   ► and then you gotta plan a wedding [TS]

00:53:53 ◼   ► congratulations [TS]

00:53:54 ◼   ► right yeah you'll be don't worry you'll [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► be through this in a short for months [TS]

00:54:00 ◼   ► that's the that's what you're planning [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► on here that at least the buying of the [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► house will be done [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► yeah we will be moved in and I have mega [TS]

00:54:08 ◼   ► office so what can go wrong what can go [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► wrong when I could visit you there [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► it'll be fun yep i feel like the lesson [TS]

00:54:16 ◼   ► for the listener is to not do what Mike [TS]

00:54:21 ◼   ► is done [TS]

00:54:21 ◼   ► yeah take this as a warning yeah if [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► you're going to buy a house or do some [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► other equivalently large unknowable [TS]

00:54:32 ◼   ► project don't also take on a bunch of [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► other new projects right before you do [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► this [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► that's it that's a bad idea you should [TS]

00:54:41 ◼   ► do the ante my clan and try to pare down [TS]

00:54:46 ◼   ► everything to the bare minimum if you're [TS]

00:54:50 ◼   ► taking on a big project like this [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► because it's going to be a second job [TS]

00:54:54 ◼   ► don't do what Mike did cut everything to [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► the bone then embarked on a big project [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► like getting a house I feel like being [TS]

00:55:01 ◼   ► self-employed this is the key problem [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► here because at least i know in my old [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► day job I could have just walked less [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► right like look just like i like how you [TS]

00:55:13 ◼   ► said that like yeah you know I should [TS]

00:55:15 ◼   ► have just looked busy for awhile and at [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► but also be working on the house after [TS]

00:55:21 ◼   ► my work day [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► yep because i was running and starting a [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► business whilst i was in my workday but [TS]

00:55:29 ◼   ► I can't really do that now because the [TS]

00:55:33 ◼   ► output is directly responsible for me as [TS]

00:55:36 ◼   ► the owner of the business and as a [TS]

00:55:38 ◼   ► contributor to the business right [TS]

00:55:40 ◼   ► so with the self-employed stuff it's [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► like if I don't do the work I don't get [TS]

00:55:44 ◼   ► paid but it's when I was in my old job i [TS]

00:55:47 ◼   ► could do less work but still got same [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► amount of money every month because I [TS]

00:55:51 ◼   ► could hide it so i think it's it died [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► for me I feel like at least my own [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► experience this put this house buying [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► stuff is harder on me because of my [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► working situation because if I would've [TS]

00:56:03 ◼   ► still been at the bank [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► I could have carved out sometime in my [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► day [TS]

00:56:07 ◼   ► to do and think about this stuff more so [TS]

00:56:10 ◼   ► than what I can currently do [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► yeah i agree with that I was just trying [TS]

00:56:13 ◼   ► to find but i'm i'm not going to be able [TS]

00:56:15 ◼   ► to remember it now maybe i'll see if i [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► can find it for the show notes but I [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► read a book a long time ago which was [TS]

00:56:22 ◼   ► essentially about office culture it was [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► particularly in the United Kingdom but [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► they were doing studies of essentially [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► watching office monkeys all day and [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► trying to figure out how much are they [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► actually doing and the main thesis of [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► the book was that an enormous number of [TS]

00:56:44 ◼   ► white-collar employees are vastly [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► underemployed that the the joke in in [TS]

00:56:51 ◼   ► office space where someone comes in and [TS]

00:56:52 ◼   ► he's like I actually probably do about [TS]

00:56:54 ◼   ► 20 minutes of real intense work in a day [TS]

00:56:57 ◼   ► is like for lots of jobs like that's not [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► necessarily that far off [TS]

00:57:02 ◼   ► so this is the difference with being [TS]

00:57:04 ◼   ► self-employed versus having a job where [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► what you were saying before about the [TS]

00:57:10 ◼   ► the relative security of either [TS]

00:57:14 ◼   ► yeah I do i do think you may have a very [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► good point that being self employed in a [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► bizarre way is actually more of a secure [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► job but the the advantage that an office [TS]

00:57:27 ◼   ► job has is that kind of coasting what [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► you can do is the thing I can do that I [TS]

00:57:32 ◼   ► can do the coasting right or like you [TS]

00:57:35 ◼   ► know i i'm not saying it but you know [TS]

00:57:37 ◼   ► you just a ton of time off right which [TS]

00:57:39 ◼   ► is the equivalent of all the coasting [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► right you took all the coasting that you [TS]

00:57:44 ◼   ► live in here and you put it in one block [TS]

00:57:46 ◼   ► you know and I could do that you could [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► do that like the business will continue [TS]

00:57:51 ◼   ► to run I could just stop things now for [TS]

00:57:53 ◼   ► all we stopped cortex for a bit right [TS]

00:57:54 ◼   ► well I made us money with that but [TS]

00:57:58 ◼   ► that's exactly it it's like when you're [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► self-employed I i can put i can put a [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► very exact number [TS]

00:58:07 ◼   ► unlike the opportunity cost of this [TS]

00:58:09 ◼   ► summer yep and that that's a thing that [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► you just can't escape from and when [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► you're coasting in an office job that [TS]

00:58:18 ◼   ► salary still keeps coming in and you [TS]

00:58:20 ◼   ► can kind of you can feel better about it [TS]

00:58:23 ◼   ► when you're focusing on some other [TS]

00:58:25 ◼   ► project for some other length of time [TS]

00:58:27 ◼   ► like I had a busy I'd love to travel [TS]

00:58:29 ◼   ► this summer as well so i was happy for [TS]

00:58:31 ◼   ► court xmas right for that like made it [TS]

00:58:34 ◼   ► easier because I put a lot of work into [TS]

00:58:36 ◼   ► this show we both do and it's probably [TS]

00:58:38 ◼   ► the show that i put the most time into [TS]

00:58:41 ◼   ► because of the way that we plan and the [TS]

00:58:43 ◼   ► way that we added and that kind of stuff [TS]

00:58:44 ◼   ► but I needed starting right now I'm at [TS]

00:58:48 ◼   ► the point now where like show needs to [TS]

00:58:50 ◼   ► come back because buying a house key [TS]

00:58:57 ◼   ► card cortexes can't last forever [TS]

00:58:59 ◼   ► Mikey's gonna get paid for [TS]

00:59:03 ◼   ► so this is the house that cortex built [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► this is what I'm hearing right because [TS]

00:59:06 ◼   ► we can't we can't keep canceling the [TS]

00:59:08 ◼   ► show we can't keep taking off forever [TS]

00:59:09 ◼   ► yet where we're actually naming it [TS]

00:59:12 ◼   ► cortex cottage so fantastic I hope to [TS]

00:59:16 ◼   ► see that above the door when I come and [TS]

00:59:18 ◼   ► visit of course cortex college a million [TS]

00:59:21 ◼   ► people wrote in to tell us that [TS]

00:59:24 ◼   ► Microsoft have launched an Evernote [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► importing tool [TS]

00:59:29 ◼   ► yes yes so this is at all written by [TS]

00:59:32 ◼   ► Microsoft to look at your Evernote [TS]

00:59:35 ◼   ► database i guess and imported i'm [TS]

00:59:40 ◼   ► guessing cleanly ish into OneNote and [TS]

00:59:44 ◼   ► I'm wondering if you have tried this at [TS]

00:59:46 ◼   ► all [TS]

00:59:47 ◼   ► no i haven't tried this and I i received [TS]

00:59:52 ◼   ► what what seemed like all of the [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► messages in the world from people [TS]

00:59:57 ◼   ► letting me know about this imp [TS]

00:59:57 ◼   ► letting me know about this imp [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► order which may just seem like want one [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► of these prime examples of I don't think [TS]

01:00:06 ◼   ► you understand what my problem is [TS]

01:00:09 ◼   ► and while yes i did complain about the [TS]

01:00:10 ◼   ► lack of an importer i think i also made [TS]

01:00:13 ◼   ► it pretty clear on the show that I tried [TS]

01:00:15 ◼   ► very hard to make microsoft onenote work [TS]

01:00:18 ◼   ► for me but its fundamental structure of [TS]

01:00:21 ◼   ► notebooks with tabs is unworkable for [TS]

01:00:25 ◼   ► the way that I want to use it it's just [TS]

01:00:27 ◼   ► too clumsy I i tried it as like it is [TS]

01:00:31 ◼   ► not designed for hierarchies in the way [TS]

01:00:35 ◼   ► that i need ABI so I'm very very glad [TS]

01:00:39 ◼   ► for lots of people that the OneNote [TS]

01:00:41 ◼   ► importer exists on the mac very happy [TS]

01:00:43 ◼   ► for everybody but it is it is of no use [TS]

01:00:47 ◼   ► to me what was what was much more useful [TS]

01:00:51 ◼   ► was the feedback that people sent with [TS]

01:00:53 ◼   ► regards to evernote about tags which we [TS]

01:00:56 ◼   ► touched on briefly last time that there [TS]

01:00:58 ◼   ► are different ways to think about [TS]

01:01:01 ◼   ► organizing your data and Evernote with [TS]

01:01:03 ◼   ► tags as opposed to using notebooks which [TS]

01:01:07 ◼   ► is what i did and at this point i have [TS]

01:01:12 ◼   ► spent a pretty considerable amount of [TS]

01:01:16 ◼   ► time reworking my Evernote system from [TS]

01:01:21 ◼   ► notebooks two tags in a way that [TS]

01:01:25 ◼   ► Evernote was clearly i don't want to say [TS]

01:01:28 ◼   ► grumpy with but like boy has Evernote [TS]

01:01:30 ◼   ► spent a lot of time syncing between all [TS]

01:01:32 ◼   ► of my device it's going through all of [TS]

01:01:35 ◼   ► these changes but so yes this is this is [TS]

01:01:39 ◼   ► what I have mostly moved toward at this [TS]

01:01:42 ◼   ► point I think I'm about 80% done i'm [TS]

01:01:44 ◼   ► going to guess with trying to convert [TS]

01:01:46 ◼   ► everything into tags and it's workable [TS]

01:01:51 ◼   ► as is as is always the frustration like [TS]

01:01:54 ◼   ► I find Evernote is is just really clunky [TS]

01:01:57 ◼   ► on iOS so I have essentially had to do [TS]

01:02:00 ◼   ► all of this on my computer and and i'm [TS]

01:02:03 ◼   ► just using Evernote on iOS to save [TS]

01:02:06 ◼   ► things but I can't really organize [TS]

01:02:08 ◼   ► things on an iOS with tags but like you [TS]

01:02:11 ◼   ► know what [TS]

01:02:12 ◼   ► this is one of these cases where I'm [TS]

01:02:14 ◼   ► have to weigh the pros and cons of [TS]

01:02:17 ◼   ► trying to move to a disk different [TS]

01:02:18 ◼   ► system what those systems have how did [TS]

01:02:20 ◼   ► they work versus sticking with the way [TS]

01:02:21 ◼   ► Evernote is and like making it worth [TS]

01:02:24 ◼   ► with work with tags and so my conclusion [TS]

01:02:26 ◼   ► is at least from from playing around [TS]

01:02:28 ◼   ► with it for a while is that like yes the [TS]

01:02:31 ◼   ► tag solution is workable non-ideal in [TS]

01:02:34 ◼   ► very many ways but it is workable and [TS]

01:02:37 ◼   ► far less of a time investment than other [TS]

01:02:40 ◼   ► things would would be so even though I'm [TS]

01:02:44 ◼   ► gave that huge rant about Evernote and [TS]

01:02:45 ◼   ► even though i am still concerned deeply [TS]

01:02:48 ◼   ► about the future of the company this is [TS]

01:02:49 ◼   ► this is one of these cases where I'm [TS]

01:02:52 ◼   ► going to be sticking with it i'm going [TS]

01:02:54 ◼   ► to use tags and you know if the day [TS]

01:02:58 ◼   ► comes when Evernote gets shut down or [TS]

01:03:01 ◼   ► acquired which is often the same thing [TS]

01:03:04 ◼   ► in the software world like that'sthat's [TS]

01:03:06 ◼   ► future Gray's problem that is not [TS]

01:03:09 ◼   ► current great problem he can deal with [TS]

01:03:11 ◼   ► that [TS]

01:03:11 ◼   ► exactly i'm sure that guy has lots of [TS]

01:03:14 ◼   ► time on his hands he can fix it [TS]

01:03:16 ◼   ► well he's got nothing plan right now [TS]

01:03:17 ◼   ► exactly calendar is clear in with the [TS]

01:03:20 ◼   ► only 19 when with the facebook buys [TS]

01:03:23 ◼   ► Evernote I had spoken about my system [TS]

01:03:28 ◼   ► you know if not being basically just [TS]

01:03:30 ◼   ► about the holiday planning for me right [TS]

01:03:34 ◼   ► now i have taken some trips I wasn't [TS]

01:03:38 ◼   ► using Evernote at all who and I have [TS]

01:03:42 ◼   ► been completely happy with saving pdfs [TS]

01:03:45 ◼   ► to apple notes and writing out some [TS]