Cortex

00:00:00 ◼   ► you one inch of log you got your blog [TS]

00:00:02 ◼   ► yeah but I still feel like you owe me a [TS]

00:00:03 ◼   ► vlog you skipped a week you and never be [TS]

00:00:06 ◼   ► satiated never well I think I think you [TS]

00:00:08 ◼   ► need you only like an extra blog that [TS]

00:00:10 ◼   ► that's all I'm saying [TS]

00:00:11 ◼   ► where you going to be sad because i'm [TS]

00:00:12 ◼   ► not doing one this week I can't believe [TS]

00:00:14 ◼   ► you're disrespecting the schedule like [TS]

00:00:16 ◼   ► this Mike and I don't understand I don't [TS]

00:00:18 ◼   ► understand what's happened to you [TS]

00:00:20 ◼   ► I think I've rubbed off on you there's [TS]

00:00:22 ◼   ► no shoujo little gray there was no [TS]

00:00:23 ◼   ► schedule you you will want to decide [TS]

00:00:25 ◼   ► those changes on me before I is this the [TS]

00:00:28 ◼   ► one project that doesn't have a schedule [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► like because it's not my job [TS]

00:00:33 ◼   ► it's not it's because it's your side [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► projects because it's my side project [TS]

00:00:37 ◼   ► that quite frankly like me like the real [TS]

00:00:40 ◼   ► reason is i just don't have enough [TS]

00:00:42 ◼   ► interesting things going on at all times [TS]

00:00:44 ◼   ► to make like it i could make a video [TS]

00:00:47 ◼   ► this week but it would be really boring [TS]

00:00:49 ◼   ► whoo-hoo so I'm going to make a video [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► next week because i'm moving house [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► I mean that's the reason I'm making a [TS]

00:00:56 ◼   ► video this week is because next week [TS]

00:00:57 ◼   ► we're moving now it's finally happening [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► for real it's finally happening for real [TS]

00:01:01 ◼   ► we had to move his book by the time many [TS]

00:01:03 ◼   ► people hearing this i will moved very [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► exciting [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► yeah interview subject cottage all being [TS]

00:01:08 ◼   ► sconce to the mega office [TS]

00:01:10 ◼   ► ok this is the last recording in your [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► old office then it which is your bedroom [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► actually yes it is it is the last [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► recording of anything [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► oh really yeah yeah I didn't realize [TS]

00:01:23 ◼   ► that until just now it's momentous fall [TS]

00:01:25 ◼   ► of next week shows even though we're [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► moving middle of the week but all of [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► next week shows are going to be recorded [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► from my office i think because I'm the [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► last one I should also be the first one [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► in the new office right so you want to [TS]

00:01:37 ◼   ► record next will delay all of us show [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► until doing their intellect the next [TS]

00:01:43 ◼   ► record record attacks i think i think [TS]

00:01:46 ◼   ► that's the way to handle this i mean i [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► could do that but i would then also lose [TS]

00:01:50 ◼   ► the house i'm buying so right fair [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► enough okay I can see why you don't want [TS]

00:01:54 ◼   ► to i can get I don't want to the nice as [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► it would be to take cortex cross [TS]

00:01:58 ◼   ► everything he got to pay for those [TS]

00:02:00 ◼   ► houses somehow the houses are cheap here [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► that's that is very true [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► so you wanted to know my youtube ranking [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► Lou it turns out that there is a website [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► that will tell you it fits that's X is [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► is that the second-tier website now to [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► something called social blade which many [TS]

00:02:17 ◼   ► people wrote in to tell us about my [TS]

00:02:19 ◼   ► current ranking as of today Gray's 230 [TS]

00:02:23 ◼   ► 2533 subscribers Lou I'm actually pretty [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► pleased with that to be honest [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► yeah i think that's that's interesting i [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► was aware of social blade and I think [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► what happened was when i first started [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► being aware that their websites that [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► could track your subscribers [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► socialblade was actually the one that I [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► used years and years ago and then at [TS]

00:02:44 ◼   ► some point vid stat ex took the mantle [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► for having better numbers but it looks [TS]

00:02:49 ◼   ► like social blade is coming back on [TS]

00:02:52 ◼   ► their game now to be that the better [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► website with the live subscriber count [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► things that they do and also being [TS]

00:02:58 ◼   ► better on mobile so it looks like i'm [TS]

00:03:00 ◼   ► going to be sort of moving back to [TS]

00:03:02 ◼   ► social blade from its tax for looking up [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► various things on YouTube [TS]

00:03:07 ◼   ► although I do i do absolutely hate that [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► the website has these estimated earnings [TS]

00:03:11 ◼   ► which are off like an order of magnitude [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► with their estimates for like the low [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► and the high numbers it's amazing i [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► estimate nearly i mean so somewhere [TS]

00:03:22 ◼   ► between 63 pounds and a thousand pounds [TS]

00:03:25 ◼   ► that is a huge difference [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► I know I know it's like I don't know why [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► that you would have those numbers there [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► I don't understand what those estimated [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► earnings things are but it just bothers [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► me that they have a data point that is [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► just so meaningless and that like their [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► high-end numbers for some channels are [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► just comical like they just like just [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► insane insane number so that's my least [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► favorite thing about social blade but [TS]

00:03:53 ◼   ► overall it does seem like it's a it's [TS]

00:03:55 ◼   ► winning the war for which website is [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► actually better but yeah i agree with [TS]

00:03:58 ◼   ► you that it's interesting to see that [TS]

00:04:02 ◼   ► you are religious rounded off like in [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► the top quarter million you have YouTube [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► channels and what is your current [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► subscriber numbers 10,000 659 10,000 659 [TS]

00:04:15 ◼   ► I think this this again goes to [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► direct the conversation we were having [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► before of the the total number of [TS]

00:04:22 ◼   ► YouTube channels is just [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► incomprehensibly large and it's like [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► you're moving up this power law [TS]

00:04:30 ◼   ► distribution of what subscriber numbers [TS]

00:04:34 ◼   ► look like and where you are in the [TS]

00:04:36 ◼   ► rankings against all other channels with [TS]

00:04:38 ◼   ► that so keep climbing that power log [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► raft mike i will say the live subscribe [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► account for me it's just a sad page [TS]

00:04:46 ◼   ► about it doesn't move very much you can [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► send look at that thing for a while and [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► nothing really happens if you leave it [TS]

00:04:56 ◼   ► open in the background somewhere so you [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► can check in other either on a dedicated [TS]

00:04:59 ◼   ► TV hanging on the wall now you know just [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► gonna keep my eye on that thing I think [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► you have space for that mega office that [TS]

00:05:05 ◼   ► should be one of the things that's in [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► the background of your videos right you [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► should always have that in the [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► background just a flat line [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► yeah you know but not forever Mike it [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► won't be a flatline river so I didn't [TS]

00:05:16 ◼   ► you should do that you should have a [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► dedicated TV in the background that [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► shows your life subscriber numbers as [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► your recording the vlog there's no way [TS]

00:05:23 ◼   ► people will mess around with that that [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► definitely something that you should do [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► yeah i'll look into that do you remember [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► we asked Brian to slowly fix your [TS]

00:05:32 ◼   ► problem with your email boxes [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► oh is this tech support ok we're back to [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► my tech support excellent brian is is [TS]

00:05:39 ◼   ► back again for our great bi-weekly check [TS]

00:05:43 ◼   ► in here for the the situation of your [TS]

00:05:46 ◼   ► email problem and he has provided some [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► handy screenshots [TS]

00:05:51 ◼   ► oh wow so basically there is a rule that [TS]

00:05:56 ◼   ► you can set up this is the problem we [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► were looking in smart mailboxes for the [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► situation this VIP problem it is a rule [TS]

00:06:04 ◼   ► that you can set up on your mac for if [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► centers in my contacts you can create a [TS]

00:06:09 ◼   ► mailbox for that to be included the VIP [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► mailbox or whatever if you use iCloud [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► email your there has to be a mac on [TS]

00:06:16 ◼   ► always to filter this [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► mm but if you use gmail or something I [TS]

00:06:21 ◼   ► assume maybe other services that are not [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► iCloud email you can set up these rules [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► and it will work in the cloud [TS]

00:06:27 ◼   ► and then he was also provided [TS]

00:06:29 ◼   ► instructions on how you can set up those [TS]

00:06:31 ◼   ► mailboxes to be pushed on iOS which is [TS]

00:06:34 ◼   ► not intuitive Ryan has provided steps [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► for these are some nice screenshots I [TS]

00:06:39 ◼   ► have to say this is this is done very [TS]

00:06:41 ◼   ► nicely this was a multiple multiple days [TS]

00:06:45 ◼   ► of communication between me and ryan to [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► get to this situation [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► oh wow I appreciate that the two of you [TS]

00:06:50 ◼   ► are working on my tech support problems [TS]

00:06:52 ◼   ► this is great it was more he was just [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► doing it and I was just saying thanks [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► and then he would come back with another [TS]

00:06:59 ◼   ► say origin work so Ryan I think i think [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► brian may have solved your problem here [TS]

00:07:04 ◼   ► i mean this is this is interesting i'll [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► have to look at this in more detail when [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► the show is over because i'm assuming [TS]

00:07:10 ◼   ► huge gmail or something similar i don't [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► use gmail actually use fastmail as the [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► backend i'm not using gmail maybe fast [TS]

00:07:17 ◼   ► man will do the same thing as gmail [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► though because you know this is what [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► this is what's occurring to me is I mean [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► they have a bunch of server-side rule [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► stuff that you can do so there may be [TS]

00:07:24 ◼   ► something similar to this is just a [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► question about synchronizing contact [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► books but it is helpful but it i still [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► do have the one limitation with the [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► Apple Mail thing that I find frustrating [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► which is that I can't sort by sender on [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► iOS it so it's like limiting everybody [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► to the people who are in my contacts [TS]

00:07:42 ◼   ► book this is fantastic i would love the [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► ability to sort by sender on iOS like [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► you can on Mac OS but this this is like [TS]

00:07:51 ◼   ► sixty percent of the way towards being [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► very helpful so i will definitely take a [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► look at this in more detail after the [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► show maybe Ryan can somehow create some [TS]

00:08:01 ◼   ► elaborate system of rules to reorganize [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► your mail for you and Rebecca who knows [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► yeah route through some server somewhere [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► and yet or maybe Ryan can work with the [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► guys at uni box to get their update out [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► to fix all of their various problems on [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► iOS whatever it is i look forward to [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► solutions that i receive on the podcast [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► this is fantastic thank you ryan paul [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► ryan today's episode of cortex is [TS]

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00:09:53 ◼   ► laugh and many people in the reddit have [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► tried to fix your notification problems [TS]

00:09:59 ◼   ► for you i'll have the yep i bet they [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► have amazing solutions there is one [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► person jus on the reddit who suggested [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► something that was in my mind and I [TS]

00:10:09 ◼   ► don't know why I didn't bring it up at [TS]

00:10:11 ◼   ► the time so considering you have your [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► device set for these basically two [TS]

00:10:17 ◼   ► different modes you have a contact mode [TS]

00:10:20 ◼   ► and they do not contact mode you know [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► why don't you just have two phones [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► I saw this this comments and I saw a lot [TS]

00:10:26 ◼   ► of Twitter applies about having two [TS]

00:10:30 ◼   ► phones because this is within your [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► character right you have two watches for [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► this purpose you have like two ipads [TS]

00:10:37 ◼   ► maybe seven iPads like hers there two [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► ipads I feel like you've forgotten our [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► American Association long ago I have at [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► least 12 [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► yeah you like have had been brought [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► along [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► to the multipad lifestyle here with he [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► was so skeptical a long time ago i am [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► like a mere apprentice I have but two [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► iPads so why do you not have multiple [TS]

00:11:01 ◼   ► funds for this like one that is just [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► disconnected from everything on one is [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► connected [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► yes i saw people mentioned this and and [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► I think it's just kinda funny like [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► mentioned in a way is like as they would [TS]

00:11:10 ◼   ► have never crossed my mind to use [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► multiple devices for this purpose the [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► problem is the way Apple handles two [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► different things one of which is the [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► notification stuff so while you can have [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► what i do multiple Apple watches that [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► are connected to an individual phone you [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► cannot reasonably have one Apple watch [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► that connects to two different phones [TS]

00:11:37 ◼   ► this is this is just not a possibility [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► if you want to do this it means you have [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► to wipe and restore the apple watch [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► every single time which takes forever [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► and is an enormous hassle so you can't [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► tell an Apple watch to look for [TS]

00:11:53 ◼   ► whichever phone is the one that's being [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► actively used right now is the morning [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► phone or is it the evening phone and so [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► what this means is it automatically [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► makes it impossible for me to have the [TS]

00:12:03 ◼   ► notifications go the way I wanted them [TS]

00:12:05 ◼   ► to go which is through the apple watch [TS]

00:12:07 ◼   ► so the morning phone would not be able [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► to use the apple watch it's like okay [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► that alone is a big problem but there's [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► a second really big problem which is [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► that Apple to migrate frustration which [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► I mentioned before doesn't synchronize [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► your health data across anything and so [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► when I was playing around with this a [TS]

00:12:28 ◼   ► while back I quickly realize you end up [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► with too fragmented unrelated health [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► databases that like can't be merged and [TS]

00:12:36 ◼   ► can't be handled in an easy way and so [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► because I exercise in the morning [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► this I run into this problem with like [TS]

00:12:44 ◼   ► the apps that i want to use for exercise [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► trying to write data to a separate apple [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► health database and so it's like still [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► on the fun not the watch so you can [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► actually watches but you can't have one [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► fun because you have one central store [TS]

00:12:57 ◼   ► for the health data right right [TS]

00:12:59 ◼   ► your Apple watch is always going to be [TS]

00:13:01 ◼   ► tied to one protect [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► her phone and it makes sense like okay [TS]

00:13:05 ◼   ► whatever phone i'm going to receive my [TS]

00:13:06 ◼   ► messages on like that has to be the [TS]

00:13:08 ◼   ► phone with the Apple watch is going to [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► be tied to but then that means like both [TS]

00:13:11 ◼   ► the morning phone that i would use that [TS]

00:13:14 ◼   ► has this kind of subset of notifications [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► that i want to receive which are [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► reminders to myself from myself that [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► phone can't run notifications through a [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► watch and any health stuff that's done [TS]

00:13:25 ◼   ► on that phone is going to be limited to [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► that phone it can't synchronize out [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► elsewhere it's like this is just it's [TS]

00:13:32 ◼   ► too much of a hassle like it's too much [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► of a pain in the butt that it causes [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► more problems than it solves let alone [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► some of the other synchronization issues [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► that I'm always a little bit frustrated [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► with apple so it's like I would totally [TS]

00:13:46 ◼   ► do it if it was something that the [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► software supported yeah but it's not [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► something that the software supports at [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► this time and so this is this is one of [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► the reasons why i like I have this [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► frustration with a lack of granularity [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► over notifications because I feel like [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► hey Apple [TS]

00:14:02 ◼   ► even if I am willing to buy two phones [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► to solve my notification problem i still [TS]

00:14:09 ◼   ► can't solve my notification problem [TS]

00:14:10 ◼   ► because of the way the the software [TS]

00:14:12 ◼   ► operate so that's why I don't do this [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► but it was too many people who were [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► giving feedback about this issue [TS]

00:14:19 ◼   ► yes I had I have definitely this is [TS]

00:14:21 ◼   ► definitely crossed my mind I had [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► definitely done some trials with older [TS]

00:14:24 ◼   ► phones to see if I can make this work [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► and it was just like now this is way [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► impractical this is much more of a [TS]

00:14:31 ◼   ► hassle than the problem of trying to [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► solve [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► it's a shame the healthcare thing [TS]

00:14:35 ◼   ► because I could have seen a world where [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► you ended up with two phones and four [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► watches which would have been just a [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► light for me [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► yeah I think you would have you would [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► have enjoyed that quite a lot but i [TS]

00:14:47 ◼   ► think that that's that's crazy i don't i [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► don't really need that that's really [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► know is it is it more crazy is it more [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► crazy than just having two watches like [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► I feel like it's it's a diminishing [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► return of crazy you what we say that the [TS]

00:15:00 ◼   ► two watches thing is crazy but it's not [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► crazy i'm giving you all the reasons why [TS]

00:15:03 ◼   ► it's fantastic and i love it you know i [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► don't think that it being fantastic and [TS]

00:15:08 ◼   ► you loving it doesn't mean it's not [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► crazy it's but it isn't crazy isn't [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► crazy because I have very good reasons [TS]

00:15:13 ◼   ► for the front [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► way that I do it i don't have good [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► reasons to be running two phones and [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► four watches so it's not going to happen [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► even though I know that you would love [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► it for podcasting purposes and the [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► inevitable argument the inevitable [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► argument was the obvious one [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► I their android can give you what you [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► want right [TS]

00:15:36 ◼   ► it is the inevitable argument anytime we [TS]

00:15:39 ◼   ► have a complaint about anything [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► apple-related but the level which [TS]

00:15:45 ◼   ► android can give you what you want here [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► is far greater than i would have assumed [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► because in my experience of playing [TS]

00:15:52 ◼   ► around of Android it felt to me that [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► like the notification problems with the [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► same but I had not one deep enough great [TS]

00:15:59 ◼   ► because you have one of the google pixel [TS]

00:16:01 ◼   ► phones right I do [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► yes and I maybe I wasn't looking because [TS]

00:16:06 ◼   ► I didn't think such a thing could exist [TS]

00:16:08 ◼   ► but it does so I asked for some [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► assistance and some guidance from the [TS]

00:16:13 ◼   ► people in the reddit thread to try and [TS]

00:16:15 ◼   ► give me some information for how [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► notifications work on Android so you can [TS]

00:16:23 ◼   ► definitely have settings on a nap by at [TS]

00:16:25 ◼   ► basis about what notifies here who has [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► one thing you can do but then they also [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► have a whole system called priority apps [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► who and this is where it gets kind of [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► incredible priority apps can break [TS]

00:16:36 ◼   ► through your do not disturb barrier you [TS]

00:16:40 ◼   ► can set that you can set that the [TS]

00:16:42 ◼   ► priority app notifications to activate [TS]

00:16:44 ◼   ► and deactivate certain times [TS]

00:16:47 ◼   ► this is all built into the system let [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► alone the things that you can do to hack [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► on it right and also in the latest [TS]

00:16:53 ◼   ► version of Android there is a six-tier [TS]

00:16:55 ◼   ► importance level system including [TS]

00:16:59 ◼   ► showing what can and can't be shown on [TS]

00:17:01 ◼   ► lockscreen 60r16 a separate even I feel [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► like that's quite a lot that's quite a [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► lot of years but this is the thing I [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► think of all of the arguments because we [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► get this argument a lot right you like [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► pencil support you should use a surface [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► right okay [TS]

00:17:18 ◼   ► but it really does feel to me like that [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► this is such a fundamental frustration [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► for you who it it's solved there and and [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► I i just i want and i know the problem [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► the problem of this is the exact same [TS]

00:17:34 ◼   ► problem of the day for my phone is the [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► Apple watch the Apple watches the [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► problem but it is just interesting to me [TS]

00:17:40 ◼   ► to see just the level of which android [TS]

00:17:43 ◼   ► solve this problem and then the level of [TS]

00:17:46 ◼   ► which apple is ignoring it [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► yeah i think it's interesting like that [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► there is a way more in-depth granularity [TS]

00:17:54 ◼   ► than I would have expected as well that [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► this is this is definitely a case where [TS]

00:17:58 ◼   ► you and I are like iOS peasants we're [TS]

00:18:01 ◼   ► asking for a single level of the ability [TS]

00:18:04 ◼   ► to break do not disturb and android is [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► over there it's like looking at me with [TS]

00:18:08 ◼   ► my six levels right i have levels [TS]

00:18:10 ◼   ► despair and I guess this is definitely a [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► case of were like android wins this one [TS]

00:18:15 ◼   ► but I've always I've always acknowledged [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► like if you want a bunch of settings [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► like that is your primary concern is the [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► ability to fiddle with and make [TS]

00:18:26 ◼   ► everything exactly the way you want it [TS]

00:18:28 ◼   ► android is is the choice for you and I [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► think this is partly why i like people [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► go a little bit crazy why I'm not an [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► android person because they think I'm [TS]

00:18:37 ◼   ► that person with everything but like in [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► this is a case where I am NOT that [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► person I have other priorities [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► aside from just like the sheer number of [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► settings that are available but this [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► large this this goes mostly straight to [TS]

00:18:51 ◼   ► this core of this frustration of there [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► are definitely many places in iOS where [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► it feels like it's a little neglected [TS]

00:18:59 ◼   ► that gets a little cranky [TS]

00:19:01 ◼   ► it's a little cold and the notifications [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► area is definitely one of those places [TS]

00:19:06 ◼   ► and this this is like a comical [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► disparity then in the amount of [TS]

00:19:10 ◼   ► granularity that you have an Android [TS]

00:19:12 ◼   ► versus the amount of granularity that [TS]

00:19:13 ◼   ► you have an iOS yeah I I expected that [TS]

00:19:17 ◼   ► this problem is solvable and android [TS]

00:19:19 ◼   ► right because they all seem to be right [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► every problem you have can be solved on [TS]

00:19:24 ◼   ► Android but it's usually with like you [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► gotta root your phone and use the [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► Android development tools but no this [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► was just built [TS]

00:19:31 ◼   ► right into the system yeah that's that's [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► the big difference is this is not this [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► is not [TS]

00:19:36 ◼   ► oh you're hacking around with your own [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► phone this this is just built in and [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► that does make a huge difference and so [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► I hope Apple is listening [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► hi i hope that they think about adding [TS]

00:19:48 ◼   ► some more features to iOS and the [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► ability to break through do not disturb [TS]

00:19:52 ◼   ► or have more granularity in the settings [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► I am NOT hopeful but i hope that it is [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► something that will change eventually [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► but I'm hoping that because I'm not [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► switching to android anytime soon [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► even though apparently would solve every [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► single one of my problems but this [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► episode is brought to you by lava from [TS]

00:20:10 ◼   ► artificial intelligence doomsday [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► theories two puppies wearing fedoras of [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► a two million blog posts covering every [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► topic imaginable published every single [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► day [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► that's why it's so important to have a [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► great domain name that stands above all [TS]

00:20:24 ◼   ► the noise as in November 21st the [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► much-anticipated dot blog domain [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► extension is now available for [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► registration [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► however this means you'll have much [TS]

00:20:34 ◼   ► better chance of finding your first [TS]

00:20:36 ◼   ► choice of a unique relevant a memorable [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► name for your blog if you go right now [TS]

00:20:40 ◼   ► plus autoblog domains come with all the [TS]

00:20:43 ◼   ► great things you'd expect a hover like [TS]

00:20:44 ◼   ► free who is privacy no heavy-handed [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► upselling and their trademark no wait no [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► hold no transfer phone support to [TS]

00:20:51 ◼   ► register your own dot blog domain head [TS]

00:20:53 ◼   ► over to Harvard calm and use the promo [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► code cottage to save ten percent on your [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► first order other domain names for your [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► ideas thank you so much harder for their [TS]

00:21:02 ◼   ► support of this show every layer fan [TS]

00:21:05 ◼   ► alright so last time on the show we [TS]

00:21:09 ◼   ► promised and ask cortex special for [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► court xmas so i wanted to get all of our [TS]

00:21:13 ◼   ► follow-up out of the way so we've [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► cleared the stage for the court xmas [TS]

00:21:19 ◼   ► break so that's all dealt with now and i [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► do not feel like it would be hyperbole [TS]

00:21:26 ◼   ► to say that i have been inundated with [TS]

00:21:28 ◼   ► questions far more than i expected to [TS]

00:21:32 ◼   ► receive so we're good on a score text [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► for a while but keep sending them in any [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► way [TS]

00:21:37 ◼   ► my favorite question was why are we [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► sending all the questions to Mike and [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► not to the both of you and everything [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► like because Mike is much better at [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► organizing all of this stuff than I am [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► at the head of the question number one [TS]

00:21:51 ◼   ► this is the answer [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► mike has a big document full of tons of [TS]

00:21:56 ◼   ► questions nicely indented nicely bullet [TS]

00:21:59 ◼   ► pointed yep i would never create this so [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► thank you Mike for arranging all of this [TS]

00:22:04 ◼   ► sorted rewritten highlighted I was also [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► very surprised great i only received one [TS]

00:22:10 ◼   ► question by email [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► that's fantastic isn't that what you [TS]

00:22:13 ◼   ► want yeah but that question was tweet [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► length so I have no idea why I came to [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► me by email but it did it was exactly [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► what I wanted [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► many people many many many people use [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► the hashtag and many many many people [TS]

00:22:27 ◼   ► use the reddit I appreciate the people [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► who were trying to group the questions [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► up for me that was very nice of you but [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► I have a vast array of questions here [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► for the two of us to go through so [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► starting off with Justin Justin asked [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► can you give us a full rundown of the [TS]

00:22:46 ◼   ► applications you're currently using for [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► tracking your time and/or making you [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► more efficient at work i am also [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► interested in this because I want to get [TS]

00:22:55 ◼   ► into time tracking a little bit more [TS]

00:22:57 ◼   ► sometime after court xmas and to trying [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► to understand where my time is going and [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► maybe what is best used in and trying to [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► maybe work out that scary figure that [TS]

00:23:10 ◼   ► you have of what my time is actually [TS]

00:23:12 ◼   ► worth in money but one year later you [TS]

00:23:16 ◼   ► might actually do this okay fantastic [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► it's you have I think you have to go [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► through a whole process before you want [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► to start doing stuff like this and I'm [TS]

00:23:25 ◼   ► also a little bit scared of what I'll [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► find out but yeah something I definitely [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► want to do so what are you currently [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► using for time tracking but before we [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► before we get to that I do you just want [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► to reiterate that for anybody who does [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► the what is your time actually worth [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► calculation [TS]

00:23:42 ◼   ► like I'm teasing like about putting it [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► off but I've done this with the number [TS]

00:23:46 ◼   ► of people and people are in some sense [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► like rights to feel hesitant about doing [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► this and hesitant about really facing it [TS]

00:23:56 ◼   ► straight on because it can be terrifying [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► and life-changing in all kinds of [TS]

00:24:05 ◼   ► positive and negative ways and and like [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► to really put a number on your time so I [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► I kid you but I do understand why [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► there's a lot of mental resistance about [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► doing this kind of thing because it's [TS]

00:24:19 ◼   ► like your life will never quite be the [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► same after as before when you really sit [TS]

00:24:23 ◼   ► down and and value your time per hour [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► like it it can't help but become a thing [TS]

00:24:29 ◼   ► that lodges in your brain and changes [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► the way you think about a lot of stuff [TS]

00:24:33 ◼   ► because i can't the thing right to I [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► work in a creative field so there's a [TS]

00:24:38 ◼   ► lot of stuff that I do which doesn't [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► make money or doesn't make as much money [TS]

00:24:43 ◼   ► as other things like for example my [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► youtube channel like my youtube channel [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► would right now just be a black hole [TS]

00:24:53 ◼   ► yeah from a financial perspective and [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► it's like if i find that figure out I [TS]

00:25:00 ◼   ► don't want it to roll my life but just [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► to inform it right [TS]

00:25:05 ◼   ► yeah and so that's why I've been [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► hesitant of it yeah that that's the real [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► key is that you have to understand this [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► as like I say with a lot of the things [TS]

00:25:13 ◼   ► that I have set up for myself there they [TS]

00:25:15 ◼   ► are guidelines they are not rules [TS]

00:25:18 ◼   ► because you lose your mind of stuff i [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► was like a rule that you have to follow [TS]

00:25:22 ◼   ► all the time but so after all of that [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► preamble I have nothing to help you like [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► alright nothing to help you as you get [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► has because I would actually love to [TS]

00:25:36 ◼   ► hear from people what they use for time [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► tracking because i have gone through [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► various phases of tracking my time in [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► different ways over the years and what [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► would I find occurs is that as the [TS]

00:25:50 ◼   ► nature of my work changes i eventually [TS]

00:25:52 ◼   ► find that there's some some limitation [TS]

00:25:54 ◼   ► about the way I'm doing [TS]

00:25:56 ◼   ► I'm tracking which isn't working for my [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► current work that did work for my old [TS]

00:26:00 ◼   ► work I've gone through like three phases [TS]

00:26:01 ◼   ► of this you you were using like a Rube [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► Goldberg machine triggered by lon sent a [TS]

00:26:08 ◼   ► pro when you like a long time ago [TS]

00:26:10 ◼   ► yeah yeah well this is this is in [TS]

00:26:12 ◼   ► modified versions Launch Center pro has [TS]

00:26:15 ◼   ► been at the heart of what I've used for [TS]

00:26:18 ◼   ► a while but it's been connecting two [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► different systems behind the scenes and [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► I basically i have come up against a [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► kind of limitation about this recently [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► because for various ways that my [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► business has changed i want to be able [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► to do more granular tracking on a [TS]

00:26:35 ◼   ► project basis i need to know more [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► specifically than just here is the time [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► that I spend on youtube like I want to [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► be able to narrow that down to time [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► spent on a particular video as a subset [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► of YouTube and the the system I had [TS]

00:26:52 ◼   ► built for myself in the past couldn't [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► handle this very well and so i was aware [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► that i needed to change time tracking [TS]

00:27:00 ◼   ► systems as the year was going on and [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► then as i was working on that rules for [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► rulers video and I was aware like all of [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► my time is being spent thinking about [TS]

00:27:11 ◼   ► working on this project i was aware that [TS]

00:27:14 ◼   ► even thinking about time tracking was [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► just nonsensical during that time [TS]

00:27:18 ◼   ► because it's like well i guess i'll just [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► write down six weeks all the time [TS]

00:27:22 ◼   ► because i can't release this and so I [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► actually made a conscious decision to [TS]

00:27:26 ◼   ► stop time tracking sort of halfway [TS]

00:27:28 ◼   ► through that project and put time [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► tracking aside until I have figured out [TS]

00:27:33 ◼   ► a new system that has the features that [TS]

00:27:36 ◼   ► I'm looking for so i don't have any [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► particular tools to recommend for you [TS]

00:27:40 ◼   ► and I I to and exactly in the world of [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► looking into what are the options out [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► there i think i do have a bunch of like [TS]

00:27:50 ◼   ► particularly picky things that I want [TS]

00:27:52 ◼   ► like I kind of want to be able to set [TS]

00:27:54 ◼   ► timers like that's very much how I work [TS]

00:27:56 ◼   ► and that seems to be how no time [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► tracking software works but i'll be very [TS]

00:28:00 ◼   ► curious to see like what do people [TS]

00:28:02 ◼   ► recommend in the comments for software [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► that is [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► easy to use and detailed with time [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► tracking so i'll tell you the tall that [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► our mutual friend federico is using and [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► the one that I want to try is called [TS]

00:28:17 ◼   ► toggle do GTL and it is a time tracking [TS]

00:28:22 ◼   ► application that has apps for all the [TS]

00:28:26 ◼   ► major platforms but also a bunch of [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► integration with other systems and an [TS]

00:28:30 ◼   ► API that okay see that's that's very [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► interesting [TS]

00:28:34 ◼   ► that's very interesting so I mean I know [TS]

00:28:37 ◼   ► that he has been leveraging the API and [TS]

00:28:40 ◼   ► it's integrations with automation [TS]

00:28:41 ◼   ► services likes a pia it doesn't have an [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► ifttt integration unfortunately he's [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► been using that to track his time and it [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► was when he started doing it and show me [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► what he was doing that kind of pushed me [TS]

00:28:52 ◼   ► over the edge because it wasn't just my [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► crazy friend gray who was doing at [TS]

00:28:58 ◼   ► federico started doing it too [TS]

00:28:59 ◼   ► ok you know yeah because there are so [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► many things that you do that i like not [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► for normal people [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► no but it seems like here's my [TS]

00:29:08 ◼   ► perspective on this you think that there [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► are all these things that i do that are [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► not for normal people but slowly but [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► surely in our time together yeah you [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► pick up more and more of them probably [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► I'm for coming just like you it's [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► horrific all started out crazy [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► yeah but then eventually you talk to me [TS]

00:29:25 ◼   ► long enough and you see the [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► reasonableness of what I do so I know [TS]

00:29:29 ◼   ► but they have isn't there is an element [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► of my life where I realize I can't [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► blindly follow here because I'm but I'm [TS]

00:29:37 ◼   ► not asking for blind faith right that's [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► why I'm so convincing is I'm just trying [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► to show you the reasons for why do [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► things I'm not asking for your blind [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► faith [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► I don't want your blood for you so now i [TS]

00:29:47 ◼   ► have decided that this is the thing I [TS]

00:29:49 ◼   ► want to do and this is a service time [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► thinking about trying so this is going [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► to be the one that i may be dipped my [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► toe into the water with especially [TS]

00:29:56 ◼   ► considering you have no options so maybe [TS]

00:29:58 ◼   ► you can try this and tell me what you [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► think of it as well but I've seen some [TS]

00:30:02 ◼   ► of the charts and graphs and such that [TS]

00:30:04 ◼   ► this app producers and it seems very [TS]

00:30:06 ◼   ► interesting [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► I i like that provided the bottom of the [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► very first page one of their features is [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► like timer integrations that sounds [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► interesting cells sounds a very [TS]

00:30:17 ◼   ► interesting indeed and if [TS]

00:30:18 ◼   ► it it is able to be tied into other [TS]

00:30:21 ◼   ► services [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► it sounds like it's the kind of thing [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► that maybe i can i can build on top of [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► it precisely what i need so i can let [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► kick something off from a button on iOS [TS]

00:30:31 ◼   ► so i will definitely be looking into [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► this as well Jase Jake row on right up [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► this is one of the problems we've read [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► it by the way like when people tweet me [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► their questions they usually have their [TS]

00:30:44 ◼   ► names attached to them so i can just [TS]

00:30:45 ◼   ► look at their user profile and grab [TS]

00:30:47 ◼   ► their name doesn't happen read it so [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► lots of interesting usernames yeah but [TS]

00:30:53 ◼   ► the reddit that I don't think that's a [TS]

00:30:54 ◼   ► problem rather that's a feature of [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► reddit is that people have hilarious [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► usernames all I know it's a feature for [TS]

00:30:59 ◼   ► read it but it's less of a feature when [TS]

00:31:01 ◼   ► you're trying to read them in your Q&A [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► section of your podcast makes more [TS]

00:31:05 ◼   ► you're just lucky you didn't get any of [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► those PM me your whatever usernames [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► right that's too many of those on reddit [TS]

00:31:11 ◼   ► I don't even know what that's about for [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► the name of us stay away from that [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► yes it's not for you Jake girl asked I [TS]

00:31:18 ◼   ► would love to hear about some of the [TS]

00:31:20 ◼   ► checklist spaced workflow z both have [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► this could include templates repeating [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► items I have a checklist the phrase I [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► have a checklist is a famous great quote [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► that has been discovered around for some [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► time now so i will kick things off her [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► and the main checklist that I have like [TS]

00:31:37 ◼   ► standard checklist is the jet clothes [TS]

00:31:40 ◼   ► that i created for this show [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► uh-huh so I have an OmniFocus template [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► which is triggered by a workflow action [TS]

00:31:48 ◼   ► which I will obviously not share with [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► you which goes through detail by detail [TS]

00:31:53 ◼   ► what it takes to publish this show and [TS]

00:31:55 ◼   ► it includes things like checking out the [TS]

00:31:57 ◼   ► music is corrected in the right places [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► processing the file uploading the file [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► to our website and uploading the file to [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► our audio provider and making sure the [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► show notes are right and then create the [TS]

00:32:09 ◼   ► youtube video post the youtube video [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► here the 75,000 things you need to do [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► when you post a youtube video it's all [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► in there and I trigger that every time I [TS]

00:32:18 ◼   ► on a monday morning when I publish the [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► show and I have all of the lists there [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► and I just take them off as I go [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► that's one of my checklists that's [TS]

00:32:26 ◼   ► triggered in OmniFocus my other big [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► checklist is my packing checklist when i [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► pea or something and that lives [TS]

00:32:32 ◼   ► and clear and out over time that list [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► just gets added to and added to and [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► clear i find to be a really nice [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► application for this sort of stuff it [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► lives off in a folder on my second [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► screen and i only use it for this [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► packing checklist but i like it a lot [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► more than something like OmniFocus [TS]

00:32:48 ◼   ► because it is like this purpose built [TS]

00:32:50 ◼   ► this is my packing checklist application [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► and i can add to it really easily and i [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► get satisfying sounds to play every time [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► I type my shooters yeah i still [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► recommend clear all the time when people [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► are asking for just a simple checklist [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► on their phone [TS]

00:33:03 ◼   ► I think it's a really great lap and i [TS]

00:33:06 ◼   ► use it for a few things i do wish they [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► would update for the ipad pro that would [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► be great i think it's dead prey [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► I know instead but I'm just I'm just [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► hoping right it's like it hasn't been [TS]

00:33:16 ◼   ► updated in like two years [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► i assume is dead but i'm just a big [TS]

00:33:19 ◼   ► hoping yeah I don't think they make [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► anymore [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► yeah no I think it's over I i agree with [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► you there so I don't use it for [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► repeating list i use it for a couple [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► things but yeah I have a travel [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► checklist to like I think if anybody if [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► anybody needs like a starter drug to why [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► you should have a checklist [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► it's your travel checklist the webpage [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► for clear on the developers website it [TS]

00:33:42 ◼   ► doesn't even loading more [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► oh god I'm sorry great it is actually [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► bears wow ok [TS]

00:33:49 ◼   ► wow that is that is actually yeah yeah [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► what a shame you know [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► oh well I was gonna do a travel [TS]

00:33:56 ◼   ► checklist is by far and away the best [TS]

00:33:59 ◼   ► return on investment introduction you're [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► ever going to get to a checklist weekend [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► it's just it's just such a sweet spot [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► because the thing that you do often [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► enough that you think you're going to [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► remember everything but not often enough [TS]

00:34:12 ◼   ► that you actually will and the travel [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► checklist is such a living document of [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► every time you pack you can just add a [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► bunch of other stuff to it and so my [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► travel checklist is ridiculously long [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► but it's because it includes a ton of [TS]

00:34:26 ◼   ► items that are not intended for every [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► trip [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► yeah but are there to just be like just [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► run through this right [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► every single time it's like the travel [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► insurance is on there like do you need [TS]

00:34:37 ◼   ► this thing everytime know but just like [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► check and take a quick look there's a [TS]

00:34:41 ◼   ► bunch of stuff that's on there that's [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► specific to from traveling to the US [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► that doesn't need to be there every time [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► but i just want to run [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► through this massive one so i think [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► that's that is really what everybody [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► should start with if you want to build [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► some kind of checklist to use all the [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► time i guess if this person is asking [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► like what my general checklists are like [TS]

00:34:59 ◼   ► that the big three checklist for me or [TS]

00:35:03 ◼   ► are unsurprisingly like the three [TS]

00:35:05 ◼   ► related to the projects in my life right [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► there [TS]

00:35:07 ◼   ► the cortex checklist the hello Internet [TS]

00:35:08 ◼   ► checklist and the youtube video [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► checklist and the youtube video one is [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► is the biggest one by far the most [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► in-depth but those ones i'm constantly [TS]

00:35:18 ◼   ► tweaking every time i go through one of [TS]

00:35:22 ◼   ► those processes to figure out like what [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► is the best order or to just make it [TS]

00:35:27 ◼   ► work a little bit better in OmniFocus [TS]

00:35:28 ◼   ► for the way that I wanted to work those [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► are the big ones [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► there's a few other minor ones that i [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► have one of which is actually I just I [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► just invoked today which is that I have [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► a like a monthly financial checklist [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► which is going through a bunch of the [TS]

00:35:46 ◼   ► bank accounts and the numbers for both [TS]

00:35:48 ◼   ► the personal accounts and the business [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► bank accounts and making sure there's [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► enough money in my personal account to [TS]

00:35:54 ◼   ► pay the rent and checking up on a bunch [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► of other stuff like that's another [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► perfect case for me of a thing that I do [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► often enough but not often enough to [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► remember all the fiddly little details [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► what has to happen in your life to make [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► you create a checklist like that do you [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► do them proactively or reactively I [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► don't know what you mean by your [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► business speak they're like I just is [TS]

00:36:17 ◼   ► not difficult like so for example the [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► financial checklist did you create that [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► because you thought something bad might [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► happen or did you want not have enough [TS]

00:36:26 ◼   ► money in your bank account so you like [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► all I need to create this checklist [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► well ok so i guess what which are asking [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► for their is what I'm what I'm looking [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► for in my life is a feeling of am I [TS]

00:36:39 ◼   ► trying to remember something now and and [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► so when I would go through the finances [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► i don't know exactly when I started this [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► checklist I feel like this one is recent [TS]

00:36:51 ◼   ► ish as it may be in the last two years [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► like this is not a checklist that has [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► existed for forever [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► and i know that i would have started [TS]

00:37:01 ◼   ► doing it because of this feeling like [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► when i'm doing this i'm trying to [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► remember what the next step is and that [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► is just like a red flag in my system [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► like you shouldn't ever be trying to [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► remember what a thing is because that [TS]

00:37:13 ◼   ► that's an indication that this isn't [TS]

00:37:15 ◼   ► routine enough that you don't need a [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► checklist [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► I it's even frequent enough and [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► complicated enough that you just can't [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► pull this out of your head every single [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► time and so if I have that kind of [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► feeling that's an indication that maybe [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► i should think about a checklist for [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► this thing and so that's that's how i'll [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► end up getting started with it and [TS]

00:37:34 ◼   ► they're really really easy for me to [TS]

00:37:36 ◼   ► make I mean that the checklist exists [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► just as a series of text documents in [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► dropbox that I use like a little [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► workflow action to pull into OmniFocus i [TS]

00:37:45 ◼   ► would like they're very very easy to [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► just make one really quickly and and to [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► just try it out but that's the key thing [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► like is there a repeated thing that [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► isn't repeated often enough to be [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► routine and is complicated enough to [TS]

00:37:59 ◼   ► more into checklist or are like that is [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► the spacing in time very far [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► like I actually have on the flip side of [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► it like you're barely a very short [TS]

00:38:09 ◼   ► checklist is I have a little checklist [TS]

00:38:11 ◼   ► for reading books which I think people [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► will find very strange down the page [TS]

00:38:16 ◼   ► check time to pay your debts [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► yeah but that this is because reading [TS]

00:38:23 ◼   ► books is part of my professional life [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► like this is important for my actual job [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► and this connects into like I have a [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► little process for taking notes [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► what I want to do with those notes what [TS]

00:38:35 ◼   ► making notes to myself for actionable [TS]

00:38:38 ◼   ► items in the future and then getting [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► that book into my whole complicated and [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► somewhat sad Evernote system like that [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► checklist is not really long i think [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► it's maybe only four or five items but [TS]

00:38:51 ◼   ► it can be spaced out over a very long [TS]

00:38:54 ◼   ► time between when I start reading a book [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► and when I finished reading the book so [TS]

00:38:58 ◼   ► it just acts like a little placeholder [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► in my system for this is a book that is [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► like quote active in some sense and i [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► can know where i am like I am I still [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► just reading this book that I finished [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► the book if I have finished the book [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► there are [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► two or three little steps that I just [TS]

00:39:12 ◼   ► want to do and make sure that they're [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► done so that's another case of of it of [TS]

00:39:16 ◼   ► a checklist is good but I don't actually [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► have a tremendous amount of them [TS]

00:39:20 ◼   ► it'sit's just where they pay off in [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► these various situations that is my jam [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► ask appends great use to use the Apple [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► pencil is what i use you use a pen [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► surely like if you have to sign [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► something [TS]

00:39:35 ◼   ► well these are a specific 10 well when [TS]

00:39:39 ◼   ► we first met each other back before the [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► Apple pencil existed [TS]

00:39:44 ◼   ► yeah i was asking you for Penn [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► recommendations because i heard you're a [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► guy with some knowledge in this world [TS]

00:39:51 ◼   ► and we started a process by which i was [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► trying different pens that you were [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► lending to me and as time went on [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► eventually the Apple pencil became a [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► rumor and then an actual thing and I [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► felt like I just don't really have [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► enough of a need to have a pen that I [TS]

00:40:10 ◼   ► use all the time because you were [TS]

00:40:11 ◼   ► looking for a pen to write on your paper [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► script i will ya i was looking for [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► something to physically work with actual [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► paper for the times that I print out and [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► work on the script by hand and now the [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► Apple pencil has solved that for me like [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► i can do that entirely on the ipad and [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► so that has eliminated ninety-nine [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► percent of the time that I would ever [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► use a pen and so now it is entirely down [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► to signing cards and filling out that [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► little form for going into the united [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► states like these are the only times [TS]

00:40:44 ◼   ► that i use an actual penoso you know [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► justjust in our in our house like in [TS]

00:40:50 ◼   ► every house in the world there's a jar [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► which has a couple of rain dependent [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► which I have no idea where they even [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► came from and on the rare occasion i [TS]

00:40:57 ◼   ► need to sign something I just grab one [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► of those and just sign something so I [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► don't have a pen that i use so I'm sorry [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► I have no answer for you I'm sure mike [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► has a very thorough answer for you i [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► will recommend a pen that I recommended [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► to you that I think you did actually [TS]

00:41:12 ◼   ► like which is appended our recommend [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► everyone there is a line of pens called [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► the retro 51 tornado they have a very [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► cool look to them there are a million [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► different styles [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► and if you get the retro 51 tornado the [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► regular version it has one of the best [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► refills i've ever used and these things [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► range from like 15 to 40 dollars [TS]

00:41:34 ◼   ► depending on the type of style that you [TS]

00:41:35 ◼   ► want to go for i recommend that pen is [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► an awesome pen it looks good feels good [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► what's good every single time [TS]

00:41:41 ◼   ► yeah a little short remember that one I [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► felt it was a little short in my hand [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► but it was a bit of the solid pen but [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► they also then make a bigger one which I [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► just talking right like that they have [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► that they have a whole range of these [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► things and make big ones make small ones [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► make them ones that make fat ones like [TS]

00:41:56 ◼   ► it would like to stand or tornado is the [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► one that i recommend to most people but [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► you might like the tornado big shot [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► which is bigger in every dimension [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► oh wow tornado big shot how could you [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► not like it with a name like that [TS]

00:42:09 ◼   ► exactly [TS]

00:42:12 ◼   ► precocious apprentice asked a long time [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► ago on a podcast far far away gray [TS]

00:42:18 ◼   ► mentioned that he was thinking of trying [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► scrum instead of his usual GTD type [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► method but he never mentioned it again [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► I've also seen him looking into combat [TS]

00:42:27 ◼   ► before I'd be interested to hear his [TS]

00:42:30 ◼   ► take on the two systems if you start [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► with either of them are cannibalized [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► elements turn into his own system i feel [TS]

00:42:36 ◼   ► like this is wrapped up into a much [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► bigger discussion we sort of talked [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► about that getting things done was [TS]

00:42:43 ◼   ► perfect for me in the phase in my life [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► where i first came across it and served [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► perfectly for the first five years of my [TS]

00:42:52 ◼   ► adult professional life but has become [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► less helpful overtime and yes i did look [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► into scrum and I did look into Kanban [TS]

00:43:01 ◼   ► and it was just trying to [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► I spent a while trying to read up on [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► different kinds of productivity systems [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► and [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► the thing that I can say that what what [TS]

00:43:15 ◼   ► i have done is I've taken a little bit [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► from the this Kanban system which is [TS]

00:43:22 ◼   ► which is this idea of pulling work in [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► when there are empty slots and and so I [TS]

00:43:30 ◼   ► can man is this idea i think it is best [TS]

00:43:32 ◼   ► illustrated by this idea and like a [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► hospital where you can imagine you have [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► a tray of medical medications like [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► little packets of medication that come [TS]

00:43:39 ◼   ► out of a drawer and at a certain point [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► there's a little card that goes in the [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► drawer and when you get to the card that [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► card is an indication that it is time to [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► order more medication right so it's like [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► you have when you get to a certain level [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► of emptiness like you bring on new [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► projects and so I do have a little bit [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► of a pole system setup just in that i am [TS]

00:44:01 ◼   ► thinking in terms of like i have three [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► videos that I'm working on which are [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► like slots and so when one slot becomes [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► free i try to then evaluate the next [TS]

00:44:11 ◼   ► video that's going to go into that slot [TS]

00:44:14 ◼   ► for something that I'm going to work on [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► but i can't say that i really have [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► anything formal that i can describe [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► right now like I'm i'm in the i'm in the [TS]

00:44:25 ◼   ► realm of i have a system that is working [TS]

00:44:27 ◼   ► relatively well for me but I can't like [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► lay out a bunch of rules for people [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► about like oh here it here is my system [TS]

00:44:35 ◼   ► I written down and formalized and here's [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► how you can follow its it's more like [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► I've taken some things that work from [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► getting things done some ideas from [TS]

00:44:44 ◼   ► Kanban and just simply the most uncaring [TS]

00:44:47 ◼   ► things done thing like that i'm doing [TS]

00:44:49 ◼   ► now which is a much much more heavy [TS]

00:44:51 ◼   ► reliance on the calendar as a planning [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► tool as opposed to a appointment only [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► tool [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► all i can say is I looked into a bunch [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► of this stuff and I've taken some useful [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► pieces from it but I don't have like a [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► really formalized system right now it's [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► a great system it is the gray system but [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► i am still aware that I I [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► I don't like this state of my current [TS]

00:45:18 ◼   ► productivity system and every once in a [TS]

00:45:19 ◼   ► while I do i do try to write it down and [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► try to formalize it mainly because i [TS]

00:45:27 ◼   ► think that was a really useful lesson [TS]

00:45:29 ◼   ► from getting things done that sharp [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► edges and really clearly defined [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► boundaries are extraordinarily helpful [TS]

00:45:39 ◼   ► in these kinds of systems and i'm just [TS]

00:45:41 ◼   ► i'm aware that I've been operating for a [TS]

00:45:43 ◼   ► while with a little bit of fuzzy edges [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► for things and i would i would like to [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► sort that out I feel like it would be [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► beneficial to sort it out but I really [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► think that part of the problem is just [TS]

00:45:55 ◼   ► like so much of my job now is actually [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► the job itself is extraordinarily fuzzy [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► it's it's not as clearly defined as the [TS]

00:46:04 ◼   ► work that I used to do in the past or [TS]

00:46:06 ◼   ► even the work that i did a few years ago [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► like I do find myself in lots of [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► situations increasingly as time goes on [TS]

00:46:13 ◼   ► we're it's a bit hard to even know like [TS]

00:46:15 ◼   ► is the thing that I'm doing now entirely [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► work or not work at all it it's not [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► always clear when you're working for [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► yourself where some of those boundaries [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► are but one of these days i'll try to [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► sort this out but it is probably not [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► anytime soon [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► we mentioned that this season of cortex [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► is upon us so Alexis says has asked what [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► your systems of holiday decorations at [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► home there any policies of light [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► arrangements or any traditions that you [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► follow so it's interesting for me right [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► now because i guess i need to create one [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► yeah you do you do or be involved in [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► said creation of a holiday lights out [TS]

00:46:55 ◼   ► well I don't think we're going to do it [TS]

00:46:57 ◼   ► this year who because we will be in our [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► house for about a week and a half before [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► before Christmas and then we're going on [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► a trip directly after until the new year [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► so it doesn't really feel like there is [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► enough time to actually have Christmas [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► decorations we did buy a very tiny [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► christmas tree which is just for a [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► little bit of festive cheer do you have [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► you if our their holiday decorations in [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► the gray household [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► oh yeah of course it's nice to do [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► holiday [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► decorations it gives a sense of the [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► passage of time to change things in that [TS]

00:47:33 ◼   ► way and I I think like seasons and and [TS]

00:47:37 ◼   ► the holidays are psychologically helpful [TS]

00:47:40 ◼   ► it's this one of the reasons why when i [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► was living in a wife or a little while [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► it drove me crazy because every day is [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► the same as every other day forever [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► until you die there's just like there's [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► no there's no sense of passing time it's [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► it was just terrible [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► it was awful and and also doing [TS]

00:47:57 ◼   ► christmas in what feels like summer is [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► is crazy making for me the holiday [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► decorations for Christmas sort of starts [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► officially on December fifth which is [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► st. Nicholas Day which was a big deal [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► for my family because of some Dutch [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► background and I feel like Christmas [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► decorations should be up from the fifth [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► until the first of January that's kind [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► of my mental timeframe for when should [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► christmas decorations exist but [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► sometimes a little bit of bleeding [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► outside of those those areas but we [TS]

00:48:28 ◼   ► don't necessarily have a ton of [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► Christmas decorations but i think a [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► little bit goes a long way like we have [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► a we know we usually get a tree we put [TS]

00:48:36 ◼   ► up a couple of stockings and like me on [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► Christmas pillows and things and just [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► just having a little bit makes a big [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► difference [TS]

00:48:43 ◼   ► realtree it is a real tree mmm realtree [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► in London is a is a not easy thing to [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► achieve I find yeah it is not easy [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► things to achieve but it is it is a [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► non-negotiable item from my wife that [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► the tree will be real and so we do this [TS]

00:48:58 ◼   ► i'm a plastic tray pass [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► yeah I i would be a plastic tree person [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► to I think it's totally fine but i have [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► been brought over to the side of of the [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► real treat like it is you have to say it [TS]

00:49:11 ◼   ► is a tremendous hassle it is a real kind [TS]

00:49:14 ◼   ► of pain in the butt but I've gotten used [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► to it and I feel like it is kind of nice [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► to have a real tree in your house and [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► also you know is worth noting that [TS]

00:49:22 ◼   ► considering me and grab of live in [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► London there is no decoration of our [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► homes because [TS]

00:49:27 ◼   ► what we're gonna do we're gonna hang [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► some lights out the window like it's not [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► that I don't know why you gonna do yeah [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► that's that's the closest you could do [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► is put the lights out the window hang a [TS]

00:49:37 ◼   ► bag of lights outside the the kitchen [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► window looking out of them [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► yeah this episode of cortex is brought [TS]

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00:49:48 ◼   ► phones smart homes technology has made [TS]

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00:49:55 ◼   ► smart i hate using stuff I lost an [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► umbrella recently and it was very [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► upsetting because i had to buy a new [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► umbrella [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► I don't want to have to do that and plus [TS]

00:50:03 ◼   ► when you lose an umbrella and you know [TS]

00:50:05 ◼   ► you need an umbrella is typically [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► raining which means you're going to get [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► rained on but if I had attached a [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► tracker to my umbrella which I will do [TS]

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00:51:19 ◼   ► thank you so much to tracker for the [TS]

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00:51:24 ◼   ► of them exist and I'm a first-year [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► engineering student with finals coming [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► up and just wanted to ask both yourself [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► me and great because all these questions [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► were directed to me what are your best [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► tips for studying and what did you do to [TS]

00:51:37 ◼   ► study for finals [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► I am the wrong [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► in person to ask at this question to [TS]

00:51:42 ◼   ► mostly I think because i didn't go to [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► university so I'm i have not taken an [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► exam in a very long time but also i was [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► just not very good at revising yeah I [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► only ever really thoroughly revised for [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► revising is what British people studying [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► I only ever truly revised for subjects [TS]

00:52:10 ◼   ► that had intrinsic facts and figures [TS]

00:52:14 ◼   ► related to them that you had to know to [TS]

00:52:16 ◼   ► pass so maths and some science related [TS]

00:52:22 ◼   ► stuff and history like they were the [TS]

00:52:25 ◼   ► ones that I really revised for because [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► if I got the date wrong of such-and-such [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► battle that's a mark down who write so I [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► didn't really revise the English I i [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► actually took one paper in my think my [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► GCSE year having never read the book I [TS]

00:52:48 ◼   ► went to the classes where we spoke about [TS]

00:52:51 ◼   ► the book i read some cliff notes about [TS]

00:52:54 ◼   ► the book i just never read the book and [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► it was a book cord i think its return of [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► the native was the name of the book and [TS]

00:53:05 ◼   ► I really didn't like the book and then [TS]

00:53:10 ◼   ► just never read it and then okay i gotta [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► be so it was fine [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► ya see that that's that's exactly the [TS]

00:53:19 ◼   ► thing though i do not recommend that [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► this system either way I think you have [TS]

00:53:24 ◼   ► to have a thing about you which means [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► you can probably get away with this [TS]

00:53:28 ◼   ► and my thing is that i can just waffle [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► enough in the right direction that i get [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► there eventually [TS]

00:53:36 ◼   ► I don't think that's necessarily works [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► for everybody [TS]

00:53:40 ◼   ► yet it depends i mean ok so that like i [TS]

00:53:45 ◼   ► have 2 comments about this it [TS]

00:53:47 ◼   ► the first is ok [TS]

00:53:51 ◼   ► everybody knows this but I think there's [TS]

00:53:53 ◼   ► a thing to really internalize here which [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► is when you're studying you are really [TS]

00:53:58 ◼   ► studying for the test right you are not [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► studying this subject in general and [TS]

00:54:05 ◼   ► people know this but i don't think they [TS]

00:54:08 ◼   ► always follow what the like the logical [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► conclusion to this is you have to revise [TS]

00:54:16 ◼   ► for that test so this means if the you [TS]

00:54:21 ◼   ► have any possible way you need to get [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► your hands on old versions of the test [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► so if you can get it from previous years [TS]

00:54:31 ◼   ► if it's a standardized tests right get [TS]

00:54:34 ◼   ► your hands on that and go over that [TS]

00:54:38 ◼   ► again and again and again and this is [TS]

00:54:41 ◼   ► what i used to do with with my students [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► towards the end of the year when we were [TS]

00:54:45 ◼   ► preparing for their end-of-year exams [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► was a very consciously had the kids do [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► even the exact same test multiple [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► multiple times and this is what the [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► studying is like get the answers right [TS]

00:55:02 ◼   ► on previous versions of it do the test [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► over and over and my my marker for if [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► you're studying on your own for a test [TS]

00:55:10 ◼   ► that really matters is you keep giving [TS]

00:55:12 ◼   ► yourself the exact same test again and [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► again until you get a perfect mark and [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► the point of this is not so that you [TS]

00:55:21 ◼   ► know all of the things it's the point of [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► it is to drill the routine stuff into [TS]

00:55:27 ◼   ► your mind so that it's easy to do so [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► that you kind of freed up your brain for [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► the actual difficult things on the real [TS]

00:55:34 ◼   ► test that you're going to face now of [TS]

00:55:37 ◼   ► course this does work way better for a [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► subject like math or physics write [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► something that's real right not not a [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► subject that's like English literature [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► interpretation because there when you're [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► studying for the test [TS]

00:55:51 ◼   ► what you really need to be doing is just [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► a kind of mind reading of the [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► of the teacher and those those subjects [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► are obviously much harder and much more [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► frustrating to study for but i think if [TS]

00:56:05 ◼   ► you get into your mind that you're [TS]

00:56:08 ◼   ► really just playing a game called what [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► does the teacher want to hear and you're [TS]

00:56:13 ◼   ► not actually discussing like a book or a [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► piece of literature i think that's much [TS]

00:56:18 ◼   ► more psychologically easy to deal with [TS]

00:56:20 ◼   ► like okay all i have to do is really [TS]

00:56:22 ◼   ► just try to repeat this person's words [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► back to them in a way that doesn't make [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► it too obvious that I'm just repeating [TS]

00:56:28 ◼   ► their words back to them [TS]

00:56:30 ◼   ► I like that that's what tests are in the [TS]

00:56:32 ◼   ► more subjective areas and my final piece [TS]

00:56:36 ◼   ► of advice here is if there's if there's [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► any kind of project that is like the [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► equivalent of a final exam get all of [TS]

00:56:44 ◼   ► the feedback you can from the actual [TS]

00:56:46 ◼   ► teacher on that project because what [TS]

00:56:49 ◼   ► will happen is almost certainly they [TS]

00:56:51 ◼   ► will just tell you to make changes and [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► just make those changes right just do [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► whatever it is and you will get a better [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► mark and like my my favorite example of [TS]

00:57:00 ◼   ► this was I took an art class in college [TS]

00:57:02 ◼   ► at which I was embarrassingly terribly [TS]

00:57:07 ◼   ► bad at art but it was a requirement that [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► we had to do and I'm like okay this is [TS]

00:57:12 ◼   ► no way I'm going to pass this by being [TS]

00:57:14 ◼   ► good [TS]

00:57:15 ◼   ► that's certainly not going to happen but [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► what I just did all the time was i asked [TS]

00:57:20 ◼   ► the professor like what did she think of [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► this and she would just come over and [TS]

00:57:23 ◼   ► and start drawing like on top of my own [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► projects and instead of being annoyed [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► about that I was always thinking like [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► great this is fantastic [TS]

00:57:33 ◼   ► I'm just accepting what she's doing and [TS]

00:57:35 ◼   ► then when she's marking this what is it [TS]

00:57:38 ◼   ► what has occurred is like she's [TS]

00:57:39 ◼   ► psychologically on board with this [TS]

00:57:41 ◼   ► project being good now is exactly right [TS]

00:57:45 ◼   ► like she has added stuff into this and i [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► have just followed her and so I'm just [TS]

00:57:51 ◼   ► doing what you told me to do is like I [TS]

00:57:53 ◼   ► got an a-plus in that class right not [TS]

00:57:55 ◼   ► everybody did but I got a perfect score [TS]

00:57:57 ◼   ► because I was always just having her [TS]

00:57:59 ◼   ► come along and just like just tell me [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► what to do and I will do it to the best [TS]

00:58:03 ◼   ► of my ability or like you can modify [TS]

00:58:05 ◼   ► this thing directly like go right ahead [TS]

00:58:07 ◼   ► I [TS]

00:58:07 ◼   ► will not be annoyed in the least so [TS]

00:58:10 ◼   ► that's my thoughts if it's a subjective [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► subject understand that it's a [TS]

00:58:14 ◼   ► mind-reading game and just do your best [TS]

00:58:17 ◼   ► if it's a real subject with real answers [TS]

00:58:19 ◼   ► just do the old tests over and over and [TS]

00:58:22 ◼   ► over again there's nothing there's [TS]

00:58:24 ◼   ► nothing better that you can do to [TS]

00:58:25 ◼   ► prepare yourself for that [TS]

00:58:27 ◼   ► here's my other key like the reason why [TS]

00:58:29 ◼   ► I think I go on ok was I paid attention [TS]

00:58:31 ◼   ► in class and tests and make me nervous [TS]

00:58:36 ◼   ► whoo that's why i think i was able to do [TS]

00:58:38 ◼   ► what I did and also controlled for [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► England just keep it going keep going [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► just keep talking to you know it was [TS]

00:58:47 ◼   ► fresh i did a lot of especially if my [TS]

00:58:49 ◼   ► a-levels I did a lot of like just SI [TS]

00:58:51 ◼   ► base courses like I did media politics [TS]

00:58:54 ◼   ► and an English well so just just keep [TS]

00:58:57 ◼   ► writing until the end right you'll get [TS]

00:59:00 ◼   ► them in there you know ski right and [TS]

00:59:02 ◼   ► keep on writing just going just keep [TS]

00:59:04 ◼   ► going [TS]

00:59:04 ◼   ► Charlotte ask but even if you consider [TS]

00:59:07 ◼   ► writing a book if so what would it be [TS]

00:59:10 ◼   ► about [TS]

00:59:11 ◼   ► I know what your answer would be Mike do [TS]

00:59:14 ◼   ► you hear you don't read books there's no [TS]

00:59:16 ◼   ► way you're going to write a book early [TS]

00:59:18 ◼   ► even consider writing a book if I never [TS]

00:59:20 ◼   ► told you that I once started writing a [TS]

00:59:22 ◼   ► book [TS]

00:59:23 ◼   ► I never told you this i don't think so [TS]

00:59:26 ◼   ► many movies this is ringing ringing and [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► ever so slight bell but maybe you did [TS]

00:59:30 ◼   ► help telling many years ago I apologize [TS]

00:59:33 ◼   ► if listeners have heard this story [TS]

00:59:35 ◼   ► before [TS]

00:59:36 ◼   ► many years ago I got multiple tens of [TS]

00:59:39 ◼   ► thousands of words into a podcasting [TS]

00:59:42 ◼   ► guide book [TS]

00:59:44 ◼   ► mm ok it by adding I had an publisher [TS]

00:59:49 ◼   ► attached to it like an indie publisher [TS]

00:59:51 ◼   ► like a harpercollins but like an act [TS]

00:59:53 ◼   ► like an actual company that published [TS]

00:59:56 ◼   ► books [TS]

00:59:56 ◼   ► this was before like I books or anything [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► yeah [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► yeah [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► I was going to get an ISBN number and [TS]

01:00:01 ◼   ► everything and they look at that they [TS]

01:00:02 ◼   ► were going to make it in physical paper [TS]

01:00:06 ◼   ► it was going to be just an e-book is [TS]

01:00:07 ◼   ► going to be any but they were also going [TS]

01:00:08 ◼   ► to make a print-on-demand version and I [TS]

01:00:11 ◼   ► got tens of thousands of words into it [TS]

01:00:13 ◼   ► and realized i don't want to write that [TS]

01:00:16 ◼   ► book [TS]

01:00:17 ◼   ► hmm but it wasn't until I got a long way [TS]

01:00:20 ◼   ► into it before I realized that was the [TS]

01:00:22 ◼   ► thing and the reason is i don't want to [TS]

01:00:26 ◼   ► be responsible for dealing with that [TS]

01:00:30 ◼   ► book for the rest of my life that [TS]

01:00:33 ◼   ► because as I was writing the book like [TS]

01:00:36 ◼   ► over the couple of months i was writing [TS]

01:00:37 ◼   ► the book I was changing the equipment [TS]

01:00:39 ◼   ► that I use and like and I look at the me [TS]

01:00:42 ◼   ► then those many years ago and realized i [TS]

01:00:45 ◼   ► knew nothing about podcast production [TS]

01:00:48 ◼   ► like the actual production compared to [TS]

01:00:51 ◼   ► what i know now so the actual answer is [TS]

01:00:54 ◼   ► would I write a book [TS]

01:00:56 ◼   ► yes i would actually flew but I don't [TS]

01:00:59 ◼   ► know what it would be about I don't like [TS]

01:01:03 ◼   ► writing regularly because I find it [TS]

01:01:07 ◼   ► difficult because you have to spend a [TS]

01:01:12 ◼   ► lot of time going back over what you've [TS]

01:01:13 ◼   ► written but when i get a real bee in my [TS]

01:01:16 ◼   ► bonnet about something i can and do [TS]

01:01:20 ◼   ► write about it and feel like I do it and [TS]

01:01:21 ◼   ► I'm proud of it anywhere i feel like i [TS]

01:01:23 ◼   ► do a job that makes me proud when I [TS]

01:01:26 ◼   ► write something and one of my favorite [TS]

01:01:28 ◼   ► things I've ever written was a review [TS]

01:01:30 ◼   ► for the Apple pencil [TS]

01:01:32 ◼   ► yeah that was good which I'll put it in [TS]

01:01:34 ◼   ► the show notes to people want to read it [TS]

01:01:35 ◼   ► had it for like a few days but like I [TS]

01:01:37 ◼   ► really wanted to write something about [TS]

01:01:38 ◼   ► it and felt like I had an opinion that [TS]

01:01:41 ◼   ► other people don't have because I care [TS]

01:01:43 ◼   ► deeply about actual pens so I had some [TS]

01:01:46 ◼   ► stuff to say [TS]

01:01:47 ◼   ► so you know i would write about me and [TS]

01:01:49 ◼   ► maybe one day like I would really like [TS]

01:01:51 ◼   ► to write a book about my feelings on [TS]

01:01:53 ◼   ► creativity and a lot of stuff that we [TS]

01:01:56 ◼   ► talked about here like the really kind [TS]

01:01:57 ◼   ► of just like write that down [TS]

01:02:00 ◼   ► you know like this is how i feel about [TS]

01:02:02 ◼   ► creative projects and I have this whole [TS]

01:02:04 ◼   ► center around of the idea of sacrifice [TS]

01:02:07 ◼   ► and what it takes to have a side [TS]

01:02:10 ◼   ► business and turn into a real thing [TS]

01:02:11 ◼   ► especially in the creative field [TS]

01:02:13 ◼   ► it's all about sacrifice and the things [TS]

01:02:15 ◼   ► that you have to be willing to like golf [TS]

01:02:17 ◼   ► that's the kind of nugget idea that i [TS]

01:02:19 ◼   ► have but i don't want to do it but [TS]

01:02:21 ◼   ► because i don't want the the work [TS]

01:02:24 ◼   ► involved like I've actually sitting down [TS]

01:02:26 ◼   ► writing it but let's let the short [TS]

01:02:28 ◼   ► answer is like yeah I would but I have [TS]

01:02:31 ◼   ► no intention of doing it right now who [TS]

01:02:34 ◼   ► I'm surprise surprise I man full of [TS]

01:02:37 ◼   ► surprises [TS]

01:02:38 ◼   ► you're like I really am yeah [TS]

01:02:40 ◼   ► multifaceted Mike you are [TS]

01:02:43 ◼   ► yes I mean it would you consider writing [TS]

01:02:45 ◼   ► a book [TS]

01:02:46 ◼   ► the answer is yes I've attempted to do [TS]