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00:00:00 ◼   ► did you ever get that Apple watch Mike I [TS]

00:00:01 ◼   ► did I got it the next day actually oh [TS]

00:00:03 ◼   ► yeah because after we finished recording [TS]

00:00:06 ◼   ► I called [TS]

00:00:07 ◼   ► DPD the delivery company uh-huh and I [TS]

00:00:10 ◼   ► told them that the delivery drivers a [TS]

00:00:12 ◼   ► liar and I think the lady believed me [TS]

00:00:15 ◼   ► like she actually could I could tell she [TS]

00:00:17 ◼   ► believed me cuz it was like here's the [TS]

00:00:19 ◼   ► thing I already had a different delivery [TS]

00:00:22 ◼   ► driver deliver me at different DPD [TS]

00:00:24 ◼   ► packages that morning I was like so you [TS]

00:00:26 ◼   ► know I was in right like we can't get [TS]

00:00:28 ◼   ► around this you know I was in and then [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► you know they said we wanted the [TS]

00:00:32 ◼   ► tracking information had like a photo [TS]

00:00:34 ◼   ► right which was a photo of nothing yeah [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► yeah I've gotten this which the photo [TS]

00:00:38 ◼   ► eventually ended up disappearing from [TS]

00:00:39 ◼   ► the site and I was like Santa that's [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► like come on we all know what happened [TS]

00:00:43 ◼   ► here and she was like yeah okay and then [TS]

00:00:46 ◼   ► she ended up putting through some [TS]

00:00:47 ◼   ► expedited delivery and it came to me the [TS]

00:00:49 ◼   ► next day I'm glad you got your Apple [TS]

00:00:50 ◼   ► watch in the end mm-hmm yeah me too I [TS]

00:00:52 ◼   ► should really like it I'm really happy [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► with it like the LT thing is good [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► I've been going swimming again and I [TS]

00:01:00 ◼   ► found the pool which is relatively [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► looking a health club relatively close [TS]

00:01:03 ◼   ► to me and I really like that like during [TS]

00:01:07 ◼   ► my breaks like when I swim for like 15 [TS]

00:01:10 ◼   ► minutes or whatever take a take a break [TS]

00:01:12 ◼   ► for a few minutes I can like check my [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► text messages at the poolside like it's [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► it's like this cool little thing like [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► I'm I'm really excited about the LT [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► watch honestly like it's uh it's [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► becoming a more and more interesting [TS]

00:01:24 ◼   ► product like I was thinking to myself [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► the other day like what is the future of [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► this and I was imagining like this watch [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► that you could just take off the band [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► and like unfold it so it becomes a [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► bigger device and then you like fold it [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► and put it back on again like this is [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► like a 20 years in the future what does [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► these products look like and this was [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► this thing that I imagined of like well [TS]

00:01:44 ◼   ► we just have everything strapped to our [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► wrists and then you just take it off the [TS]

00:01:47 ◼   ► band and then it's that's your little [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► pocket computer and then you put it back [TS]

00:01:50 ◼   ► again like it was just making me think [TS]

00:01:52 ◼   ► about it has been making me think about [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► where this stuff is going I think at [TS]

00:01:55 ◼   ► that point it's easier to just install [TS]

00:01:58 ◼   ► the display in your eyes than to make a [TS]

00:02:00 ◼   ► thing that unfolds into something bigger [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► and fold back up so I will say that like [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► Samsung already they like saying that [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► there is a potential they may have a [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► folding phone next year like they are [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► already saying this which i think is [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► very bold from them to say something [TS]

00:02:16 ◼   ► like that but like one of their [TS]

00:02:17 ◼   ► executives is like oh yeah the note will [TS]

00:02:19 ◼   ► fold in half next year it's like Wolfe [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► Samsung don't say stuff like that but [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► the the folding screen technology I [TS]

00:02:26 ◼   ► think is closer than we think it is [TS]

00:02:28 ◼   ► honestly I can just see the the [TS]

00:02:32 ◼   ► executive being pulled off stage as he's [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► saying this thing by the underlings you [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► have to actually make it happen [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► he's good like a court like a shepherd's [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► crook is that what they called like one [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► of the chef's was great just comes to [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► just pulls him off like she's grabs him [TS]

00:02:44 ◼   ► by the neck and just like slides him off [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► the stage he's on a little wheelie chair [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► and then they know he was never heard [TS]

00:02:49 ◼   ► from again [TS]

00:02:49 ◼   ► it's a whole bunch of engineers who are [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► pulling on that thing we have to [TS]

00:02:52 ◼   ► actually make that you can't just this [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► Tahoe technology works you can't just [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► promise it like there's that story of [TS]

00:02:58 ◼   ► when face time was announced and Steve [TS]

00:03:00 ◼   ► Jobs said on stage that they were gonna [TS]

00:03:02 ◼   ► be submitting it all to the standards [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► bodies like it was never true it was [TS]

00:03:06 ◼   ► just something he said there are stories [TS]

00:03:08 ◼   ► of engineers being like what no we're [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► not like this isn't a thing we can do so [TS]

00:03:14 ◼   ► did you get yours did you get one cuz I [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► know you were like ten million in the [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► queue or something my Apple watch has [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► not yet arrived but the dot sticker that [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► is going to cover up the red dot on my [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► Apple watch has arrived oh that's good [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► news so stick it I was having I'm 50% of [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► the way there I guess this is where I [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► currently am I don't ever see the red [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► dot like this is my thing like I don't [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► see it I don't care about it like I only [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► ever see it if I look at my hand in an [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► odd position right like well I'm looking [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► at my watch right now and I would never [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► know the dots not about you Mike [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► the dot is about flashiness a certain [TS]

00:03:55 ◼   ► kind of flashiness that I have zero [TS]

00:03:58 ◼   ► interest in you don't want to show [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► everybody the products that you want you [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► don't want to like walk down the street [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► big man on campus no no okay if I find I [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► would literally have paid extra money [TS]

00:04:12 ◼   ► for a more innocuous version of the [TS]

00:04:15 ◼   ► watch of Dead Eye I'm trying to think [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► what the upper limit is and it is [TS]

00:04:20 ◼   ► reasonably high that I would pay to have [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► a watch that is the incognito version [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► don't I don't want the red dot on my [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► watch I personally think it is obnoxious [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► and I really think that the whole reason [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► that red dot was chosen everyone saying [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► like oh it clashes with the colors of [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► everything it's a terrible choices like [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► yes but that's why it was chosen it's [TS]

00:04:45 ◼   ► it's a it's a monkey signalling option [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► well that's what it is right it's it's [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► it is chosen to clash so that it is [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► visually obvious to people that you have [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► the new thing and I have have zero [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► interest in that so that that is that is [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► why dot stickers have been ordered to my [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► house and I will try a bunch and see [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► which one which one sticks the best and [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► works but it is really irritating to me [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► that this is even a thing that I have to [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► consider and I just don't like it feel [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► like just some enamel paint and a steady [TS]

00:05:16 ◼   ► hand would probably be the better option [TS]

00:05:18 ◼   ► than those little stickers like I can't [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► imagine any sticker lasting more than a [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► couple of days this is rubbing against [TS]

00:05:23 ◼   ► your hand all the time like that you [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► know I'm off immediately that that's why [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► I'm that's why I'm really frustrated [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► about it it's it's just annoying I don't [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► like it and it's like ah thanks Apple [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► you forcing me to show off to the world [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► that I have the new thing in a way that [TS]

00:05:39 ◼   ► I really don't want to that makes me it [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► makes me feel like I'm a marketing shill [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► for you I just don't I just don't like [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► it I really sent it this is it's the [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► same way I've never liked the white [TS]

00:05:49 ◼   ► earbuds and the white pencil is there [TS]

00:05:51 ◼   ► something that feels like they're [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► designed to be eye-catching to help [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► Apple not because they're they're the [TS]

00:05:57 ◼   ► colors or the options that I would [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► actually want okay anyway long story [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► short no new Apple watch in my hand see [TS]

00:06:04 ◼   ► ya [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► well I've had it for like a couple of [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► weeks or whatever I am I am a big fan of [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► it like it's it's really really great I [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► like it a lot the kids ha I think it's [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► opening up a new world for the device [TS]

00:06:16 ◼   ► I'm really excited for you to get yours [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► actually because I'm very keen to see [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► what you think of it because I think [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► like me you will see from this device [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► like oh this is what the Apple watch was [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► supposed to be it really does have more [TS]

00:06:31 ◼   ► of that feel to it yeah this is the [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► obvious direction that it's supposed to [TS]

00:06:34 ◼   ► go in I think the curious thing that I [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► will just see is [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► like with all of these things figuring [TS]

00:06:39 ◼   ► out how does it best fit into your life [TS]

00:06:41 ◼   ► because your use case of I'm checking [TS]

00:06:43 ◼   ► text messages at the gym is like my [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► nightmare use cakes like I don't [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► actually want it for that [TS]

00:06:48 ◼   ► so it's just it'll be interesting to see [TS]

00:06:50 ◼   ► like how does this how does this fit [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► into my life and how many developers [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► decide to take advantage of the fact [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► that the device is now a a cellular [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► device because I think most of the [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► things that I would probably find the [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► most useful to have a cellular [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► connection on on the watch like the [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► various apps that I use might not be [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► updated [TS]

00:07:07 ◼   ► for cellular connection for a long time [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► if ever yeah spoiler alert not many [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► right now there is a word that I [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► struggle with being an English person [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► talking to Americans and that word is [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► the tex-mex style food with the shells [TS]

00:07:24 ◼   ► that you fill up do you know what that [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► can you tell me what they're called [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► do you mean tacos mm-hmm I can't there [TS]

00:07:30 ◼   ► is not a way that I can say that word [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► and it sound accurate or legitimate in [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► any way but do you mean do you say like [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► a fraud okay so there are two different [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► ways to say it right like there's the [TS]

00:07:42 ◼   ► way that would make me sound like an [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► American and it's the way that makes you [TS]

00:07:45 ◼   ► sound like a British person and leave of [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► them work just say it the way you would [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► normally say it tacos [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► no that's all wrong exactly right and [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► then what so guys say like an American [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► like tacos like it doesn't see it [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► doesn't work right like there is no way [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► for me to say that word and it sounds [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► legitimate the second one is much better [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► we're gonna tell you right now the [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► second one is better but it's still like [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► I'm putting on this weird fake American [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► accent for one world like it doesn't [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► work and then I can't I can't straighten [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► it out in my brain when I'm saying in a [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► sentence it's like a nightmare another [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► one of these words is the surname of [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► somebody who we have been seeing a lot [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► of pictures of recently Derek Jeter [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► Jeter how do you say that name is that [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► right I can't help you because I don't [TS]

00:08:28 ◼   ► know who that person is hmm see I think [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► I think the way you're supposed to say [TS]

00:08:32 ◼   ► is it's got more like a D sound in it [TS]

00:08:34 ◼   ► which is like like Jeter or something [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► like that dude oh yeah you see see you [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► could say it right but I can say might [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► say like water yeah there's a D in water [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► exactly right so this is there's person [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► his name is Derek Jeter [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► and I don't all I know is he something [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► to do with baseball I don't really know [TS]

00:08:53 ◼   ► much more about him is it baseball I [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► don't even know if it's baseball I'm [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► assuming it's baseball but I don't know [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► what do you know anything about this [TS]

00:09:00 ◼   ► person okay background for the confused [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► listener at this point is on Twitter I [TS]

00:09:06 ◼   ► know a couple days ago hmm [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► suddenly it felt like hundreds of people [TS]

00:09:11 ◼   ► were sending you and me photos of this [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► man at a desk with two iPads on the desk [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► and I retweeted one of these because [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► like oh yeah hashtag multipad lifestyle [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► great this is on brand [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► I heard we tweet this it's a nice photo [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► of a man at a desk but the the these [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► tweets just kept rolling in all day and [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► eventually I finally figure out wait a [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► minute this is like a this is like a [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► real person this is someone in I just [TS]

00:09:38 ◼   ► thought it was I don't know I just [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► thought it was just some random photo of [TS]

00:09:40 ◼   ► some guy at a desk but the sheer volume [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► of these things made me eventually [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► realize that this guy is some sports guy [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► but I'd I'm afraid Mike I cannot tell [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► you anything about this person because I [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► know literally nothing about this person [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► I would have just thought this was a [TS]

00:10:02 ◼   ► photo spread of people working at [TS]

00:10:05 ◼   ► offices in some magazine that everybody [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► was sending us I didn't realize it was [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► it was like a real guy [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► Wikipedia tells me that Derek Sanderson [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► Jeter is an American businessman a [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► professional baseball executive who is [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► the CEO and part owner of the Miami [TS]

00:10:20 ◼   ► Marlins which is an MLB team and he used [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► to be a baseball er himself at one point [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► in his life and apparently was very [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► successful at that which is why he's so [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► known and I think he played for New York [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► Yankees for a long period of time [TS]

00:10:35 ◼   ► because there are lots of pictures of [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► them on his Wikipedia page wearing New [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► York Yankees jerseys unless he played [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► for the New York Yankees while Larry [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► David owned them I like I can make no [TS]

00:10:46 ◼   ► connection to this person so that's who [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► he is and he is using he's jewel [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► wielding iPad pros on this desk yeah [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► which is like twelve point nine inch [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► serious I've had pros and that that he [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► is a real proponent of [TS]

00:11:01 ◼   ► the multipad lifestyle to 12.9 s that is [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► that's really serious the thing that's [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► funny to me about this is a while ago I [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► was working in the public lobby of my [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► office building and I had brought down [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► into this sort of public workspace my [TS]

00:11:20 ◼   ► two 12.9 iPad pros and I had them just [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► in front of me working working side by [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► side on on the thing so I was like [TS]

00:11:30 ◼   ► writing a script on one of them and I [TS]

00:11:32 ◼   ► had some research notes probably [TS]

00:11:34 ◼   ► Evernote open up on the other screen [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► with a little thing to type on I was [TS]

00:11:37 ◼   ► kind of going back and forth between the [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► two of them and I had headphones on but [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► I I just happened not to have any music [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► on them and I saw the people next to me [TS]

00:11:47 ◼   ► start pointing and I overheard that they [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► started talking about this real weirdo [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► whose hope they are using to I've had no [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► way I'm pretending that I don't hear you [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► I'm just gonna keep working away at this [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► thing but yeah I think if if it's [TS]

00:12:03 ◼   ► notable if somebody is using two really [TS]

00:12:05 ◼   ► big iPad pros it just looks it looks [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► weird I think that's also partly why [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► it's so I caching in this photo that [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► this guy has this this huge desk with [TS]

00:12:14 ◼   ► two big iPads on them I think it still [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► it still looks visually weird to people [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► we haven't yet reached the Picard point [TS]

00:12:24 ◼   ► where you can just have iPads spread all [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► around you and it's just a visual [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► indicator of oh yes this is a person [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► who's very busy and working on a lot of [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► things but yeah so we got sent this [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► photo quite a lot but I felt I felt a [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► kinship with this photograph yep and the [TS]

00:12:38 ◼   ► end the anonymous man contained within [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► it who he is and what he does we will [TS]

00:12:41 ◼   ► never know their thing every now and [TS]

00:12:44 ◼   ► then something is happens and it's so [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► fun for me because there's a social [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► media manager I can't understand what's [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► going on yes right because you get a [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► bunch of people there like including me [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► and you in the tweet and like hashtag [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► multi pad lifestyle and it's like you [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► can only imagine that there is a person [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► sitting in front of TweetDeck and they [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► have no idea what's happening yes of [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► course [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► yep yeah they're sitting in front of [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► TweetDeck they have all the columns open [TS]

00:13:05 ◼   ► and there's they're saving the multi pad [TS]

00:13:08 ◼   ► lifestyle column starts and thinking I [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► don't understand I don't understand what [TS]

00:13:11 ◼   ► internet lever or button we have [TS]

00:13:14 ◼   ► I've stumbled upon here but we've we've [TS]

00:13:16 ◼   ► stepped on the thing with just this [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► press photo yeah of our CEO doing [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► business because like there are [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► obviously a lot of people replying to [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► that tweet and they're all saying [TS]

00:13:25 ◼   ► whatever they're saying but you'll start [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► to see this trend like 1 in every 10 is [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► referencing these two people and all [TS]

00:13:32 ◼   ► this weird hashtag which when you read [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► it out doesn't make any sense because [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► it's mult iPad well what is that what [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► does this mean what does any of this [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► mean but it's it's just me and you [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► living our lives I I have to say [TS]

00:13:44 ◼   ► multipad lifestyle the way that it's [TS]

00:13:46 ◼   ► settled that for me well I'm still a big [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► proponent I tend not to use them [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► together very often but I interchange [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► between them all then that's kind of how [TS]

00:13:57 ◼   ► the multi pad lifestyle is manifested [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► for me because you know the mont ipad [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► lifestyle is whatever you make of it [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► there must just be more than one ipad [TS]

00:14:05 ◼   ► like if you want to live the kitchen you [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► know i've i've had in the kitchen and an [TS]

00:14:09 ◼   ► ipad that you use on the in the in the [TS]

00:14:11 ◼   ► front room on the sofa watching TV you [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► lived them all tab had lifestyle we all [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► can but i I agree it's the same same [TS]

00:14:19 ◼   ► thing for me like that's that's why it's [TS]

00:14:21 ◼   ► a it's a rare situation where I'm using [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► really two of them at the same time it's [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► just I can't even remember why on that [TS]

00:14:27 ◼   ► particular day just worked out that it [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► was yeah [TS]

00:14:30 ◼   ► but I'm doing the same multipad [TS]

00:14:31 ◼   ► lifestyle thing that you are in as I've [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► mentioned before I really like [TS]

00:14:35 ◼   ► separating out workspaces and different [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► devices for different kinds of things [TS]

00:14:39 ◼   ► and so that that's the way that I I [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► still use it is like okay here is couch [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► iPad which is for goofing off and for [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► nonsense and here is work iPad and these [TS]

00:14:52 ◼   ► and these devices are different physical [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► sizes they have different looks and I [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► find that really helpful to reinforce in [TS]

00:14:58 ◼   ► your mind like what is this for what are [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► you supposed to be doing right now I [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► have too many iPads in my house right [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► now they're it's like I'm still dealing [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► with like the movement of the old ones [TS]

00:15:13 ◼   ► like where do they go who like what [TS]

00:15:15 ◼   ► family member will take this one like [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► what room in the house will this one be [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► stationed in like the the bringing in of [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► two new iPads like earlier this year I [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► haven't yet shook out where everything's [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► so they were like I will just happen [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► upon one which in a place is like a [TS]

00:15:32 ◼   ► underneath this notebook is my old nine [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► point seven inch iPad pro I didn't know [TS]

00:15:36 ◼   ► you're under there yeah still trying to [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► fill or all that through [TS]

00:15:39 ◼   ► yeah the gray household is definitely [TS]

00:15:41 ◼   ► going through the same thing between [TS]

00:15:43 ◼   ► myself and my wife and our old iPads [TS]

00:15:45 ◼   ► because the introduction of the iPad [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► Bros with pencils has now made every non [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► pencil iPad just dead to us [TS]

00:15:53 ◼   ► I was like okay there's no place to [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► shift these and yeah there's there's a [TS]

00:15:59 ◼   ► little sad pile of iPads that we need to [TS]

00:16:01 ◼   ► figure out something to do with at some [TS]

00:16:03 ◼   ► point of oh these are the pencil açaí [TS]

00:16:06 ◼   ► pads they exist for us no more did the [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► gray household eradicate I'm pet minis [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► did that is that something that ended up [TS]

00:16:14 ◼   ► happening yeah that's that's a thing [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► that has ended up happening okay [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► much much to the sadness of an [TS]

00:16:23 ◼   ► unspecified other member of the [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► household yeah the iPad Mini because it [TS]

00:16:27 ◼   ► lacks pencil support which is still a [TS]

00:16:29 ◼   ► thing I think that it should it just [TS]

00:16:33 ◼   ► became untenable because of RSI issues [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► and the need to keep using a pencil as [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► input for someone who may or may not be [TS]

00:16:41 ◼   ► my wife who uses the iPad on the couch [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► quite a lot so yes there there's no more [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► mini use in this household and it's it's [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► funny I was actually just talking to my [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► parents and my mom is a big fan of the [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► iPad Mini she's like holding on to this [TS]

00:16:57 ◼   ► sad iPad Mini that's that's really dying [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► and she's just she's still hoping for [TS]

00:17:02 ◼   ► this she's sure any day they're going to [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► come out with one with pencil support [TS]

00:17:06 ◼   ► like I don't think so mom I think you [TS]

00:17:08 ◼   ► gotta I think he got to let it go but [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► that that might be the last iPad Mini [TS]

00:17:13 ◼   ► that exists in the greater extended gray [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► family is that one [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► so iPad minis there on the way out we [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► never fully eradicated the iPad Mini [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► from this household it's still sitting [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► like in the living room right like it's [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► still there [TS]

00:17:30 ◼   ► and I don't know how much it's getting [TS]

00:17:33 ◼   ► used but like it's still there when [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► we've had many conversations about like [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► why it shouldn't anymore because you [TS]

00:17:40 ◼   ► know [TS]

00:17:40 ◼   ► you gotta try and transition like you [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► don't want to get too used to it but [TS]

00:17:43 ◼   ► like it still exists so I kinda oh wait [TS]

00:17:46 ◼   ► I just realized I realized there's one [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► more is one more I've had meaning I [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► forgot about and it is the iPad Mini [TS]

00:17:52 ◼   ► that I never see because it is a [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► dedicated sound machine for white noise [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► in the bedroom so we have a speaker that [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► has a button that you can turn on and [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► off and then it just it just plays white [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► noise to help sleep and I forgot that V [TS]

00:18:08 ◼   ► the audio wire that is coming out of [TS]

00:18:10 ◼   ► that speaker is plugged into an iPad [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► Mini which is sat in a drawer untouched [TS]

00:18:15 ◼   ► for years so this is an app that is [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► running constantly like 24/7 it's just [TS]

00:18:21 ◼   ► yeah it's just the music player right I [TS]

00:18:23 ◼   ► have a file that's just a white noise [TS]

00:18:25 ◼   ► file and it's just play is just playing [TS]

00:18:28 ◼   ► on repeat one in the music app on that [TS]

00:18:30 ◼   ► iPad because it's easier just to press [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► the physical button on the top of the [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► speaker because when you're waking up [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► it's easier to like you turn off the [TS]

00:18:37 ◼   ► white noise and again it's like it's it [TS]

00:18:39 ◼   ► makes it simple it makes it easier to [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► wake up and then you turn it on when [TS]

00:18:43 ◼   ► it's bedtime so you just press the [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► button instead of fiddling around with [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► the iPad but I totally forgot that that [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► iPad is even in the drawer somewhere [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► just plugged into the wall doing repeat [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► one forever [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► that's iPad retirement this episode of [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► cortex is brought to you by Casper [TS]

00:18:59 ◼   ► most people don't spend any time [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► thinking about the science behind a [TS]

00:19:02 ◼   ► mattress why would you well if you work [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► at Casper you definitely do they have a [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► team of 20 engineers that decide their [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► mattress with the feedback of a [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► community of nearly half a million [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► sleepers the Casper team are just a [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► bunch of engineering nerds they dig as [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► far as possible into the science of [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► sleep and the technology to deliver it [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► and they put that expertise into [TS]

00:19:24 ◼   ► creating a mattress that combines [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► pressure relieving supportive memory [TS]

00:19:27 ◼   ► foam with a breathable open-cell layer [TS]

00:19:29 ◼   ► for all night comfort don't just take my [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► word from it Fast Company recently named [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► Casper the most innovative brand of 2017 [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► for this reason Casper would deliver our [TS]

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00:19:41 ◼   ► upstairs you'll be able to open it up [TS]

00:19:43 ◼   ► put it onto your bed and it will breathe [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► the life so you're ready to sleep on it [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► to feel the comfort every single night [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► to be sleeping at a temperature [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► regulation so you'll feel nice and cool [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► you won't get too hot [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► lovely stuff buying a Casper mattress is [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► so easy and completely risk-free they [TS]

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00:20:06 ◼   ► before you make your decision and since [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► we spent a third of our lives on our [TS]

00:20:10 ◼   ► mattresses it's important to get a feel [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► for it before committing [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► that's why Casper gives you 100 nights [TS]

00:20:15 ◼   ► to try and tell if you don't love it [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► they'll pick it up and refund everything [TS]

00:20:19 ◼   ► - you get $50 towards any mattress [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► purchase by going to Casper Comstock or [TS]

00:20:23 ◼   ► Texan using the code cortex at checkout [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► terms and conditions apply we thank [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► casper for their support of this show [TS]

00:20:30 ◼   ► you mentioned sitting in a lobby doing [TS]

00:20:34 ◼   ► some work in an office building which [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► made me wonder we haven't checked in for [TS]

00:20:41 ◼   ► a while on your office situation and [TS]

00:20:44 ◼   ► then and I had an image of you like a [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► gray that sits in a lobby there's a gray [TS]

00:20:51 ◼   ► that's trying to avoid something you [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► know like I can't imagine you wanting to [TS]

00:20:57 ◼   ► be sitting in a lobby so if it's in a [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► lobby of an office building I'm assuming [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► the office building that you're in is [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► your office building and if you're in a [TS]

00:21:09 ◼   ► lobby some something's pushing you there [TS]

00:21:13 ◼   ► I guess it has been a long time since [TS]

00:21:19 ◼   ► we've done an update mm-hmm [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► [Music] [TS]

00:21:24 ◼   ► all right let's cast our mind back a [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► long time ago mm-hmm this is is this [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► story I don't even know where we left [TS]

00:21:33 ◼   ► off anymore the last time we spoke about [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► this there were like images of white [TS]

00:21:38 ◼   ► boards with motivational words on them [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► and like groves and like be the best you [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► you can be that kind of stuff yeah [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► inspiration on a wall on whiteboards [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► with my neighbor okay all right let's [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► let's pool up this story as longtime [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► listeners that the show may be aware I [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► was increasingly annoyed by my office [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► neighbor [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► my office talking on the phone talking [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► to China [TS]

00:22:06 ◼   ► his nonsensical and comic notes to [TS]

00:22:10 ◼   ► himself on a whiteboard that I would [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► have to see when I passed his office [TS]

00:22:13 ◼   ► bothering me for no good reason but they [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► just kind of work every single time you [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► were then them at the time day hour like [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► it didn't matter but then more more [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► genuinely just the the inconvenience of [TS]

00:22:27 ◼   ► his schedule lining up exactly with my [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► schedule of being there super early in [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► the morning and super late at night so [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► there's just the two of us in these [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► offices next to each other and I want to [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► be able to talk out my scripts out loud [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► and just so aware that this person is [TS]

00:22:43 ◼   ► right next to me hearing Thunder sounds [TS]

00:22:46 ◼   ► and repeated sentences over and over [TS]

00:22:48 ◼   ► again so before the summer rolled around [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► I realized you know what this office [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► it's not exactly working for me maybe I [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► found myself in the lobby one too many [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► times working on iPads instead of in the [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► actual space that was upstairs that was [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► rented and I was thinking forward about [TS]

00:23:12 ◼   ► what was going to be happening over the [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► summer and how I was going to be gone a [TS]

00:23:14 ◼   ► very long time and it's also thinking [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► about the very high rent on this place [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► and I thought you know what the hell [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► with this I'm out of here [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► I'm gonna cancel because I'm going to be [TS]

00:23:25 ◼   ► gone for a couple of months over the [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► summer anyway and I just I couldn't [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► abide with spending the money on to [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► place that I was finding myself not [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► conducive to work anyway and then also [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► paying for a couple of months when I [TS]

00:23:38 ◼   ► wasn't going to be there so I thought [TS]

00:23:40 ◼   ► it's over we're done did you put the [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► room back together as you found it no I [TS]

00:23:46 ◼   ► picked up I picked up my iPad and I [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► walked out right it's like my one piece [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► of equipment with me and I left so you [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► left the two desks standing on top of [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► each other you left the ceiling tiles in [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► whatever mess you left them in like [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► everything stayed I didn't mess up the [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► ceiling tiles the compost you did [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► something you ripped something up oh I [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► put all the electric wires back down the [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► false floor yeah I shoved all the wires [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► down there oh and I did I forgot [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► did put I did put cardboard blockers [TS]

00:24:19 ◼   ► over most of the ceiling lights because [TS]

00:24:21 ◼   ► they were too bright I didn't like them [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► okay look there were some modifications [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► that were done to that office which I [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► didn't really think about when I left I [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► took the iPad and I walked away [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► was there a cleaning crew in this office [TS]

00:24:33 ◼   ► like good people coming in to this [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► office yeah yeah I wonder what it was [TS]

00:24:38 ◼   ► like when like the administrator came [TS]

00:24:39 ◼   ► back in there it's like what crime was [TS]

00:24:43 ◼   ► planned in this room nothing they would [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► come into a room that was just nice and [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► neat and empty a couple of things would [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► be oddly out of place but mostly it's [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► fine now you see the thing is though [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► like the things that you have changed [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► like those specific things that you did [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► they are they are out of the norm enough [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► that I think it would be more concerning [TS]

00:25:07 ◼   ► right that there are just like small [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► changes that most people wouldn't make [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► that it's like why did they choose to do [TS]

00:25:15 ◼   ► things this way you know especially if [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► that heard the thunder sounds like I [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► think that Eric and they were happy to [TS]

00:25:21 ◼   ► let you go like when you came in that [TS]

00:25:22 ◼   ► day and you were like I want to go they [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► were like no problem mr. gray sign here [TS]

00:25:27 ◼   ► it's time to get you out of here yeah [TS]

00:25:31 ◼   ► like I went to the front office and told [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► them I wasn't coming back oh you just [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► dumped him by text message I took my [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► iPad I walked away and I told my [TS]

00:25:40 ◼   ► assistant to deal with it so she's thank [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► you she Woodson she was in touch with [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► them saying mr. gray will no longer be [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► returning right so I don't I didn't [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► handle that I don't know how that went [TS]

00:25:50 ◼   ► down but I I can't it was fine [TS]

00:25:52 ◼   ► everything was fine I walked away [TS]

00:25:54 ◼   ► that's it mattered so this summer [TS]

00:25:56 ◼   ► happened I was gone for a while I came [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► back and well say for now [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► that I I have a much longer term plan [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► for what I want to do with my working [TS]

00:26:10 ◼   ► space but when I came back from the [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► summer I thought there's longer term [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► plan that I have is going to take a long [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► time that's why it's a long term plan [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► and I need something [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► to tide me over for a while so I thought [TS]

00:26:25 ◼   ► now that I'm back in London after the [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► summer has happened let me take a look [TS]

00:26:30 ◼   ► around and see if I can find a place to [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► work temporarily and it seems like in [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► the past maybe year or two there are a [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► whole bunch more co-working short-term [TS]

00:26:44 ◼   ► office spaces around than there were [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► when I was looking the last time it [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► seems like this is a I don't know almost [TS]

00:26:52 ◼   ► like there's something's star to be [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► feeling about it like there's a whole [TS]

00:26:55 ◼   ► bunch of companies that are trying to do [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► the same thing about like hey look at us [TS]

00:26:59 ◼   ► it is a growth industry I think okay so [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► this is not just my perception because [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► if it feels a little bit like the food [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► company the food delivery companies in [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► London where there yeah oh there was one [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► and now there are 10 all with knives at [TS]

00:27:15 ◼   ► each other's throats like out for your [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► business there are a couple of really [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► big companies like I won't name them [TS]

00:27:22 ◼   ► because they should sponsor us before [TS]

00:27:25 ◼   ► like there are a few big companies that [TS]

00:27:28 ◼   ► are setting up in London and all over [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► the place that that are doing this stuff [TS]

00:27:33 ◼   ► like and and at a huge degree like [TS]

00:27:36 ◼   ► buying multiple floors of brand new [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► office buildings like really kind of [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► just big big business stuff yeah it's [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► interesting it's interesting to see this [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► sort of change so I think I ended up [TS]

00:27:47 ◼   ► looking at something like five or six [TS]

00:27:50 ◼   ► different companies that we're all [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► trying to provide some kind of temporary [TS]

00:27:55 ◼   ► office services because I just want to [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► see what's available and also I find [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► this interesting I mean you and I have [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► visited office spaces like there's [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► something about this that I just I find [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► interesting I don't exactly know why but [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► it's just like I I don't I don't mind I [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► don't mind a little tour of a workspace [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► let's see how things are set up see how [TS]

00:28:16 ◼   ► different people do things so there was [TS]

00:28:20 ◼   ► a certain commonality to these places [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► Mike I would say hey I am looking for an [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► office to rent like I know that you are [TS]

00:28:32 ◼   ► primarily a company that's a co-working [TS]

00:28:34 ◼   ► space [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► so you have an open bullpen in which [TS]

00:28:40 ◼   ► there are people they want to show you [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► the opportunity of a chair right yes [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► that is that is the perfect way to put [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► it yes there are lots of companies that [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► are in the opportunity of a chair [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► business now [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► it's like okay how interesting this is [TS]

00:28:59 ◼   ► if they feel like this is some kind of [TS]

00:29:01 ◼   ► signal about changes in the economy that [TS]

00:29:03 ◼   ► I don't fully understand but like why [TS]

00:29:06 ◼   ► why is this a thing that you're selling [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► why is it a thing that so many people [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► are buying including me but like [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► presumably not all of these people are [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► youtubers I don't understand who these [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► people are but whatever so many many of [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► these places will then also try to [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► upsell some of their chair opportunities [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► as offices so there's gonna have they're [TS]

00:29:25 ◼   ► gonna have some dedicated office space [TS]

00:29:27 ◼   ► but typically they are for six people [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► right like I think in most instances [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► they're expecting a company of multiple [TS]

00:29:37 ◼   ► people to be the people that like that [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► take those even though there's really [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► only offices for one person but like you [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► shove seven people in them yeah so this [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► is this is the this is the trend is oh [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► yes we have offices will there will [TS]

00:29:51 ◼   ► there be eight of you and then I show up [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► and it's a space in which I think it [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► would be cruel to put three people but [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► like no no it's it's fine [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► this chicken cage meets the minimum [TS]

00:30:02 ◼   ► regulations and we can put eight people [TS]

00:30:04 ◼   ► inside of there yeah all right one of [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► the first places that I went to really [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► really typify for me the thing that I [TS]

00:30:10 ◼   ► find baffling which is okay do you have [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► offices for I would usually just ask for [TS]

00:30:15 ◼   ► two people because the one person space [TS]

00:30:17 ◼   ► was just comical right it was it's like [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► no I will not be in this one person [TS]

00:30:21 ◼   ► space so this do you have an office [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► space which you people [TS]

00:30:23 ◼   ► oh yes come right in we have a couple [TS]

00:30:25 ◼   ► come take a look [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► so the first place I went to is this big [TS]

00:30:29 ◼   ► open bullpen and in the middle of the [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► bullpen there are [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► glass cubes yeah this is exactly what it [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► was Zuckerberg x' office setup so if you [TS]

00:30:46 ◼   ► think of big open office workspace and [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► then in the middle cubes pure glass [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► cubes that my favorite detail the glass [TS]

00:31:01 ◼   ► did not go all the way up to the ceiling [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► glass stopped maybe two feet short of [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► the ceiling just high enough that if you [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► weren't paying attention you might not [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► notice but if you're me you notice [TS]

00:31:18 ◼   ► immediately that's silly [TS]

00:31:20 ◼   ► this was the worst version of this but I [TS]

00:31:23 ◼   ► saw I saw so many of these things and I [TS]

00:31:25 ◼   ► was looking at these this place to work [TS]

00:31:28 ◼   ► and I'm just trying I'm trying to [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► understand I'm just trying to understand [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► the world okay this this office space it [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► provides 0% privacy over the open [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► bullpen because it's just glass there's [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► no privacy here at all it's not [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► soundproof it's not sound proofed [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► because the glass doesn't go up to the [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► top and it's only glass right so let's [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► never gonna be that soundproofed anyway [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► yeah it's never gonna be that sound [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► proved anyway I don't know in any [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► situations like I don't say things but [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► like the girl is giving me the tour [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► I almost want to just really ask some [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► honest questions like why was this [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► design this way who is this for and what [TS]

00:32:21 ◼   ► advantage is this cube supposed to [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► provide I just I don't get it I don't [TS]

00:32:26 ◼   ► understand it at all [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► but it was interesting to me that this [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► was a recurring theme of a bunch of [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► these places that I went to and these [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► are different company types right like [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► you're not just going to all with like [TS]

00:32:39 ◼   ► what company provider a yeah so that's [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► what I want to be clear here and that's [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► the thing that I found was interesting [TS]

00:32:45 ◼   ► was I think I would have been a lot more [TS]

00:32:48 ◼   ► baffled by this had we [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► not done our tours of the big campuses [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► out in Silicon Valley because it's like [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► if I if this is the first time I had [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► seen this I would have been genuinely [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► horrified right but have it having [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► walked through the Facebook campus it's [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► like oh okay [TS]

00:33:06 ◼   ► I have a frame of reference for this now [TS]

00:33:09 ◼   ► like this is this is a pattern that it [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► feels like is being stamped across the [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► world is this this open space this space [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► where there is very little privacy and [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► now it is taking over office space where [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► it's not even like oh this is a company [TS]

00:33:35 ◼   ► and we want everybody who is in the same [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► company to be able to talk to each other [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► and and work work with each other in [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► this open areas like no no this is now [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► what different private companies [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► competing with each other are offering [TS]

00:33:49 ◼   ► to people who are small businesses you [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► know anywhere from like one to ten [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► people inside the central glass office [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► thing makes no sense right like there is [TS]

00:33:59 ◼   ► a metaphor for Mark Zuckerberg office [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► mm-hmm that like it or not makes sense [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► right like look he's CEO of one of the [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► biggest companies in the world he has to [TS]

00:34:12 ◼   ► have an office because every now and [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► then he's gonna bring somebody in it's [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► like they even said to us when we were [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► there most of the time he's working [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► outside the office and there are like to [TS]

00:34:22 ◼   ► pick you out the picture of him with the [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► the tape over the computer camera like [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► he is at a desk outside of the office [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► which was where he tends to work of [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► everybody else but every now and then he [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► needs to take a meeting so he goes into [TS]

00:34:34 ◼   ► the glass room but he doesn't want it to [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► be like I'm hiding away from you people [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► so everybody could see him when he's in [TS]

00:34:40 ◼   ► there like there is a metaphor to that [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► which has some sense to it but it is a [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► statement yeah about his view of his [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► position here mm-hmm [TS]

00:34:51 ◼   ► which I actually kind of liked when they [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► explained it to us because it's kind of [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► like if you're gonna make everybody work [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► this way right everybody's gonna work in [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► these huge vast aircraft hangars with [TS]

00:35:03 ◼   ► cables hanging from the ceiling [TS]

00:35:05 ◼   ► the CEO of the company should do this [TS]

00:35:07 ◼   ► too like if he is making everybody do [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► this he should do it so like you know I [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► kind of liked it that they were like he [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► has his desk here [TS]

00:35:15 ◼   ► he has his office but he only visit for [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► this and this and it's like okay I [TS]

00:35:18 ◼   ► actually kind of like this like if I was [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► working at Facebook I would be like okay [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► right like this is the situation that [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► we're all in because let's be frank [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► about this the amount of people we have [TS]

00:35:27 ◼   ► there's no awful way to do it right they [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► keep losing good it you just gonna cram [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► all those people in those insanely large [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► buildings but if I'm going to see an [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► office space and hiring an office space [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► I don't need that metaphor like the [TS]

00:35:41 ◼   ► metaphor is not required right like I [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► don't need to feel a sense of [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► camaraderie with these other 25 [TS]

00:35:46 ◼   ► companies like there's no that this [TS]

00:35:48 ◼   ► isn't required it's just not needed yeah [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► well I mean okay so this is another [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► thing so I like I said I think I saw [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► five or six of these companies what you [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► said right there camaraderie every one [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► of these companies was not Mike they [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► didn't just want me to rent an office [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► they wanted me to be part of their [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► community the community all right and is [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► this is mckay's where I I have always [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► had a little bit of an annoyance with [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► the word community because I feel like [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► my familiarity from this has been the [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► YouTube world where youtubers who have [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► enormous audiences want to just talk [TS]

00:36:33 ◼   ► about being a part of their own [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► communities in a way that I find weird [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► and and deflecting of what they are but [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► now but now it's like I feel like this [TS]

00:36:43 ◼   ► word has spread everywhere and it has [TS]

00:36:46 ◼   ► now become it's not just a word that I [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► feel uncomfortable with is it's a word [TS]

00:36:51 ◼   ► that that essentially makes me flinch so [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► now we're not like when an office [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► manager is telling me about how I like [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► I'm here to rent an office because I [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► want to just work quietly on my own and [TS]

00:37:03 ◼   ► they say we have an excellent community [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► look I'm not like the world's most [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► extroverted guy but this there's [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► something that feels almost like weirdly [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► like threatening about if you're not [TS]

00:37:21 ◼   ► part of our community right it's like [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► everybody here is part of the community [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► because we're all pod people [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► and as I like you're gonna be a pod [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► person too by coming here I just I find [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► myself flinching away from this word [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► because it's so forced and I also find [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► it so it's so strange to go from [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► different company to different company [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► but here the same thing each time or as [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► I go and are in our open office space [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► you will be part of the community of all [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► the other people who work in this open [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► office space it has become part of the [TS]

00:37:54 ◼   ► corporate jargon for a cinder re that [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► yeah that's what that's what it is it's [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► it's weird I don't disagree with like [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► the phrase community in the way that you [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► do like I don't have the the distaste [TS]

00:38:09 ◼   ► for it like in regards on YouTube or [TS]

00:38:11 ◼   ► podcasting or whatever or even like [TS]

00:38:13 ◼   ► people that listen to this show people [TS]

00:38:15 ◼   ► that listen to other shows like the idea [TS]

00:38:17 ◼   ► of the community makes sense to me but [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► for me it's like it is the thing that [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► you joined voluntarily yeah or like [TS]

00:38:23 ◼   ► you're a part of because you enjoy [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► something or you have an affinity for [TS]

00:38:26 ◼   ► something I don't join a community when [TS]

00:38:29 ◼   ► I'm giving you money right it's not a [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► community Yeah right yeah it's laying [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► into this community like this is an [TS]

00:38:35 ◼   ► organization that I've evolved right [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► like that is the difference it's like I [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► pay my dues for this organization like [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► I'm not adapting to your worldview [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► because I pay you four hundred pounds a [TS]

00:38:47 ◼   ► month right like this isn't what yes is [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► yeah exactly it's my my flinching this [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► is the when someone tells you a thing as [TS]

00:38:58 ◼   ► a community yeah yeah yeah yeah [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► communities are things that exist it's [TS]

00:39:03 ◼   ► it's a human it's a human function but [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► it's the uncomfortableness of the top [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► the top-down nosov it right like this [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► this is our community that we're going [TS]

00:39:12 ◼   ► to we we are building this community in [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► this anonymous floor of an office [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► building right like that's that's what [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► we're doing here is [TS]

00:39:20 ◼   ► or like you can you can do things to [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► encourage a community but it's just [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► weird when it feels like it's a [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► mandatory part of the thing I guess what [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► you're gonna be part of this thing is [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► part of like I'm just here to rent an [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► office man like I'm not I'm not here I'm [TS]

00:39:37 ◼   ► not here to make friends that's that's [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► what that's not what's happening here [TS]

00:39:41 ◼   ► so it was just it was just a strange [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► experience and it was also just weird [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► seeing how how much this pattern has [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► spread which makes me assume that it's [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► it partly must be because it's just [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► incredibly cost-effective I also think [TS]

00:40:00 ◼   ► there's a way that it that it looks good [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► at a glance if you're not really [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► thinking about things but but so anyway [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► there's like a whole bunch of these [TS]

00:40:08 ◼   ► different companies around and I made a [TS]

00:40:11 ◼   ► decision to try to suck it up a little [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► bit because what I was what I wanted was [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► a space outside of the house where I [TS]

00:40:21 ◼   ► could work and I wanted it quickly and I [TS]

00:40:25 ◼   ► also specifically wanted a place that I [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► just I could just get started with and [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► I'll work on my long-term problem later [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► so after having toured a bunch of these [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► companies I eventually found one that to [TS]

00:40:39 ◼   ► me was the least offensive of these [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► things and I have an office workspace [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► now that is it is not a glass cube in [TS]

00:40:50 ◼   ► the middle of a gigantic bullpen but it [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► is a glass cube among a bunch of other [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► glass cubes and it's really weird it's a [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► really weird thing to be a part of and [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► just like see through all of them yeah [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► so you can see through all of these [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► glass cubes it's it's like a co-working [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► space that I used to be a part of but if [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► you just put glass dividers between all [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► of the chair opportunities that people [TS]

00:41:16 ◼   ► have I don't think I like that like I [TS]

00:41:19 ◼   ► don't think I would feel very [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► comfortable like I feel like I would [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► always be on some kind of performance [TS]

00:41:26 ◼   ► yeah so this is I feel like I'm having [TS]

00:41:30 ◼   ► an experience by doing this right like I [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► just want to say [TS]

00:41:34 ◼   ► like I've worked in big buildings like [TS]

00:41:35 ◼   ► I've worked in co-working spaces like [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► I'm cool with that right like I actually [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► think that co-working spaces are pretty [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► good and I used one for quite a while [TS]

00:41:42 ◼   ► yeah but if I if I am paying for an [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► office I want some seclusion otherwise [TS]

00:41:50 ◼   ► I'm just gonna sit in the bullpen like [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► and pay probably half the money right [TS]

00:41:54 ◼   ► like if I'm in an obvious I want some [TS]

00:41:56 ◼   ► walls I don't want it to just be class [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► like I kind of personally I don't I I I [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► don't like it and I'm surprised that [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► you've settled for it honestly like it [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► just doesn't really feel like something [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► that I would have expected you would go [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► for okay well there's a few things I [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► think you need to understand about the [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► situation here so so one of the things [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► that happened essentially by accident [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► but has worked really well with this is [TS]

00:42:26 ◼   ► we're talking last time about like me [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► changing my sleeping schedule like I'm [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► basically have that sorted out now and [TS]

00:42:32 ◼   ► it's great I'm getting up nice and early [TS]

00:42:34 ◼   ► and I'm back into the routine I haven't [TS]

00:42:36 ◼   ► actually changed it just took a lot more [TS]

00:42:37 ◼   ► effort to click myself back into the way [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► that things used to be but so the way [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► things are working is I'm not actually [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► using the glass office space for the [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► writing and the video work in the same [TS]

00:42:52 ◼   ► way that my old office used to be what [TS]

00:42:55 ◼   ► I'm doing is I'm up early enough that [TS]

00:42:58 ◼   ► when I go into the building there's [TS]

00:43:01 ◼   ► nobody there [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► so I have just access to essentially the [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► whole building and there are a couple of [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► spots where it's like great I can just [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► take my iPad and I can work here and I [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► can write and talk out loud and there's [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► nobody else here because it's 6:30 in [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► the morning and and there's not going to [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► be anybody in this building for at least [TS]

00:43:23 ◼   ► another two hours really so it's having [TS]

00:43:27 ◼   ► access to a certain amount of space and [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► that's really great and the thing the [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► thing that I have ended up doing with [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► this here good class cube that I'm in is [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► I have set it up as I've set it up as it [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► like an administration Center for all of [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► what I regard as [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► light work stuff so this is email this [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► is communicating with people that I work [TS]

00:43:55 ◼   ► with this is editing the podcasts this [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► is editing videos or vlogs or just a [TS]

00:43:59 ◼   ► whole bunch of other stuff like I have [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► set up that space to do this kind of [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► work and I partly done it because for a [TS]

00:44:10 ◼   ► very very long time I've done all of [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► that work in the place where I am [TS]

00:44:15 ◼   ► speaking to you right now which is the [TS]

00:44:17 ◼   ► home office in my house which is like [TS]

00:44:19 ◼   ► the podcast recording studio but it has [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► been on my mind ever since the summer [TS]

00:44:24 ◼   ► that I want to push this idea of [TS]

00:44:27 ◼   ► separating workspaces further and harder [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► than I have before and so what I what I [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► am trying to do as much as possible now [TS]

00:44:37 ◼   ► is have it be the case that if I am home [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► I am doing no work right now the podcast [TS]

00:44:47 ◼   ► recording is the one exception to that [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► but if I'm not recording a podcast and I [TS]

00:44:51 ◼   ► am home I am not working and I've been [TS]

00:44:56 ◼   ► doing this for I guess it's about a [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► probably about a month now and I have to [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► say I really like it I really like [TS]

00:45:05 ◼   ► having that that additional physical [TS]

00:45:08 ◼   ► separation and I think it's working [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► really great that like my wife knows if [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► I am home for the most part that I ain't [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► like there isn't a thing that I'm going [TS]

00:45:16 ◼   ► to disappear and do I've essentially [TS]

00:45:18 ◼   ► recreated for myself this idea of like I [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► am going to the office because I have a [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► whole bunch of stuff that I need to do [TS]

00:45:25 ◼   ► and I'm gonna go there and I'm going to [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► work and then when I am done I am going [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► to come back home so that is the the [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► overarching idea for what is going on is [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► like I wanted a place to be able to move [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► a bunch of the light work out of the [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► house to this second location and that [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► is the reason why the glass cube is [TS]

00:45:50 ◼   ► tolerable because what I'm not doing in [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► there is walking back and forth talking [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► out loud while 600 people in the [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► neighboring glass cubes are all looking [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► at me right that's that is not what is [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► occurring in that space [TS]

00:46:06 ◼   ► why do you accord the audio for your [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► videos for now I'm still going to be [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► doing that in the house that's not good [TS]

00:46:13 ◼   ► right in the office I'm going to record [TS]

00:46:15 ◼   ► it at home in the same place that I am [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► recording the podcast which is at home [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► so the home office is the audio studio [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► and then all other work is performed in [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► the administration glass cube yes that's [TS]

00:46:30 ◼   ► the idea mm-hmm do you know what I'm [TS]

00:46:33 ◼   ► really keen on the what finding out what [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► this long-term plan is because in my [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► mind you're building an office building [TS]

00:46:42 ◼   ► that's this great ours this is what I [TS]

00:46:44 ◼   ► imagine is happening let's not get [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► distracted by the future in in the [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► meantime though I do have to say that [TS]

00:46:55 ◼   ► the thing about the glass cube is I I [TS]

00:46:59 ◼   ► I'm with you on there is there is a [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► strange element to attend I'm able to do [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► this I think partly because I'm viewing [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► it as not necessarily a long-term [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► solution and I'm also viewing it as [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► almost as a like an anthropological [TS]

00:47:20 ◼   ► experiment I am coming into this office [TS]

00:47:23 ◼   ► environment it's like oh yes hello [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► fellow office workers I had to do like [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► I'm just going to my desk and yes I I am [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► one of you - yes we are here all on the [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► computer is working together like I'm [TS]

00:47:36 ◼   ► treating it very much in this mental [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► mode of I am [TS]

00:47:40 ◼   ► apart from this like this this is I'm [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► just passing through on this thing and [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► there are so many details about this [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► that I find interesting and/or [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► horrifying that but I'm viewing them [TS]

00:47:56 ◼   ► from a distance or from a bit of a bit [TS]

00:48:00 ◼   ► of a separation and that is why this [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► thing is working [TS]

00:48:03 ◼   ► hello cortex listeners it's your friend [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► CGP grey recording now late at night [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► from my glass cube do you hear that [TS]

00:48:14 ◼   ► that's the sound of me knocking on the [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► wall of my cube because I'm a nosy sort [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► during the day I like to walk around and [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► look in all the cubes then see what [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► everybody's up to see what they're doing [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► you know what I see a lot of little [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► companies with a few people building a [TS]

00:48:32 ◼   ► website a website that looks terrible [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► you know what they need they need to [TS]

00:48:37 ◼   ► listen to cortex so that they know about [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► Squarespace if you're an a person [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► company in a smallish glass cube and you [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► just need a website to let the world [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► know what your business is you probably [TS]

00:48:49 ◼   ► shouldn't have one of those people [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► spending all of their time making a [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► website that's what Squarespace is for [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► with Squarespace you can have a website [TS]

00:48:58 ◼   ► up and running in no time flat [TS]

00:49:01 ◼   ► Squarespace is the place that lets you [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► easily create a website for your next [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► idea if you want to sell something [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► because you're a company you can do an [TS]

00:49:11 ◼   ► online store with Squarespace if you're [TS]

00:49:14 ◼   ► a design agency and you need to show off [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► your portfolio guess what [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► Squarespace does that maybe you just [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► need to have a blog where you can let [TS]

00:49:22 ◼   ► everybody know what your company is up [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► to you know the answer the answer is [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► Squarespace because Squarespace is the [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► all-in-one platform that lets you do [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► everything you want to do and there's [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► nothing to install no patches to worry [TS]

00:49:37 ◼   ► about no upgrades needed and guess what [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► Squarespace is way cheaper than hiring [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► someone to work on a website all the [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► time Squarespace is just $12 a month [TS]

00:49:48 ◼   ► that gives you access to all of their [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► beautiful templates their 24/7 customer [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► support everything they offer that's why [TS]

00:49:56 ◼   ► my company in a glass cube uses [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► Squarespace because there's no room in [TS]

00:50:00 ◼   ► here for somebody else [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► to maintain a website all the time so [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► right now you can start a trial by going [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► to squarespace.com [TS]

00:50:08 ◼   ► and when you decide to sign up use the [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► offer code cortex to get 10% off your [TS]

00:50:14 ◼   ► purchase and show your support for the [TS]

00:50:17 ◼   ► show Squarespace [TS]

00:50:19 ◼   ► make your next move make your next [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► website thanks to Squarespace for [TS]

00:50:23 ◼   ► supporting cortex [TS]

00:50:24 ◼   ► and all of real afm how's that Nintendo [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► switch treating you that's good I'm [TS]

00:50:29 ◼   ► trying to get up my 200cc Mario Kart [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► skills mmm that's difficult got a break [TS]

00:50:35 ◼   ► come 200cc [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► smash into the corners anymore on that [TS]

00:50:42 ◼   ► yes that that's that's what I have [TS]

00:50:44 ◼   ► that's what I've learned so I need to [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► break a lot and I'm not very good at it [TS]

00:50:49 ◼   ► but well it's still 95 actually no [TS]

00:50:53 ◼   ► probably 99 percent Mario Kart around [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► these parts not so much Zelda it's good [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► got a little bored with his Zelda I want [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► to tell you about a game that I've been [TS]

00:51:06 ◼   ► playing for a couple of days but I've [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► been waiting for for a long time and I I [TS]

00:51:10 ◼   ► think you would like it [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► it's called stardew valley have you [TS]

00:51:15 ◼   ► heard of starchy Valley before I have [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► because you have pitched it to me before [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► okay on this very show yes just start [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► new Valley ISM I mentioned it to you as [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► a game that was upcoming when you when [TS]

00:51:27 ◼   ► you first got your switch a couple [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► months ago my memory is it's a farming [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► simulator yes I'm terribly boring yes [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► who would play farming simulators right [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► I mean this is why I am offering this [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► game to you as an option it is part [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► farming simulator part RPG if you ever [TS]

00:51:44 ◼   ► played Animal Crossing no I haven't the [TS]

00:51:47 ◼   ► only thing I know about Animal Crossing [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► is the video review of it that Yahtzee [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► did which is like a work of genius but [TS]

00:51:54 ◼   ► uh no I don't I don't I'm unfamiliar [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► with these things okay so I guess the [TS]

00:52:00 ◼   ► way for me to try and describe this game [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► to you [TS]

00:52:02 ◼   ► is that there is like a very light RPG [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► mechanic in there you're in a town and [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► there are people that you could talk to [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► and they sometimes they'll give you [TS]

00:52:10 ◼   ► quests but you could also you don't have [TS]

00:52:14 ◼   ► to do them actually it's it's way less [TS]

00:52:16 ◼   ► that the errands that you perform for [TS]

00:52:18 ◼   ► people a purely as a way to get you [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► money quicker like there isn't a story [TS]

00:52:23 ◼   ► that is forced in that way like you have [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► to progress through this like by doing [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► errands yes I don't need to find [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► chickens for a guy to get the boomerang [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► doesn't need to do that sort of stuff [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► because the the result of doing these [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► things they stick [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► money from them and then the money helps [TS]

00:52:39 ◼   ► you push forward and really the main [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► focus that you have is building your [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► farm right like it starts off great [TS]

00:52:47 ◼   ► actually like I don't want to say too [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► much that failing kept surprising but [TS]

00:52:51 ◼   ► like basically you were a person who [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► decides that you want to go start a farm [TS]

00:52:54 ◼   ► right like this is this is kind of what [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► you are and there are there is some [TS]

00:52:59 ◼   ► surprises in it for me in that there are [TS]

00:53:02 ◼   ► intriguing little things that happen [TS]

00:53:05 ◼   ► which build into a story which exists in [TS]

00:53:07 ◼   ► the game but you don't really have to [TS]

00:53:10 ◼   ► pay a ton of attention to it if you [TS]

00:53:11 ◼   ► don't want to like I feel like it's kind [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► of got this like addition of a story [TS]

00:53:15 ◼   ► that I wasn't expecting which is kind of [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► surprising but a lot of this game is [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► resource and time management hmm which [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► is why I think you would like it but you [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► are farming you are creating a farm and [TS]

00:53:28 ◼   ► like you're clearing out the farmland [TS]

00:53:30 ◼   ► you're planting the stuff you're [TS]

00:53:32 ◼   ► watering the plants you're harvesting [TS]

00:53:33 ◼   ► them and you're selling them and as a [TS]

00:53:35 ◼   ► way to build up more and more money to [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► plant more and more things and then to [TS]

00:53:39 ◼   ► get animals as a way to continually make [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► your farm bigger and bigger and bigger [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► like you have this huge plot of land [TS]

00:53:45 ◼   ► that you can work with and you can build [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► up the farm and then you can build up [TS]

00:53:50 ◼   ► your house and you can decorate if you [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► want to as like as a something else you [TS]

00:53:54 ◼   ► can spend your money on can i automate [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► this or hire people to do some of this [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► work for me that is a question that i [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► don't have an answer for because I'm not [TS]

00:54:03 ◼   ► that far in like I'm still relatively [TS]

00:54:05 ◼   ► small farm like I don't know if it's the [TS]

00:54:07 ◼   ► thing you can do to see that that's [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► where the sweet spot comes from in the [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► world of imaginary work when you start [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► thinking hmm how can i this imaginary [TS]

00:54:14 ◼   ► well so there's like I've seen some [TS]

00:54:16 ◼   ► elements of this in that like so one of [TS]

00:54:18 ◼   ► the things that I'm doing now every [TS]

00:54:19 ◼   ► morning I have to water my plants [TS]

00:54:21 ◼   ► right like I have to go through an [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► individually water every plant that's [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► like one of the things I have to do [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► every day but I know it's possible to [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► buy sprinklers like to make sprinklers [TS]

00:54:32 ◼   ► okay which then take that job away from [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► me right so like that's the thing that [TS]

00:54:38 ◼   ► I'll be able to do but yeah so the [TS]

00:54:40 ◼   ► reason the reason I asked just to be [TS]

00:54:42 ◼   ► clear here is because what I'm what I'm [TS]

00:54:44 ◼   ► cautious of is the like the farmville [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► type game play where the game [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► is just playing on your loss aversion [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► like oh you need to harvest your [TS]

00:54:54 ◼   ► pumpkins today otherwise you're going to [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► lose that right which is just solely [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► their their mechanism to make you keep [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► coming back yeah this game it has [TS]

00:55:01 ◼   ► elements of that but it's not it's not [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► what real-world time okay so things are [TS]

00:55:07 ◼   ► only growing when you're playing okay [TS]

00:55:10 ◼   ► all right right so like if you left the [TS]

00:55:12 ◼   ► game for a week your crops don't die [TS]

00:55:13 ◼   ► right as you haven't been playing the [TS]

00:55:15 ◼   ► game right but there is an element of [TS]

00:55:18 ◼   ► going through and harvesting right you [TS]

00:55:20 ◼   ► you will do the harvesting but like I've [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► been enjoying the even though it's like [TS]

00:55:25 ◼   ► it's beginning more work right like to [TS]

00:55:27 ◼   ► make my farm bigger and bigger like [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► there was a moment when I was like oh [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► that's how I make more money I plant [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► more stuff right like it's just kind of [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► this this it's this very simple thing [TS]

00:55:36 ◼   ► but like it took me a month I was like [TS]

00:55:37 ◼   ► I'm making a lot of money on this game [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► cuz I just kind of was keeping the plot [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► that I made the same size and which is [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► refilling it it's like oh no I should [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► spend all of the money that I have to [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► buy more seeds as opposed to like trying [TS]

00:55:51 ◼   ► to slowly save up to buy something that [TS]

00:55:53 ◼   ► I need it so but there are like you know [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► there's also like there's mining that [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► you can do right so you go in and like [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► there is like a most spelunky like mine [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► that you go into and there are like [TS]

00:56:05 ◼   ► simple enemies that you kind of hack and [TS]

00:56:08 ◼   ► slash at and that's the way to blow up [TS]

00:56:10 ◼   ► resources and the deeper that you go [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► into this mind the better resources you [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► need like I need iron to build the [TS]

00:56:16 ◼   ► sprinklers and I'm sounds very minecraft [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► II in a way in a way yes like stardew [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► valley i think the reason that it has [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► become so popular cuz it's been a very [TS]

00:56:28 ◼   ► popular PC game for quite a while I [TS]

00:56:31 ◼   ► think one of the reasons that became so [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► popular is it borrows a lot of very [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► interesting mechanics from a bunch of [TS]

00:56:36 ◼   ► different types of games so like Animal [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► Crossing and society Valley and spelunky [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► and minecraft right like it's got all of [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► this type of aspect in it but it's all [TS]

00:56:44 ◼   ► presented in a 16-bit art style right [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► like this it's very simple the controls [TS]

00:56:50 ◼   ► are pretty simple like it is a good game [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► it isn't but it is one of those games [TS]

00:56:56 ◼   ► that like one of another reason I think [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► you'll like it is I accidentally spent [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► seven hours playing yesterday because [TS]

00:57:03 ◼   ► it's just whole [TS]

00:57:04 ◼   ► more day because everything's done in [TS]

00:57:06 ◼   ► days right no no no okay right yeah so [TS]

00:57:10 ◼   ► like you wake up you do your stuff and [TS]

00:57:12 ◼   ► then you go to sleep and like different [TS]

00:57:14 ◼   ► things happen so like you might do a [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► thing and it's like you get like a [TS]

00:57:17 ◼   ► little message like all tomorrow this [TS]

00:57:19 ◼   ► thing's gonna be on sale in the store [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► like well I could that would be good so [TS]

00:57:23 ◼   ► I'll get that and then I'll stop playing [TS]

00:57:25 ◼   ► after that but then there's this other [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► thing that happens and then there's [TS]

00:57:28 ◼   ► another day and another day and another [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► day and you know you have limited energy [TS]

00:57:32 ◼   ► as an individual so you plan around how [TS]

00:57:36 ◼   ► much energy you spend in a day [TS]

00:57:37 ◼   ► Bradley Keefe spent the whole day trying [TS]

00:57:39 ◼   ► to clear out the farm you'll get tired [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► but you can eat to build the energy back [TS]

00:57:45 ◼   ► up but you might want to save those [TS]

00:57:46 ◼   ► ingredients to sell them instead like I [TS]

00:57:48 ◼   ► think this is a game you would enjoy mmm [TS]

00:57:51 ◼   ► you're selling it very hard here Mike [TS]

00:57:54 ◼   ► because because I I think it's great I [TS]

00:57:58 ◼   ► think I love it yeah five stars from [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► Mike I think so I've waited for a long [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► time for this game and it's paid off [TS]

00:58:06 ◼   ► like I am enjoying it immensely in a way [TS]

00:58:09 ◼   ► that no man sky right like human people [TS]

00:58:11 ◼   ► was laughs when they hear the episode a [TS]

00:58:13 ◼   ► long time ago where I talk about oh I [TS]

00:58:14 ◼   ► can't wait for no man's guide to come [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► out and then it kind of ended up being [TS]

00:58:18 ◼   ► overwhelming doggy Valley I already had [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► a track record beforehand whereas [TS]

00:58:23 ◼   ► condition to be a great game I have a [TS]

00:58:25 ◼   ► bunch of flights coming up and I'm very [TS]

00:58:26 ◼   ► excited about the prospect of being able [TS]

00:58:28 ◼   ► to spend six hours just tending to my [TS]

00:58:32 ◼   ► crops alright alright you been pushing [TS]

00:58:33 ◼   ► it so hard I'll give it a try I want you [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► to try this one and you can report back [TS]

00:58:37 ◼   ► but I think that you would like this [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► game it's a it's one of those games so [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► it's perfect for the switch because you [TS]

00:58:43 ◼   ► can take it with you hmm [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► right I don't I don't know about this [TS]

00:58:47 ◼   ► idea about bringing a whole I know [TS]

00:58:49 ◼   ► everybody that's a selling feature for [TS]

00:58:50 ◼   ► the switch is oh boy you can bring it [TS]

00:58:52 ◼   ► with you alright so I got another thing [TS]

00:58:54 ◼   ► to bring any now I need to bring my USBC [TS]

00:58:56 ◼   ► cable to charge the thing as well I'm [TS]

00:58:59 ◼   ► not sure I'm ever gonna be a guy who [TS]

00:59:00 ◼   ► travels with a switch yeah but you [TS]

00:59:02 ◼   ► should already do that because you have [TS]

00:59:04 ◼   ► a MacBook Pro oh god yes that's right of [TS]

00:59:06 ◼   ► course nevermind no it's all the same [TS]

00:59:08 ◼   ► charges [TS]

00:59:08 ◼   ► yes Universal the u.s. USB see the [TS]

00:59:12 ◼   ► universal plug that I love so much [TS]

00:59:15 ◼   ► externally symmetrical internally in the [TS]

00:59:17 ◼   ► wire not the [TS]

00:59:18 ◼   ► same everywhere it's great I love you [TS]

00:59:20 ◼   ► USBC yeah I'm not sure I'm going to be [TS]

00:59:22 ◼   ► someone who brings a switch with me [TS]

00:59:23 ◼   ► here's here's the here's the thing like [TS]

00:59:26 ◼   ► it's not that I wouldn't enjoy bringing [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► the switch with me but I think there is [TS]

00:59:30 ◼   ► something there's something that I [TS]

00:59:32 ◼   ► resist about the idea of acknowledging [TS]

00:59:36 ◼   ► in advance that when I am traveling I'm [TS]

00:59:39 ◼   ► going to be playing a bunch of video [TS]

00:59:41 ◼   ► games that I feel like I have a little [TS]

00:59:43 ◼   ► bit of psychological resistance to that [TS]

00:59:45 ◼   ► because normally when I'm traveling it's [TS]

00:59:47 ◼   ► the idea that I'm doing I'm traveling [TS]

00:59:49 ◼   ► because there's a good reason there's a [TS]

00:59:51 ◼   ► thing that I want to do doing on the [TS]

00:59:52 ◼   ► plane no I like is but see in in [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► Fantasyland on what I'm doing on the [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► plane is [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► plane is [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► amazing work in an isolated room Hasson [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► which here's the problem it's like a [TS]

01:00:06 ◼   ► slot machine right every every once in a [TS]

01:00:09 ◼   ► while it does and it's fantastic and I'm [TS]

01:00:11 ◼   ► always I'm always hoping for that but [TS]

01:00:13 ◼   ► yes most of the time the idea of what [TS]

01:00:15 ◼   ► I'm going to do on the plane first is [TS]

01:00:17 ◼   ► the reality of what actually happens on [TS]

01:00:19 ◼   ► the plane is not is not one of the same [TS]

01:00:21 ◼   ► and of course the plane would be an [TS]

01:00:23 ◼   ► absolutely perfect time to bring a [TS]

01:00:24 ◼   ► switch but I'm resistant to bringing the [TS]

01:00:28 ◼   ► switch feels like giving in and [TS]

01:00:30 ◼   ► acknowledging that the amazing work [TS]

01:00:33 ◼   ► times on a plane you'll never have [TS]

01:00:34 ◼   ► missing because I'm just going to switch [TS]

01:00:36 ◼   ► you're missing out like you could be [TS]

01:00:38 ◼   ► playing Mario Kart instead of watching a [TS]

01:00:40 ◼   ► dumb movie right like just you need to [TS]

01:00:44 ◼   ► do two things one you need to by study [TS]

01:00:45 ◼   ► valley and then the next time you get on [TS]

01:00:47 ◼   ► a plane you have to take this thing with [TS]

01:00:48 ◼   ► you I'm telling you man it's so good [TS]

01:00:51 ◼   ► like some of these trips that me and you [TS]

01:00:53 ◼   ► take I've got to bring the little card [TS]

01:00:54 ◼   ► with me the little card will little card [TS]

01:00:57 ◼   ► the I need to bring a little I need to [TS]

01:01:00 ◼   ► remember which memory cards to bring [TS]

01:01:01 ◼   ► with me which I didn't even know this [TS]

01:01:06 ◼   ► was the thing yeah but you had to buy [TS]

01:01:08 ◼   ► the another shop you need to have an SD [TS]

01:01:10 ◼   ► card like a micro SD card but they're [TS]

01:01:12 ◼   ► super chimp cheap and super easy to deal [TS]

01:01:14 ◼   ► with [TS]

01:01:14 ◼   ► you just put by like a big micro SD card [TS]

01:01:17 ◼   ► pop it in the back and then you can [TS]

01:01:19 ◼   ► stand load games from the eShop oh I [TS]

01:01:23 ◼   ► didn't even know they only own one car [TS]

01:01:25 ◼   ► which is Zelda and the Zelda cartridge [TS]

01:01:28 ◼   ► stays in the Nintendo switch has never [TS]

01:01:30 ◼   ► been taken out from the day I got the [TS]

01:01:32 ◼   ► switch so it's always there everything [TS]

01:01:34 ◼   ► else I don't know I've been thinking [TS]

01:01:36 ◼   ► I've been thinking Nintendo really needs [TS]

01:01:39 ◼   ► to get on this idea of an app store so I [TS]

01:01:40 ◼   ► can just download games it's like a [TS]

01:01:44 ◼   ► shopping bag it's it's where you go to [TS]

01:01:45 ◼   ► buy the game never even never even know [TS]

01:01:49 ◼   ► didn't eat shows to me yep [TS]

01:01:51 ◼   ► the Saudi Valley do you know what like [TS]

01:01:54 ◼   ► do you know what I'm looking at on my [TS]

01:01:55 ◼   ► screen literally right now Mike I'm [TS]

01:01:57 ◼   ► looking at amazon co UK where I typed in [TS]

01:02:00 ◼   ► stardew valley switch to try to define [TS]

01:02:02 ◼   ► the thing where I buy the card and I [TS]

01:02:03 ◼   ► didn't I didn't see it I was like how am [TS]

01:02:05 ◼   ► I supposed to get this game because it's [TS]

01:02:06 ◼   ► they haven't got a physical release of [TS]

01:02:07 ◼   ► it yet it's just a digital release no [TS]

01:02:10 ◼   ► see I learned something today [TS]

01:02:13 ◼   ► I see you put the thing in the shownotes [TS]

01:02:15 ◼   ► Mike the thing that you have been [TS]

01:02:17 ◼   ► bothering me about for six months maybe [TS]

01:02:22 ◼   ► more probably longer than that yeah I [TS]

01:02:25 ◼   ► actually think this is the thing that [TS]

01:02:27 ◼   ► I've had since my original notes [TS]

01:02:30 ◼   ► document from before cortex existed okay [TS]

01:02:35 ◼   ► so I want to do a cortex Book Club [TS]

01:02:38 ◼   ► episode on the next show so that means [TS]

01:02:41 ◼   ► in advance me and you were gonna read a [TS]

01:02:43 ◼   ► book and we're gonna talk about it and [TS]

01:02:44 ◼   ► we want to tell people about it now so [TS]

01:02:46 ◼   ► they can read along with the book if [TS]

01:02:48 ◼   ► they so choose [TS]

01:02:49 ◼   ► right we're going to be discussing seven [TS]

01:02:53 ◼   ► Habits of Highly Effective People by [TS]

01:02:56 ◼   ► Stephen Arco V yes which is a book that [TS]

01:03:00 ◼   ► you've probably heard of right I feel [TS]

01:03:03 ◼   ► like of in the pantheon of business [TS]

01:03:06 ◼   ► books this is one of the big ones yeah [TS]

01:03:09 ◼   ► there's this one and there's that book [TS]

01:03:11 ◼   ► about moving cheese where is my cheese [TS]

01:03:14 ◼   ► who moved my cheese that one who moved [TS]

01:03:16 ◼   ► my cheese yeah I saw an animated video [TS]

01:03:19 ◼   ► version of that uh-huh about five or six [TS]

01:03:23 ◼   ► years ago one time I cannot get the song [TS]

01:03:28 ◼   ► out of my head every time I hear it it's [TS]

01:03:32 ◼   ► so bad it was like an animation done in [TS]

01:03:34 ◼   ► the 80s and they have this little song [TS]

01:03:37 ◼   ► who moved my cheese song and it's just [TS]

01:03:39 ◼   ► horrific I see if I can find a link I'll [TS]

01:03:41 ◼   ► put it in the show notes if I can find a [TS]

01:03:42 ◼   ► link to this on YouTube [TS]

01:03:44 ◼   ► don't do that you're gonna confuse the [TS]

01:03:45 ◼   ► people Mike it just okay so we got off [TS]

01:03:48 ◼   ► on a bit of a tangent straightaway yeah [TS]

01:03:49 ◼   ► it is my brain just resists and slides [TS]

01:03:53 ◼   ► off seven habit a lot of the affected [TS]

01:03:55 ◼   ► people because okay so here's why [TS]

01:03:57 ◼   ► back story here's why it's been the show [TS]

01:03:59 ◼   ► notes for forever is because I know I [TS]

01:04:01 ◼   ► already read this book a long time ago [TS]

01:04:04 ◼   ► and I just I have had a great deal of [TS]