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00:00:00 ◼   ► previously on cortex what I did and when [TS]

00:00:03 ◼   ► I was kind of alluding to is this thing [TS]

00:00:05 ◼   ► where i have spent a very significant [TS]

00:00:09 ◼   ► part of January breaking down the [TS]

00:00:12 ◼   ► entirety of how do i work what are my [TS]

00:00:16 ◼   ► systems around work how do i use task [TS]

00:00:18 ◼   ► management how do i organized notes [TS]

00:00:20 ◼   ► breaking down absolutely everything to [TS]

00:00:22 ◼   ► nothing and starting over [TS]

00:00:27 ◼   ► you've got the voice for that that was [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► really good [TS]

00:00:31 ◼   ► should look into that I swear to God I [TS]

00:00:33 ◼   ► would do voiceover work if I could do i [TS]

00:00:36 ◼   ► really would seem that seems great shall [TS]

00:00:38 ◼   ► I try as well yeah you go ahead [TS]

00:00:40 ◼   ► previously on cortex I should maybe try [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► it with the American accent I think it [TS]

00:00:47 ◼   ► works back with the American accent [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► right can you do with an American accent [TS]

00:00:50 ◼   ► so shall i say let's see what happens [TS]

00:00:52 ◼   ► previously on cortex know those terrible [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► American successful previously on cortex [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► this is getting worse [TS]

00:01:00 ◼   ► you need to abort Mike I just end up [TS]

00:01:04 ◼   ► just moving further and further south [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► down my American accent attempt yeah [TS]

00:01:08 ◼   ► your first go was the best and the [TS]

00:01:10 ◼   ► Alaska was the worst alright well at [TS]

00:01:12 ◼   ► least we know the two of us who do the [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► voice of work when it's time for the [TS]

00:01:15 ◼   ► movie so yeah last time you spoke a [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► little bit about the fact that you had [TS]

00:01:23 ◼   ► decided to go bare bones with your task [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► management break everything down go to a [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► new unmentioned location somewhere in [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► england i suppose and all my other node [TS]

00:01:42 ◼   ► maybe went to the continent who knows i [TS]

00:01:44 ◼   ► was in an undisclosed location in [TS]

00:01:47 ◼   ► finnish scandia that my wife sent me too [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► because you because you were she knows [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► me she knows me very well [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► hey yeah it was like hey buddy it's time [TS]

00:02:01 ◼   ► to start making some money again need to [TS]

00:02:03 ◼   ► get out of the house and you need to [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► reboot [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► so you you were flown off to a faraway [TS]

00:02:11 ◼   ► land and you you broke everything down [TS]

00:02:14 ◼   ► and you start it over for your review at [TS]

00:02:17 ◼   ► the year and you did it on pen and paper [TS]

00:02:19 ◼   ► which is which is very different to that [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► to the usual great way right of ipads [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► and and and the like you know that we [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► believe in you decided to break it all [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► down and I wanted to kind of touch on [TS]

00:02:32 ◼   ► this a little bit when did you first [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► realize that pen and paper was a good [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► system to kind of do a a retooling of [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► your task management [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► okay Mike we need to we need to rewind [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► all the way back to a childhood gray [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► home little gray from a long time ago my [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► father is a lawyer and he's always had [TS]

00:02:58 ◼   ► around the house [TS]

00:03:00 ◼   ► these legal pads ever since I was a [TS]

00:03:02 ◼   ► little kid and they have always been a [TS]

00:03:07 ◼   ► thing that i would like sketch on and [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► and right on and always felt like it [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► like an external thinking tool like how [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► do i think i need to write something [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► down ever since I was a little kid this [TS]

00:03:23 ◼   ► is always a thing that I have done and [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► throughout my life as I have [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► transitioned from various tools and [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► different ways of working i have always [TS]

00:03:35 ◼   ► been aware that there is something that [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► is just different about paper that is [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► really helpful in some scenarios and [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► when I was a teacher i ran my whole [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► system entirely on paper because i found [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► that that was actually the best tool to [TS]

00:03:58 ◼   ► solve the problem that i was trying to [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► solve at that time [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► and if for some reason I went back to [TS]

00:04:03 ◼   ► being a teacher I would almost certainly [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► do the same thing again that I would run [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► that system on paper because there are [TS]

00:04:11 ◼   ► cases where paper is just better like [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► having a clipboard with a bunch of [TS]

00:04:15 ◼   ► sheets arranged in a particular way [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► sometimes you're never going to beat [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► that like not even with an ipad but but [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► more importantly that there's two things [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► that I did at the beginning of the years [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► is breaking down the organization system [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► and doing the review these are slightly [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► different tasks so in doing a big review [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► when I say here that i am using paper [TS]

00:04:38 ◼   ► that is paper in quotation marks because [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► i was actually using good notes on my [TS]

00:04:45 ◼   ► ipad with paper templates so i actually [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► worked with Frank a designer that you [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► have worked with for relaying who is [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► fantastic and i knew i was going to be [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► doing just a ton of this like thinking [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► work for my seasonal review and so I [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► message Frank and I asked him to create [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► for me a whole bunch of templates that [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► were legal pad papers so I had him [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► essentially recreate from my childhood [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► all over the possible paper templates a [TS]

00:05:23 ◼   ► man could want and was like listen buddy [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► i'm going to be doing a bunch of writing [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► and a bunch of thinking I'm gonna need [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► some graph papers i'm going to need some [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► yellow legal paper i'm gonna need wide [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► line i'm going to need narrow line i'm [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► going to need them in blue and green and [TS]

00:05:40 ◼   ► pink and he ended up creating for me [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► just a fantastic set of these papers [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► even added in a very extremely subtle [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► soft paper texture which was really nice [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► he's a professional inna it is he's very [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► professional these things were just [TS]

00:05:56 ◼   ► great and this is a case where for [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► thinking about stuff paper i find this [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► useful tool that's hard to in some sense [TS]

00:06:07 ◼   ► it's hard to say what's going on but it [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► allow it allows me to kind of like right [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► out and sketch out some ideas [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► you have this this free form this too is [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► like you're not constrained into a [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► particular application and so when I was [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► doing a bunch of reviews and thinking [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► about my workflow it was really much of [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► a process of like I'm just gonna sit [TS]

00:06:27 ◼   ► here in this undisclosed location in [TS]

00:06:29 ◼   ► Scandia and i'm going to have this [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► digital paper in front of me [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► alright so okay you lost me just a touch [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► here huh [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► there was never actual paper know we'll [TS]

00:06:41 ◼   ► get to the real paper Mike don't worry [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► there's a paper we're going to get to [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► that end it right good but i just wanna [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► I want to specify like there's two [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► different things here [TS]

00:06:48 ◼   ► ok so I'm sitting down with the digital [TS]

00:06:50 ◼   ► paper and just kind of writing out and [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► going through the seasonal review as [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► soon as one of you has like a bunch of [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► questions that I sort of asked myself [TS]

00:06:59 ◼   ► and things I'm thinking about but I do [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► really like having the digital paper for [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► this stuff because i do like to keep a [TS]

00:07:07 ◼   ► record of the previous reviews that I [TS]

00:07:09 ◼   ► have done and so I want to be able to [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► kind of sometimes go back and see like [TS]

00:07:13 ◼   ► whatever I looked at in the past like [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► what has been on my mind so I do like to [TS]

00:07:17 ◼   ► have a record of this stuff and there's [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► an enormous amount of like sketching and [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► other things that I'm doing that help [TS]

00:07:26 ◼   ► with thinking through things so [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► something else that I did was like I I [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► by hand recreated a little overview [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► calendar for the entire year and i was [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► using that to roughly plan out like when [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► are things going to happen in the year [TS]

00:07:41 ◼   ► what are their periods of the year where [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► I'm going to be busy what are the [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► periods where I'm not going to be busy [TS]

00:07:45 ◼   ► and this is a case where like doing it [TS]

00:07:49 ◼   ► by hand [TS]

00:07:51 ◼   ► even though in in some ways like well [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► that's ridiculous you could download a [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► PDF that would have an overview calendar [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► for the year and just feeling like yes [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► that's true but there's something about [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► doing it this way that is intentional [TS]

00:08:05 ◼   ► that it it it slows you down and it [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► focuses your mind very clearly on the [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► task at hand so I i find this just a [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► ridiculously useful and very valuable [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► process to kind of like rethink [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► absolutely everything about what i am [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► doing and in the process of doing this I [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► realized that I wanted to rework my [TS]

00:08:34 ◼   ► entire organization system which brings [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► us to the actual physical paper Mike are [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► you happy we get to the real paper at [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► this point I am very happy but there's [TS]

00:08:45 ◼   ► something I want to go back to ok [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► tumbling across I want to redo my entire [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► organizational system is quite a [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► revelation to have I just I feel like I [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► just have to point to that like how do [TS]

00:09:00 ◼   ► you get there [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► well like that's not your [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► run-of-the-mill everyday kind of thought [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► which is like I want to redo everything [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► especially as someone you really pay a [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► lot of attention to this this is [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► something you've filled around with for [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► an amount of time and come to a place [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► where you'd stuck to write so you know [TS]

00:09:19 ◼   ► over the show we spoke about you move [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► into to do moving away from the focus [TS]

00:09:23 ◼   ► back to only focus because it gave you [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► what you needed with the right [TS]

00:09:26 ◼   ► trade-offs and and that was where you'd [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► stayed and it really sounded like it [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► I'm there I'm in it GTD forever [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► I think they're there is an undercurrent [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► of GTD not working that great for me in [TS]

00:09:38 ◼   ► the show when I do talk about it [TS]

00:09:40 ◼   ► sometimes [TS]

00:09:40 ◼   ► yep like this this to me fits into this [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► question of though I didn't have the [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► word for it at the time the year of [TS]

00:09:48 ◼   ► redirection mm and so what's occurring [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► here is as i was doing this big review [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► as i was spending a bunch of time [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► concertedly focusing on on how do i work [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► i was just thinking of a lot of the ways [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► that in the previous year i had had [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► frustrations or difficulties or like a [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► lack of smoothness in a bunch of the [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► ways that i work and the thing that I [TS]

00:10:17 ◼   ► was thinking about I decided okay I'm [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► going to start over and build up it is [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► like I'm still in this process now I [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► don't have a definitive answer for like [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► what have I built up to i'm still very [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► much in in the middle of thinking about [TS]

00:10:31 ◼   ► all of this and working on this but it [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► doesn't necessarily mean [TS]

00:10:35 ◼   ► that I'm building up to something that [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► is entirely new and different from [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► whatever it is that I used before [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► it's like we mentioned last time when we [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► were discussing talking with another [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► person forces you to think about your [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► reasons for why are you doing a thing [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► and starting over with [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► like how am I going to arrange my work [TS]

00:11:01 ◼   ► this this is a way of like oh I've built [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► up this castle but let me let me take it [TS]

00:11:06 ◼   ► apart and let me examine all of the [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► individual bricks and then say like is [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► this is this brick should this brick be [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► here [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► should this thing be replaced as we're [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► building up to some kind of structure [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► that we're going to live in [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► let's re-examine the decisions that we [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► made because maybe some of these things [TS]

00:11:23 ◼   ► and i know for a fact some of these [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► things are built on foundations that are [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► years old at this point it's like do [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► these assumptions still hold true is [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► this still the best way to work for me [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► now [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► maybe maybe not so that so that's what [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► this like rebuilding the system is it's [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► a it's a way to force re-evaluation of [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► all of the parts [TS]

00:11:47 ◼   ► yeah it's not something that I want to [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► do very often [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► hi it's been a long long time since I've [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► done something this extreme so yeah it's [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► it's just that that's what's occurring [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► here this episode of cortex is brought [TS]

00:12:02 ◼   ► to you by Ministry of supply whatever it [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► is you have to wear to work [TS]

00:12:07 ◼   ► it almost certainly is not exactly [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► something that you would want to wear [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► all the time it's uncomfortable it's [TS]

00:12:14 ◼   ► restrictive it's too hot or it's too [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► cold and by the end of the day it's [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► going to look terrible [TS]

00:12:22 ◼   ► enter ministry of supply they make [TS]

00:12:25 ◼   ► performance clothes for the modern-day [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► workplace launched by MIT engineers [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► ministry of supply combines [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► human-centric research performed [TS]

00:12:34 ◼   ► technology and Taylor designs to create [TS]

00:12:36 ◼   ► wear to work clothes for men and women [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► like dress shirts blouses and pants [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► these garments work with your body to [TS]

00:12:44 ◼   ► provide maximum comfort combined with [TS]

00:12:46 ◼   ► features like temperature control [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► wrinkle [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► resistance and extreme stretch to give [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► you a sharp professional look all day [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► long [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► this is what a clothing company should [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► be there using technology to make [TS]

00:12:59 ◼   ► clothing that actually is comfortable [TS]

00:13:01 ◼   ► over a long period i went to the [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► Ministry of supply stuff all the time [TS]

00:13:05 ◼   ► and if I still had to go into work as a [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► teacher you can bet I'd be wearing a [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► fully Ministry of supplied outfit every [TS]

00:13:16 ◼   ► day all day i was always way too hot as [TS]

00:13:19 ◼   ► a teacher and the thing that I really [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► like about tons of their shirts is that [TS]

00:13:22 ◼   ► they keep you nice and cool their men's [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► ministry of supply future forward dress [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► shirt has NASA invented fibers that [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► regulate body temperature based on your [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► surroundings and they've also started [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► with socks to the smarter dress socks [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► are made of coffee fiber that wicks [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► sweat and absorbs odor ministry of [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► supply offers a free shipping free [TS]

00:13:44 ◼   ► returns any 100-day no questions asked [TS]

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00:13:49 ◼   ► get fifteen percent off your first [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► purchase go to Ministry of supply.com / [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► cortex or you can visit any of their [TS]

00:13:57 ◼   ► nine retail stores in locations [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► including San Francisco atlanta and [TS]

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00:14:10 ◼   ► cortex to get fifteen percent off your [TS]

00:14:12 ◼   ► first purchase thanks to Ministry of [TS]

00:14:14 ◼   ► supply for keeping me cool and thanks [TS]

00:14:16 ◼   ► for supporting the show now let's talk [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► about the paper okay of course in right [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► now he's obsessed with the paper Mike [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► you're obsessed with the paper i'm not [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► even gonna ask you what pen and paper [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► using like physical stuff so I know it's [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► only going to upset me i couldn't even [TS]

00:14:31 ◼   ► tell you what i was using this is why I [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► didn't want to ask because I think you [TS]

00:14:35 ◼   ► need to say that will you tell me [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► something that would just make me sad [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► like Oh what was in the hotel like I [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► don't worry about that is the and we [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► went on a quest i gave you pens you know [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► yeah but it's like dude was in some [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► other location you know as user was [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► working with the tools that were [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► available to me at the time it was fine [TS]

00:14:55 ◼   ► you just pick up the ipad that was there [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► as well right [TS]

00:14:58 ◼   ► whatever ipad they had laying around [TS]

00:15:00 ◼   ► now however I brought my ipad pro with [TS]

00:15:03 ◼   ► me and then was working on those [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► beautiful templates that Frank me but [TS]

00:15:07 ◼   ► now for the actual physical paper i used [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► i used what was available to me like I [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► couldn't even tell you what it was [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► besides it was a pen and they were index [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► cards and pieces of paper [TS]

00:15:20 ◼   ► ok I'm sorry I'm sorry okay its okay its [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► okay i don't wanna talk about it okay [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► that's fine let's just move on from that [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► I want to go brother [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► so what what point this actual paper [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► have to come into this you've clearly [TS]

00:15:32 ◼   ► gotten to a point where like I know what [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► to do i'll get this digital paper that [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► will be better but then you still ended [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► up coming back to physical pen and paper [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► again [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► ok so again that the digital paper is [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► about the overall review and the Fate [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► one thing that falls out of this is [TS]

00:15:49 ◼   ► rework the organization system as as [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► part of this process like this many [TS]

00:15:53 ◼   ► other things that fall out of the [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► overall review but this is just one of [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► those things now why am I using actual [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► physical paper to try to rework the [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► system it's because just like just like [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► the digital paper kind of frees you from [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► a bunch of the constraints that you can [TS]

00:16:14 ◼   ► sort of do whatever you want with it [TS]

00:16:15 ◼   ► when i'm working with physical paper [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► it's a similar thing of like I'm trying [TS]

00:16:21 ◼   ► to write down what like what are the [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► things that are on my mind like what are [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► the things that I'm trying to work [TS]

00:16:25 ◼   ► towards and what I ended up doing is [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► again having a bunch of index cards and [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► pieces of paper and just sort of like [TS]

00:16:33 ◼   ► what I'm trying to do is put the work in [TS]

00:16:36 ◼   ► front of me so that i can see it all [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► right that I can like look at everything [TS]

00:16:42 ◼   ► all at once and think about how do I [TS]

00:16:45 ◼   ► want to arrange this kind of thing and [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► though I am a man with many ipads there [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► are not enough iPads in the world and [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► it's not convenient enough to be able to [TS]

00:16:57 ◼   ► have like a table where there's seven [TS]

00:16:59 ◼   ► iPads in front of me where i've written [TS]

00:17:01 ◼   ► a bunch of things like with actual paper [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► you can really spread out and then try [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► to move things around like organize [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► stuff and so does this go over here it [TS]

00:17:09 ◼   ► so it's a way of thinking visually and [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► and thinking physical [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► like rearranging items and and and [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► moving things so this is a huge [TS]

00:17:18 ◼   ► advantage of using actual physical paper [TS]

00:17:22 ◼   ► for for this kind of thing I also think [TS]

00:17:25 ◼   ► it's a big advantage that if you don't [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► know what it is that you want to do you [TS]

00:17:33 ◼   ► can't answer the question what tool is [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► best for accomplishing this task and so [TS]

00:17:40 ◼   ► many of the times when we have discussed [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► in the past task managers or similar [TS]

00:17:45 ◼   ► tools it becomes very much a question of [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► like what are the features of this task [TS]

00:17:52 ◼   ► manager [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► what can it do versus what other task [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► managers can do you know the joy of [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► switching from one task manager to [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► another is really a process of learning [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► how the programmers of the task manager [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► want you to arrange all of your things [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► yep and like anytime you use any task [TS]

00:18:11 ◼   ► manager doesn't matter what it is [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► doesn't matter how fantastic it is there [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► is some process of you need to mold your [TS]

00:18:20 ◼   ► mind to the way the programmer thinks it [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► is sensible to organize information is [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► this is fundamentally unavoidable and [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► that is also i always say that there is [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► an infinite market for task managers [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► because everybody thinks in a slightly [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► different way and everybody wants a [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► slightly different set of features and [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► the market can always accept another [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► task manager for whom sums portion of [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► the audience will say oh that is perfect [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► for me it does this one thing in this [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► way that is just right for my brain so [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► putting all of the work on paper is it [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► is a way to avoid that it's a way to try [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► to think about how to organize stuff [TS]

00:18:58 ◼   ► without feeling constrained by things [TS]

00:19:01 ◼   ► like who does this task manager support [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► start dates [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► how does this thing handle recurring [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► items it's like that that's down in the [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► weeds that's down in the details and i'm [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► trying to think about it from a much [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► higher level of like what is the thing [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► that I'm working on what am I trying to [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► achieve here so i'll just say at this [TS]

00:19:21 ◼   ► point that i am into doest now which is [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► something i've been talking about for [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► far too long [TS]

00:19:27 ◼   ► mmm the process of moving the tasks was [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► horrific [TS]

00:19:31 ◼   ► I i can only imagine because it has to [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► be done manually of course and there are [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► things that I like about it and there [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► are things that I don't like about it [TS]

00:19:43 ◼   ► who one of my biggest things i don't [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► like is exactly that around something [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► like recurring tasks who has the [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► functionality for them but doesn't [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► really have the UI for it [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► who you have to write it in in the [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► language of the understands that I've [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► seen that there are nuances to that [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► language and everyone that I speak to [TS]

00:20:04 ◼   ► that users to do this like once you [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► learn the language you're good which I [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► totally appreciate and it is that [TS]

00:20:10 ◼   ► language that i think will be the [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► ultimate reason I stick with two doest [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► because the idea of natural language [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► processing off not necessary natural [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► language but being able to speak to the [TS]

00:20:24 ◼   ► application is valuable for me it's why [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► i don't imagine ever moving away from [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► fantastic hell because I know how to [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► type into fantastical the appointment [TS]

00:20:36 ◼   ► right right and i love that and to do is [TS]

00:20:41 ◼   ► has that feature i'm still getting my [TS]

00:20:43 ◼   ► head around it but it is I think what [TS]

00:20:46 ◼   ► will keep me there because i am able to [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► talk to doest and say to it i want to [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► set this task at this date and I'm now [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► using projects which have never used [TS]

00:20:57 ◼   ► before because it's really easy to add [TS]

00:20:59 ◼   ► those because you just type them in blue [TS]

00:21:02 ◼   ► so in a way to try and see if [TS]

00:21:03 ◼   ► categorizing this and honestly I think [TS]

00:21:05 ◼   ► the time tracking has helped me think [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► about projects in my to do [TS]

00:21:10 ◼   ► hmm and I'm trying to match those up and [TS]

00:21:13 ◼   ► seeing what that looks like a giving [TS]

00:21:16 ◼   ► things the same kind of names who I [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► don't know what that's going to result [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► in yet but I feel like that there could [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► be something there that helps me kind of [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► compartmentalize my work a little better [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► i'm still playing around with the [TS]

00:21:30 ◼   ► automation I've signed up for a peer [TS]

00:21:33 ◼   ► them what I want to come back to that at [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► some point in the future [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► yeah that's a big thing that's a whole [TS]

00:21:39 ◼   ► thing but as a peer is a service like if [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► this then that which allows you to [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► connect web services together as a peer [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► is very powerful and a lot more powerful [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► than its system that more complicated [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► but more powerful and can do some [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► interesting things so I'm plotting still [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► playing around all of that and trying to [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► work out how to do is scan and and [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► moving to google calendar and all of [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► that stuff that stuff is all still a [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► play on a general day today so I i have [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► been running on the focus and to do it [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► in parallel to make sure that they're [TS]

00:22:13 ◼   ► working the way that I expect a huge [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► thing to do that is a fun phase in any [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► transition like this is all the kind of [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► stuff I'm trying to avoid with paper [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► it's like Jesus Christ I don't want to [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► think about this but that it that is a [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► horrible phase where you're running to [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► task managers because you want to make [TS]

00:22:28 ◼   ► sure that the one isn't missing things [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► that is still in the other one because [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► here's the thing i have an incredible [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► level of crosstown OmniFocus student to [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► do this has to win my trust [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► oh yeah of course right and and just in [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► you know like even in the adding of [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► tasks can be like has it really set that [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► to bring do it is like I've asked it to [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► do this every second Tuesday doesn't [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► understand what that is and like when [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► adding the tasks i was checking them off [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► and see and what day it will come up [TS]

00:22:58 ◼   ► next and blue so i'm i'm still in that [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► process and it's a disgusting process to [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► be in but it's kind of just the way that [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► these things have to go because [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► unfortunately there is no share i really [TS]

00:23:10 ◼   ► wish that a protocol like email existed [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► for tasks [TS]

00:23:14 ◼   ► yeah keep dreaming buddy it's never [TS]

00:23:16 ◼   ► going to happen now because we're too [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► far down the rabbit hole but why would [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► such a thing exists it's too late now [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► yeah but I really wish that something [TS]

00:23:23 ◼   ► like that did exist so we could move to [TS]

00:23:25 ◼   ► do applications as easily as we could [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► move email apps as ever anyone's isn't [TS]

00:23:30 ◼   ► that a shuffle long enough will know [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► that we love to do so i am i'm very [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► interested in in continuing this [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► powerful todoist and I think that once i [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► am used to it it really will be the the [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► natural language engine that keeps me [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► they're more than anything else that [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► that has already [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► by far away been the most interesting [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► part of it so far [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► even more interesting than the [TS]

00:23:56 ◼   ► automation which was the thing in my [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► brain is the reason who it was and it [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► was the kicker and I think as time goes [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► on and integrate the automation that [TS]

00:24:05 ◼   ► will become a second pillar of Y to do [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► is just his superior for me i hope but [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► the me just being able to type in and [TS]

00:24:13 ◼   ► also with using the Amazon echo dictate [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► tasks this natural language engine i [TS]

00:24:19 ◼   ► think will become the reason that I [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► stick with it but it's it's I'm still [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► very much in the I wouldn't even call it [TS]

00:24:27 ◼   ► honeymoon phase basically me and to do [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► is to moved in together uh-huh and [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► currently we're finding the things that [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► annoy each other about each other that [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► we are in that phase right now and we're [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► currently just trying to find some [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► common ground on some things [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► Oh Mike I understand I understand your [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► pain here i really really do [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► yeah it's like everything I'm doing is [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► trying to avoid this for as long as [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► possible before I'd like a witch tools [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► and switching for thing because it is [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► such an enormous hassle it is it is [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► always a rejiggering your brain to [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► thinking the way the other thing works [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► it is a process of regaining trust in [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► another it's yep it is no fun it is no [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► fun to do is the thing you want to do is [TS]

00:25:16 ◼   ► as rarely as possible [TS]

00:25:18 ◼   ► you're living in fear for a while yes [TS]

00:25:21 ◼   ► yeah there's an excellent way to put it [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► looks like what-what terribly important [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► thing is not going to happen because I [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► switch from only focus todoist what is [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► it you know is it that I just forget to [TS]

00:25:36 ◼   ► show up for something or do I forget to [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► send in my tax return [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► yeah like what is it that it's going to [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► make me do it or I i have i know i have [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► things in my various to do applications [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► that are sometimes years out right like [TS]

00:25:50 ◼   ► a remind me in two years kind of thing [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► is like it's really hard to make sure [TS]

00:25:56 ◼   ► that you have all of those bases covered [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► luckily my total amount of [TS]

00:26:01 ◼   ► of items is about 50 items them you know [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► as we spoken before I try and run my to [TS]

00:26:08 ◼   ► do managers lean as possible so that is [TS]

00:26:12 ◼   ► good i can only imagine for you it is [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► more than that I don't know by what [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► factor by i imagine it is more and and i [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► know that many people listening will run [TS]

00:26:21 ◼   ► their to-do apps very differently to the [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► way that I do right and more will have [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► more and I could have more but I try my [TS]

00:26:29 ◼   ► best to not do that and there are other [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► little things i still need to get used [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► to like I haven't changed over some of [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► the templates that I made by know i can [TS]

00:26:38 ◼   ► do that but that's more work that needs [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► to be done and you know another thing [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► about all of this is I just really hope [TS]

00:26:44 ◼   ► that to do it sticks because otherwise I [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► need to do this all over again going [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► back [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► yeah thatthat's the dread is is doing it [TS]

00:26:50 ◼   ► in reverse again if it doesn't work [TS]

00:26:52 ◼   ► because i have done this with to do this [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► before [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► mhm but my reason at that time was to do [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► is notifications of alarms like of [TS]

00:26:59 ◼   ► notifying you of a task was really bad [TS]

00:27:03 ◼   ► their implementation of it but they fix [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► that now so that and I didn't know that [TS]

00:27:07 ◼   ► until it was too late [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► right but i have enough people that I [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► trust that I know are incredibly [TS]

00:27:14 ◼   ► productive people that used to do is now [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► that I'm willing to to to go back to it [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► today's episode of cortex is brought to [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► you by freshbooks life as a freelancer [TS]

00:27:26 ◼   ► can be a challenging thing if you're [TS]

00:27:28 ◼   ► self-employed it can be tricky to just [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► keep on top of all the projects that [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► you've got going on maybe you're [TS]

00:27:33 ◼   ► rebuilding your task system maybe you're [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► prepping for a meeting later on in the [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► afternoon or maybe you're getting ready [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► to take a trip up to the mountains or [TS]

00:27:42 ◼   ► some secluded area somewhere to work it [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► doesn't matter what it is lives being a [TS]

00:27:46 ◼   ► freelancer is a busy thing and our [TS]

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00:27:59 ◼   ► really does make it easier for me like i [TS]

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00:28:34 ◼   ► even better for the people that work [TS]

00:28:36 ◼   ► online you're going to be able to be [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► more productive and organized was also [TS]

00:28:41 ◼   ► being paid quickly freshbooks customers [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► actually get paid up to four days faster [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► because it's so simple and so easy to [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► implement a myriad of payment options [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► no more guessing games about who is [TS]

00:28:52 ◼   ► senior invoice because you'll be able to [TS]

00:28:54 ◼   ► see exactly when you get a nice little [TS]

00:28:56 ◼   ► breakdown of where their invoices who [TS]

00:28:58 ◼   ► seen it has opened it even has printed [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► it so you can know when it's in the [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► system at your client and they're [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► getting everything paid out for you so [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► you don't need to send any chasing [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► females first books has a great [TS]

00:29:08 ◼   ► notification system that you can think [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► of as your personal finance the system [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► every time you log in to freshbooks you [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► get an update on what's change of your [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► business and what is there that needs [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► your attention all of these features are [TS]

00:29:19 ◼   ► coupled with a beautiful redesign which [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► focuses on simplicity and clarity [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► freshbooks is focused on the edge or [TS]

00:29:25 ◼   ► question of how is my business doing and [TS]

00:29:27 ◼   ► that is presented clearly to you [TS]

00:29:29 ◼   ► freshbooks is offering a 30-day I'm [TS]

00:29:32 ◼   ► restricted free trial to listen to this [TS]

00:29:34 ◼   ► show just go to fresh books.com / cortex [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► and enter cortex in how you heard about [TS]

00:29:38 ◼   ► section so they will know that you came [TS]

00:29:40 ◼   ► to them from this show thank you so much [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► for fresh works for their support of [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► cortex and relief em so and this brings [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► us to the types of to do applications [TS]

00:29:51 ◼   ► that are available and you touched on [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► this a little bit about the fact that [TS]

00:29:56 ◼   ► there are kind of like a couple of [TS]

00:29:58 ◼   ► different strains that you can go here [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► you can go basically you can go advanced [TS]

00:30:02 ◼   ► so I thought of a couple of examples to [TS]

00:30:04 ◼   ► set the stage gray go so I was thinking [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► about like all yes maybe some of the [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► ones that we spoken about overtime and [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► and kind of what these applications are [TS]

00:30:13 ◼   ► and then some of the the features that [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► go into them though you have basic [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► applications basic applications like [TS]

00:30:21 ◼   ► reminders clear google tasks or Google [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► keep lose these are basically more along [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► lines of keeping a list and maybe not [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► always maybe setting a Jew date to those [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► items many people don't set due dates [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► times they just have lists which is a [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► perfectly valid way of doing things and [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► it's just about kind of the way that you [TS]

00:30:43 ◼   ► work in the way that you need things and [TS]

00:30:47 ◼   ► then you have advanced applications [TS]

00:30:49 ◼   ► applications like OmniFocus and to do [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► and to do is to neighboring with them [TS]

00:30:54 ◼   ► things like automation functions with [TS]

00:30:56 ◼   ► them to make reviews of your work [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► forecasts like where you can see [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► multiple days but once who and there may [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► be something like deferring tasks as [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► well and you can kind of live anywhere [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► on this spectrum like I maybe run my [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► to-do application more in the basic camp [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► but choose to use an advanced all loop [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► because i like to have if i want it [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► things like automation and AP is so to [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► our applications can talk to my to-do [TS]

00:31:26 ◼   ► app which is to you know what pushed me [TS]

00:31:28 ◼   ► down this road and forecasts which I [TS]

00:31:31 ◼   ► really liked so I can see multiple days [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► at once and can kind of plan out what's [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► coming over the next seven days but I [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► don't do a lot of the stuff that you [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► might do when it looks like maybe [TS]

00:31:40 ◼   ► running for more GTD system you know [TS]

00:31:44 ◼   ► there's so many of those things that I [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► don't do like deferring and things like [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► that would you need advanced application [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► for so I I feel like I maybe have a more [TS]

00:31:55 ◼   ► basic system but want to use an advanced [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► application so i can pick and choose [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► from the things that I want to use but [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► something like reminders is too simple [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► for me to just have this one long list [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► that i always have to look at all these [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► multiple lists III just don't find [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► reminders and all clear or something it [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► to be a robust enough application for me [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► so it is abundant you in the past need [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► an advanced application for your [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► advanced system do you have a feeling [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► for where you might be falling now that [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► you sat down and look through some of [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► this [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► it's an interesting question like that [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► it's an interesting it's interesting [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► time that you're asking me because I [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► don't have a solid answer show i would [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► much prefer to do the show when I feel [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► like I i am coming with an answer [TS]

00:32:42 ◼   ► here--here's the thing that i have [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► discovered what I'm doing with paper and [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► what I'm thinking about with my tasks in [TS]

00:32:50 ◼   ► this way is trying to feel the outlines [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► of what have i been dissatisfied with [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► and what am I trying to do in the future [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► and so on a on a very big level when I [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► think about how I am refocusing this [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► year is being aware of one of the things [TS]

00:33:11 ◼   ► that I found kind of draining with using [TS]

00:33:16 ◼   ► a very advanced system in OmniFocus is [TS]

00:33:19 ◼   ► that there was not any end to this [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► system ever write like that there was [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► sort of no sense of completion because i [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► had an enormous number of things in [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► OmniFocus and I had them tracked very [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► very precisely and say okay this is [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► great this is a system that grew out of [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► my previous systems over a long period [TS]

00:33:45 ◼   ► of time when i'm sitting here with [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► pieces of paper trying to think about [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► how do i want to work this is a problem [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► that i feel like i've identified [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► something here which is a lack of a [TS]

00:33:56 ◼   ► sense of completion which is also [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► something that my old system that i used [TS]

00:34:02 ◼   ► to use when I was a teacher was a a part [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► of that I was really aware of a building [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► into that you know when the day is done [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► because this part of it is complete the [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► end [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► oh ok this is an interesting thing to [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► realize that I've worked myself into a [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► system that doesn't have that and that's [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► a feature that I used to have and that I [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► find very important and very helpful [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► would you say that maybe there was [TS]

00:34:26 ◼   ► something in the structure of your work [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► now that that doesn't inherently have [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► that end like when the kids go home [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► who there's maybe a couple of tasks left [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► and then that's it [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► right right so this is this is exactly [TS]

00:34:41 ◼   ► and I'm very very much of the belief [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► like things happen because it like the [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► structure in the world right so what [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► like why did my system as a teacher have [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► a clear end because there was a clearer [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► way to end things as a teacher [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► and like why did the system that built [TS]

00:34:57 ◼   ► up over years as a self-employed person [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► not have any kind of end because well is [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► this is this is the nature of the work [TS]

00:35:03 ◼   ► right this is this is the nature of what [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► it is that I'm doing there isn't any and [TS]

00:35:08 ◼   ► there's always more that can be done [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► it's like okay well after doing this for [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► a large number of years i'm realizing i [TS]

00:35:15 ◼   ► like this so much and so in redirecting [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► how my work is going to unfold over the [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► next year [TS]

00:35:23 ◼   ► part of what I'm really trying to do is [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► building in regular distinct clear [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► breaks and trying to really stick to [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► those as much as possible like we'll see [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► how it actually goes but that's the [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► that's the idea and so what I was [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► thinking as well whatever system i build [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► up I wanted to be able to support this I [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► want to have some kind of clear and/or [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► sort of cycle within the system so this [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► is an example like what are the things [TS]

00:35:55 ◼   ► that I'm trying to identify around the [TS]

00:35:57 ◼   ► edges and that's one of these things [TS]

00:35:59 ◼   ► that I'm trying to identify around the [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► edges like can I build up something that [TS]

00:36:02 ◼   ► creates a sense of completion that can [TS]

00:36:06 ◼   ► also work with the schedule for what I'm [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► trying to do over the course of the year [TS]

00:36:11 ◼   ► and so it's funny Mike because if you [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► you have this list of of like [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► applications in the show notes of the [TS]

00:36:18 ◼   ► various to do managers and what are they [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► like and you know what various features [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► do they have but the thing that i have [TS]

00:36:26 ◼   ► been playing around with a little bit [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► just not even with the intention of [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► using it as a primary task manager but [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► just simply because like oh this is the [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► digital tool that most closely [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► replicates the paper let me just play [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► around with it a little bit is actually [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► using Trello which I don't know if [TS]

00:36:43 ◼   ► you've ever used or tried I use Trello a [TS]

00:36:46 ◼   ► lot so do you [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► ok how would you describe Trello to the [TS]

00:36:51 ◼   ► listener I'm not I'm not it i feel like [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► i am the worst person in the world to [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► describe this tool because i think im [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► using it in a way that nobody intended [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► to be used yellow is built from the [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► process of Kanban em if you are familiar [TS]

00:37:06 ◼   ► with that [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► so if you know what that is you can [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► immediately visualized trailer if you're [TS]

00:37:13 ◼   ► not familiar with it which many of you [TS]

00:37:15 ◼   ► would not be I wasn't until i use [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► trailer for the first time imagine that [TS]

00:37:21 ◼   ► you have a bunch of tasks and you write [TS]

00:37:24 ◼   ► all of the tasks down on index cards who [TS]

00:37:27 ◼   ► and you have a process that you need to [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► go through to get a task to be complete [TS]

00:37:34 ◼   ► so you line up all of your tasks and [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► there at the starting line and the [TS]

00:37:39 ◼   ► process can be written out in two [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► columns so you can have part 1 part 2 [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► part 3 part 4 and you move each task [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► across the columns so it moves from left [TS]

00:37:53 ◼   ► to right and then it is complete [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► that is like the easiest way that I [TS]

00:37:57 ◼   ► would describe how this type of trellis [TS]

00:37:59 ◼   ► system would work in that you what you [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► are doing is taking things and moving [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► them around from place to place and as [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► they're being moved you can update them [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► you can add information to them but the [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► idea is that you get them from the start [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► line to the finish line when you do that [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► by visually moving them through this [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► process moving them from column to [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► column and they can move backwards and [TS]

00:38:22 ◼   ► forwards depending on how you set up the [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► columns but they were always moving [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► through so the way that i use Trello a [TS]

00:38:29 ◼   ► lot is raised for the sale of a [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► sponsorship so Stephen set this up and i [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► told him that i feel like i didn't have [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► a good visibility for how sponsors were [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► sawed through our process and I wanted [TS]

00:38:44 ◼   ► to work with him so we could understand [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► it better together and he created this [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► thing in Trello so every sponsor is a [TS]

00:38:51 ◼   ► card so there are little card and you [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► imagine the sponsors an index card and [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► we move them through our process from [TS]

00:38:58 ◼   ► initial contact made to if we're [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► progressing to a sale and then if we [TS]

00:39:03 ◼   ► sold so that is what i use Trello for a [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► lot we also use it for when we're [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► setting up big event and we also use [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► Trello four goals were setting goals and [TS]

00:39:13 ◼   ► even for our assistant so when we're [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► looking at trying to hire an assistant [TS]

00:39:16 ◼   ► we have a trouble board for that and we [TS]

00:39:18 ◼   ► have all of the different tasks that we [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► may want them [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► to do and when they might do them and if [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► it's the right person and all that sort [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► of stuff so me and even use Trello a lot [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► to plan big picture stuff for the [TS]

00:39:29 ◼   ► business [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► I didn't realize I was speaking to [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► travel expert and I thought you might [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► have like a passing familiarity with it [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► was like oh Trello i have 20 of them [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► have all the great general but so there [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► you go that's what i use Trello for and [TS]

00:39:44 ◼   ► considering the fact that you were using [TS]

00:39:47 ◼   ► index cards [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► I'm not surprised that you're using [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► something like trailer yet again I [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► wouldn't even say that i'm using it [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► under playing around with it but yes [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► it's an interesting thing to play around [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► with because not entirely but it does [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► largely avoid the problem of like [TS]

00:40:06 ◼   ► learning a specific task manager because [TS]

00:40:08 ◼   ► it just simply doesn't do most of the [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► things that most task managers do and it [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► is very malleable [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► yeah it's very malleable and importantly [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► it's very visual so I ok let me move [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► these things around and so I've been [TS]

00:40:21 ◼   ► going through this process of sometimes [TS]

00:40:23 ◼   ► working on paper putting things in [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► Trello sometimes rearranging things in [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► Trello and then sometimes writing it out [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► all again on paper just to think about [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► like I let me let me mess around with [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► this is it [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► it's an iterative cycle back and forth [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► thinking about how to best organize my [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► work you know Trello is is really good [TS]

00:40:40 ◼   ► to use if the work that you're doing as [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► a process that is not dictated by Trello [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► itself [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► yeah like there is an external process [TS]

00:40:50 ◼   ► that has to happen and Trillo can [TS]

00:40:52 ◼   ► support that select for creating YouTube [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► videos the process can just be a [TS]

00:40:57 ◼   ► different stages in which they are and [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► if you're working on multiple youtube [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► videos a time you can move them through [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► from process part the process part you [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► know [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► yeah it's it's relatively free form [TS]

00:41:10 ◼   ► compared to most other things which i [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► would say is that both its strength and [TS]

00:41:16 ◼   ► its weakness but it's it's an [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► interesting thing to play around with [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► I know a while back I had sort of mess [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► with it a little bit just as an [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► interesting to look at and and never [TS]

00:41:26 ◼   ► really thought about it much since then [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► it was recently a quiet Oh some oh I [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► know [TS]

00:41:34 ◼   ► yeah she's like how the acquired [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► news/wall 11 it was acquired by a [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► company that would feasibly want the [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► system that it is that way but they may [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► just change the business model with ya [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► who knows all we know is acquired yeah [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► but yes it's an interesting tool just to [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► check out and it's a thing that i've [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► been i've been thinking about and i [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► stumbledupon it because as i was trying [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► to work through my system I i did just [TS]

00:42:00 ◼   ► keep thinking of some stuff that I have [TS]

00:42:04 ◼   ► mentioned in the past as having looked [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► at but I i spent a lot of time very [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► seriously looking at which is scrum [TS]

00:42:12 ◼   ► which is a a working process that is [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► clearly designed for teams is not at all [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► designed for individuals but has some [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► interesting parts to it that feel like [TS]

00:42:27 ◼   ► oh maybe this could work with the way [TS]

00:42:30 ◼   ► that I want to work and it involves [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► things like having clearly defined start [TS]

00:42:37 ◼   ► and end times for particular batches of [TS]

00:42:40 ◼   ► work which is a feature that I'm i'm [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► looking at and the other thing I was [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► really aware of when I was thinking [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► about how i worked in the past and the [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► one thing that having like a a list of [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► tasks that are falling out of templates [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► that doesn't that doesn't serve so well [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► is coming up with realistic estimates [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► for how much can you do at a particular [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► time and and this is something else that [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► like a the process of scrum attempts to [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► do again with one person it doesn't work [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► very well at all it's designed for teams [TS]

00:43:15 ◼   ► but it's something that I've just been [TS]

00:43:17 ◼   ► thinking about like out are there are [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► their pieces of this that I can adapt [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► for individual use for the way that I [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► want to work and so like this is another [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► thing I spent some time on you know i [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► read a couple of books on scrum and just [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► again very it's very funny to to read a [TS]

00:43:36 ◼   ► book that's like design for a gigantic [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► corporation of like how does this [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► gigantic corporation or range there are [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► many multiple teams across entire [TS]

00:43:44 ◼   ► systems that like I'm just trying to [TS]

00:43:46 ◼   ► read through it and see like is there [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► something here that I can pull out for [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► myself but it's through that process of [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► like okay scrum is this process it uses [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► tools like Trello let me just play [TS]

00:43:59 ◼   ► around with Trello let me just explore [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► this a little bit while I'm in this this [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► building up phase so that's where I am [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► with my current state of things i do [TS]

00:44:11 ◼   ► have to say I feel a bit like I am a [TS]

00:44:13 ◼   ► like I'm on a tightrope without a net [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► because i'm not using any of my regular [TS]

00:44:19 ◼   ► systems [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► ok I've I really did burn everything [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► down to the ground so you like actually [TS]

00:44:24 ◼   ► using no app right now like other than [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► Trello tinker around with at the moment [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► I am literally using nothing except like [TS]

00:44:35 ◼   ► some index cards and some Trello [TS]

00:44:37 ◼   ► tinkering but it is a a very temporary [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► phase like this doesn't last forever [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► because this is this is partly like [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► going back to the the idiots pre any [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► system me like I'll just remember the [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► things that I have to do which is a [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► terrible strategy is horrible it's an [TS]

00:44:52 ◼   ► absolutely horrible strategy and not [TS]

00:44:54 ◼   ► really doing it but it's like okay I [TS]

00:44:56 ◼   ► mostly have three big things to keep in [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► mind like the next video [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► the next hello Internet the next cortex [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► are these are the three main things that [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► i really need to keep track of and so i [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► can run on that for a little while while [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► I think about how does the rest of this [TS]

00:45:11 ◼   ► system work [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► ok and i think that it is it is [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► genuinely beneficial to do this because [TS]

00:45:16 ◼   ► it is just as finding the edges of like [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► what what do I need what do I need to do [TS]

00:45:22 ◼   ► I i have have a little bit of of support [TS]

00:45:27 ◼   ► in the fact that before doing this I [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► moved some basic reminder things into to [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► do so that there's like maybe 20 little [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► recurring items into do then just like [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► I'm always gonna forget this stuff like [TS]

00:45:39 ◼   ► this is just the bare minimum [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► it might as well be reminders yeah and I [TS]

00:45:43 ◼   ► guess between down your calendar like [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► you you're getting through without the [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► the pic system supporting you all [TS]

00:45:50 ◼   ► exactly and what's also face like just [TS]

00:45:52 ◼   ► by using to do and by using a calendar [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► i'm already using more tools than like [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► many people I know you [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► to really work but it's like from my [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► relative perspective it's like this is a [TS]

00:46:02 ◼   ► precarious situation here so i am i'm [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► just i'm just playing around with these [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► things and trying to figure out what is [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► it that I ultimately want to build up to [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► and my current state is I'm trying to [TS]

00:46:15 ◼   ► pull out the useful parts of systems [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► like Kanban the useful parts for the [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► still relevant parts i should say of [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► getting things done and trying to see if [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► there's a way to like adapt scrum too [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► sensible individual use but I would be I [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► would be very curious to hear from [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► anybody in the audience if they have any [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► other kind of like actual systems that [TS]

00:46:44 ◼   ► they use or that they care to recommend [TS]

00:46:46 ◼   ► like I'm in a very open accepting [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► feedback time of my system so I'd be [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► curious to see if anybody has any [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► thoughts on any systems leave links in [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► the comments and I will definitely check [TS]

00:46:57 ◼   ► things out and spend a bit more time [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► exploring today's episode of cortex is [TS]

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00:47:06 ◼   ► tech professional's advance their [TS]

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00:47:37 ◼   ► you to understand exactly what your [TS]

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00:47:43 ◼   ► title one location but based on your [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► specific skillset look don't just look [TS]

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00:47:51 ◼   ► download the guys mobile app and learn [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► more at dice.com / cortex thank you guys [TS]

00:47:56 ◼   ► for their support of this show and [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► really FM it is that time again cgpgrey [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► ass cortex return to our audience of [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► amazing people [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► hello audience hello audience and these [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► are people that submit their questions [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► too [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► on twitter with the hashtag ask cortex [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► or they leave comments in our reddit [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► thread and they go through and they will [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► give me some questions that they would [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► like for us to discuss on the show and [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► we will start off today with Phil office [TS]

00:48:26 ◼   ► last week our sleep schedules like do [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► you have a particular times that you aim [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► to go to better wake up [TS]

00:48:32 ◼   ► what are those times why those times and [TS]

00:48:36 ◼   ► what effect of this have on your [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► productivity when you're observing them [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► where you live on east coast time dr. [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► Mike isn't that your sleep schedule out [TS]

00:48:44 ◼   ► of Mike time now I don't even like don't [TS]

00:48:47 ◼   ► even anymore [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► [Music] [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► what is what does that mean that you [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► live on Mike time because it's just [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► adapted on warped so much like I [TS]

00:48:58 ◼   ► originally thought i was going to be [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► living in east coast time but it hasn't [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► really turned out to be that way hm i go [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► to sleep between 12am and 3am oh god and [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► i wake up between 8am and 10am all but [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► those times not match up in the way that [TS]

00:49:19 ◼   ► you would think that they might for and [TS]

00:49:22 ◼   ► that's all right I see really what [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► you're going for here yeah i went to bed [TS]

00:49:27 ◼   ► at 2am i feel it i think last night that [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► 132 am somewhere between there and i [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► woke up at eight twenty today but the [TS]

00:49:37 ◼   ► day before I went to sleep I think at [TS]

00:49:41 ◼   ► like 130 and i woke up at ten [TS]

00:49:45 ◼   ► okay it's all over the place i have [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► expressed to you the last time that we [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► met up that I'm becoming more interested [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► in sleep tracking as well and this is [TS]

00:49:56 ◼   ► something that is on my radar to try and [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► find the tool or tools that work for me [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► to allow me to do this because I don't [TS]

00:50:05 ◼   ► know what effects it has on my [TS]

00:50:08 ◼   ► productivity honestly who because my [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► thesis is that it doesn't purely because [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► as it stands right now my sleep schedule [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► was so erratic who [TS]

00:50:22 ◼   ► and my productivity is not very erratic [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► is it at least the way I feel about it [TS]

00:50:29 ◼   ► because for me it's more like time like [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► I don't feel like I'm like all I wasn't [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► very productive today so i didn't spend [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► much time working today or I spent a lot [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► of time working today and as we've [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► already established a lot of the amount [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► of time that I spent working is not like [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► how inspired was I that day because I [TS]

00:50:49 ◼   ► worked so strictly to a schedule so [TS]

00:50:51 ◼   ► there is a quality aspect that can't be [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► judged by time so that's like a whole [TS]

00:50:56 ◼   ► other thing which is really difficult to [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► turn and nail down but there is an [TS]

00:51:02 ◼   ► inverse that I'm interested in which is [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► if I work longer hours do i wake up late [TS]

00:51:09 ◼   ► the next day that's the only thing I'm [TS]

00:51:11 ◼   ► interested in learning right now I [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► recommend to you an app which is called [TS]

00:51:15 ◼   ► Auto sleep which is a thing that i have [TS]

00:51:19 ◼   ► been using to track my sleeping [TS]

00:51:21 ◼   ► time-based just like the time tracker [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► toggle from the recommendation of [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► Federico teecee out of your where Mike [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► that guy's pretty good for recommending [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► things happy I live a lot of my life [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► based upon the recommendation see gives [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► me that so i have been using auto sleep [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► and get the app does a lot of things [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► with regard to sleep but the only the [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► only thing I care about really which is [TS]

00:51:49 ◼   ► what it does is it does a pretty good [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► job of estimating just the length that i [TS]

00:51:54 ◼   ► was asleep when did i go to bed and when [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► did I wake up and I i want to track this [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► because for the longest time i used to [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► use an app called sleep cycle to do the [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► sleep tracking but that suffered from [TS]

00:52:10 ◼   ► the effect of I needed to turn it on [TS]

00:52:12 ◼   ► before I went to sleep and turn it off [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► when I woke up in the morning and here [TS]

00:52:18 ◼   ► is the thing that I definitely know from [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► looking at that sleep data is when I [TS]

00:52:23 ◼   ► need the sleep data the least is what [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► I'm able to record it the most so he's [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► like I am a bang on my schedule [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► everything's going great and waking up [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► at the exact same time ever [TS]

00:52:36 ◼   ► morning i'm having a nice productive day [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► i'm going to sleep around the same time [TS]

00:52:39 ◼   ► like yeah i've got tons of data for for [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► like perfect rock-solid everyday is the [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► same data and then they'll be periods [TS]

00:52:47 ◼   ► where there's like there's no sleep data [TS]

00:52:48 ◼   ► recorder whatsoever is like but that's [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► what i want to sleep data the most [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► because those are the periods of time [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► where my sleep is less regular I'm like [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► staying up later which is terrible for [TS]

00:53:00 ◼   ► me and then i'm sleepy and I forget to [TS]

00:53:02 ◼   ► turn the app on and then i'm not paying [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► any attention to when I wake up in the [TS]

00:53:05 ◼   ► morning like this inverse correlation [TS]

00:53:06 ◼   ► like I have data about my sleep over the [TS]

00:53:09 ◼   ► past year but all indicates to me is [TS]

00:53:11 ◼   ► like there's some gaps which were [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► probably not great times and so I really [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► prefer and like having something that [TS]

00:53:19 ◼   ► just doesn't automatically so I can keep [TS]

00:53:21 ◼   ► an eye on this kind of stuff [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► the reason that i do want to keep an eye [TS]

00:53:24 ◼   ► on it is is simply because i am really [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► aware that that the sleep cycle has a [TS]

00:53:33 ◼   ► tremendous amount to do with how [TS]

00:53:35 ◼   ► productive i am and like if I fall out [TS]

00:53:41 ◼   ► of a regular sleep cycle that's the [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► thing i really want to be aware of and [TS]

00:53:45 ◼   ► really want to keep an eye on because [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► that that really matters for me and so [TS]

00:53:50 ◼   ► when I mean sometimes the process of [TS]

00:53:53 ◼   ► rebooting and and like getting back into [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► a productive phase one of the primary [TS]

00:53:58 ◼   ► things I am focusing on is like boot [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► yourself back into a regular waking [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► cycle and that that has a huge effect on [TS]

00:54:07 ◼   ► the rest of my day [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► so what are those times when others [TS]

00:54:11 ◼   ► ideal times [TS]

00:54:13 ◼   ► ok my my ideal wake-up time is it [TS]

00:54:16 ◼   ► sometime between five thirty and 6am is [TS]

00:54:19 ◼   ► is my deal wake up time and yeah but the [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► thing is I'm an old man getting sleepy [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► at 9pm right and and like probably [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► asleep by ten o'clock [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► no ok feel like lying to himself about [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► like I'm gonna read a book before i fall [TS]

00:54:38 ◼   ► asleep right but actually the falling [TS]

00:54:40 ◼   ► asleep immediately it is is the usual [TS]

00:54:42 ◼   ► night I'm like I'm going to read it like [TS]

00:54:44 ◼   ► no I'm not [TS]

00:54:44 ◼   ► I'm going to lie to myself I'm going to [TS]

00:54:46 ◼   ► read a book i'm just gonna fall asleep [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► immediately which is also why i'm i'm a [TS]

00:54:50 ◼   ► terrible dinner companion because people [TS]

00:54:52 ◼   ► are like let's have dinner [TS]

00:54:54 ◼   ► okay great like I made an appointment at [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► eight like oh like eight o'clock at [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► night at night like you gotta get over [TS]

00:55:02 ◼   ► to the early bird special [TS]

00:55:04 ◼   ► ya think we can do yeah exactly you know [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► I like I want to meet you in the [TS]

00:55:07 ◼   ► afternoon [TS]

00:55:08 ◼   ► you know Mike if we ever socialize like [TS]

00:55:10 ◼   ► when do we socialize 2 p.m. in the [TS]

00:55:12 ◼   ► afternoon talking about that's what it's [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► great as my perfect time like [TS]

00:55:15 ◼   ► everything's going great I've done all [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► my work in the morning and now you get [TS]

00:55:20 ◼   ► me for the afternoon time when i'm not [TS]

00:55:21 ◼   ► going to get any work done anyway it's [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► nice and early like that's what I want [TS]

00:55:25 ◼   ► to socialize with people to p.m. and [TS]

00:55:27 ◼   ► nobody else in the world wants to [TS]

00:55:29 ◼   ► socialize at that time but but you know [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► from for me that that's a bigger thing [TS]

00:55:33 ◼   ► like maintaining the regular sleep [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► schedule it's a big deal and I have [TS]

00:55:38 ◼   ► found that earlier is definitely better [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► by like a huge order of magnitude in [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► terms of actual productivity previously [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► on the show I recommended the retro 51 [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► tornado as a pen [TS]

00:55:50 ◼   ► now this is your pen thing okay Brian's [TS]

00:55:53 ◼   ► were in to ask what is the fountain pen [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► equivalent of this is not this is the [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► panicked all of a sudden what happened [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► yes yes it is [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► look every now and then I want to throw [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► one in for me you know this is just for [TS]

00:56:07 ◼   ► my enjoyment right now so brian and i [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► would recommend the pen that you have [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► already pointed out that your partner is [TS]

00:56:15 ◼   ► using and this is part of the reason you [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► want to do this is about your partner [TS]

00:56:18 ◼   ► gift i would recommend the bank with the [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► pilot metropolitan because it is a cheap [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► an independent and it works great but if [TS]

00:56:26 ◼   ► you want to go a little bit more than [TS]

00:56:28 ◼   ► this i would recommend for you at which [TS]

00:56:31 ◼   ► be eco lose our next move up i will put [TS]

00:56:34 ◼   ► links in the show notes to these that's [TS]

00:56:36 ◼   ► good cuz i also this is a pendant thank [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► you this is a pen that takes think like [TS]

00:56:40 ◼   ► you need a bottle of ink for this and i [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► will also put a link to a line of inks [TS]

00:56:46 ◼   ► that I think what really well of this it [TS]

00:56:48 ◼   ► is called the pilot 0 shizuka new line [TS]

00:56:51 ◼   ► of inks today we'll all be in the [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► shadows and i will recommend [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► to anyone listening to this show to try [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► out even the retro do you want on any of [TS]

00:57:00 ◼   ► the pilot metropolitan not frisbee eco [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► if you have any care at all for pens [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► because they are a fantastic tria yeah [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► don't just use whatever pens they have [TS]

00:57:10 ◼   ► in the hotel down Mike does not approve [TS]

00:57:13 ◼   ► you deserve better listener but really [TS]

00:57:17 ◼   ► do our elven asked what did you both [TS]

00:57:20 ◼   ► want to be when you grew up where you [TS]

00:57:22 ◼   ► want to be a professional podcaster [TS]

00:57:23 ◼   ► right Mike only from the age of like 20 [TS]

00:57:27 ◼   ► 21 may be okay if I had dreams as a kid [TS]

00:57:32 ◼   ► you know what were your dreams like so I [TS]

00:57:35 ◼   ► wanted to be a few different things i [TS]

00:57:36 ◼   ► did actually want to be a radio DJ so [TS]

00:57:38 ◼   ► okay so essentially a podcaster yeah but [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► that was when I was when I was really [TS]

00:57:43 ◼   ► young and then as I grew up a little bit [TS]

00:57:46 ◼   ► there were two two things that I really [TS]

00:57:48 ◼   ► wanted to be one of them was a teacher [TS]

00:57:50 ◼   ► and specifically for children with [TS]

00:57:55 ◼   ► special needs was the thing that I was [TS]

00:57:56 ◼   ► very interested in was a young man I [TS]

00:57:59 ◼   ► could see that I could see that it was [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► something that i was i was very [TS]

00:58:02 ◼   ► passionate about but then kind of moved [TS]

00:58:05 ◼   ► away from as I got older just because I [TS]

00:58:08 ◼   ► also became quite career minded and it [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► seems like at least in teaching the [TS]

00:58:14 ◼   ► you're quite boxed in to the amount of [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► movement that you can take an [TS]

00:58:17 ◼   ► advancement that you can take there are [TS]

00:58:19 ◼   ► a lot of paths it seems [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► yeah that is that is definitely correct [TS]

00:58:23 ◼   ► and i just learned about myself as I [TS]

00:58:26 ◼   ► grew up that I needed to be challenged [TS]

00:58:28 ◼   ► and that I felt like I would run out of [TS]

00:58:32 ◼   ► challenges before I then had to to be [TS]

00:58:34 ◼   ► something that maybe I wasn't interested [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► in being which was like a headmaster [TS]

00:58:37 ◼   ► yeah this is actually a perennial [TS]

00:58:40 ◼   ► problem at a bunch of schools is is [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► retaining ambitious talents precisely [TS]

00:58:44 ◼   ► because of that it's a good a very [TS]

00:58:48 ◼   ► narrow pyramid to climb in only one [TS]

00:58:51 ◼   ► direction and and very often people [TS]

00:58:53 ◼   ► don't want to climb in that direction [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► but they they want to continue advancing [TS]

00:58:57 ◼   ► and and this is this is definitely like [TS]

00:58:59 ◼   ► a career problem that some teachers do [TS]

00:59:03 ◼   ► run up against then I wanted to be a [TS]

00:59:07 ◼   ► police officer that I cannot see thumbs [TS]

00:59:10 ◼   ► down 90 degree and this was the job that [TS]

00:59:13 ◼   ► I hand that I was something that i was [TS]

00:59:16 ◼   ► sure i wanted to until maybe I was like [TS]

00:59:18 ◼   ► 17 it was something that I really wanted [TS]

00:59:21 ◼   ► to do and it wasn't that I wanted to be [TS]

00:59:23 ◼   ► a beat cop patrolling the streets of [TS]

00:59:27 ◼   ► London but with you really club I wanted [TS]

00:59:29 ◼   ► to be a detective [TS]

00:59:30 ◼   ► that's that's what i wanted to be that [TS]

00:59:33 ◼   ► was something and it's still something [TS]

00:59:34 ◼   ► I'm very interested in how I've I wanted [TS]

00:59:38 ◼   ► to be a detective I wanted to solve [TS]

00:59:39 ◼   ► crimes who I cannot that's my eclectic [TS]

00:59:44 ◼   ► list all that job now i am not physical [TS]

00:59:48 ◼   ► enough to be a police officer this was [TS]

00:59:49 ◼   ► what I realized in my life is that there [TS]

00:59:52 ◼   ► is a lot of it that I wouldn't be good [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► at so i didn't but did not pursue it [TS]

00:59:57 ◼   ► I'm not tough enough basically [TS]

00:59:57 ◼   ► I'm not tough enough basically [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► I think you're doing a better job as a [TS]

01:00:02 ◼   ► professional podcaster then you would do [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► is a police officer just going to put [TS]

01:00:05 ◼   ► that out there [TS]

01:00:06 ◼   ► thank you so much did you want to be [TS]

01:00:09 ◼   ► when you grow up [TS]

01:00:11 ◼   ► I mean I love when people ask this kind [TS]

01:00:15 ◼   ► of thing at I feel like what is what [TS]

01:00:16 ◼   ► this question is asking is what did the [TS]

01:00:18 ◼   ► dumb kid version of you want to do right [TS]

01:00:21 ◼   ► and enough i feel like i have very [TS]

01:00:22 ◼   ► little patience for most of this kind of [TS]

01:00:24 ◼   ► stuff like when I was a kid I had all [TS]

01:00:26 ◼   ► sorts of dumb ideas about things that I [TS]

01:00:28 ◼   ► wanted to do but it's because you as a [TS]

01:00:29 ◼   ► kid like you don't know anything about [TS]

01:00:30 ◼   ► the working world you know any even even [TS]

01:00:34 ◼   ► here like into the teenage years I think [TS]

01:00:36 ◼   ► the same thing it's like Oh Mikey want [TS]

01:00:37 ◼   ► to be a police officer but like you [TS]

01:00:38 ◼   ► haven't caught anything at all about [TS]

01:00:39 ◼   ► what being a police officer really [TS]

01:00:41 ◼   ► entails wanted to drive cause really [TS]

01:00:43 ◼   ► fast track right like this is this is [TS]

01:00:46 ◼   ► this is like your idea when you're [TS]

01:00:48 ◼   ► younger about what the working world is [TS]

01:00:50 ◼   ► like and and so yeah there's a bunch of [TS]

01:00:54 ◼   ► stuff that like my parents tell me that [TS]

01:00:56 ◼   ► younger me was interested in doing when [TS]

01:00:58 ◼   ► he grew up but I feel like I really care [TS]

01:01:01 ◼   ► what that kid thought about anything he [TS]

01:01:03 ◼   ► didn't know anything about anything but [TS]

01:01:04 ◼   ► what do you want to do though [TS]

01:01:06 ◼   ► come on just like it's like my parents [TS]

01:01:10 ◼   ► like it at some point be a [TS]

01:01:11 ◼   ► paleontologist right is like because [TS]

01:01:13 ◼   ► like dinosaurs and I haven't bought [TS]

01:01:15 ◼   ► anything at all about what being a [TS]

01:01:16 ◼   ► paleontologist is like oh you ride [TS]

01:01:18 ◼   ► dinosaur skeletons all day surely being [TS]

01:01:20 ◼   ► a paleontologist it like now you're [TS]

01:01:22 ◼   ► outside in the hot Sun moving a [TS]

01:01:24 ◼   ► toothbrush / a bone for hours if you're [TS]

01:01:27 ◼   ► lucky right has I'll now it's a terrible [TS]

01:01:29 ◼   ► it's a terrible thing I i think the [TS]

01:01:32 ◼   ► first serious career that I had a [TS]

01:01:36 ◼   ► somewhat reasonable idea about which is [TS]

01:01:39 ◼   ► the same reason that I didn't go into it [TS]

01:01:41 ◼   ► was that when i was in college i was [TS]

01:01:45 ◼   ► really aiming towards being a college [TS]

01:01:48 ◼   ► physics professor mhm i thought like [TS]

01:01:51 ◼   ► this is a thing that I really want to do [TS]

01:01:53 ◼   ► and over the course of being at college [TS]

01:01:57 ◼   ► was a process of coming to the [TS]

01:02:00 ◼   ► conclusion that like this is not a job [TS]

01:02:04 ◼   ► that I would really want to do there are [TS]

01:02:06 ◼   ► parts of it that I would really want to [TS]

01:02:08 ◼   ► do like driving a fast car but the [TS]

01:02:10 ◼   ► actual miss of becoming a [TS]

01:02:13 ◼   ► a physics professor I realize like [TS]

01:02:14 ◼   ► across every front is like this is no [TS]

01:02:19 ◼   ► like this does not match up with me I [TS]

01:02:22 ◼   ► it's like realizing that I am neither [TS]

01:02:26 ◼   ► smart nor patient enough to do a PhD [TS]

01:02:29 ◼   ► program it's like there's no way this is [TS]

01:02:31 ◼   ► going to happen I will lose my mind if I [TS]

01:02:33 ◼   ► have to do this [TS]

01:02:35 ◼   ► realizing i did I ran at some point I [TS]

01:02:38 ◼   ► ran some numbers on like how many PhD [TS]

01:02:42 ◼   ► tenure-track positions are there in the [TS]

01:02:45 ◼   ► United States every year versus how many [TS]

01:02:49 ◼   ► physics graduates are that is like whoa [TS]

01:02:51 ◼   ► these are terrible numbers and just [TS]

01:02:55 ◼   ► realizing like a bunch of things about [TS]

01:02:57 ◼   ► myself as well like I just don't have [TS]

01:02:58 ◼   ► the temperament to focus on a single [TS]

01:03:01 ◼   ► task for three to six years so all of [TS]

01:03:06 ◼   ► this is what like turned me away from [TS]

01:03:09 ◼   ► what I would say was the first seriously [TS]

01:03:12 ◼   ► considered maybe actually possible thing [TS]

01:03:15 ◼   ► that a younger version of me would have [TS]

01:03:19 ◼   ► wanted to do when he grew up almost [TS]

01:03:24 ◼   ► wants to know do you ever get a VR [TS]

01:03:27 ◼   ► headset now I got a playstation vr [TS]

01:03:31 ◼   ► headset know you really liked it a lot [TS]

01:03:33 ◼   ► I know you do there are some good games [TS]

01:03:35 ◼   ► there's not enough good games i'm hoping [TS]

01:03:37 ◼   ► for more games in 2017 i have cast and I [TS]

01:03:41 ◼   ► towards oculus a couple of times just [TS]

01:03:43 ◼   ► looked looked over in that direction [TS]

01:03:47 ◼   ► uh-huh to go the next level but i have [TS]

01:03:49 ◼   ► not yet gone to it there there's some [TS]

01:03:52 ◼   ► stuff this year that i am finding [TS]

01:03:53 ◼   ► interesting like there are some smaller [TS]

01:03:56 ◼   ► computers and some purpose built [TS]

01:03:57 ◼   ► computers that I've seen like there's [TS]

01:03:59 ◼   ► some CSS that I've just keeping my eye [TS]

01:04:02 ◼   ► on there is also like word of oculus [TS]

01:04:05 ◼   ► trying to create their own all-in-one [TS]

01:04:09 ◼   ► unit who same she's doing the same also [TS]

01:04:13 ◼   ► microsoft later this year will be [TS]

01:04:15 ◼   ► showing off their next Xbox which in [TS]

01:04:18 ◼   ► they've said we'll have the our [TS]

01:04:19 ◼   ► capabilities microsoft had a good [TS]

01:04:22 ◼   ► partnership with oculus I'm wondering if [TS]

01:04:23 ◼   ► that's where we're going to go down and [TS]

01:04:25 ◼   ► will they be able to support pc games [TS]

01:04:27 ◼   ► there this is a there is i expect by the [TS]

01:04:30 ◼   ► end of this year that i will have some [TS]

01:04:32 ◼   ► other equipment in my house because you [TS]

01:04:34 ◼   ► can never have enough never enough [TS]

01:04:36 ◼   ► immersion vr what did you buy [TS]

01:04:39 ◼   ► ok like i have bought nothing because i [TS]

01:04:42 ◼   ► think i need a new house before I can [TS]

01:04:44 ◼   ► get a VR pets yeah this is the problem [TS]

01:04:47 ◼   ► this is a problem if you really want the [TS]

01:04:49 ◼   ► big the big equipment it is difficult i [TS]

01:04:54 ◼   ► have used HTC vive I have not spoken [TS]

01:04:57 ◼   ► about this on the show who and I think [TS]

01:04:59 ◼   ► that it's a great system but some of the [TS]

01:05:02 ◼   ► things that are good about things that I [TS]

01:05:04 ◼   ► don't like about it and i like that you [TS]

01:05:06 ◼   ► can move around but every now now bump [TS]

01:05:09 ◼   ► into something and then that ruins the [TS]

01:05:10 ◼   ► experience so I trip over the cable and [TS]

01:05:12 ◼   ► that bruise the experience so it's a [TS]

01:05:13 ◼   ► great system but I don't like it so much [TS]

01:05:16 ◼   ► and also what everybody said that they [TS]

01:05:18 ◼   ► loved with the controllers but those [TS]

01:05:21 ◼   ► controllers and not as good as the [TS]

01:05:23 ◼   ► oculus touch controllers and we had used [TS]

01:05:26 ◼   ► those a long time before they came out [TS]

01:05:28 ◼   ► like six or seven months so we were [TS]

01:05:31 ◼   ► starting i think at a better level and I [TS]

01:05:33 ◼   ► find the oculus touch controls to be [TS]

01:05:35 ◼   ► vastly superior to HTC's just in the way [TS]

01:05:37 ◼   ► that they feel and the way you use them [TS]

01:05:39 ◼   ► so I still maintain that my favorite [TS]

01:05:42 ◼   ► system i have used is the oculus yeah i [TS]

01:05:45 ◼   ► mean if this is the problem I I have [TS]

01:05:47 ◼   ► this feeling of like go big or go home [TS]

01:05:48 ◼   ► with VR and that there are some vr [TS]

01:05:52 ◼   ► options but I just I feel like that [TS]

01:05:54 ◼   ► oculus experience was just so good that [TS]

01:05:59 ◼   ► I either want to wait for other systems [TS]

01:06:01 ◼   ► to catch up to that or I want to [TS]

01:06:03 ◼   ► replicate that and if I'm trying to [TS]

01:06:06 ◼   ► replicate it at the very least it's like [TS]

01:06:08 ◼   ► me know that this this plant that I'm [TS]

01:06:10 ◼   ► living in London is that there is no [TS]

01:06:11 ◼   ► there is no place for this and it [TS]