Cortex

00:00:00 ◼   ► it's over did you enjoy cortex miss gray [TS]

00:00:02 ◼   ► did you know what I did to it was a [TS]

00:00:04 ◼   ► welcome thing at that time in my life [TS]

00:00:07 ◼   ► over the last couple of months I've been [TS]

00:00:08 ◼   ► very busy [TS]

00:00:09 ◼   ► ya see if it's good it's good to have [TS]

00:00:12 ◼   ► breaks throughout the year one time and [TS]

00:00:14 ◼   ► you don't need an endless ceaseless [TS]

00:00:17 ◼   ► grind God that pull verizon's your soul [TS]

00:00:21 ◼   ► into tiny little shards that never ends [TS]

00:00:24 ◼   ► now breaks breaks throughout the year [TS]

00:00:28 ◼   ► it makes life it makes life better mic [TS]

00:00:31 ◼   ► and you agree you agree now no one's [TS]

00:00:33 ◼   ► forcing you to be here [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► I feel like you're forcing me to be a [TS]

00:00:37 ◼   ► lie now i'm happy to be here yeah yeah [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► here but not every week I'm in the [TS]

00:00:44 ◼   ► cottage [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► hey i'm in mega office all set up now [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► all finished hundred percent well it's a [TS]

00:00:52 ◼   ► hundred percent as it can be you know [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► whatever be a hundred percent know it's [TS]

00:00:57 ◼   ► like that bridge you know the bridge [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► that people paint forever [TS]

00:01:00 ◼   ► I don't know what you're talking about [TS]

00:01:01 ◼   ► really feel like I've had this exact [TS]

00:01:04 ◼   ► conversation before so I'm not going to [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► redo it [TS]

00:01:07 ◼   ► I have been i've been alerted to the [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► fact recently that the way that I say [TS]

00:01:12 ◼   ► the name of my office that makes it [TS]

00:01:15 ◼   ► sound like its spell [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► mega64 quite a lot [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► the idea of it being mega our office so [TS]

00:01:23 ◼   ► that is that's the thing so mega office [TS]

00:01:25 ◼   ► is fully taking shape i have account my [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► thinking couch thinking couch i have a [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► sit stand desk which I have stood at [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► once [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► well I can do it if I need to I want to [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► have a drone now [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► whoo that's a whole thing that I've been [TS]

00:01:43 ◼   ► playing around with everything about me [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► a drawing for Christmas [TS]

00:01:46 ◼   ► well Merry Christmas casing nice that [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► we're going [TS]

00:01:54 ◼   ► ilike Casey jr. thank you very much okay [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► Casey jr. AC Julia I i I'm I'm really [TS]

00:02:01 ◼   ► enjoying the drone grounded to get what [TS]

00:02:03 ◼   ► you get [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► I gotta power bebop 2 [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► and we have basically come to the idea [TS]

00:02:09 ◼   ► that this is my practice drone haha [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► right okay right you know like the [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► really good drones there like a thousand [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► pounds or something [TS]

00:02:20 ◼   ► this is my drawing learn how to fly a [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► drone [TS]

00:02:23 ◼   ► so this is your entry-level drone this [TS]

00:02:25 ◼   ► is my entry level drone we're like it [TS]

00:02:28 ◼   ► does it does it does a pretty good job [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► and also that the controls are easy to [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► use so I'm getting used to it it's a [TS]

00:02:36 ◼   ► whole big process you know flying a drum [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► it i don't think it looks easy [TS]

00:02:40 ◼   ► I come home I'm always impressed by [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► people flying the drones it looks quite [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► hard i only lost control of it once [TS]

00:02:50 ◼   ► uh-huh i was kind of making it hard to [TS]

00:02:52 ◼   ► around me in a circle and this I to put [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► this in my youtube video like a video [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► that i just put up at my tattoo I put [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► some drone footage at the end of it and [TS]

00:03:02 ◼   ► the last clip is like the drone flying [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► around me and then like just it just [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► carries on now in real time that was [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► when I lost control of the drone it was [TS]

00:03:11 ◼   ► supposed to just keep going around me [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► and I didn't know where he went [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► it was behind me and it just went off an [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► inhibitory but the footage look really [TS]

00:03:22 ◼   ► good right [TS]

00:03:23 ◼   ► and through the magic of editing you can [TS]

00:03:25 ◼   ► cut it the frame before it would be [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► obvious that some really so it looks [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► like your bro it's the frame before it [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► snaps back we're in like the opposite [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► direction as I try and take control of [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► the thing again that is a fantastic [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► fantastic christmas present and i look [TS]

00:03:41 ◼   ► forward to seeing more drone footage in [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► your future vlogs yes somebody somebody [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► said to me in in the YouTube comments [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► why why haven't you taken the drone [TS]

00:03:49 ◼   ► higher mhm and it's true because [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► complete fear of the drone like it can [TS]

00:03:55 ◼   ► go a lot higher than I've taken it but [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► I'd like some so scared of it like it's [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► a really weird feeling to have this [TS]

00:04:02 ◼   ► thing that i'm both excited about and [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► terrified off its is it's like owning a [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► lion [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► it's like you trained it and it's just [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► like a little lion cub but like at some [TS]

00:04:12 ◼   ► point it's gonna scratch your face off [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► yeah it's a wild creature yeah you're [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► hanging but that's kind of amazing so [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► exciting [TS]

00:04:20 ◼   ► same time I don't have many right now [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► I'm not a risk-taking person in that way [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► you know like an adrenaline risk-taker [TS]

00:04:25 ◼   ► right but the drone is is a weird kind [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► of bridge for that it but I love it I [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► love it I i wish i could have seen my [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► face when I opened it it was a surprise [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► that look [TS]

00:04:36 ◼   ► Luigi will be drawn i think that was a [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► little bit but i'm i'm enjoying a lot [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► and I wish I had more time to go and [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► just fly around parks it's very it's [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► very cool looking and I feel like this [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► is this is another stage down the path [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► of now being like it's like a [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► professional amateur level vlogger prime [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► leak [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► yeah yeah exactly right you no longer [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► just a beginner once you have a drone [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► and you start learning how to make it [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► follow you around one-handed or whatever [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► you're going to do with it then then you [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► know you're moving up there in the [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► blogging world that's exciting very [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► exciting [TS]

00:05:13 ◼   ► will you let me fly your drone yeah if [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► you want to the terrible the terrible [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► decision but yes do you want to flight [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► yeah i would totally like I've never [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► flown drown I think it would be [TS]

00:05:22 ◼   ► interested to try to fly it see how high [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► it can go yet so you gotta go go high [TS]

00:05:26 ◼   ► and go far [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► like don't see the drone anymore that's [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► the goal that's that's what i would want [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► like can't see it and then there's just [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► a button or pressing it comes back right [TS]

00:05:34 ◼   ► that's where ya work actually yes [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► awesome day perfect is nothing to worry [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► about that [TS]

00:05:39 ◼   ► mmm i'll fly real high for you Mike [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► value yeah it's so good at yeah we go [TS]

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00:07:31 ◼   ► been I've also taken some steps [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► professionally I've I've been doing some [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► more serious things as well [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► no over court xmas one of them is I have [TS]

00:07:42 ◼   ► started time tracking finally ok [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► yep i have started time tracking that [TS]

00:07:51 ◼   ► the kind of the reason for this which [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► i'm out i think we're going to get into [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► a little bit later on but the kind of [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► the basic reason is because we are [TS]

00:07:59 ◼   ► really FM is looking to get a part-time [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► a system for me too to help with some of [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► the work that I do em but before we can [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► kind of go down that road [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► mmm we need to understand what tasks [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► person's gonna take em and because [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► they're going to be you know the kind of [TS]

00:08:18 ◼   ► the idea is to kind of do contractible [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► billable hours of this person I need to [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► work out how long these things actually [TS]

00:08:24 ◼   ► do take me to Devon the seventh a severe [TS]

00:08:27 ◼   ► hangover so i have started time tracking [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► everything that I do work related just [TS]

00:08:32 ◼   ► also because I figured if I'm gonna go [TS]

00:08:34 ◼   ► down this route [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► maybe it's time to start realizing just [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► how much time I spent on things [TS]

00:08:39 ◼   ► mmm [TS]

00:08:39 ◼   ► mmm out i'm using a service called [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► toggle t oggl toggle is my I think [TS]

00:08:48 ◼   ► primarily a web service they have apps [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► but they're not great like they have an [TS]

00:08:53 ◼   ► ok iphone app nothing for the ipad i [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► spoke to their customer service / [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► twitter and looks that they have [TS]

00:09:00 ◼   ► absolutely no plans for an ipad app even [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► like will let you know if things change [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► means never gonna happen [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► yeah we've we've added to the support [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► queue for future requires like okay yeah [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► goodbye but i have keeping using and [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► friend of the show federico teaching of [TS]

00:09:18 ◼   ► Max stories workflows he made for the [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► iOS workflow app as a way to do this and [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► I was talking to federico about this and [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► he said if you've been speaking to gray [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► and I said no and he said all because [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► you both started asking me about this at [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► exactly the same time [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► yeah so you you mentioned toggle has [TS]

00:09:38 ◼   ► recommended to you by federico couple [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► episodes ago [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► yeah at around the time i was saying [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► like I'm looking to switch my time [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► tracking systems because i had outgrown [TS]

00:09:48 ◼   ► my double together Rube Goldberg machine [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► that i was using to track my time [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► previously which was great but pass it's [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► past its prime and so yeah one of one of [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► the big things i did over court xmas was [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► had a period of about 10 days where i [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► was really rethinking and reworking a [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► lot of things related to my business and [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► one of them was involved in setting up [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► time tracking and I [TS]

00:10:21 ◼   ► because you recommended this I tried it [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► out i found that same article that [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► federico had written about writing this [TS]

00:10:28 ◼   ► little workflow to interact with toggle [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► because they have an API yeah so you can [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► write these little scripts that sort of [TS]

00:10:33 ◼   ► talks directly to the web server so you [TS]

00:10:35 ◼   ► don't have to use the apps that are on [TS]

00:10:37 ◼   ► your phone which is nice for a bunch of [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► reasons and i was playing around with it [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► very seriously for a few days and then [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► essentially i harassed the teaching [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► about this because I i started messaging [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► like hey do you think someone could [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► write a script to do the United like [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► that you say thanks to him and this is [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► what he said like it's like i'm working [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► on one for gray is like I'm gonna make [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► it be easier and then i'll send it to [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► you understand my level it's okay i'll [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► put some instructions in and then you [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► can have excellent i feel i feel much [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► better than that his his effort was w [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► well spent that because i was harassing [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► him like what I wouldn't lie would like [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► is to be able to control everything in [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► the API the toggle makes available right [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► like everything i can write to the [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► server i want to write to the server and [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► so he was very nice and and wrote [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► another custom version of it that could [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► do more because web api stuff is is a [TS]

00:11:32 ◼   ► bit beyond my skill level [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► I was like looking through it and I'm [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► like I have no idea what any of this is [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► doing [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► yeah the web api stuff gets really [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► complicated and really program very very [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► fast yeah but but once he did that I [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► then took the thing that he gave to me [TS]

00:11:47 ◼   ► and i modified it really extensively to [TS]

00:11:51 ◼   ► work with the way I want my own system [TS]

00:11:53 ◼   ► to work and I have come up with we can [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► talk about it more detail later like I'm [TS]

00:12:00 ◼   ► still playing around with it but just as [TS]

00:12:03 ◼   ► you have moved from the step of no time [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► tracking at all to work time tracking i [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► am i'm experimenting with this season [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► doing time tracking for my whole life [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► so what I'm trying to do is actually [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► just have a timer running if I am [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► conscious about like I want to have a I [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► want to have an overview now not just of [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► my hardcore work but now that i have a [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► stronger [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► better more flexible in many ways system [TS]

00:12:36 ◼   ► like let me push this to the absolute [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► max at least for a little while and see [TS]

00:12:43 ◼   ► what that tells me about myself because [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► i found that the first time I started [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► doing time tracking you learn a lot [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► about yourself that you don't [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► necessarily realize oh boy do you yeah [TS]

00:12:55 ◼   ► and so I'm taking that I'm taking that [TS]

00:12:57 ◼   ► like I've done the first stage of this [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► i'm doing the second stage of this but [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► this is what this is this is what I am [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► dying to hear from you Mike because I [TS]

00:13:05 ◼   ► always push people to do time tracking [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► and what I'm always trying to do is I'm [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► mentioning mentioning like one key case [TS]

00:13:11 ◼   ► right I'm always telling you like oh you [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► need to know the value of your of your [TS]

00:13:14 ◼   ► of your time you know in terms of [TS]

00:13:16 ◼   ► dollars right that's always the thing [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► that I'm harping on but if you can get [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► someone down that path now we can have [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► the conversation about like what is your [TS]

00:13:25 ◼   ► work they really look like Mike so i'll [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► say before before we dig into this and [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► and before i have to go to the corner [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► and cry for a little while having only [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► been doing this for a couple of weeks [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► I've already started to have the full of [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► should I track everything like I've had [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► that thought like should I track the [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► time that i'm reading Twitter like so i [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► can see how you gone down that route [TS]

00:13:47 ◼   ► even I can see the value in knowing what [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► i'm doing all times i'm not going to [TS]

00:13:52 ◼   ► start doing that yet but i can see that [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► if I continue to keep doing this like I [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► think i will I can see myself getting to [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► that point quite quite easily actually [TS]

00:14:00 ◼   ► seems like a logical step [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► yeah I would seriously recommend not [TS]

00:14:04 ◼   ► doing that at the start I don't want to [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► do it right now it's too much [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► yeah exactly like I would honestly wait [TS]

00:14:09 ◼   ► something like six months of just [TS]

00:14:11 ◼   ► tracking your work time before you even [TS]

00:14:12 ◼   ► think about trying to track everything [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► because it's it's enough to do just the [TS]

00:14:16 ◼   ► work time like I'm constantly forgetting [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► timers as it is rightly was constantly [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► in I've been looking forward to this [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► conversation and reading it in equal [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► measure because one like I think it's [TS]

00:14:27 ◼   ► like a really good thing for us to get [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► into but the offer is like I know where [TS]

00:14:31 ◼   ► it's going [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► I know that you're gonna push me to do [TS]

00:14:35 ◼   ► the how much is my time worth thing and [TS]

00:14:39 ◼   ► I really don't want to do that yet [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► like I a viscerally do not want to start [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► doing those calculations [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► but here we are so let me tell you what [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► I have learned so far having only done [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► this for about two weeks [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► mmm basic that I've learned some key [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► things and I don't know how I feel about [TS]

00:14:58 ◼   ► them there are times in the week where [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► the sheer amount of my time that his [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► podcast editing is concerning em the [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► recording time the amount of time i [TS]

00:15:08 ◼   ► spend recording is about why expected by [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► the editing time is way out of whack [TS]

00:15:15 ◼   ► ok so what way out of whack as in you're [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► spending way more time editing then you [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► thought that you return I thought yeah [TS]

00:15:20 ◼   ► okay that's not too surprising me [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► because that the shows are so the shows [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► are scheduled right yeah like this is [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► this is the whole the whole lesson to [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► learn from all of these things is you [TS]

00:15:30 ◼   ► can't trust your brain for anything [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► about your brains terrible at everything [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► it ever does right [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► yes I like your brain is an adversary [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► like Gordon incompetent it's one of the [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► two all the time like a brain how much [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► time do I spend an editing I 20 minutes [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► that is no idea where is where is that [TS]

00:15:46 ◼   ► you can look at a calendar and see that [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► you have booked in recording slots [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► yep so I'm not surprised that you have a [TS]

00:15:52 ◼   ► better sense of that but yes so the [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► editing is taking longer than you think [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► I'm like so there are a couple of shows [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► that for our whack so like there's this [TS]

00:16:01 ◼   ► show and there's another show that I had [TS]

00:16:03 ◼   ► it when I add it very differently like [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► I'd listened to the entire thing and [TS]

00:16:08 ◼   ► spend a lot of time on it so when when I [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► do those shows it pushes the numbers up [TS]

00:16:14 ◼   ► significantly quickly in the week [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► because anything to do this at the start [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► of the week so that like throws out of [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► whack for like three quarters of the [TS]

00:16:21 ◼   ► week right because i'm aware of those I [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► know how long they take me lake so [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► that's that the problem that I have is [TS]

00:16:29 ◼   ► all of my other shows [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► mhm shows that I thought took me 20 [TS]

00:16:33 ◼   ► minutes to edit and take me about 45 mm [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► and I am NOT happy about [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► yeah and that that's what that's what [TS]

00:16:42 ◼   ► can kill you because you have a bunch of [TS]

00:16:44 ◼   ► shows that probably fall into that [TS]

00:16:45 ◼   ► category [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► oh it's like everything yeah right [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► you're yet you're losing half as much [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► time as you thought you actually had it [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► takes me two to three times the amount [TS]

00:16:53 ◼   ► of time nightfall it took em and this [TS]

00:16:57 ◼   ► has been a really harsh realized [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► ocean like I was talking to a dinner [TS]

00:17:02 ◼   ► about this and I was like I explained it [TS]

00:17:04 ◼   ► to her she's like yeah it takes about 45 [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► minutes [TS]

00:17:06 ◼   ► she's like I know this looks like i say [TS]

00:17:08 ◼   ► i'll be back in about 20 minutes i'm [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► going to go ahead and upgrade and she [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► knows I'm going 45 right like in my mind [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► it only takes 20 minutes [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► mm and I I'm very uncomfortable about [TS]

00:17:18 ◼   ► this because i have now opened my idea [TS]

00:17:22 ◼   ► to the fact that my brain has no idea [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► what it's doing like right i was [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► convinced that was how long it took me [TS]

00:17:28 ◼   ► to a show like that but I'm not just off [TS]

00:17:30 ◼   ► by a little bit [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► it's like a factor of to a minimum mhm [TS]

00:17:34 ◼   ► this is why it is so so important to do [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► because you you just cannot trust [TS]

00:17:40 ◼   ► yourself to have any sense of how long [TS]

00:17:43 ◼   ► it really takes you to do things and [TS]

00:17:45 ◼   ► this is his wife or for anybody [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► listening if you if you work for [TS]

00:17:51 ◼   ► yourself you're working for a company if [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► you care at all about how you are [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► spending your time just do some time [TS]

00:17:58 ◼   ► tracking on the things that are like [TS]

00:18:01 ◼   ► most important to you and you feel like [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► you will see it revealed how your time [TS]

00:18:06 ◼   ► is really being spent like you whatever [TS]

00:18:08 ◼   ► you think you're doing you're going to [TS]

00:18:10 ◼   ► discover where you are surprisingly [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► wrong about yourself [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► so one thing that I was wrong about that [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► i'm happy with is the amount of time it [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► takes me to prepare so I spend more time [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► preparing for shows then I thought I did [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► hmm that's something i'm happy to know [TS]

00:18:26 ◼   ► so why is that why is that what you mean [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► so I like I spend more time putting our [TS]

00:18:32 ◼   ► documents together and doing research [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► and that is the type of time that I'm [TS]

00:18:37 ◼   ► pleased that i put in power because I [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► thought that I wasn't spending enough [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► time preparing like i spend about as [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► much time as i thought i should be to [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► make a good show right [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► ok ok I see I see what you're saying [TS]

00:18:49 ◼   ► alright that's good [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► like I was maybe self conscious of it [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► but I was wrong to be it kind of felt [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► like if I'm not doing adequate [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► preparation kinda like a fraud them [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► right that like i should be prepared for [TS]

00:19:01 ◼   ► the show's to make the best show that I [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► can make and there were times where I [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► was like I'm not doing enough of this [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► so it's like some kind of just like [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► winging it blew em but that's not the [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► case like when I look at the actual [TS]

00:19:13 ◼   ► number [TS]

00:19:13 ◼   ► those like I'm spending about as much if [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► not more time than I thought that I [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► should be so I'm happy about that and [TS]

00:19:21 ◼   ► the thing is like the Edit is the same [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► side of it right which is like making [TS]

00:19:24 ◼   ► the show better i do any editing i agree [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► with that but it's it's because i had a [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► real idea in my mind of how long that [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► took me like I didn't have a time for [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► the preparing because I I tend to do [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► show prep for seven days for each show [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► like I'm always doing it you know I've [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► known as an idea comes to me or as a [TS]

00:19:44 ◼   ► story comes to me like i'll pick it up [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► as I go like I'm not sitting down for [TS]

00:19:48 ◼   ► like a block of time and doing it well [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► that's how i do the edits I sit down for [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► a block the time so I thought it took me [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► this amount of time but I'm really wrong [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► about that and and that is that's what's [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► concerning to me the preparing stuff i [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► don't feel like it's a real sock of time [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► because it's happening in these little [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► bits and it's also just time really well [TS]

00:20:09 ◼   ► spent [TS]

00:20:10 ◼   ► it looks like this yeah this show exists [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► because you put a bunch of time into the [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► show notes right all of your shows are [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► better if you put time into the show [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► notes a ahead of time so that's that [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► that's that's great to find out that and [TS]

00:20:23 ◼   ► perhaps perhaps you had the feeling like [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► you're doing it less because of course [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► in any conversation like conversations [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► evolved as they go on and they're never [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► going to follow the show notes entirely [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► so there is there is an element of even [TS]

00:20:36 ◼   ► for the most prepared conversation both [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► parties are still sort of winging it [TS]

00:20:40 ◼   ► throughout that conversation but it's [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► the right kind of winging its like [TS]

00:20:43 ◼   ► informed winging exactly exactly so [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► maybe that's why you were feeling that [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► way a little bit but yeah the editing [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► time you know something something else [TS]

00:20:53 ◼   ► that's maybe maybe something can be done [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► about that my god i don't know what do [TS]

00:20:57 ◼   ► you think [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► not yet not yet ok so I've been thinking [TS]

00:21:02 ◼   ► about it I've been talking about it and [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► it is a clear thing that I could do [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► something about it but I'm not ready [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► like okay i am not ready to let go of [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► what I considered to be an important [TS]

00:21:13 ◼   ► part of the creation of the shows that I [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► do em like I feel like many of the shows [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► that I do are as good as they are [TS]

00:21:19 ◼   ► because of the Edit typo in and select [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► the difference i think i've explained [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► this like a show like this i go back and [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► listen to the whole thing for most of my [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► other weekly shows I don't do that but [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► what I do is I take notes as the shows [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► going on and then I go in to fix those [TS]

00:21:33 ◼   ► points [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► looks like i'm editing whilst we're [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► recording because i know in the things [TS]

00:21:38 ◼   ► that need to be fixed and then I go in [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► and just fix it to each one of those [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► points [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► who what that does is it means that i [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► can get the show's out especially the [TS]

00:21:45 ◼   ► topic based shows that the weekly kind [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► of news focus shows they can come out in [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► a timely fashion which is important to [TS]

00:21:51 ◼   ► me but I also feel like I can put a lot [TS]

00:21:54 ◼   ► of added time into them because of the [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► way that I do it but unfortunately it's [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► taking longer than I thought but I don't [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► want to let it go yet because i feel [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► like i would be kind of losing part of [TS]

00:22:04 ◼   ► my voice of the shows who now there [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► might be you know I'm starting to think [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► about ok which shows the most important [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► for that which shows met at least like [TS]

00:22:13 ◼   ► I'm trying to start like roll these [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► things around in my brain but like I'm [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► not like mentally ready to let go of [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► anything like that yet [TS]

00:22:23 ◼   ► understandable understandable and you [TS]

00:22:25 ◼   ► know it's like how I I would never pass [TS]

00:22:28 ◼   ► the editor of this show to anybody [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► because this is like the most of all of [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► them but like it's like with the other [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► shows [TS]

00:22:34 ◼   ► I mean you know why that is right [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► because of the type of added that we do [TS]

00:22:37 ◼   ► on this show it needs our opinion [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► yeah but like all of my shows have that [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► to a degree but it's not a strong right [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► at the atom is more your sliding up and [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► down the spectrum of this and cortex is [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► a show which is at the most extreme end [TS]

00:22:55 ◼   ► of that and i only have this opinion [TS]

00:22:57 ◼   ► about my other shows because i do this [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► one because it's changed the way that I [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► edit so like I more now than like two [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► years ago I feel like my editing is part [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► of the voice and tone of voice and like [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► character of the show than it was before [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► I've gotten into your mind might have [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► destroyed me so bad you want to take [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► over and add it in for me that I do not [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► I do not want my job is simply just you [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► know just to keep infecting you with [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► ideas and then watch them take root [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► so like we're going to talk about year [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► of less again like this is parts like [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► when I was originally thinking about [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► what my year of less might look like [TS]

00:23:38 ◼   ► we might be handing over some editing [TS]

00:23:40 ◼   ► work but now I don't think that's going [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► to be how it is going to be in 2017 who [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► there is there is a silver lining to all [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► of this i do not work for intense [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► periods of time for as long as I thought [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► I did this is the other thing i have [TS]

00:23:56 ◼   ► universally found that people discover [TS]

00:23:59 ◼   ► right if there's if there's serious if [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► they're doing the time tracking right [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► you almost always realize your way [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► overestimating how much time you're [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► really working so I again I've maybe [TS]

00:24:13 ◼   ► done this on one quiet week and one busy [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► week right [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► yeah it's still very preliminary it's [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► still very early however i am walking [TS]

00:24:21 ◼   ► out the I maybe work between 20 to 30 [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► hours a week who an intense time so this [TS]

00:24:29 ◼   ► includes like recording shows editing [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► shows preparing for shows and dealing [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► with sponsors look like and maybe having [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► calls about things like that is like [TS]

00:24:38 ◼   ► solid working time and I'm pleased with [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► these numbers but what's not trackable [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► or a couple of things really is thinking [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► em about work and also dealing with the [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► little things that pop up so like saw my [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► ask me a question [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► someone might send me a quick email that [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► takes a two second reply but these [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► things happen for as long as i am awake [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► right so i may only work for five hours [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► on that wednesday but I could do a half [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► an hour's work at nine and hours work at [TS]

00:25:15 ◼   ► 10-1 hours work at 12-1 hours work at [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► 6pm mhm and it is the one I've realized [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► is that it is that the fact that this [TS]

00:25:27 ◼   ► work can happen for as long as i am [TS]

00:25:29 ◼   ► awake is what makes it feel like i am [TS]

00:25:31 ◼   ► always working [TS]

00:25:33 ◼   ► yeah whoo so I don't want to do anything [TS]

00:25:37 ◼   ► about this right there are ways that I [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► can make this better [TS]

00:25:40 ◼   ► I could not look at my email other than [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► a specific time of the day I could not [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► open slack over then a specific time of [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► the day like I know I can do all of that [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► but I don't want to do that that's not [TS]

00:25:50 ◼   ► how I want [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► to work like by currently I like to work [TS]

00:25:54 ◼   ► the way that I do which is to always be [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► walking right i will interject here and [TS]

00:26:00 ◼   ► just say that while for many people i [TS]

00:26:03 ◼   ► would recommend exactly the things that [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► you just mentioned i would not recommend [TS]

00:26:07 ◼   ► them to you like I still think that your [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► business and your involvement in it [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► really benefits from you being around [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► and available to a lot of different [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► people and a lot of different hours like [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► I i really think that your availability [TS]

00:26:25 ◼   ► makes a big difference to how well relay [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► is doing so you eat even if you wanted [TS]

00:26:30 ◼   ► to crank it down like I think you are in [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► a very difficult position to even do [TS]

00:26:34 ◼   ► that [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► so the thing that is doing though it is [TS]

00:26:38 ◼   ► making me feel better knowing this [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► good good good because I am realizing [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► like I feel like I'm really busy all the [TS]

00:26:50 ◼   ► time but it turns out I'm not as busy as [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► i thought i was like i am not working [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► but might the thing I used to say was [TS]

00:27:00 ◼   ► i'm working for as much as I'm awake [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► look that's how i felt and now i [TS]

00:27:05 ◼   ► understand where that feeling is coming [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► from and now I'm able to fight it like [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► I'm able to answer back to my brain when [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► it gets in that mode we like okay then [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► smart guy open toggle look at your poor [TS]

00:27:18 ◼   ► the day right oh 3 hours so like this is [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► not a hard look at me like I only work [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► 20 hours a week because if i would have [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► tracked my time when i worked at the [TS]

00:27:33 ◼   ► bank i would be really keen on seeing [TS]

00:27:36 ◼   ► what that look like because I think it'd [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► probably be less because like you said [TS]

00:27:41 ◼   ► this is not like my kids chatting with [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► someone you know that's not billable [TS]

00:27:46 ◼   ► hours like when i checked into somebody [TS]

00:27:47 ◼   ► at work i'm going for lunch or like this [TS]

00:27:50 ◼   ► is like pure time where I'm like this is [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► 100-percent work i am like doing this [TS]

00:27:56 ◼   ► and doing that like it [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► this is like what I genuinely feel like [TS]

00:28:00 ◼   ► a 40-hour workweek actually is the most [TS]

00:28:02 ◼   ► people who not everyone but most people [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► people are not in consistent constant [TS]

00:28:08 ◼   ► intense work from nine to five humans do [TS]

00:28:10 ◼   ► not work like that no human humans can't [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► work like that and i think this is this [TS]

00:28:15 ◼   ► is the really clear distinction to draw [TS]

00:28:17 ◼   ► is you know like what in my old time [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► tracking system i was only tracking the [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► really valuable hours like did I just [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► spent the previous 40 minutes really [TS]

00:28:31 ◼   ► writing yes or now right if the answer [TS]

00:28:34 ◼   ► was no I wouldn't track it and it's [TS]

00:28:37 ◼   ► again nobody does eight hours a day of [TS]

00:28:40 ◼   ► that kind of work right where you are [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► really focused value generating work [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► right but everybody can be kind of like [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► at work for a really long time and doing [TS]

00:28:52 ◼   ► a bunch of low-level stuff that makes [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► you feel like I've been working all day [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► yep right but like but how how much real [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► value creation has occurred here i have [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► a weird job so my numbers i reckon a [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► higher than most people like for example [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► this week Monday Tuesday Wednesday will [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► be over six hours with him but that is [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► like because the type of stuff that I do [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► is incredibly time-intensive like little [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► speaking to somebody for two hours and [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► then working on it for what turns out to [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► be an hour like those things can add up [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► quite a lot who and what I have really [TS]

00:29:29 ◼   ► noticed is like so last Friday I had [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► seven hours of work that i logged no I [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► felt like crap last Friday back right [TS]

00:29:40 ◼   ► and this week like I've been doing a [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► consistent like six hours a day [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► no but I feel okay because I knew it was [TS]

00:29:46 ◼   ► busy week little and it's like this is [TS]

00:29:49 ◼   ► confirming that feeling and I'm yeah [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► more tired and we always been really [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► strange i've noticed I've been sleeping [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► in more this week than last week who [TS]

00:29:56 ◼   ► have been working up a little bit later [TS]

00:29:58 ◼   ► like it is really open my eyes to how I [TS]

00:30:03 ◼   ► work in a really interesting way to have [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► you pay attention to that guilt you'll [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► see that those those overworked times [TS]

00:30:09 ◼   ► like you're gonna pay for one way or [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► another I still I still love an envious [TS]

00:30:13 ◼   ► of your you're busy week and not busy [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► week [TS]

00:30:17 ◼   ► because you have a bit of that like [TS]

00:30:18 ◼   ► averaging out effect occurring there [TS]

00:30:21 ◼   ► ok which I still think is is fantastic [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► but i'm really glad to hear that you are [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► able to push back against your own brain [TS]

00:30:29 ◼   ► a little bit with the when your brain [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► says like I've been working all day [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► it's like okay but how much really yeah [TS]

00:30:36 ◼   ► and and just the knowledge of that the [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► ability to push back on that a little [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► bit i think can really help reduce like [TS]

00:30:44 ◼   ► feelings of busyness and stress in [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► overwhelming this but you are totally [TS]

00:30:51 ◼   ► right there [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► the the main thing that is untrackable [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► by even the best system is the thinking [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► about work time that is a futile thing [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► to try to track and that is something [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► that is like outside the system and kind [TS]

00:31:05 ◼   ► of around it all the time and and that [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► that is again one thing when you like [TS]

00:31:11 ◼   ► running your own company are doing your [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► own thing is very hard to get away from [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► that [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► yeah but just trying to be trying to be [TS]

00:31:20 ◼   ► mindful of it i think is is very helpful [TS]

00:31:23 ◼   ► like am I thinking about work and doing [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► anything about it now or is it just [TS]

00:31:28 ◼   ► something that's on the back of my mind [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► which is causing me stress like even [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► just trying to be aware of that sort of [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► stuff within the context of a time [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► tracking system is is very helpful so [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► it's been a very strange couple of weeks [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► but good i think overall like I've [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► learned some valuable things and do it's [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► already made me kind of rethink what I [TS]

00:31:48 ◼   ► thought 2017 is going to be like for me [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► wow I know right because i was i was [TS]

00:31:55 ◼   ► moving down a road and will astonish [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► just make me take like I've taken and [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► soon a junction right like who the the [TS]

00:32:03 ◼   ► goal is still the same but the way that [TS]

00:32:05 ◼   ► I'm planning on achieving that goal is [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► different this episode of cortex is [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► brought to you by hover when you get a [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► great idea for the name of some project [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► that you want to work on a business you [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► want to start a website you want to run [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► whatever hover is the place you need to [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► go to register your domain name [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► they're simple they're fast and you [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► don't have to opt-out of page after page [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► add-ons that you don't want or need it's [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► just really simple you get in get your [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► domain name you're done you don't have [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► to click through a hundred pages of [TS]

00:32:39 ◼   ► things where your unchecking the boxes [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► for stuff that you don't want [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► it's just nice and simple most people [TS]

00:32:45 ◼   ► also don't realize that when you [TS]

00:32:46 ◼   ► register a domain name by default all of [TS]

00:32:48 ◼   ► your information is made public many [TS]

00:32:50 ◼   ► other registers will make you pay to [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► hide that information but not however [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► they're on your side they think this is [TS]

00:32:56 ◼   ► just part of what owning a domain name [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► is so it is included for free when [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► someone tells me they want to register a [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► domain name i tell them to go to hover [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► so if you have that idea [TS]

00:33:06 ◼   ► rattling around in your head you have [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► the name for the thing that you want to [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► make grab the domain right now and to do [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► that go to hover com and use the promo [TS]

00:33:16 ◼   ► code cortex to save ten percent off your [TS]

00:33:19 ◼   ► first purchase that's covered com promo [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► code cortex ten percent off for you [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► thank you so much to hover for their [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► support of this show and all of real afm [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► we had spoken about year of less a lot [TS]

00:33:32 ◼   ► last year right that was your theme of [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► 2016 was the year of less common me Lulu [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► and as we're approaching the end of the [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► year I kind of said that that was my [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► plan for 2017 like my plan 2016 was make [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► a business work like make it really work [TS]

00:33:49 ◼   ► that is your plan like just do it [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► this machine off the ground and just [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► make it go so much and also like buy a [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► house I could be coming at all like but [TS]

00:33:59 ◼   ► 2017 for me like I want to look at what [TS]

00:34:02 ◼   ► year of less looks like em and my i [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► originally considered that year of less [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► would be less content creation he so [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► less shows less editing because [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► fundamentally they are the most [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► time-intensive things that I do is [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► making the shows [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► mhm but then I was like but i like that [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► but right now it's like the reason that [TS]

00:34:34 ◼   ► i can sit with like six or seven hours [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► of attract time is because it didn't [TS]

00:34:40 ◼   ► really feel like work like it is my job [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► but I was [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► really love doing it mm so is that the [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► right stuff to do less off i'm not sure [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► like I'm not sure that I would be happy [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► with the balance after that right like [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► making less or like turning down that my [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► thought was like okay maybe stop one or [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► two shows that you're doing right now [TS]

00:35:05 ◼   ► and stop taking on any new projects my [TS]

00:35:07 ◼   ► love new project that you do my favorite [TS]

00:35:11 ◼   ► thing you always get very excited when [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► you have a new podcast in the works or [TS]

00:35:15 ◼   ► like anything right like the vlog who I [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► shouldn't be doing that [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► no every number everything says you [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► should not be doing this but i love it [TS]

00:35:27 ◼   ► like it is it is like a hobby now like [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► it is just this little creative thing [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► that I get to do and I've kind of come [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► to the realization that that is not what [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► I should be coming down [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► I should not be taken away or slimming [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► the reason I'm doing this blue like the [TS]

00:35:49 ◼   ► primary reason that I wanted this [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► business to exist is so i could support [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► myself to do these things I don't have a [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► business so i can run a business [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► right right because that's what I would [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► end up doing my business would exist so [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► I could enjoy being mr. businessperson [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► right and some people do like that but [TS]

00:36:08 ◼   ► that's not what I do it yeah that's [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► that's that's the thing but that's not [TS]

00:36:11 ◼   ► your thing you know it was like I think [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► I mentioned this on the show a long time [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► ago which was like when I would talk to [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► people my old job and tell them that I [TS]

00:36:18 ◼   ► was leaving to start my own thing and [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► people used to say to me I've always [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► dreamed of running my own business if [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► you're hired cast and so that's not a [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► dream right like what is the thing and [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► they like i know i just want to have my [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► own business [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► ok I think that's the type of person [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► that like will run a business because [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► they like the business which is a [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► totally valid who but it's not where I [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► come from like for me it's like and I [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► think this is the same for you like I [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► think your goals is a slightly different [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► than mine but it's the businesses a [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► means to the end and the end is like [TS]

00:36:51 ◼   ► whatever it is and for me it's to just [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► make the stuff that I love and I think [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► for you it's maybe more time [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► to have control of your life no yeah and [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► they are like what is caused by the [TS]

00:37:03 ◼   ► business and so maybe what I need to do [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► is remove some of the business so that's [TS]

00:37:08 ◼   ► where you're going to try to cut down on [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► things [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► assistant editor ah ok alright this is [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► good this is good [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► so what we are currently like the the [TS]

00:37:19 ◼   ► reason I am time tracking is so we can [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► work out how many hours could I give [TS]

00:37:27 ◼   ► away to someone else [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► hmm right because we know if we want to [TS]

00:37:32 ◼   ► if we really want to bring somebody on [TS]

00:37:34 ◼   ► we have to give them a significant [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► amount of time so it's worth it for [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► everyone right so we are looking at [TS]

00:37:41 ◼   ► hiring somebody on a part-time contract [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► basis i will just take a very slight [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► break right now to say please do not [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► send me any applications this is going [TS]

00:37:51 ◼   ► to be a form or process thing [TS]

00:37:53 ◼   ► your comment in the reddit is not an [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► application [TS]

00:37:57 ◼   ► yeah and email is not an application [TS]

00:37:59 ◼   ► like until like there is a and i will [TS]

00:38:02 ◼   ► talk about it i will tell the world when [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► it is there we what we are going to [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► create a real job posting the outlines [TS]

00:38:09 ◼   ► what we need from someone [TS]

00:38:11 ◼   ► what they need and what they can expect [TS]

00:38:13 ◼   ► right like it's going to be a real thing [TS]

00:38:15 ◼   ► so please if you are interested [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► do not send me anything because it is [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► it's not it's not the way right like [TS]

00:38:23 ◼   ► we're going to have a real way now if [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► you've been listening to this show you [TS]

00:38:26 ◼   ► know like we spent a lot of time talking [TS]

00:38:29 ◼   ► about great hiring someone and like the [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► process and we don't have that process [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► in place there will be one but we're [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► early in this is right like right now [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► we're like still working out what all [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► this person do like that kind of thing [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► yeah right now you're even feeling out [TS]

00:38:44 ◼   ► what are the one of the areas of [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► responsibility that the person could [TS]

00:38:47 ◼   ► even have yet we don't even know how [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► many hours is going to be back yeah you [TS]

00:38:50 ◼   ► have no idea you need to do more time [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► tracking to find that out exactly what [TS]

00:38:54 ◼   ► primarily right now what this person [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► will be doing is helping me of [TS]

00:38:57 ◼   ► coordinating and management of our [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► sponsorship process the most business [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► apart of our business who it is like [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► talking to people over emails arranging [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► and having call telephone calls booking [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► inventory [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► into our system so like when somebody [TS]

00:39:12 ◼   ► was a spot and putting it into [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► spreadsheets and systems that we have [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► and then ideally as well this person [TS]

00:39:18 ◼   ► will kind of help with some copywriting [TS]

00:39:20 ◼   ► so helping us put together the bullet [TS]

00:39:22 ◼   ► points that we give to our house so they [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► can talk about the company's and [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► sponsoring group that is what this [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► person will probably be doing and I in a [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► weird way and I think it's where I enjoy [TS]

00:39:35 ◼   ► running our business but it's not the [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► thing I enjoy the most [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► and this is the thing that I could [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► conceivably give to somebody else to [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► help move if I think of my workers art [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► em then it's harder for me to give some [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► of that stuff away to someone like if [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► somebody fill them for me on cortex [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► right like that would be great for my [TS]

00:39:59 ◼   ► for my graphs you know but that's not [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► gonna happen because we were in the [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► shower right this mean you can't give [TS]

00:40:06 ◼   ► these things exactly and it would never [TS]

00:40:08 ◼   ► happen i feel maybe get like an [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► impersonator but great-great-great-great [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► impersonator on the show I guess you [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► could look into that maybe I could just [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► like try and do your voice whore like [TS]

00:40:20 ◼   ► you know just cut together clips from [TS]

00:40:21 ◼   ► your YouTube videos and you know like [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► yeah like the sound of this [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► alright i'm going to start getting a lot [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► more stuff right on this show I think [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► it's been ok so like I'm just thinking [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► that maybe what i can do is like start [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► to pass off a lot of other things that [TS]

00:40:39 ◼   ► don't need to need my input spreadsheets [TS]

00:40:44 ◼   ► do not need me right right and so this [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► is kind of where I'm coming from [TS]

00:40:50 ◼   ► so yeah so year of less i think is gonna [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► happen but it is significantly different [TS]

00:40:57 ◼   ► why I expect it was gonna be this is the [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► whole value of doing the time tracking [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► and thinking about what you're doing and [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► just being more aware of your work and [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► instead of having in your mind like a [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► like a big blob that's just labeled work [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► you know if you're doing time tracking [TS]

00:41:16 ◼   ► like you're you're pulling out the [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► different pieces you are thinking about [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► the more intentionally and then this [TS]

00:41:22 ◼   ► this allows you to kind [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► of siphon it off in your mind into [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► different categories and and this is [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► this is exactly how i started like you [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► know I'm the one not super valuable [TS]

00:41:35 ◼   ► category that I did track because I just [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► want to be aware of it was what I've [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► I've through everything else under the [TS]

00:41:42 ◼   ► category of administration right so when [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► I was tracking time like am i doing [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► email ok is administration am i doing [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► stuff related to taxes this is [TS]

00:41:50 ◼   ► administration am I fixing a typo on the [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► website this is administration is this [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► like essentially anything that needs to [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► get done but is not related to revenue [TS]

00:42:02 ◼   ► production or product production like [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► all of this just as filed under [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► administration to know one of mine is [TS]

00:42:09 ◼   ► called what sponsor off the care plans [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► are after carrying that that is like but [TS]

00:42:16 ◼   ► such person has an email that they need [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► but like the deal is already done now [TS]

00:42:21 ◼   ► it's just like little bits and bobs [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► right right there's aftercare that needs [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► to have like fixing URL or like [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► delivering a contract like it's it's [TS]

00:42:30 ◼   ► things that just happen afterwards [TS]

00:42:32 ◼   ► they're not you know they are not [TS]

00:42:34 ◼   ► directly revenue-generating but they [TS]

00:42:36 ◼   ► need to occur right there things that [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► need to happen and it and it was being [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► aware of [TS]

00:42:43 ◼   ► not even the sheer amount of hours that [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► I was spending on administration stuff [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► but but simply becoming aware of [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► ok which subcategories in this [TS]

00:42:52 ◼   ► administration land [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► can I get someone to help me with and [TS]

00:42:58 ◼   ► and that was what started it off for me [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► you know getting an assistant in the [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► first place was was like you said does [TS]

00:43:04 ◼   ► this this spreadsheet that I'm just [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► putting some data into just does it need [TS]

00:43:08 ◼   ► to be my fingers putting in this data [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► now it doesn't right so like to start [TS]

00:43:13 ◼   ► building things up from there and you [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► know it's it's been nothing but great [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► and you know I've also had the same [TS]

00:43:22 ◼   ► experience that you did where you talked [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► about how edina was aware that like oh [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► you think something's going to take 20 [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► minutes but it actually takes you 45 [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► minutes I was really aware with a lot of [TS]

00:43:32 ◼   ► the administration stuff related to [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► posting the podcast [TS]

00:43:36 ◼   ► I realized through time tracking the [TS]

00:43:39 ◼   ► same kind of thing like I thought this [TS]

00:43:41 ◼   ► was a 45-minute job tops but turns out [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► all of the steps took me a whole [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► afternoon and I didn't know this but my [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► wife always did like I'm just gonna post [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► the show I'll be right back center [TS]

00:43:55 ◼   ► actually like he's gone for the whole [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► like for the next three hours you [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► emerged from the cave two days later the [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► area I'd yes like he thinks he's gonna [TS]

00:44:05 ◼   ► be right back but he never is like this [TS]

00:44:08 ◼   ► is takes a long time to flip all of the [TS]

00:44:10 ◼   ► switches and like do all the things to [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► make a thing go live and and so that was [TS]

00:44:14 ◼   ► one of these cases like ok these steps [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► does it have to be me doing this [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► no it doesn't have to be me doing this [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► also the time tracking is showing me [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► like I'm losing a whole afternoon every [TS]

00:44:24 ◼   ► week to this when I mentally think I'm [TS]

00:44:27 ◼   ► not losing that time it's like okay this [TS]

00:44:29 ◼   ► one this one is going to get passed off [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► to somebody else and then light and for [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► me the year of last last year [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► letting go of a lot of the reins to that [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► kind of stuff was was a big deal but it [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► was you know the end of it was just [TS]

00:44:45 ◼   ► great it was fantastic to do so right [TS]

00:44:47 ◼   ► now my time tracking is is quite basic [TS]

00:44:49 ◼   ► Lu so I'm interested to kind of see how [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► little bit how you're doing it because [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► all I'm doing right now is I have got [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► some projects and tags little that's all [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► I'm doing so a project might be sure [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► recording a tag might be cortex and [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► that's over so I can just keeping it [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► like super basic because you can add all [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► these like descriptions of the task [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► stuff like that and i'm not really doing [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► any of that right now I'm trying to make [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► it simple as I can for myself to just be [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► adding in movement that sound like a [TS]

00:45:16 ◼   ► reasonable system to you and here's the [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► thing it's it's so personal doing [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► something like this it entirely comes [TS]

00:45:27 ◼   ► down to what are you trying to get out [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► of it and you know when I talk people [TS]

00:45:33 ◼   ► into this i always suggest like just [TS]

00:45:35 ◼   ► start with the simplest thing it's like [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► I went decided to go really high level [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► movement you know yeah and i think [TS]

00:45:43 ◼   ► that's that's perfectly fine like a bit [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► if anybody starting time tracking [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► against like just track your your best [TS]

00:45:50 ◼   ► high value [TS]

00:45:50 ◼   ► hours in like leave it at that right [TS]

00:45:52 ◼   ► that's totally fine because I think what [TS]

00:45:55 ◼   ► what happens is you either discover that [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► this is like basically there's a [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► feedback loop that happens with some [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► people and so some people do time [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► tracking and then they'll stop and [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► they'll realize like okay I have some [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► insights I have some idea about how my [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► time is being spent but I don't feel the [TS]

00:46:13 ◼   ► need to keep doing this all the time but [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► for some people it ends up becoming a [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► positive feedback loop where you you [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► feel okay I've started this i'm getting [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► value out of this and then it can make [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► more sense to try two more fine-grain [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► down what is actually occurring and so [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► obviously i'm in that second camp and [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► now you know it's been a long time since [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► I've been time tracking I've been [TS]

00:46:39 ◼   ► spending a lot of time with toggle and [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► this is why I was harassing federico to [TS]

00:46:44 ◼   ► give me every option because i'm going [TS]

00:46:46 ◼   ► to use them all to do this what i would [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► say as fine grain as i think is [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► reasonable but probably most people [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► would think isn't is an unreasonable [TS]

00:46:57 ◼   ► amount of detail but the the high level [TS]

00:46:59 ◼   ► picture for me is I want to be able to [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► see how much time just in total do I [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► spend on cortex and how much time do I [TS]

00:47:08 ◼   ► spend on hello internet how much time do [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► I spend on the YouTube videos and i do [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► have breakdowns in there like it's going [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► to be interesting to me to see how much [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► time is spent [TS]

00:47:20 ◼   ► editing vs recording or how much time is [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► spent writing verses working with the [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► animator think those things are [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► interesting but ultimately it really is [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► that like that that high-level stuff is [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► where most of the value can come out of [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► so I think as long as you have like a a [TS]

00:47:37 ◼   ► reasonable high-level break down that [TS]

00:47:41 ◼   ► makes sense to you about what you want [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► to be keeping track of and what is [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► important to you i think that's fine but [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► you know you can get you can get really [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► crazy with this i'm just thinking that [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► this is this is slightly crazy but I set [TS]

00:47:54 ◼   ► up a little lamb system with toggle [TS]

00:47:56 ◼   ► using a rapier the other if this then [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► that service i set up a timer that [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► starts automatically [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► when I should be awake oh and the timer [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► is called sleeping in [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► oh right so that's amazing so at the [TS]

00:48:14 ◼   ► minute my alarm goes off a timer starts [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► which is called sleeping in i like that [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► and I'll tell you that is really [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► effective to getting you out of bed [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► because you know you sort of like half [TS]

00:48:26 ◼   ► awake and when you're self-employed [TS]

00:48:28 ◼   ► there's a bit of like does it matter if [TS]

00:48:30 ◼   ► I get up now or five minutes from now [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► no it doesn't like but now it does [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► because someone's watching exactly i [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► have a black-colored top-level category [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► in my system called sleeping in and I [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► want to see that Barbie as small as [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► possible and so that's that's that's an [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► example of like one of these things that [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► like maybe a little bit far but I feel [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► like I actually want to know how much [TS]

00:48:58 ◼   ► time do I end up spending sleeping past [TS]

00:49:01 ◼   ► when I think I should be up and then [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► there's also acts as like a little [TS]

00:49:04 ◼   ► motivator and so it's like that as long [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► as it's like a few minutes that's fine [TS]

00:49:08 ◼   ► but i just want to see and knowing that [TS]

00:49:11 ◼   ► is there is really helpful [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► yeah i'm close to like setting up those [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► ABS stuff to just do some automatic [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► things like that i don't really need to [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► be pressing buttons to track when i [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► record shows gonna know how long doing [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► that for you and so this would just be [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► that like rapiers I can never webservice [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► it's like it's as if this then that [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► there's a little bit more advanced of [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► some of the stuff they can do and it's a [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► paid service as well right i think it [TS]

00:49:36 ◼   ► exists there is a paid component [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► yeah it's free to a certain level and [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► paid after that so there would be things [TS]

00:49:41 ◼   ► that I could do that could watch my [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► google calendar and it is automatically [TS]

00:49:45 ◼   ► log time based on an entry blue and I [TS]

00:49:48 ◼   ► find that kind of thing really [TS]

00:49:50 ◼   ► interesting this is if i was going to [TS]

00:49:52 ◼   ► set like another theme of my year i'm [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► really interested in making my computers [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► and my technology work for me [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► who so one of them is and i'm going to [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► spend some time talking about switching [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► my to-do system at some point soon on [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► this show as I'm looking at moving to do [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► list because it also has a Web API [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► so you can get all of these systems [TS]

00:50:18 ◼   ► talking to each other [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► yeah and that is becoming an [TS]

00:50:23 ◼   ► increasingly interesting idea of [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► proposition to me who I am putting input [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► into these systems and all it does is [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► just sit there Lou there is no reason [TS]

00:50:35 ◼   ► why these things can't be taking the [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► input and turn them into something of [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► use to me and so that's why I'm starting [TS]

00:50:42 ◼   ► to look at anything with an automation [TS]

00:50:45 ◼   ► is it is a total win right like it it [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► just it pays dividends for forever so i [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► actually just because I'm curious to see [TS]

00:50:52 ◼   ► I do have a top-level project which is [TS]

00:50:55 ◼   ► called automation because I do want to [TS]

00:50:58 ◼   ► see like how much time does it take me [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► to actually implement these systems [TS]

00:51:03 ◼   ► right and to actually get these things [TS]

00:51:05 ◼   ► working and to think about like what is [TS]

00:51:07 ◼   ► what is the payoff in these and this is [TS]

00:51:09 ◼   ► also the case of like okay we talked [TS]

00:51:11 ◼   ► about it a bunch on the podcast i end up [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► feeling like i'm working on this stuff a [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► bunch but the actual time tracking data [TS]

00:51:17 ◼   ► reveals like this is the time you spend [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► on automating the time tracking thing [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► itself or like I spent a bunch of time [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► reworking my email system to do some [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► stuff automatically like this is a [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► trivial portion of the time you spend [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► working and I'm also tracking it in a [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► time when it is going to be a [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► ludicrously lots right it's like between [TS]

00:51:42 ◼   ► the start of december until now i have [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► spent 10 hours and 53 minutes working on [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► various forms of like setting up my [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► systems and they sit this is a time when [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► I'm redoing my entire time tracking i [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► redid my entire email and i'm also [TS]

00:52:03 ◼   ► redoing a whole bunch of stuff related [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► to my own task management and this is [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► the kind of thing that like this level [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► happens maybe once every two years on [TS]

00:52:12 ◼   ► average and so it's just it's really [TS]

00:52:14 ◼   ► interesting just to see in the data is [TS]

00:52:16 ◼   ► like this is a trivial amount of time [TS]

00:52:18 ◼   ► that will dramatically decrease as we go [TS]

00:52:20 ◼   ► forward but that just keeps paying [TS]

00:52:22 ◼   ► dividends forever out into the future so [TS]

00:52:25 ◼   ► I'm not even really doing thinking about [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► doing these types of automation things [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► to save time [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► it is to have these systems doing [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► something that I cannot guarantee which [TS]

00:52:36 ◼   ► is remembering yes yes it is like [TS]

00:52:40 ◼   ► computers won't get this stuff wrong my [TS]

00:52:43 ◼   ► brain does exactly and so I want these [TS]

00:52:48 ◼   ► types of like redundant systems to be [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► occurring things to be triggering things [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► to be firing not like I'm really like [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► that you know there are two people in my [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► life that I'm taking this inspiration [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► from greatly which is you and federer go [TS]

00:52:59 ◼   ► and the way you to work is something of [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► great interest to me clearly right here [TS]

00:53:06 ◼   ► and and and I want to be like you both [TS]

00:53:09 ◼   ► the way that you work you know i i've [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► seen some of the things that Federico's [TS]

00:53:14 ◼   ► able to do with these automation systems [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► and they are frankly mind-blowing and [TS]

00:53:19 ◼   ► and I really want to be able to start [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► relying on this stuff more especially as [TS]

00:53:25 ◼   ► there is a chance that i am about to [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► start working with another person [TS]

00:53:29 ◼   ► look closely yeah you know that I work [TS]

00:53:32 ◼   ► with quite a few people in my life are [TS]

00:53:35 ◼   ► very close basis but the way that I [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► would potentially be working with an [TS]

00:53:39 ◼   ► assistant is very different and I feel [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► like that's going to start to change the [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► way that I work significantly and so [TS]

00:53:46 ◼   ► yeah that that's going to be quite an [TS]

00:53:47 ◼   ► interesting change and so I figure while [TS]

00:53:51 ◼   ► some going through all of this how about [TS]

00:53:53 ◼   ► I start set putting some systems in [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► place to get a virtual cloud assistant [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► as well yeah having stuff work [TS]

00:54:03 ◼   ► automatically for you is fantastic and I [TS]

00:54:07 ◼   ► i was playing around with some of the [TS]

00:54:08 ◼   ► same things of you know the way my like [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► essentially the way my flights end up in [TS]

00:54:14 ◼   ► my system it's like okay I can have this [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► information pulled out and then just [TS]

00:54:18 ◼   ► auto added into the time tracker like [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► great so I don't need to be running a [TS]

00:54:22 ◼   ► time or anything that's like all [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► monoplane right now it's like nope this [TS]

00:54:26 ◼   ► just fires off automatically I never [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► have to think about it and it's just [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► there it is there as part of the data [TS]

00:54:32 ◼   ► and anything that can happen [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► automatically is is a big is a big win [TS]

00:54:37 ◼   ► access is actually really enjoyed that [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► was digging around in [TS]

00:54:40 ◼   ► workflow and I wanted to write a little [TS]

00:54:44 ◼   ► workflow that could pull out like the [TS]

00:54:46 ◼   ► exercise and mindfulness data [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► automatically but it seems like i can't [TS]

00:54:50 ◼   ► quite do that was like uh here's the [TS]

00:54:52 ◼   ► thing i just like this data right there [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► i just want to automate it and pull it [TS]

00:54:55 ◼   ► out eventually that will happen right [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► but not right now I still need to be [TS]

00:54:58 ◼   ► flipping flipping switches manually but [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► anytime you can set something up [TS]

00:55:02 ◼   ► automatically and then just never think [TS]

00:55:04 ◼   ► about it again [TS]

00:55:05 ◼   ► I feel like it's such a huge win it [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► really is one last thing with that with [TS]

00:55:08 ◼   ► the time tracking though is I think like [TS]

00:55:12 ◼   ► you've been doing it for two weeks and [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► that's great but you really can't trust [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► the data until you've been doing it for [TS]

00:55:21 ◼   ► a little while she'll has you do always [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► have this in the beginning this there's [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► two things that are happening that [TS]

00:55:27 ◼   ► there's one is your setting up and [TS]

00:55:31 ◼   ► getting used to the system in the first [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► place which can be like quite a mental [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► shift like you were like you were saying [TS]

00:55:37 ◼   ► as well just to kind of forgetting about [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► timers sometimes and you just have to [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► think about it you're even thinking [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► about like how do you categorize stuff [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► and then this can also end up causing [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► like a bit of an observer effect where [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► you can end up feeling like you're kind [TS]

00:55:53 ◼   ► of performing for the clock because [TS]

00:55:55 ◼   ► you're much more aware of like I am time [TS]

00:55:58 ◼   ► tracking now I should really be doing [TS]

00:56:00 ◼   ► something right [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► like this this is a like the Hawthorne [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► effect like any kind of observance will [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► increase productivity on a temporary [TS]

00:56:08 ◼   ► basis like there's an observer effect [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► here it's just that the observer is you [TS]

00:56:13 ◼   ► and so i think it's it's useful just to [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► be aware that if you can establish this [TS]

00:56:20 ◼   ► is a habit you end up with like truer [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► data later on when this is just [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► something that's just part of what [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► you're doing every single day [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► yeah like what I'm seeing right now just [TS]

00:56:31 ◼   ► like early trends isn't exactly what [TS]

00:56:34 ◼   ► exactly it's not data that i can build [TS]

00:56:37 ◼   ► on upon because I mean I've had like two [TS]

00:56:40 ◼   ► weeks especially with the way that my [TS]

00:56:42 ◼   ► counter flow the way I structure i need [TS]

00:56:44 ◼   ► like multiple multiple weeks we get a [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► really good idea of whatever even if [TS]

00:56:49 ◼   ► like quiet week busy week is even a [TS]

00:56:51 ◼   ► thing [TS]

00:56:52 ◼   ► yeah that's an excellent point right [TS]

00:56:54 ◼   ► this might be entirely in your mind [TS]

00:56:57 ◼   ► yep right here just thinking like Oh My [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► Week With gray it's so relaxing there's [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► only 11 show to do like it's quiet week [TS]

00:57:04 ◼   ► very little work but it might not be the [TS]

00:57:06 ◼   ► case [TS]

00:57:06 ◼   ► yeah i've renamed it to like roll in a [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► meadow week you know [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► yeah yeah that's right that sounds about [TS]

00:57:11 ◼   ► right but yes that's just the thing to [TS]

00:57:14 ◼   ► be aware of and and and yes a good point [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► you if you can establish it as a habit [TS]

00:57:19 ◼   ► it's it's fantastic and again the thing [TS]

00:57:22 ◼   ► that I'm i'm attempting to do which I [TS]

00:57:24 ◼   ► find is so much harder than I would have [TS]

00:57:27 ◼   ► guessed at the start is with all my [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► crazy workflows adapted from federico [TS]

00:57:32 ◼   ► stuff you in toggle what I love is if [TS]

00:57:37 ◼   ► you start a new timer it automatically [TS]

00:57:39 ◼   ► stop the old one so you don't need to be [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► like stop the old timer start the new [TS]

00:57:43 ◼   ► one I've been setting it up so that i [TS]

00:57:45 ◼   ► can just on my phone like press a bunch [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► of buttons and it will automatically [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► start like a very specific new timer and [TS]

00:57:52 ◼   ► what I want my goal to be is that for [TS]

00:57:55 ◼   ► this season essentially like I wake up [TS]

00:57:57 ◼   ► and I'm always just starting a new timer [TS]

00:58:00 ◼   ► right that like throughout the day [TS]

00:58:02 ◼   ► there's no point that I ever like stop a [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► timer [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► I'm always just starting something new [TS]

00:58:06 ◼   ► until the end of the day and then I [TS]

00:58:08 ◼   ► stopped it but when you're doing very [TS]

00:58:10 ◼   ► intensive time tracking and without what [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► I am finding absolutely fascinating is [TS]

00:58:15 ◼   ► how intentional it forces you to be [TS]

00:58:20 ◼   ► about the whole day and like the first [TS]

00:58:23 ◼   ► few days that i was doing this like I'm [TS]

00:58:24 ◼   ► having a hard time logging eight hours [TS]

00:58:28 ◼   ► of what i'm doing like this there's so [TS]

00:58:30 ◼   ► much like unintentional time we think [TS]

00:58:31 ◼   ► like what exactly am i doing in this [TS]

00:58:33 ◼   ► moment like what is what is this thing [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► like i have found that absolutely [TS]

00:58:38 ◼   ► fascinating to observe like not just not [TS]

00:58:41 ◼   ► just the work hours but like all the [TS]

00:58:44 ◼   ► hours [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► what are you doing and being aware of [TS]

00:58:48 ◼   ► how often your brain kind of slips into [TS]

00:58:51 ◼   ► like I'm not really thinking about what [TS]

00:58:52 ◼   ► I'm doing mode and and trying to fight [TS]

00:58:54 ◼   ► that like existential time tracking its [TS]

00:58:58 ◼   ► it's only is it totally is [TS]

00:59:01 ◼   ► but i have i have two categories that I [TS]

00:59:04 ◼   ► i put [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► in my system which are unintentional [TS]

00:59:08 ◼   ► video games and unintentional media [TS]

00:59:10 ◼   ► consumption books already a game like [TS]

00:59:19 ◼   ► here is the thing that is a sibling if [TS]

00:59:23 ◼   ► you pay attention to it that is like a [TS]

00:59:25 ◼   ► subjective experience that can happen [TS]

00:59:27 ◼   ► and i think it happens to a lot of [TS]

00:59:29 ◼   ► people where it's like did you mean to [TS]

00:59:31 ◼   ► watch a bunch of youtube videos or did [TS]

00:59:34 ◼   ► it just sort of happened and it's an [TS]

00:59:36 ◼   ► hour later I will notice that i have [TS]

00:59:38 ◼   ► been like accidentally playing super [TS]

00:59:41 ◼   ► Mario's run through this wink [TS]

00:59:44 ◼   ► whoo yeah so it's like I need to go and [TS]

00:59:47 ◼   ► do that thing just started two games [TS]

00:59:49 ◼   ► right exactly right but that but that's [TS]

00:59:51 ◼   ► that's how your brain gets you right [TS]

00:59:53 ◼   ► that's how your brain tricks you like oh [TS]

00:59:54 ◼   ► we're just gonna get one more you know [TS]

00:59:56 ◼   ► pink coin that's all it's going to be we [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► just got to finish that one right and [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► then [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► then [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► like two hours later but but i think [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► that is a perfect example of a like a [TS]

01:00:05 ◼   ► category that I'm i'm just being aware [TS]

01:00:07 ◼   ► of as a thing because I also think it's [TS]

01:00:10 ◼   ► important to to divide it into [TS]

01:00:13 ◼   ► intentional vs unintentional like what I [TS]

01:00:16 ◼   ► don't want to do is be tracking a [TS]

01:00:18 ◼   ► category like video games because video [TS]

01:00:21 ◼   ► games are our form of enjoyable [TS]

01:00:22 ◼   ► recreation for me but what I'm trying to [TS]

01:00:25 ◼   ► see this season with the time tracking [TS]

01:00:27 ◼   ► is like I want to shift more of my video [TS]

01:00:31 ◼   ► game and media consumption time from the [TS]

01:00:34 ◼   ► unintentional category 2 the intentional [TS]

01:00:37 ◼   ► category like that's that's one of these [TS]

01:00:40 ◼   ► things that I'm trying to see what like [TS]

01:00:41 ◼   ► my leisure time [TS]

01:00:42 ◼   ► how am i spending it and and just how to [TS]

01:00:44 ◼   ► be more intentional about the things [TS]

01:00:46 ◼   ► that I'm doing [TS]

01:00:47 ◼   ► you keep saying season the great TV show [TS]

01:00:51 ◼   ► this season this season of grey's life [TS]

01:00:54 ◼   ► oh yeah okay [TS]

01:01:00 ◼   ► oh it's cool out no it's a I I didn't [TS]

01:01:04 ◼   ► realize that i didn't realize I was [TS]

01:01:06 ◼   ► doing it [TS]

01:01:07 ◼   ► ok so sometimes i I've i will realize [TS]

01:01:13 ◼   ► that I don't like a word and I'll end up [TS]

01:01:16 ◼   ► trying to find a better word to describe [TS]

01:01:17 ◼   ► what it is that I'm thinking about and [TS]

01:01:20 ◼   ► for me want one of these things just [TS]

01:01:22 ◼   ► happen i will try to fix it in the [TS]

01:01:24 ◼   ► future but i don't i don't know how much [TS]

01:01:25 ◼   ► I can do it is i've always thought in [TS]

01:01:27 ◼   ► terms of quarters but I've just never [TS]

01:01:30 ◼   ► liked that and so in a bunch of my [TS]

01:01:32 ◼   ► documents and other things essentially [TS]

01:01:34 ◼   ► anywhere that i had the word like [TS]

01:01:36 ◼   ► quarter [TS]

01:01:37 ◼   ► I've switch this over to think about [TS]

01:01:39 ◼   ► seasons like seasons make way more sense [TS]

01:01:42 ◼   ► to me so its season as in like fall and [TS]

01:01:45 ◼   ► summer not season as in this season on [TS]

01:01:49 ◼   ► ratio but you don't really mean for on [TS]

01:01:51 ◼   ► some what do you mean q1 q2 q3 q4 well [TS]

01:01:56 ◼   ► it i mean you know [TS]

01:02:00 ◼   ► yes but not really didn't know it [TS]

01:02:03 ◼   ► because i'm not actually the reason I [TS]

01:02:06 ◼   ► can hear that the reason why I kinda [TS]

01:02:09 ◼   ► didn't like you want you to q3 q4 is [TS]

01:02:11 ◼   ► what I'm thinking about my own [TS]

01:02:13 ◼   ► basically like I had just come out of [TS]

01:02:15 ◼   ► luck you ask the question like you're [TS]

01:02:17 ◼   ► pulling on a little thread is really fun [TS]

01:02:21 ◼   ► to watch you scramble 1 i'm not [TS]

01:02:23 ◼   ► scrambling what I'm trying to do is [TS]

01:02:24 ◼   ► thinking about like how much do I have [TS]

01:02:26 ◼   ► to explain to give you a satisfactory [TS]

01:02:28 ◼   ► answer no I guess I tell you I I let me [TS]

01:02:31 ◼   ► see if I can help you like you don't [TS]

01:02:33 ◼   ► work [TS]

01:02:34 ◼   ► january too much like April it's not [TS]

01:02:36 ◼   ► like that [TS]

01:02:38 ◼   ► exactly yeah but it is still cut into [TS]

01:02:40 ◼   ► four but it's not for by three [TS]

01:02:43 ◼   ► yeah that that's about right and and [TS]

01:02:46 ◼   ► really it in turn it i'm also using [TS]

01:02:49 ◼   ► season because it in some ways like my [TS]

01:02:52 ◼   ► business intentionally really slows down [TS]

01:02:55 ◼   ► over the summer and so the summer season [TS]

01:02:57 ◼   ► is almost like not even like it's very [TS]

01:03:00 ◼   ► different from all of the other ones and [TS]

01:03:02 ◼   ► so it almost feels like actually kind of [TS]

01:03:04 ◼   ► have three seasons that I really need to [TS]

01:03:06 ◼   ► think about work which is spring fall [TS]

01:03:08 ◼   ► and winter so basically like talking [TS]

01:03:12 ◼   ► about the quarters was just overly [TS]

01:03:13 ◼   ► precise and I was aware like it kind of [TS]

01:03:16 ◼   ► bothered me when I talked about my [TS]

01:03:17 ◼   ► quarterly reviews because if i look back [TS]

01:03:20 ◼   ► on like documents a little notes to [TS]

01:03:23 ◼   ► myself that I create I realize it's [TS]

01:03:25 ◼   ► actually well I tend to do three of [TS]

01:03:28 ◼   ► these a year and their era x where it [TS]

01:03:31 ◼   ► feels like okay just just like now I [TS]

01:03:33 ◼   ► just came out of a really big [TS]

01:03:35 ◼   ► i'm doing a huge review session and it's [TS]

01:03:38 ◼   ► like and this was very much like it is [TS]