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00:00:00 ◼   ► so Mike did you enjoy your court xmas [TS]

00:00:03 ◼   ► little too much i think that's the [TS]

00:00:06 ◼   ► problem with court xmas is it's the time [TS]

00:00:09 ◼   ► when we take a break from work and relax [TS]

00:00:11 ◼   ► for a while and sometimes it's a little [TS]

00:00:14 ◼   ► bit hard to get back into the swing of [TS]

00:00:17 ◼   ► things I've been trying very hard the [TS]

00:00:19 ◼   ► past couple days just to get back into [TS]

00:00:21 ◼   ► working again post holiday season and i [TS]

00:00:24 ◼   ► have just failed repeatedly but this [TS]

00:00:28 ◼   ► recording of cortex was on the schedule [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► you wouldn't let me move it and so it's [TS]

00:00:33 ◼   ► like oh I can hold longer be in denial [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► that the holidays are still going on [TS]

00:00:37 ◼   ► like oh it's january fourth that's still [TS]

00:00:39 ◼   ► sort of christmas new year time right no [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► not anymore [TS]

00:00:42 ◼   ► now we're recording now work for the [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► rest of the year is starting again you [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► try to drop this in in a message [TS]

00:00:50 ◼   ► conversation we had [TS]

00:00:51 ◼   ► we are probably recording a show [TS]

00:00:52 ◼   ► tomorrow youyou full well we were it was [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► just children dish attempt to get out of [TS]

00:00:57 ◼   ► it i just get 1 i'll go [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► yeah but maybe maybe you want to push it [TS]

00:01:04 ◼   ► back you know another week or so i [TS]

00:01:08 ◼   ► received a early Christmas gift in the [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► form of an ipad / coloring book app [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► finally your wishes come true Mike is so [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► glorious as well it's called pigment em [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► and it's two superb visit everything [TS]

00:01:23 ◼   ► that you hoped it would be about ninety [TS]

00:01:25 ◼   ► percent of why would like it to be [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► it's missing a couple of things like it [TS]

00:01:29 ◼   ► doesn't have like narrator blue so if [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► you call something accidentally you have [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► to like go in and select the white color [TS]

00:01:36 ◼   ► and color out again real coloring books [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► don't have erasers if you're a little [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► kid and you're calling with crayon [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► there's no crown eraser they also has an [TS]

00:01:44 ◼   ► undo function so I media you've got to [TS]

00:01:46 ◼   ► embrace the technology i also have like [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► one pencil and an unlimited amount of [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► colors I wanted you to see my work [TS]

00:01:54 ◼   ► there's one of the links in our in our [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► document now yeah is is a selection of [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► my favorite work i mean again make every [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► time I see this coloring book stuff I [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► want to be impressed like I was about to [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► say oh wow that looks really great but [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► then I remember of course you haven't [TS]

00:02:09 ◼   ► drawn any of this [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► the mind to other colors yeah right [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► decide to choose the colors i make it [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► look the way i want and i think i like [TS]

00:02:16 ◼   ► the lion one that's my favorite one [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► those two lines here that there see I [TS]

00:02:21 ◼   ► thought that was a lie until I finished [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► it was like oh it's a bad that's why [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► it's that color [TS]

00:02:25 ◼   ► I thought it was a lion really good [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► teacher gonna be one wants to wants to [TS]

00:02:32 ◼   ► write on that bear great effort ! that [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► you are so condescending of your [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► marketing no you can't be condescending [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► when it's physics physics is either [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► right or it's wrong then it's mostly [TS]

00:02:45 ◼   ► wrong so you never go to say great [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► effort to someone then no because effort [TS]

00:02:49 ◼   ► doesn't count it all and in math and [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► physics so your effort is irrelevant [TS]

00:02:53 ◼   ► this was really easy and you got it [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► right it's worth just as much as you [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► greatly struggling and getting it right [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► talking about struggling yeah you back [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► on the internet so I'm gonna take a [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► guess and say that you are in some ways [TS]

00:03:07 ◼   ► because I i noted that you were tweeting [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► from tweet baht which means that you've [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► at least on some devices you have it [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► installed again I feel like you stalk me [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► Mike because you're looking closely [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► enough to see well what what device have [TS]

00:03:23 ◼   ► by tweeted from like it's a little [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► disconcerting when you're like oh I know [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► that you tweeted from tweet by I'll tell [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► you how I noticed this right see you [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► tweeted a picture of your devices right [TS]

00:03:35 ◼   ► that the home screens it was the [TS]

00:03:37 ◼   ► Christmas decorating for iOS devices [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► yeah so I went on to it and I saw that [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► it said Twitter webclient like so i [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► looked at it because i was going to grab [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► the link to talk about it at some point [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► and it said to a web client and then I [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► started looking around them and then saw [TS]

00:03:53 ◼   ► that there was things coming from we [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► plot because it didn't come from buffer [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► which meant that you were accessing it [TS]

00:03:58 ◼   ► from somewhere [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► mmm this is all show prep gray you have [TS]

00:04:02 ◼   ► that's what it's not stalking its show [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► prep it's not stalking her pro yeah so [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► the the end of the year has come and you [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► know I did the dialing down for november [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► and then I said that was going to extend [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► it for a while and [TS]

00:04:22 ◼   ► I am I am now slowly opening up the [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► gates again to these parts of the [TS]

00:04:30 ◼   ► internet that I have left behind and in [TS]

00:04:34 ◼   ► my own attempted preparing for this show [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► I was trying to think about what are the [TS]

00:04:38 ◼   ► lessons that I have learned from these [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► two months of quasi self-imposed [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► internet isolation can take a quick [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► guess and say you've learned nothing [TS]

00:04:48 ◼   ► yeah well because i like what i want to [TS]

00:04:51 ◼   ► do what i want to do is to come down [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► from high on the mountain like with ipad [TS]

00:04:56 ◼   ► pro in each hand [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► yes chiseled on ipad pro that tells [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► people here's how you should live your [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► internet lives and in the end I I just [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► have this very ambivalent feeling about [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► a lot of it and particularly about [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► Twitter like I'm going to say right at [TS]

00:05:13 ◼   ► the beginning I am very glad that I did [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► this for two months think I think this [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► was definitely something worthwhile to [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► do but it's very hard for me now to know [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► where am I going forward from this like [TS]

00:05:28 ◼   ► twitter is a good example because it's [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► at the intersection of a couple of [TS]

00:05:32 ◼   ► things and like I realize the value that [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► I get out of twitter is being ambient [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► Lee aware of what people in my life who [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► I'm interested in are doing and I've [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► been really aware over the past couple [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► months that a bunch of the people that I [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► follow who I don't instant message with [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► on a regular basis but who I'm friendly [TS]

00:05:56 ◼   ► with like I have no idea what they're [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► doing because I'm not on Twitter and i'm [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► not just seeing what they're up to and [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► so then I have far fewer reasons to just [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► interact with someone [TS]

00:06:07 ◼   ► how do you feel about that the way I [TS]

00:06:09 ◼   ► feel about that is it is a kind of [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► disconnection that I wouldn't say that [TS]

00:06:15 ◼   ► it isn't good but the presence of it is [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► good like I I like a certain amount of [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► ambient awareness of what people are up [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► to [TS]

00:06:27 ◼   ► because in no small part i am the [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► world's worst person at keeping up with [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► people like i am terrible about sending [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► email [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► and I messages to people like I'm just [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► very bad at staying in touch [TS]

00:06:39 ◼   ► this is just something I know about [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► myself everyone I've known about myself [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► for a very long time since I remember [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► however when I was graduating from high [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► school and and going on to college [TS]

00:06:52 ◼   ► everybody was always talking about how [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► like I will keep in touch we'll keep in [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► touch and i would say things like oh [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► yeah we'll keep in touch but inside I [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► was thinking I know I won't keep in [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► touch lightly will never talk ever again [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► that's what's gonna happen here shit [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► yeah it's not one of your strong suits [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► yeah that's exactly right chitchat a [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► certain kind of social grooming is not [TS]

00:07:10 ◼   ► is not my area of strength and so that's [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► where I feel like twitter is an [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► interesting tool for me in that it [TS]

00:07:17 ◼   ► provides a certain amount of value and [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► even just I went through twitter again [TS]

00:07:24 ◼   ► as I was kind of preparing to come back [TS]

00:07:26 ◼   ► online and as you have done I called [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► down the number of people i was [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► following once again so now I'm under a [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► hundred now for how many people are on [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► following so this is the part of Twitter [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► that I i want but then I'm also really [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► aware of one of the things that's been [TS]

00:07:41 ◼   ► great over the past couple months is not [TS]

00:07:45 ◼   ► having just like this source of constant [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► distraction just even available is going [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► on it just like okay this is just simply [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► not an option like it's not installed on [TS]

00:07:56 ◼   ► any of my devices I've set on my [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► computer so it won't open like this [TS]

00:07:59 ◼   ► thing just won't be there and so I I [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► like not having the distraction [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► the other thing is that if I have [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► twitter open the the source of just at [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► messages from random people that I don't [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► know is a source of distraction and so [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► I've been feeling like okay I'm trying [TS]

00:08:18 ◼   ► to figure out how to get back onto the [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► internet with something like twitter i [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► almost wish there was a way on twitter [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► that I could only see at messages from [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► people that I follow you know how you [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► get that [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► well the web version does it right well [TS]

00:08:32 ◼   ► if you're verified when you're talking [TS]

00:08:34 ◼   ► about those on the regular web version [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► there's there's a tab that says like [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► activity from people i follow or [TS]

00:08:39 ◼   ► something like that yeah there is a if [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► you are verified then like there are [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► specific tools that you get the other [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► people don't get which I like that [TS]

00:08:48 ◼   ► Oh [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► isn't that interesting yeah I wonder if [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► anybody who listens to cortex happens to [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► work at Twitter get in touch i would [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► like that as well just to have the tick [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► I don't need a tool like listen if you [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► work at twitter I'll take the reverse of [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► Mike you don't have to give me the [TS]

00:09:06 ◼   ► verified tick I don't care at all about [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► that i just want the tool i just want to [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► be able to see only @ mentions from [TS]

00:09:13 ◼   ► people that I actually follow so that's [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► one of the things that like spending [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► this time away from twitter has [TS]

00:09:18 ◼   ► distilled in my mind what it is that I [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► actually want from twitter which is a [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► subset of what Twitter wants to actually [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► offer me so I'd like I don't really know [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► when we may have an actionable point [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► forward from here from that but I just [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► need to say this because I've always all [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► the people get list will not help lists [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► never help who have anything issues when [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► I went through my Twitter experiment [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► everybody told me that what I wanted was [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► lists and what I don't want these lists [TS]

00:09:48 ◼   ► how do i make the list work well I mean [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► you could say I'm sure there's something [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► you could do with lists because people [TS]

00:09:55 ◼   ► always find things to do with list [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► I've never used a single Twitter list i [TS]

00:09:59 ◼   ► don't even really know what it does [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► just don't it's not going to help you so [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► what about having a at another account [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► you considered that like a private [TS]

00:10:09 ◼   ► account [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► no I don't think that's just too much [TS]

00:10:11 ◼   ► trouble that's just way too much trouble [TS]

00:10:13 ◼   ► this is the last thing I want is to [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► double the twitter when i'm trying to [TS]

00:10:17 ◼   ► think about how do i want less Twitter [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► so what you want is an a.s account with [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► small amount of people that you follow [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► so you don't see too much and you get [TS]

00:10:26 ◼   ► the kind of the ambient what's going on [TS]

00:10:28 ◼   ► in people's lives you feel connected to [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► them and also for you to just see the [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► mentions from the those people as well [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► yeah like I'm up like i just opened up i [TS]

00:10:41 ◼   ► just opened up Tweetbot right now on my [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► computer and you know it sounds like [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► there's a little message that it's like [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► oh there are 200 plus tweet since the [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► last time you looked right but i like [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► the thing is what i really just want to [TS]

00:10:54 ◼   ► know is are there any are there any a [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► dimensions from people who I follow like [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► that is the the valuable sub [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► set of this to me and like there are [TS]

00:11:06 ◼   ► definitely times when I would want to [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► see all the at mentions but i would like [TS]

00:11:10 ◼   ► the default to be just a dimensions from [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► people that I actually follow [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► yeah I guess on the Twitter webpage [TS]

00:11:16 ◼   ► right you can just go to the people you [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► follow as you said and and you can get [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► it so broken down that way [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► is that what you want them yeah the one [TS]

00:11:23 ◼   ► that you have on the Twitter website now [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► I want to be able to have that in a [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► Twitter client that that's precisely [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► what i want a great i have some instant [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► follow up for you in the settings of the [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► official twitter app under the [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► notifications tab you can feel to it to [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► only people you follow okay but that's [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► that's notifications that's not as [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► timeline now which is notifications tab [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► really yeah look at this we're doing [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► some real stuff here [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► look at us I'm going down I'm going to [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► install it right now we're going to see [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► if this works which is a couple a couple [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► of quick things and while twitter is the [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► one that I've been thinking about the [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► most because it's the one that I've had [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► that kind of ambient Lee in my life I've [TS]

00:12:03 ◼   ► also now just be like slowly going back [TS]

00:12:05 ◼   ► on on reddit and hacker news and slowly [TS]

00:12:07 ◼   ► going back to podcasts and things I'm [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► just just trying to figure out precisely [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► what i was saying months ago which is [TS]

00:12:12 ◼   ► what is the place for these things in my [TS]

00:12:16 ◼   ► life and it's [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► it's interesting because i think in some [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► ways one of the clearest lessons is that [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► podcast were definitely this thing that [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► I was listening to way way too much and [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► when like when january first rolled over [TS]

00:12:36 ◼   ► I was like okay let me put podcast back [TS]

00:12:38 ◼   ► on my phone and let me let me try doing [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► this and realize immediately like no way [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► man I think podcast have to stay off [TS]

00:12:44 ◼   ► your phone forever like there can be [TS]

00:12:46 ◼   ► other circumstances in which you listen [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► to podcast like I've been trying just [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► playing podcast like over the speaker at [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► my house while I'm like cleaning up or [TS]

00:12:55 ◼   ► doing the dishes are like putting stuff [TS]

00:12:57 ◼   ► away kind of thing like I'm not sure [TS]

00:12:59 ◼   ► that I can actually just that i really [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► want to have a podcast available all the [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► time wherever I am like I think it's [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► just too much of a distraction and too [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► much of it like I really like listening [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► to podcast so i always want to listen to [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► podcasts so it's just it just makes you [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► think again of that little image of [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► somebody marked up from a previous show [TS]

00:13:19 ◼   ► or is like where they quoted me as [TS]

00:13:22 ◼   ► saying like I don't watch youtube videos [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► and I don't listen to podcasts cgpgrey [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► professional youtuber and podcaster I [TS]

00:13:29 ◼   ► think that it's like that's definitely [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► the case because again two months in I'm [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► really aware that not also following all [TS]

00:13:37 ◼   ► the educational videos and all the [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► educational podcast like that is [TS]

00:13:41 ◼   ► definitely also a big improvement so I [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► think those are those are changes that [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► are going to stay like I don't think i'm [TS]

00:13:46 ◼   ► going to get back into following like [TS]

00:13:49 ◼   ► what are all the other videos that [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► everybody's putting out like i think i'm [TS]

00:13:52 ◼   ► just leaving that behind and all of the [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► various educational podcast shows that I [TS]

00:13:57 ◼   ► listen to like all of those i'm not [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► going to resubscribe to and even the [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► podcast that I do listen to like I i [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► still need to limit those so is it just [TS]

00:14:05 ◼   ► been an interesting interesting [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► experience overall that i'm very glad [TS]

00:14:09 ◼   ► that I have done i would highly [TS]

00:14:11 ◼   ► recommend anybody else if they feel the [TS]

00:14:14 ◼   ► same way that i was about being kind of [TS]

00:14:16 ◼   ► distracted or overwhelmed [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► this is a thing to try maybe not for as [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► long as I've done it but you know [TS]

00:14:21 ◼   ► definitely try it because I i feel like [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► i have some inarticulate sense of away [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► the things should be different like it [TS]

00:14:30 ◼   ► is really hard to talk about because [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► like4like for example i was on hacker [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► news the other day which is a reddit [TS]

00:14:39 ◼   ► like site which hacker news people do [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► not want you to say what are you [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► laughing at you i know you only say [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► because it annoys people don't i don't [TS]

00:14:47 ◼   ► know any other faster way to describe [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► hacker news for people who don't know [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► what hacker news is but it's it's a read [TS]

00:14:52 ◼   ► it like site in some ways but there [TS]

00:14:55 ◼   ► happens to be this the got one of the [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► guys who kind of runs y combinator which [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► runs hacker news is a guy Paul called [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► Paul Graham who have been following for [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► years he's had this very very [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► interesting career and he writes these [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► essays every once in awhile which are [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► very interesting to read and there was [TS]

00:15:11 ◼   ► just a huge big brouhaha on Hacker News [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► over two essays that he wrote recently [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► which were about income inequality and [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► that were just huge discussions about [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► these articles of people arguing like [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► Izzy right is wrong dude he totally [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► missed the point as he has he gotten to [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► the core of something really interesting [TS]

00:15:30 ◼   ► and this is exactly the kind of thing [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► that I just didn't have any exposure to [TS]

00:15:36 ◼   ► over the past couple months not going on [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► these kinds of sites and this to me was [TS]

00:15:41 ◼   ► just a perfect example of like man I [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► just love this kind of stuff there's [TS]

00:15:45 ◼   ► something about certain kinds of people [TS]

00:15:49 ◼   ► arguing on the internet in long comment [TS]

00:15:52 ◼   ► threads that I just love like I just [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► love that and that's the thing that I [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► don't want to eliminate from my life [TS]

00:16:03 ◼   ► like I just I really get into that kind [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► of thing like i love seeing people [TS]

00:16:06 ◼   ► arguing over a topic and I just don't [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► know now how much of that i'm going to [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► necessarily let back in because even [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► just opening opening up the doors again [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► to going back on reddit and hacker news [TS]

00:16:21 ◼   ► it's like boy it's very easy to just [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► some kind of spend an afternoon clicking [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► around looking at everything way past [TS]

00:16:29 ◼   ► the point when you're really feeling [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► like oh this is a great comment thread [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► and you're still just like looking for [TS]

00:16:33 ◼   ► more stuff so so I just don't know I [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► just don't know Mike but for the time [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► being I am back on the Internet to some [TS]

00:16:42 ◼   ► extent today's episode of cortex is [TS]

00:16:44 ◼   ► bored to you kindly by audible [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► calm audible includes more than 180,000 [TS]

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00:17:08 ◼   ► I've been listening to audiobooks for [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► many many years i was looking today at [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► my library of audible books so i could [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► find one to pick my very first audible [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► book was flight of the conchords they [TS]

00:17:20 ◼   ► did a radio production before the TV [TS]

00:17:22 ◼   ► show and that was in 2007 that I got [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► that one out so very happy with [TS]

00:17:28 ◼   ► audible.com over the years and there's a [TS]

00:17:30 ◼   ► book I wanted to recommend today called [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► rework now rework is written by jason [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► freedman David Hannah Maya Hansen [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► 37signals and this is all about the [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► things that they have learned having run [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► a successful business and kind of [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► started it up from nowhere and build a [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► great thing around them and so basically [TS]

00:17:47 ◼   ► it is very straightforward book has a [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► lot of great little sections it's all [TS]

00:17:51 ◼   ► broken down really easily it's nice and [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► clear and it just goes through all of [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► the things that they have learned having [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► run their business and is a really great [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► book for people that want to have their [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► own small business people that want to [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► get out of their day jobs people that [TS]

00:18:04 ◼   ► find themselves stuck and they're [TS]

00:18:06 ◼   ► looking for inspiration and guidance [TS]

00:18:08 ◼   ► this is exactly what this book is about [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► and this is exactly what I think people [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► listening to this show would like to see [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► it's a really great book i think that [TS]

00:18:15 ◼   ► you really like it and you can get it [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► over audible.com / cortex where you can [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► sign up for your 30-day free trial but [TS]

00:18:21 ◼   ► you'll be able to choose from any of the [TS]

00:18:23 ◼   ► 180,000 audio programs or audible offer [TS]

00:18:26 ◼   ► but i would recommend rework was a great [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► starting place [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► thank you so much to audible.com for [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► their support of this show and relay of [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► them so it's january january and january [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► is the time for new years resolutions [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► oh boy so this is something like when I [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► initially thought about talking to you [TS]

00:18:47 ◼   ► about this like I I've had the idea of [TS]

00:18:49 ◼   ► New Year's resolutions in my big topic [TS]

00:18:51 ◼   ► list for a while because I thought it [TS]

00:18:53 ◼   ► would be something interesting to talk [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► about with you and the whole time that [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► I've been thinking about it I can [TS]

00:18:59 ◼   ► not work out in my brain what I think [TS]

00:19:02 ◼   ► you're going to say as to whether you [TS]

00:19:04 ◼   ► set new year's resolutions because the [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► idea for tradition like this seems like [TS]

00:19:10 ◼   ► something you would not get involved [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► with because you tend not to get [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► involved in traditions like this right [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► like everyone does this thing which kind [TS]

00:19:19 ◼   ► of mean it's completely arbitrary but [TS]

00:19:21 ◼   ► the more i think about it it's like [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► goals and objectives which is something [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► that you love so I can't work out if you [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► set new year's resolutions or if you use [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► January as a time for goal and objective [TS]

00:19:36 ◼   ► setting [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► well you got to put some money on the [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► table mike make a bet what do you think [TS]

00:19:43 ◼   ► all right in the traditional sense of a [TS]

00:19:44 ◼   ► new year's resolution i would say that [TS]

00:19:48 ◼   ► you do not do that you are correct [TS]

00:19:51 ◼   ► don't get in the way that I think most [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► people mean it when they say new year's [TS]

00:19:57 ◼   ► resolutions i do not do new years [TS]

00:20:00 ◼   ► resolutions do you know now why don't [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► you do it so I think you might be quite [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► right in your assessment about why I [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► don't do new years resolutions but [TS]

00:20:09 ◼   ► otherwise your reasons as well it's just [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► a pointless like it's pointless to be [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► like always January I'd set those goals [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► i do set goals for myself i have used [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► January as a time to set goals for [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► myself who but not as like a this is my [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► new year's resolution [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► I mean like many people when the new [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► year begins unlike it's like a time for [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► reflection was like okay let me think [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► okay this is something i want to try and [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► do that kind of thing and I've I've used [TS]

00:20:38 ◼   ► it as a way to discuss goals and [TS]

00:20:40 ◼   ► objectives and other shows before like [TS]

00:20:41 ◼   ► we're doing now [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► right and then as part of that set goals [TS]

00:20:44 ◼   ► but I never treat them as like new years [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► resolutions right like the same things [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► like I'm now i am now a low-carb diet [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► gray oh really yeah really yeah because [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► you sound about as happy about it as i [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► do like when I go all in on it at first [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► some fuckin hungry [TS]

00:21:07 ◼   ► of all the time that's the problem but [TS]

00:21:10 ◼   ► the air [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► I you know yeah I dinner is setting [TS]

00:21:16 ◼   ► meals for me because otherwise i just [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► want to do it like and as I said to her [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► a great motivation for me is to not is [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► to just make sure i'm just trying to [TS]

00:21:24 ◼   ► knock her off right for that is this is [TS]

00:21:26 ◼   ► a good motivation in my life and if she [TS]

00:21:28 ◼   ► sets the meals I don't want to get I [TS]

00:21:30 ◼   ► don't want to not do it because then I'm [TS]

00:21:32 ◼   ► going to annoy you put all the work in a [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► great motivational tool for me [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► mhm so i'm i'm doing that and most of [TS]

00:21:39 ◼   ► the time like the meals are fine i just [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► live in a state of constant hunger now [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► and I'm saying this it's been like four [TS]

00:21:45 ◼   ► days but I've been hungry for four days [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► of a little bit cranky i think that was [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► what I didn't want to do the show today [TS]

00:21:51 ◼   ► because now we're like an hour in and I [TS]

00:21:54 ◼   ► feel like I'm gonna pass out but I [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► haven't got anything to eat for the next [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► two hours because I've already a lot of [TS]

00:21:59 ◼   ► things on my meal plan anyway that's [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► what you do have a new year's resolution [TS]

00:22:04 ◼   ► i wouldn't even really call it that it [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► was just like there's no we decided we [TS]

00:22:10 ◼   ► wanted to do this in like late november [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► or whatever and there is no point trying [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► to set something like that up in [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► December yeah yeah of course of course I [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► i have any we knew we were gonna talk [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► about goals today but I i have on here [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► just a note about my own weight goals [TS]

00:22:27 ◼   ► like this is something I've been setting [TS]

00:22:28 ◼   ► and and talking about on on hello [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► internet but I was as as I was in like [TS]

00:22:34 ◼   ► the middle of december i was creeping [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► close to my goal weight of to be under [TS]

00:22:39 ◼   ► 200 pounds and it was something like [TS]

00:22:41 ◼   ► december 15 there's something I was [TS]

00:22:43 ◼   ► thinking boy I really if I really push [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► it for the rest of the month like I [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► could be under 200 pounds before the [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► start of the new year realize like yeah [TS]

00:22:51 ◼   ► what fantasy land to you live and we're [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► doing December 15 in january first is [TS]

00:22:58 ◼   ► going to be the time that you are the [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► most disciplined ever get ever gonna [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► happen and also there was this is [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► probably the one way to do it but then [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► because I knew this was coming [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► I i will blow out the war in December [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► man yeah you're really stuck up [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► oh yeah the week before Christmas I had [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► three lunches that included buggers in [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► the rear [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► days nothing wrong with burgers on the [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► down low carb you know as long as you're [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► not eating the bread [TS]

00:23:25 ◼   ► well that's the thing well that's the [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► thing is that extra bread buckyball have [TS]

00:23:30 ◼   ► all of the bread [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► boy do I miss spread i did have a bagel [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► today which was which was great but ok [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► yeah over 60 yeah you've already fallen [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► down here you haven't I was all the meal [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► plan man [TS]

00:23:42 ◼   ► Paul the meal plan yeah there's no [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► there's no way there's no way a bagel is [TS]

00:23:46 ◼   ► keeping you under your your carbohydrate [TS]

00:23:48 ◼   ► limits huh [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► I know but I don't write the meal plan [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► work a little plants that I could have [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► one so i add one all right I'm gonna [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► have to talk to Audrina then I'm gonna [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► I'm gonna get are sorted on you here [TS]

00:23:59 ◼   ► I feel like she's trying to ease me into [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► it like I get a bagel this week you know [TS]

00:24:05 ◼   ► next now you need to give me her you [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► need to give me my message didn't I need [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► to chat about that is never gonna happen [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► I miami in with some meals right Vitas [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► the other thing is its distance makes me [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► smile a low carb tortillas which have a [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► description is tastes like home meal one [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► are you local club idea what my you [TS]

00:24:29 ◼   ► because you're not home mail right what [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► tastes like almost I don't want to know [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► they were kind of okay you kind of okay [TS]

00:24:36 ◼   ► with a ringing endorsement [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► most of the food I me now is kind of [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► okay but anyway [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► Oh Mike so have you ever set a new [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► year's resolution [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► yeah i think the answer to that is no I [TS]

00:24:53 ◼   ► haven't ever really set a formal new [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► year's resolution [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► I almost feel like maybe this is going [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► to sound horrific be uncharitable when [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► people tell me like this when I used to [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► be at school and and people would talk [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► about their new year's resolutions [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► I swear I always felt like anyone who [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► framed their goal in terms of a new [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► year's resolution all i can hear in my [TS]

00:25:16 ◼   ► mind like you are planning to fail like [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► this yes [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► seems to me the way you're doing it like [TS]

00:25:21 ◼   ► that you might as well people select my [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► new year's resolution is to lose weight [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► or whatever [TS]

00:25:27 ◼   ► ice like in my head I might as well have [TS]

00:25:31 ◼   ► translated into I wish to lose weight [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► like that that's what the new year's [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► resolution sound like to me like people [TS]

00:25:37 ◼   ► making birthday wishes i think that's [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► that's the way it seems to be culturally [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► done i just i almost died i just had a [TS]

00:25:45 ◼   ► really hard time taking anybody [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► seriously who was telling me about their [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► new year's resolutions I feel like there [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► is a small but important difference [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► between New Year's resolution and using [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► January as a time to set a goal [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► yeah i think there is there is a real [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► difference there this there's something [TS]

00:26:01 ◼   ► about the new year's resolution phrased [TS]

00:26:03 ◼   ► in that way that that is just like a [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► wish I i think that's the best way to [TS]

00:26:07 ◼   ► put it yet the reason that the new [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► year's resolution probably began is [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► because january is a great time to make [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► a change but it then over time became [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► this like society thing like oh what's [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► your new year's resolution well if [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► everyone has one I guess I'll stop [TS]

00:26:25 ◼   ► smoking around and then nobody ever does [TS]

00:26:29 ◼   ► right right because we're all [TS]

00:26:30 ◼   ► collectively holding each other's hands [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► right under the exact same thing up [TS]

00:26:34 ◼   ► let's all close our eyes and wish to [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► stop smoking at the same time maybe [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► Santa will bring it making well you are [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► a person who strongly believes in goals [TS]

00:26:44 ◼   ► and objectives the right and not in the [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► the corporate goals and objectives thing [TS]

00:26:50 ◼   ► that you work in a big corporation goals [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► and objectives become kind of a fast at [TS]

00:26:55 ◼   ► least they did for me [TS]

00:26:56 ◼   ► oh yeah how so well it's like your [TS]

00:26:59 ◼   ► objectives to set at the start of the [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► year so at the end of the year they have [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► a reason not to give you a pay rise [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► couch is effectively in big corporations [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► why goals and objectives set for many [TS]

00:27:11 ◼   ► people as we got the goals come down [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► from on high and they say oh you need to [TS]

00:27:15 ◼   ► recheck schools but we know these goals [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► are never reachable so then we can say [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► well we haven't given you a raise is [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► that the other reason for it [TS]

00:27:22 ◼   ► yeah or at least in management positions [TS]

00:27:25 ◼   ► they are used very frequently as a [TS]

00:27:28 ◼   ► reason to not give somebody raised all [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► you didn't meet this performance goal [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► even so all about performance management [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► great that's or that's what goals are [TS]

00:27:36 ◼   ► all about [TS]

00:27:36 ◼   ► but there are that yeah I'm sure that [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► you don't do this you don't give [TS]

00:27:41 ◼   ► yourself a raise another position to [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► just magic money from nowhere to give [TS]

00:27:45 ◼   ► myself a raise [TS]

00:27:46 ◼   ► isn't that what happens when you put out [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► a video isn't that what that is like [TS]

00:27:49 ◼   ► magic money it's not magic from nowhere [TS]

00:27:52 ◼   ► though depends I guess that's the [TS]

00:27:54 ◼   ► feeling of the corporation right like oh [TS]

00:27:56 ◼   ► there's just this gigantic entity which [TS]

00:27:58 ◼   ► can dole out money that from your [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► perspective seems to come from [TS]

00:28:00 ◼   ► absolutely nowhere [TS]

00:28:02 ◼   ► well the fact that like the terms bonus [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► pot I used mhm it's funny because it [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► makes you imagine like at the end of the [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► rainbow right there's a leprechaun [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► distributing everybody's bonuses yep [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► that's that's funny I mean I had a just [TS]

00:28:17 ◼   ► a tiny taste of that being a teacher [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► where we had always had some awful at [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► the various school they were called [TS]

00:28:22 ◼   ► different things but they're always [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► awful they were like self improvement [TS]

00:28:26 ◼   ► targets that you had to you know set for [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► yourself at the beginning of the year [TS]

00:28:30 ◼   ► and hit at the end of the year and one [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► of one of my bosses I always loved her [TS]

00:28:36 ◼   ► because she was really explicit about it [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► she was like okay listen we're just [TS]

00:28:40 ◼   ► we're just gonna set these so that you [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► cannot hit them because you want to be [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► able to say you met all your self [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► improvement goals and I want to be able [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► to take all the boxes that said you met [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► them because if I don't take these boxes [TS]

00:28:52 ◼   ► the people above me are ticking boxes [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► that say i have ticked all the boxes [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► like all we want to do is like tick upon [TS]

00:28:59 ◼   ► bunch of boxes all of the chain that's [TS]

00:29:01 ◼   ► the inverse of what I was suggesting [TS]

00:29:03 ◼   ► like what I'm saying about corporations [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► but like that person is doing it because [TS]

00:29:08 ◼   ► it's beneficial to them [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► well I can some scenarios you might be [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► beneficial to not have people me all of [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► their goals [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► yeah your own the this that's what me [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► like this is this is funny because it is [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► the reverse and then of course I when I [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► was in charge of form of kids i had this [TS]

00:29:25 ◼   ► exact same thing that trickle down onto [TS]

00:29:27 ◼   ► me where i had to have the kids do their [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► little self improvement sheets over the [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► course of the year and just as my boss [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► was explicit with me I always explicitly [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► told those kids [TS]

00:29:37 ◼   ► ok listen here's the deal like this is a [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► bunch of nonsense but we just need to [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► make sure these boxes are ticked at the [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► end of the year and I forget what it was [TS]

00:29:47 ◼   ► but I i used to have a list [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► of 10 that I just told them to pick from [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► like here's goals you click there's no [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► way for me to prove that you haven't [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► done it you can just tell me that you've [TS]

00:29:58 ◼   ► done it and then i can take the box at [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► the end of the year and they were they [TS]

00:30:01 ◼   ► know they were horrible goals like I [TS]

00:30:04 ◼   ► will attempt to be more organized over [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► the course of the year it's like great [TS]

00:30:09 ◼   ► yeah little Susie at the end of the year [TS]

00:30:10 ◼   ► you can just tell me you did it and I [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► can take the box and we can both come on [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► with our lives because if we don't do [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► this then you have to go to like the [TS]

00:30:18 ◼   ► guidance counselor and I have to be [TS]

00:30:20 ◼   ► giving an explanation about why all of [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► my students didn't reach all of their [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► goals is firing the hearts and minds [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► gray i think that is inspiring in its [TS]

00:30:29 ◼   ► own way right to not lie just be like [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► listen this is a valuable skill that i'm [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► parting to you right now [TS]

00:30:36 ◼   ► sometimes work is meaningless and you [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► just need to get it done and nobody [TS]

00:30:41 ◼   ► cares how well it's actually done i [TS]

00:30:43 ◼   ► think that's an invaluable lesson don't [TS]

00:30:46 ◼   ► you think there's a line that I don't [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► mind I don't know about i don't i can't [TS]

00:30:54 ◼   ► i can't say how I feel about that one [TS]

00:30:56 ◼   ► but anyway we today are not talking [TS]

00:30:59 ◼   ► about those kind of corporate academic [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► totally nonsensical existing for [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► entirely other reasons goals [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► we're talking about actual goals that [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► are useful to people i think that's [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► that's what we want to talk a little bit [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► about today [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► now i'm going to assume that you do have [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► lots of these types of goals and a lot [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► of these goals for you measured in [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► metrics that there's a broader context [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► here which is sort of like the opening [TS]

00:31:26 ◼   ► of the show is having a hard time [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► talking about how I felt about the [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► return of social media and its various [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► forms i sometimes have a little bit of a [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► hard time talking about goals because my [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► my view on this is that the [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► the point of having a goal it is not the [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► goal itself but it is to encourage you [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► to be thinking about systems that help [TS]

00:31:57 ◼   ► you reach that goal [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► I mean maybe that sounds obvious but I i [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► have just run across enough people who [TS]

00:32:03 ◼   ► sort of set the goal and then the maybe [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► attempt one or two things to try to [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► reach it they fail at those things and [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► then like the new year's resolutions the [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► goal just gets kind of swept to the side [TS]

00:32:18 ◼   ► and not directly looked at again all [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► traitors like this is impossible [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► yeah we're treated like it's impossible [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► and yeah so I i really feel that the the [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► important thing is to think about it in [TS]

00:32:32 ◼   ► a systems way like the goal is just [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► there to stimulate your mind to think [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► about how you can change things over the [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► course of time to approach that goal and [TS]

00:32:46 ◼   ► yes i agree that having numericals is [TS]

00:32:48 ◼   ► extremely useful i mean i think maybe [TS]

00:32:54 ◼   ► all of my goals can be expressed in [TS]

00:32:56 ◼   ► numerical format I'm just trying I'm [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► trying like mentally run through some of [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► the main things that i have on my list [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► and yeah actually they're all they can [TS]

00:33:06 ◼   ► all be expressed in some numerical form [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► i don't think i have any any goals that [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► are not expressed in in in that way [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► what type of girls do you have sent them [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► and how do you record them like do you [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► have a list of goals [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► yeah actually I do i do keep a list so [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► one of the one of the things ok so let's [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► back up a step 4 seconds I don't do [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► these new year's resolutions you know [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► again I don't wish upon a star that [TS]

00:33:30 ◼   ► things are better than they were because [TS]

00:33:32 ◼   ► that goes nowhere and i also think that [TS]

00:33:35 ◼   ► a year is just a ridiculously long time [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► to try to plan for anything like no one [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► can really plan for anything a year in [TS]

00:33:42 ◼   ► advance so i do reviews basically every [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► quarter and that is my biggest time [TS]

00:33:56 ◼   ► frame over which I really think about [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► stuff [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► and so I do actually have a Yuuzhan the [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► outliner for this but I have a just a [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► list of like the things that I might [TS]

00:34:08 ◼   ► want to attempt this quarter like what [TS]

00:34:12 ◼   ► are the goals for this quarter and I [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► like to think in three months time [TS]

00:34:17 ◼   ► frames because it's it's relatively easy [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► to kind of look back over the past three [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► months and think okay how did things go [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► where did things work where do things [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► not work and look forward three months [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► and think about okay how can I possibly [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► change things you know what could be [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► better i think they think that's just a [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► much much better human timeframe to to [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► think over as opposed to a year because [TS]

00:34:40 ◼   ► really we don't have that many years but [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► then you know you get four times as many [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► quarters reviewing that more frequently [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► allows you to make more course [TS]

00:34:49 ◼   ► corrections then then just trying once a [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► year to change something so what types [TS]

00:34:54 ◼   ► of things all that and in in that list [TS]

00:34:57 ◼   ► well some of the things are private [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► things like the public thing that I can [TS]

00:34:59 ◼   ► say is that we mentioned before like [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► wait so that I have been i've been [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► trying really over the past year to get [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► my weight under 200 pounds which is I [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► have no idea how many kilograms that is [TS]

00:35:11 ◼   ► you wanted two kilograms don't you [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► I don't know kilograms but what you [TS]

00:35:15 ◼   ► don't know kilograms i'm not european [TS]

00:35:17 ◼   ► well I do things in stone and pounds my [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► friend [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► Oh like a good person from the united [TS]

00:35:23 ◼   ► kingdom is the stone has got to be the [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► worst the worst measurement of weight in [TS]

00:35:28 ◼   ► the world [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► yeah it's horrific i don't even know how [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► many pounds or understands like 12-14 [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► they was you just tell me that you [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► measure things in pounds and stones but [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► you don't have any idea about pounds [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► that stuff yeah because i just do what [TS]

00:35:41 ◼   ► the what the scale tells me it tells me [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► like X amount of stone X amount of [TS]

00:35:46 ◼   ► pounds like that's why I need to know [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► but there's nothing I can't find [TS]

00:35:49 ◼   ► anything that does Poundstone [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► conversions because it's just dumb any [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► the conversion tool will do pounds to [TS]

00:35:54 ◼   ► stone [TS]

00:35:55 ◼   ► yeah i'm just typing and just type it [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► into the browser Anderson can do it for [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► you google you have no problem with [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► google won't do that here does know [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► yes well I did it like two days ago okay [TS]

00:36:06 ◼   ► i'm gonna take 200 pounds [TS]

00:36:08 ◼   ► skin stones but i don't i don't want [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► that i want the stones and the pounds [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► not whatever its 14.2 stones [TS]

00:36:17 ◼   ► yes that's 14 stone two pounds no that's [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► not how the point to works mike i will [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► just ask it for that then all right hang [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► on because the point we need to take you [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► back to school into fractions but now [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► you need to do two points to stone in [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► pounds that's what you need to do I feel [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► like I'm i am trying your patience here [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► you are Jessie point2 stone is [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► essentially three pounds accept that [TS]

00:36:43 ◼   ► that's that's where we're going here [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► so did you get an answer yeah I already [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► told you the answer [TS]

00:36:49 ◼   ► what is it 14 14 stone 3 pounds on k so [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► anyway that like that is one of the [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► goals that I've had and I've been [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► working towards this really over the [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► past year and the thing that I've you [TS]

00:37:01 ◼   ► about that goal like is it's not the [TS]

00:37:03 ◼   ► specifics of it it's just that what this [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► is allowed me to don't do is that over [TS]

00:37:08 ◼   ► the last year I keep regularly thinking [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► about like what has gone well with my [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► weight loss what has not gone well with [TS]

00:37:15 ◼   ► my weight loss like what things have [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► changed what things seem to be working [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► and slowly over the course of the year [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► by paying attention to what works and [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► what doesn't work and i have started to [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► cobble together for myself a system of [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► things that work for me and that if i do [TS]

00:37:34 ◼   ► them my weight on average slowly goes [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► down and and like to me that is the [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► important part of this is the system of [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► things that you do not just the actual [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► goal itself but i suppose in most [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► instances the system doesn't reveal [TS]

00:37:51 ◼   ► itself until you've already set the goal [TS]

00:37:53 ◼   ► and start working towards it right and [TS]

00:37:54 ◼   ► that's where the system would fall out [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► in most instances yeah that's exactly it [TS]

00:37:59 ◼   ► like it's it's like you're saying your [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► goal is to travel west and say okay well [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► you need to start moving west and you [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► will figure out good ways to go [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► good ways to travel like eventually [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► you'll work out what to do in your face [TS]

00:38:11 ◼   ► of a mountain right right but the the [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► goal is just the direction that you're [TS]

00:38:16 ◼   ► setting but again i only say this [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► because I just come across many people [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► who seem to think that the goal [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► is the thing and I think you really have [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► to think about it in in terms of systems [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► like what what is it on a daily or [TS]

00:38:30 ◼   ► weekly basis that you are actually doing [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► and be very open to the idea that many [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► things that you will try maybe totally [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► ineffective and the important part here [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► is that you're just reviewing that and [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► thinking was this thing effective [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► hmm it seems to not be so let me change [TS]

00:38:50 ◼   ► that and let me try something different [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► and let me just keep trying a bunch of [TS]

00:38:53 ◼   ► different things and eventually seeing [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► what works and and what doesn't work [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► yeah maybe one of the things is you eat [TS]

00:39:01 ◼   ► whole meal like tortillas i predict that [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► whole meal like tortillas will not be a [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► thing that you will keep in your diet [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► all I predict that as well they're fine [TS]

00:39:13 ◼   ► but i would like something else [TS]

00:39:16 ◼   ► well actually what I want gray is [TS]

00:39:18 ◼   ► regular tortillas right that's what I [TS]

00:39:20 ◼   ► want [TS]

00:39:20 ◼   ► yeah that's what you want right now it's [TS]

00:39:22 ◼   ► not what I get this episode of cortex is [TS]

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00:40:11 ◼   ► you never know what's going to destroy a [TS]

00:40:14 ◼   ► drive at a moment's notice if you don't [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► have back plays on your computer go to [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► backpage.com / cortex and you will get a [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► two week free trial to give it a test [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► drive [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► now maybe you're already backing up with [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► backblaze well they have something new [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► that they want me to talk to you about [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► for IT prefer [TS]

00:40:35 ◼   ► channels it's called backblaze be to [TS]

00:40:38 ◼   ► cloud storage if you're building an app [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► and need cloud storage or want to be [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► able to command your own backup with cl [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► eyes and api's this is for you back [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► please be to cloud storage is one-fourth [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► the cost of what you're probably [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► thinking about right now in your head [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► amazon s3 backblaze is way cheaper it [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► costs just 0.005 dollars per gigabyte [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► there is an open beta available right [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► now so if you're looking to build an app [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► that has cloud storage built into it you [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► want to also go to backblaze dot-com / [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► cortex and check out there be to cloud [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► storage so whether you are just a [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► regular computer user who wants to make [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► sure that all your stuff is backed up or [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► you're building an amazing app with a [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► cloud back-end backblaze is for you once [TS]

00:41:32 ◼   ► again thanks to back plays for [TS]

00:41:34 ◼   ► supporting the show like okay so here's [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► an example actually just to your own [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► particular circumstance about going on a [TS]

00:41:41 ◼   ► low-carb diet so there's various [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► different ways that someone can try to [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► do this to reduce the number of [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► carbohydrates that they take in and when [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► i first tried this I found that it was [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► obviously very effective but it was very [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► hard to stick with over any period of [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► time like man if I can if I'm having a [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► bunch of low carb days in a row like I [TS]

00:42:02 ◼   ► can see on the scale that my weight goes [TS]

00:42:04 ◼   ► down but I was just being honest myself [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► and i'm like okay yeah but I have a hard [TS]

00:42:09 ◼   ► time doing more than 45 days in a row [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► before I just like I need a pizza right [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► you just eat the pizza and so i tinkered [TS]

00:42:17 ◼   ► around with it and eventually discovered [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► that for me anyway like one of the one [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► of the little tweaks that really worked [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► was it's not strictly slow car but like [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► allowing myself to have cheese as part [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► of this diet like little snacks of [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► cheese throughout the day and like that [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► made all of the difference in the world [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► just this little changes like okay this [TS]

00:42:40 ◼   ► is technically a worse slow carb diet [TS]

00:42:43 ◼   ► then I should be doing but this [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► tweak makes enough of a difference to me [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► that it works better over the long run [TS]

00:42:52 ◼   ► like my weight loss might be slower than [TS]

00:42:54 ◼   ► it would be if things were perfect but [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► i'm not a perfect human being and I need [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► something that's like easy to snack on [TS]

00:43:01 ◼   ► that i actually like to snack on [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► it's like this change makes a difference [TS]

00:43:05 ◼   ► so that that to me is like part of the [TS]

00:43:07 ◼   ► system like I'm changing the diet and [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► the way that I eat things to make the [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► changes over the long term [TS]

00:43:15 ◼   ► I like cheese yeah do you like cheese I [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► do like cheese then are you eating [TS]

00:43:20 ◼   ► cheese not as much [TS]

00:43:23 ◼   ► yeah thing you might you might be where [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► I am in a little while Bob so it's a mi [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► mi just kill over Luke so far the jury's [TS]

00:43:39 ◼   ► out [TS]

00:43:39 ◼   ► i'm assuming that not all of your goals [TS]

00:43:41 ◼   ► of personal goals though you have [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► business related goals right we're so [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► this is this is the other things like I [TS]

00:43:46 ◼   ► find it very very helpful to be able to [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► track numerically what it is that I've [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► actually set his goals so with the [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► weight loss thing for example like my [TS]

00:43:59 ◼   ► scale automatically logs the weight and [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► I have spreadsheets about that and I [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► like to be able to look at the trends [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► over the long term like I think that's [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► also a very helpful thing is the longer [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► time frame that you can possibly look at [TS]

00:44:14 ◼   ► something that to me just very helpful [TS]

00:44:17 ◼   ► because it it changes the focus from [TS]

00:44:19 ◼   ► like just today to what is the overall [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► trend and while I to embarrassingly make [TS]

00:44:27 ◼   ► my weight public on twitter because my [TS]

00:44:29 ◼   ► scale tweets automatically when I step [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► on it i do have a bunch of private [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► spreadsheets that I just keep that are [TS]

00:44:35 ◼   ► related to business stuff and so in [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► there is we're just about every month I [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► go through and I take a look at some of [TS]

00:44:45 ◼   ► the numbers for the business that I'm [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► working on and I have a bunch of [TS]

00:44:49 ◼   ► numerical goals that i like to keep an [TS]

00:44:52 ◼   ► eye on and I find it extremely helpful [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► to be able to say look at a graph that's [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► like the business over the last 24 [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► months and see what are the trend lines [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► these guidelines going up are they going [TS]

00:45:03 ◼   ► down which way do I want them to go [TS]

00:45:05 ◼   ► what things that might change that have [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► affected these lines like I almost don't [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► know of any other way to think about and [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► to make progress then this like if if [TS]

00:45:16 ◼   ► you're not tracking it on a line graph [TS]

00:45:19 ◼   ► like I have a very hard time feeling [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► like are you making any progress really [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► like how do you know if you're making [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► any progress [TS]

00:45:25 ◼   ► I think everybody should definitely [TS]

00:45:27 ◼   ► learn at least the basics of how to use [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► excel or how to use numbers to be able [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► to track this kind of stuff [TS]

00:45:33 ◼   ► yeah that was a task that I went for a [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► month or two ago was just like plotting [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► out a few different metrics that my [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► business generates and just looking at [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► how they operate in conjunction of each [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► other many just help me think about what [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► what what do i need to do next [TS]

00:45:50 ◼   ► yeah yeah if you don't have an actual [TS]

00:45:53 ◼   ► thing to look at you you don't realize [TS]

00:45:55 ◼   ► how fuzzy you're thinking is about stuff [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► until you see it in front of you and [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► okay this is exactly what's happening it [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► is i mean the human brain as we [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► discussed before it's like it is a [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► nemesis of yours it's just it remembers [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► things incorrectly it tries to distract [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► you and it is so easy to have a wildly [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► wrong estimate of where you actually are [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► like how much you actually made progress [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► on the thing and you with the weight [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► again going back to that like i have [TS]

00:46:26 ◼   ► found having it on a graph and being [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► able to look at it incredibly helpful [TS]

00:46:30 ◼   ► because it cuts away any of this [TS]

00:46:33 ◼   ► imagination stuff that the brain doesn't [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► like oh how's my we've been changing I [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► think it's been going down like has it [TS]

00:46:39 ◼   ► though like this is that what the graph [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► says no it's not what the graph says it [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► all like your brain just lying to you to [TS]

00:46:44 ◼   ► make you feel better and with business [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► stuff like it's just a shockingly [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► helpful to be able to see that and i [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► think i mentioned before that when i was [TS]

00:46:57 ◼   ► trying to make it full time on youtube I [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► had a goal which was to get to 200,000 [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► subscribers by a particular day and I [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► figured that that like that was the [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► number that i needed to be able to quit [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► and like the way I knew that is because [TS]

00:47:14 ◼   ► i had a [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► spreadsheets that were giving me [TS]

00:47:16 ◼   ► information about ok how much revenue is [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► the YouTube business generating like [TS]

00:47:20 ◼   ► what is the rate of growth here and if i [TS]

00:47:23 ◼   ► can get to this number by this day I can [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► be reasonably confident that this thing [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► has reached the point where it's going [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► to take off and like having that [TS]

00:47:33 ◼   ► spreadsheet was extraordinarily helpful [TS]

00:47:37 ◼   ► like the goal of 200,000 wasn't the [TS]

00:47:41 ◼   ► important thing but that spreadsheet and [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► keeping track of it was extremely [TS]

00:47:45 ◼   ► important because it kept bringing my [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► mind back to this idea of okay how can [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► we get more subscribers and had little [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► calculations on there like how many days [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► are left how many subscribers short mi [TS]

00:47:57 ◼   ► so I like on average how many [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► subscribers per day do i need to pick up [TS]

00:48:00 ◼   ► like focusing on that is the really [TS]

00:48:03 ◼   ► helpful thing like that is [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► extraordinarily helpful one of my big [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► goals and it was a goal that I set which [TS]

00:48:10 ◼   ► is a pretty simple goal for me is just [TS]

00:48:12 ◼   ► knowing how much money the business she [TS]

00:48:14 ◼   ► needs to generate on a monthly basis [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► through to keep everyone in a good kind [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► of saying that's an important goal that [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► I try meat which is a good one for me [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► which is informed by a lot of that kind [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► of planning stuff minutes [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► it's funny but it is a goal right the [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► best amount of money i have to get every [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► month and I now know the system in place [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► which helps me try and get that and [TS]

00:48:36 ◼   ► there are things that are outside of my [TS]

00:48:37 ◼   ► control but then when things are outside [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► of my control I then learn how to [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► control them differently the next time [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► yeah that's exactly you have to plan for [TS]

00:48:44 ◼   ► stuff not always going right looking [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► that's that's part of it and I think [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► that's where people often fail on the [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► goals like all the first time they [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► failed is like a okay well you know put [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► it to the side like but no no you don't [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► understand you can build a system to be [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► prepared for certain kinds of failures [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► like that's that's a that's a super [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► important part of this like this is all [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► this is all part of the system is trying [TS]

00:49:08 ◼   ► to figure out how to put in buffers for [TS]

00:49:11 ◼   ► examples that it's like something goes [TS]

00:49:13 ◼   ► wrong then you have a little bit of a [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► backup to to fall back on [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► but if you have like i'm going to guess [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► that for you just simply knowing that [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► you have a certain number in terms of [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► advertising revenue that you [TS]

00:49:27 ◼   ► you need to hit every month like that [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► probably focuses your mind more when you [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► are in selling advertising mode like you [TS]

00:49:36 ◼   ► you know what the minimum bar is that [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► you need to hit ya also adds pressure in [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► its own way Lou but the pressure is [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► there for a reason [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► yeah the pressure is there to make you [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► actually do something which is useful [TS]

00:49:50 ◼   ► yeah especially when you're on a low [TS]

00:49:52 ◼   ► carb diet right when you just want to [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► lay on the couch and do nothing at all [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► that's what you want to do right now [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► yeah it really is it really is [TS]

00:50:03 ◼   ► look this this chair i'm saying is not [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► optimal for my current state [TS]

00:50:08 ◼   ► yeah it's to optimally comfortable with [TS]

00:50:10 ◼   ► the novel in the inverse I want to be in [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► a relaxing chair i'm in an uncomfortable [TS]

00:50:15 ◼   ► chair [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► oh poor Mike hmm doesn't sound like your [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► systems working very well right now [TS]

00:50:22 ◼   ► no not right now i got talk to them [TS]

00:50:24 ◼   ► place down I'm going to we're gonna find [TS]

00:50:28 ◼   ► out our contact information so to me I [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► think if any if anybody is in the mind [TS]

00:50:34 ◼   ► frame right now of setting goals which [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► they may very well be because it's [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► January new year's resolution time [TS]

00:50:42 ◼   ► yeah yeah wishing time to me that like [TS]

00:50:45 ◼   ► the most the most fundamental thing is [TS]

00:50:49 ◼   ► just continually revisiting whatever it [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► is you're trying to do and like this [TS]

00:51:01 ◼   ► this is how a person changes their life [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► is by setting up a continuous [TS]

00:51:09 ◼   ► self-evaluation loop and it's not [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► strictly speaking goals but when I think [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► back to like a real changing point in my [TS]

00:51:19 ◼   ► life was when I started doing that [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► getting things done and i came across a [TS]

00:51:25 ◼   ► system which talked about how to [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► organize things it wasn't even so much [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► the getting things done system i always [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► think the thing that mattered the most [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► like the absolute life-changing thing [TS]

00:51:35 ◼   ► was that after reading getting things [TS]

00:51:37 ◼   ► done book I had a notebook in my pocket [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► always that i wrote things down in and I [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► routinely went back and looked through [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► the things that i wrote down and like [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► that little tiny loop of don't want to [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► call itself accountability but just like [TS]

00:51:58 ◼   ► a self-reflection loop like looking at [TS]

00:52:00 ◼   ► the things you wrote down last week and [TS]

00:52:02 ◼   ► kind of forcing in your mind much more [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► clearly the notion of like oh there's a [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► past me and there's a current me who's [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► reading this thing that past me wrote [TS]

00:52:10 ◼   ► and there's a future me who will read [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► the things that current me is now [TS]

00:52:14 ◼   ► writing I think setting up this i [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► dislike temporal responsibility is how [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► you can bootstrap your life into a [TS]

00:52:23 ◼   ► better situation and so if they give you [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► if you're trying to set some goals the [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► important thing is whatever you want to [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► do make sure that you are really [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► visiting them on a regular basis think [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► this is the absolute key because if you [TS]

00:52:40 ◼   ► force yourself to keep revisiting them [TS]

00:52:43 ◼   ► if you're not getting closer to your [TS]

00:52:47 ◼   ► goals it forces you to think about why [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► like what is it that has happened over [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► the past week or two weeks that has not [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► caused motion in the direction that you [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► want like that is really the key thing [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► is this self-evaluation loop keep [TS]

00:53:04 ◼   ► re-visiting it keep thinking about it [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► consciously because if you don't it just [TS]

00:53:09 ◼   ► goes away and I think that's why the new [TS]

00:53:11 ◼   ► year's resolutions go away is because [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► people think about them on january first [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► and then they just don't really think [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► about them ever again [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► like that's that's why they just [TS]

00:53:21 ◼   ► disappear over time like that to me is [TS]

00:53:25 ◼   ► is the real core and that that is like [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► the fundamental system of all systems is [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► the very notion of just re visiting what [TS]

00:53:35 ◼   ► it is that you do and thinking about it [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► like think that is the thing that [TS]

00:53:39 ◼   ► changed my life having a little notebook [TS]

00:53:41 ◼   ► and going back to it on a regular basis [TS]

00:53:44 ◼   ► it hardly even mattered what I wrote [TS]

00:53:45 ◼   ► down in the beginning bunch of nonsense [TS]

00:53:46 ◼   ► probably but like that's where it starts [TS]

00:53:50 ◼   ► great the time has come to return to ask [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► cortex it's been a long time [TS]

00:53:57 ◼   ► yeah we have maybe what was it three [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► shows where we were so busy talking [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► about ipad bros we didn't have any time [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► to talk about it so much stuff to talk [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► about [TS]

00:54:07 ◼   ► there's something ipad stories to tell I [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► have many more but I'm holding away I [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► have to say I I am filled with more ipad [TS]

00:54:15 ◼   ► pro stories but if you like I am [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► consciously refraining yeah because I [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► could I could talk about it for forever [TS]

00:54:22 ◼   ► and I will but we're trying to put [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► trying to pull back today we thought we [TS]

00:54:26 ◼   ► would revisit ask cortex so worry not [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► see Android user decides it was on the [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► reddit subreddit from first-time caller [TS]

00:54:37 ◼   ► which I love as the as the mood for the [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► question I have a boring monkey office [TS]

00:54:41 ◼   ► job and I want to leave i started doing [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► some freelance work on the side in the [TS]

00:54:45 ◼   ► morning with some success [TS]

00:54:46 ◼   ► do you think i can leave my job I own [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► about 47,000 pounds in my work and I'm [TS]

00:54:51 ◼   ► freelancing and about 1800 a month [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► should I make the jump so my feeling on [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► this would be that they should because [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► 1800 a month freelancing when you're [TS]

00:55:02 ◼   ► also working a full-time job is pretty [TS]

00:55:05 ◼   ► good going like you're pulling in some [TS]

00:55:07 ◼   ► serious money at that point like this [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► isn't just like all be mm and I think [TS]

00:55:12 ◼   ► that if you can pull in 1800 a month [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► when you're still working a full-time [TS]

00:55:16 ◼   ► job if you were able to devote yourself [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► to that freelancing work if that's what [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► you want to do that freelance work [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► mm then I think that you should do it [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► because that was the mindset that I was [TS]

00:55:27 ◼   ► in I was pulling in you know from from [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► relay a good amount of money like it was [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► probably like two-thirds of my wage or [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► something before I made the jump because [TS]

00:55:37 ◼   ► i felt like if i can just in my evening [TS]

00:55:40 ◼   ► hours and in my spare time pull this [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► amount of money and imagine how much I [TS]

00:55:44 ◼   ► could do if I was able to put all of my [TS]

00:55:47 ◼   ► money into it and also some of your [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► expenditure will probably go down if you [TS]

00:55:53 ◼   ► stop traveling to an office every day [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► you know all those sort of things when [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► you start adding them up it can really [TS]

00:55:58 ◼   ► help and so for me I would say that if [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► you are in this situation if your own in [TS]

00:56:03 ◼   ► good money but you're freelance staying [TS]

00:56:05 ◼   ► at the thing you want to do I think that [TS]

00:56:08 ◼   ► you should probably give it give it a go [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► of course there's not a huge amount of [TS]

00:56:13 ◼   ► detail here so we have to do some [TS]

00:56:15 ◼   ► speculation [TS]

00:56:16 ◼   ► yeah and so I just just run the numbers [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► so they're pulling in about twenty-one [TS]

00:56:22 ◼   ► twenty-two thousand pounds a year so we [TS]

00:56:24 ◼   ► think we can say they're earning let me [TS]

00:56:26 ◼   ► just rounding it off either learning [TS]

00:56:28 ◼   ► about half as much from their [TS]

00:56:30 ◼   ► freelancing and learning from their [TS]

00:56:31 ◼   ► actual work right which is pretty good I [TS]

00:56:34 ◼   ► guess it's like here's here i might be i [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► might be slightly more risk-averse than [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► you are because there's two things that [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► I would want to know to feel really [TS]

00:56:45 ◼   ► confident about answering this question [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► the first is I would want to know if the [TS]

00:56:49 ◼   ► person has any kind of buffer fund so i [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► think when i left my teaching job I had [TS]

00:57:00 ◼   ► I think it was maybe like three months [TS]

00:57:04 ◼   ► worth of expenses in the bank [TS]

00:57:06 ◼   ► like I just as like total emergency kind [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► of everything turns to crap immediately [TS]

00:57:10 ◼   ► in a way that I didn't expect money [TS]

00:57:12 ◼   ► maybe it was closer to four months i [TS]

00:57:14 ◼   ► don't remember exactly but so I think [TS]

00:57:17 ◼   ► justjust for sheer sanity i would i [TS]

00:57:19 ◼   ► would want before making a leap like [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► this to have some emergency backup money [TS]

00:57:25 ◼   ► and i had none [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► yeah see that's terrifying to me that's [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► because I spent all my life savings [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► basically start in the business blue and [TS]

00:57:34 ◼   ► because why quit on a whim writing they [TS]

00:57:37 ◼   ► had a decision to quit was on a whim it [TS]

00:57:39 ◼   ► was the plan but it wasn't gonna be when [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► it was right and I kind of just [TS]

00:57:42 ◼   ► dissipate the decision in like a flash [TS]

00:57:45 ◼   ► and did it and it worked out fine but i [TS]

00:57:50 ◼   ► would agree that yeah but what's to keep [TS]

00:57:53 ◼   ► that in mind for your time caller [TS]

00:57:55 ◼   ► listening to Mike's advice in an ideal [TS]

00:57:57 ◼   ► world I maybe wouldn't have done it the [TS]

00:57:58 ◼   ► way that I did it was just the way that [TS]

00:58:00 ◼   ► I ended up doing it [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► yeah so that's one thing i would i would [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► want to know that this the second thing [TS]

00:58:07 ◼   ► is 44 people I know who have gone full [TS]

00:58:13 ◼   ► time like self-employed this [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► one of the really key features is like [TS]

00:58:19 ◼   ► okay so this person says they're doing [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► freelance work on the side in the [TS]

00:58:22 ◼   ► morning so i presume that before work [TS]

00:58:24 ◼   ► they're doing i don't know whatever it [TS]

00:58:26 ◼   ► is they do they don't specify they're [TS]

00:58:28 ◼   ► like you inspire dungeon in the spider [TS]

00:58:31 ◼   ► dungeon [TS]

00:58:32 ◼   ► yeah I was basically the way you [TS]

00:58:33 ◼   ► described it to me the first time on the [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► show you saying your whole thing as [TS]

00:58:37 ◼   ► violence so I think we're dungeon threw [TS]

00:58:41 ◼   ► me off there is going to remember that [TS]

00:58:43 ◼   ► was a harsh word but you can imagine my [TS]

00:58:46 ◼   ► mental image are you doing your work [TS]

00:58:48 ◼   ► I really do imagine you genuinely just [TS]

00:58:50 ◼   ► on a stall in like a dungeon looking [TS]

00:58:53 ◼   ► room with your laptop on you on your [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► legs that's how I imagined keys to do [TS]

00:58:57 ◼   ► your work in the mornings after send you [TS]

00:58:59 ◼   ► a picture of it sometime [TS]

00:59:00 ◼   ► yeah i had i did my I did the writing [TS]

00:59:03 ◼   ► work in the evening but i did my [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► different attempt at becoming full-time [TS]

00:59:07 ◼   ► self-employed that didn't pan out was I [TS]

00:59:09 ◼   ► did you a different kind of freelance [TS]

00:59:10 ◼   ► work before work started but that's [TS]

00:59:13 ◼   ► another story but so I guess what I'm [TS]

00:59:16 ◼   ► trying to work with is I think a key [TS]

00:59:17 ◼   ► piece of information that I've heard [TS]

00:59:19 ◼   ► from other people as well is the [TS]

00:59:21 ◼   ► question of demand for whatever it is [TS]

00:59:26 ◼   ► you're doing [TS]

00:59:26 ◼   ► freelancing on the side so I think like [TS]

00:59:29 ◼   ► okay maybe if we put aside emergency [TS]

00:59:32 ◼   ► fund money for a moment a really [TS]

00:59:33 ◼   ► interesting question is are you running [TS]

00:59:37 ◼   ► out of spare time to do your side [TS]

00:59:40 ◼   ► project because there is enough demand [TS]

00:59:42 ◼   ► for it again I i think that is a really [TS]

00:59:45 ◼   ► interesting point to reach when you [TS]

00:59:48 ◼   ► realize like you are not able to fill [TS]

00:59:51 ◼   ► the demand with the number of hours that [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► you actually have and so if for this [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► person and for anybody else who works [TS]

00:59:58 ◼   ► person and for anybody else who works [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► themselves into that same situation I [TS]

01:00:01 ◼   ► think that like that is a good [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► indication that maybe you can leave your [TS]

01:00:05 ◼   ► job is when people are demanding more of [TS]

01:00:08 ◼   ► your time then you actually have [TS]

01:00:11 ◼   ► available so because the person is [TS]

01:00:15 ◼   ► currently earning about half of what [TS]

01:00:17 ◼   ► their full-time job is if they're in a [TS]

01:00:19 ◼   ► situation where they have hours [TS]

01:00:23 ◼   ► available to fill with client work but [TS]

01:00:26 ◼   ► no clients to actually fill it like then [TS]

01:00:28 ◼   ► that wouldn't be a good indication that [TS]

01:00:30 ◼   ► this is a this is a great time to jump [TS]

01:00:31 ◼   ► ship so I am much more cautious here I [TS]

01:00:34 ◼   ► don't know but if this person has an [TS]

01:00:38 ◼   ► emergency fund and also has clients or [TS]

01:00:41 ◼   ► whatever they're doing like wanting more [TS]

01:00:43 ◼   ► of their time than is available then i [TS]

01:00:45 ◼   ► would say yes those are both really good [TS]

01:00:47 ◼   ► indications that you should make the [TS]

01:00:50 ◼   ► jump and leave your boring monkey office [TS]

01:00:54 ◼   ► job which it sounds like you love and [TS]

01:00:57 ◼   ► again look of all the caveats because i [TS]

01:00:59 ◼   ► don't know any of the information the [TS]

01:01:02 ◼   ► worst that could happen you just have to [TS]

01:01:03 ◼   ► go get another job if it doesn't work [TS]

01:01:05 ◼   ► out [TS]

01:01:05 ◼   ► you're clearly an employable person [TS]

01:01:07 ◼   ► you're running good salary you have the [TS]

01:01:11 ◼   ► skills to a freelancing job you could [TS]

01:01:13 ◼   ► get another job [TS]

01:01:14 ◼   ► yeah yeah I mean 47,000 pounds that's [TS]

01:01:16 ◼   ► already pretty well above the median [TS]

01:01:18 ◼   ► income in the UK so they are an [TS]

01:01:21 ◼   ► employable person [TS]

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