00:00:00 ◼ ► I have some follow-up the weirdest jumping into this ok well do you want it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/0">TS</a>]
00:00:06 ◼ ► never to lie I figure we just do it see what happens [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/6">TS</a>]
00:00:10 ◼ ► go for it follow up after last week's traumatizing experience I've taken some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/10">TS</a>]
00:00:17 ◼ ► steps in my life to try and change my habits it was not dramatizing it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/17">TS</a>]
00:00:22 ◼ ► chosen for me I was thinking about what I'd done okay so in our show nerds you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/22">TS</a>]
00:00:31 ◼ ► will find two images and if you click those images you will see how my iphone [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/31">TS</a>]
00:00:36 ◼ ► currently looks still rockin that background wallpaper yeah that's the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/36">TS</a>]
00:00:43 ◼ ► next step is baby steps baby steps I was hoping for a bit more congratulations [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/43">TS</a>]
00:00:50 ◼ ► over what I've done to my home screen saying that the first thing that catches [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/50">TS</a>]
00:00:54 ◼ ► my eye wallpaper for for the listeners mike has gone from three iPhone screens [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/54">TS</a>]
00:01:00 ◼ ► down to two if you show me everything looks like you just have to and your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/60">TS</a>]
00:01:06 ◼ ► home screen now is a nice row of four by four instead of four by seven or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/66">TS</a>]
00:01:13 ◼ ► whatever the heck it was last time and you have any folders or any other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/73">TS</a>]
00:01:16 ◼ ► nonsense no periscope on your homepage I would say this this looks much improved [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/76">TS</a>]
00:01:23 ◼ ► this till there's still room for improvement [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/83">TS</a>]
00:01:25 ◼ ► the wallpaper obviously the four icons in the dock the very fact that Twitter [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/85">TS</a>]
00:01:29 ◼ ► is on your phone but much much improved [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/89">TS</a>]
00:01:33 ◼ ► I will congratulate you on your baby step said my my main problem right now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/93">TS</a>]
00:01:38 ◼ ► is I want to have one more row of icons I don't want to have to gaps like a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/98">TS</a>]
00:01:44 ◼ ► double space that's not really what I want but I can't think of for apps to go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/104">TS</a>]
00:01:49 ◼ ► there you know I have a solution for this problem of yours if you put for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/109">TS</a>]
00:01:52 ◼ ► folders as the very top row on your phone then you won't have the double gap [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/112">TS</a>]
00:01:58 ◼ ► so that's something I want to do but I cannot bring myself [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/118">TS</a>]
00:02:04 ◼ ► everything else on my second screen 24 photos I tried and this was at the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/124">TS</a>]
00:02:08 ◼ ► moment as far as I could go and I'm tryin I'm tryin select the EC on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/128">TS</a>]
00:02:15 ◼ ► second green have those for apps I a right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/135">TS</a>]
00:02:17 ◼ ► scratch in Boston spark day like testing out some trying those which is why [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/137">TS</a>]
00:02:23 ◼ ► they're there but putting all those folders in like a try to put clock and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/143">TS</a>]
00:02:28 ◼ ► settings into folders and couldn't do that because they're too like muscle [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/148">TS</a>]
00:02:32 ◼ ► memory to then I only really have space for 20 sits in horrible basically after [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/152">TS</a>]
00:02:37 ◼ ► we recorded last week I was going to meet a friend and I had like a 90 minute [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/157">TS</a>]
00:02:41 ◼ ► train journey for 90 minutes i SAT and did this to any like disgusted at myself [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/161">TS</a>]
00:02:47 ◼ ► i'd satin moved out surrounding my screen iPhone felt like it was on fire [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/167">TS</a>]
00:02:52 ◼ ► if there's if there's one thing we know it's that rearranging icons on iOS is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/172">TS</a>]
00:02:58 ◼ ► pleasurable experience not frustrating in the slightest to try and move icons [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/178">TS</a>]
00:03:03 ◼ ► around on iOS they make that they make that really great lovely lovely the way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/183">TS</a>]
00:03:08 ◼ ► Apple handles that and I'm starting to get used to it a little bit more but I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/188">TS</a>]
00:03:13 ◼ ► still sometimes like I don't even know where anything is anymore and then I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/193">TS</a>]
00:03:16 ◼ ► kind of have a tiny tiny break down and I get over it you search I'm glad this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/196">TS</a>]
00:03:22 ◼ ► podcast is improving your life seems well it's better now than it was a week [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/202">TS</a>]
00:03:31 ◼ ► so great last week we spoke about the devices that use this week I want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/211">TS</a>]
00:03:37 ◼ ► talk about where you use them working environments as well because I know that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/217">TS</a>]
00:03:43 ◼ ► you have a selection of places that you like to do your work in so I want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/223">TS</a>]
00:03:47 ◼ ► kind of talk about them and understand why you have so many in kind of what the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/227">TS</a>]
00:03:52 ◼ ► different uses are free to them I also want to talk about this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/232">TS</a>]
00:03:57 ◼ ► redundant bag thing that you have ok where you want to start so I think I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/237">TS</a>]
00:04:04 ◼ ► have a no matter where you are a set of things that you like to have around you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/244">TS</a>]
00:04:10 ◼ ► at all times right there is i imagine that there is a even though the location [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/250">TS</a>]
00:04:15 ◼ ► changes in some of the component change that there is a kind of a template of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/255">TS</a>]
00:04:19 ◼ ► things you like to have I have a minimal functional working environment I guess [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/259">TS</a>]
00:04:25 ◼ ► is sounds like what you're kind of asking about which is what what is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/265">TS</a>]
00:04:29 ◼ ► smallest number of things that I required to effectively get work done [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/269">TS</a>]
00:04:33 ◼ ► and there would be an iPad and external keyboard for that iPad and iPad stand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/273">TS</a>]
00:04:43 ◼ ► that's without those things I'm probably not going to get very much done and that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/283">TS</a>]
00:04:49 ◼ ► is the minimum number of things that I would require to have effective little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/289">TS</a>]
00:04:54 ◼ ► office environment from traveling for example so that tends to always be a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/294">TS</a>]
00:04:58 ◼ ► computer devices subscription Werribee your iPad or MacBook Air right now all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/298">TS</a>]
00:05:04 ◼ ► your Mac yes yes there's a computing device of some kind and there is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/304">TS</a>]
00:05:10 ◼ ► keyboard to type is that what you're asking about I am put things into [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/310">TS</a>]
00:05:13 ◼ ► computers that is how I is how I work I work with computers [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/313">TS</a>]
00:05:17 ◼ ► yeah I wondered if maybe cause I know the huge you write scripts on paper [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/317">TS</a>]
00:05:21 ◼ ► sometimes the things that you do when you do that you like to shoot computers [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/321">TS</a>]
00:05:27 ◼ ► do you go somewhere and just with enough or you know you still in that kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/327">TS</a>]
00:05:31 ◼ ► scenario does a computer and still I am capable of getting work done with out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/331">TS</a>]
00:05:37 ◼ ► any computers under certain circumstances because the main thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/337">TS</a>]
00:05:41 ◼ ► that takes up most of my working time is raiding and largely rewriting and so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/341">TS</a>]
00:05:49 ◼ ► sometimes that writing can take three different forms I either need to talk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/349">TS</a>]
00:05:57 ◼ ► through a script that I'm working on out loud I need to write that script or edit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/357">TS</a>]
00:06:06 ◼ ► or sometimes I do print out the scripts and then I edit them by hand it's that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/366">TS</a>]
00:06:13 ◼ ► last mode which is an interesting one for me sometimes because the writing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/373">TS</a>]
00:06:20 ◼ ► process is is weird I'm aware that sometimes my brain just feels a great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/380">TS</a>]
00:06:26 ◼ ► resistance to writing ago don't wanna write today and sometimes rating with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/386">TS</a>]
00:06:32 ◼ ► paper and pen is a way to kind of force my brain to get started on this project [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/392">TS</a>]
00:06:39 ◼ ► so on some mornings if I can just feel that there is some resistance to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/399">TS</a>]
00:06:44 ◼ ► actually wanting to get work done today one of the tricks that I can do is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/404">TS</a>]
00:06:48 ◼ ► basically just grabbed some printouts of the project that I am currently working [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/408">TS</a>]
00:06:52 ◼ ► on and a pen and then just go off and go to a cafe nearby and just only have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/412">TS</a>]
00:07:00 ◼ ► those items with me and this is a way to kind of force myself to work out of just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/420">TS</a>]
00:07:05 ◼ ► sheer lack of options there's nothing else to do you don't have your computer [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/425">TS</a>]
00:07:09 ◼ ► with you you just have some paper and you just have a pen and there's there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/429">TS</a>]
00:07:14 ◼ ► nothing else there's only this so I guess we're going to sit down bringing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/434">TS</a>]
00:07:17 ◼ ► you and me and we're going to edit this group together so that really is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/437">TS</a>]
00:07:22 ◼ ► minimum minimum working environment but that's not that's not a very frequent [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/442">TS</a>]
00:07:28 ◼ ► thing that happens that's more like a little a little brain trick for myself [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/448">TS</a>]
00:07:31 ◼ ► to try to get things started that on a day when they might not otherwise get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/451">TS</a>]
00:07:35 ◼ ► started when you're in that kind of isolation mode do you have your phone [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/455">TS</a>]
00:07:39 ◼ ► yeah that's that's the tricky thing is I try not to bring the phone with me and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/459">TS</a>]
00:07:46 ◼ ► obviously it is way more effective if I don't bring the phone with me cause then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/466">TS</a>]
00:07:50 ◼ ► you'd literally have nothing in 1995 have gone to a place I have I have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/470">TS</a>]
00:07:58 ◼ ► nothing with me and that is there's one place where I have done a little bit of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/478">TS</a>]
00:08:03 ◼ ► very limited experimentation now with the Apple watch because having [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/483">TS</a>]
00:08:08 ◼ ► headphones in music is really helpful that's kind of the the breaking point [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/488">TS</a>]
00:08:12 ◼ ► here as I always think well I do want to bring just my phone so I can listen to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/492">TS</a>]
00:08:16 ◼ ► to block out all of the other people in the cafe but then you know your trixie [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/496">TS</a>]
00:08:20 ◼ ► trixie brain is like hey on the phone there's things that are not work maybe [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/500">TS</a>]
00:08:25 ◼ ► and so the watch has actually been helped by a couple times now with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/505">TS</a>]
00:08:29 ◼ ► watch just pairing Bluetooth headphones to the watch and going out with just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/509">TS</a>]
00:08:33 ◼ ► some papers and a pen and then sitting down a writing because then there really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/513">TS</a>]
00:08:37 ◼ ► aren't there really are no other options that's really interesting as an idea and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/517">TS</a>]
00:08:42 ◼ ► i dont have looted have done so I'd never even considered it but I haven't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/522">TS</a>]
00:08:46 ◼ ► put any music on my watch talk as I have no way of playing it but that's that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/526">TS</a>]
00:08:50 ◼ ► really smart that's one of those things we like this device does make a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/530">TS</a>]
00:08:56 ◼ ► the other thing is just as a general working philosophy I feel like you have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/536">TS</a>]
00:09:01 ◼ ► to be really open to tricking your own brain it's a mistake to think of your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/541">TS</a>]
00:09:08 ◼ ► brain as a kind of adversary in some ways that I love that that's really I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/548">TS</a>]
00:09:13 ◼ ► like that a lot but it's true that they give your brain is you know it's like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/553">TS</a>]
00:09:20 ◼ ► 80% monkey and 20% human is is how the brain is an and you just have to hope [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/560">TS</a>]
00:09:25 ◼ ► that the human is able to to be in control but you know there are plenty of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/565">TS</a>]
00:09:31 ◼ ► times when the human brain is not going to be in control and you have to like a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/571">TS</a>]
00:09:34 ◼ ► plan for those contingencies about what kind of structure can we set up so that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/574">TS</a>]
00:09:38 ◼ ► the monkey doesn't have any options except to do to do what I want and that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/578">TS</a>]
00:09:42 ◼ ► is very hardly get billions really easy to say is very very hard to do and so a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/582">TS</a>]
00:09:49 ◼ ► lot of a lot of things in my working environment are about trying to minimize [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/589">TS</a>]
00:09:54 ◼ ► any kind of friction like trying to do have really clear guidelines for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/594">TS</a>]
00:09:59 ◼ ► overlooking the work it's over here and it's easy to do and but the other the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/599">TS</a>]
00:10:05 ◼ ► the writing with no other options is like a bit like a last resort of trying [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/605">TS</a>]
00:10:11 ◼ ► to trying to get this process started when you work what can con you listen to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/611">TS</a>]
00:10:16 ◼ ► and does this change depending on the type of work that you doing I have a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/616">TS</a>]
00:10:20 ◼ ► bunch of different playlists for different kinds of work that I'm doing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/620">TS</a>]
00:10:24 ◼ ► and and they're trying to actually kind of set up different associations with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/624">TS</a>]
00:10:29 ◼ ► kinds of music for different sorts of work let's say for example I'm doing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/629">TS</a>]
00:10:33 ◼ ► work that I absolutely loathe which is generally administrative work of some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/633">TS</a>]
00:10:39 ◼ ► emails paperwork stuff that requires my attention but doesn't necessarily like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/639">TS</a>]
00:10:45 ◼ ► drive the business forward in a really valuable way but that still has to get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/645">TS</a>]
00:10:49 ◼ ► done that I I have a kind of electronica sort of play list that I listen to have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/649">TS</a>]
00:10:57 ◼ ► high energy music but that also has no lyrics in it because I feel like I need [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/657">TS</a>]
00:11:04 ◼ ► something to try to help keep me going on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/664">TS</a>]
00:11:07 ◼ ► boring work but it can't have words in its because it has words in it then it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/667">TS</a>]
00:11:12 ◼ ► crashes in my brain trying to write an email to someone who just won't work at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/672">TS</a>]
00:11:16 ◼ ► all if I'm just trying to fill out boring tax paperwork I can't have a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/676">TS</a>]
00:11:21 ◼ ► voice in my ear that is also talking so that's that's one kind of playlist that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/681">TS</a>]
00:11:26 ◼ ► I listened to and then I have a variety of other different kind of melodic [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/686">TS</a>]
00:11:29 ◼ ► playlist so I listened to either if I'm writing or if I'm reading but one of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/689">TS</a>]
00:11:35 ◼ ► things that is interesting to me is that there is an album that I have listened [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/695">TS</a>]
00:11:39 ◼ ► to more than any other which is girl talks all day I don't know if you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/699">TS</a>]
00:11:44 ◼ ► familiar with us and it's one of the greatest albums the concentration on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/704">TS</a>]
00:11:48 ◼ ► entire planet I am familiar with it interesting that you say that because I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/708">TS</a>]
00:11:55 ◼ ► can't remember how I first I first found this but it is for those who have never [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/715">TS</a>]
00:11:59 ◼ ► heard it it's a remix album is is the way to describe it but that doesn't give [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/719">TS</a>]
00:12:05 ◼ ► it credit for the genius that it is this guy basically took like the catchy parts [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/725">TS</a>]
00:12:09 ◼ ► of a whole bunch of songs and put them together in very interesting ways in me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/729">TS</a>]
00:12:13 ◼ ► this whole new album and more importantly it's a single album is not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/733">TS</a>]
00:12:18 ◼ ► really broken up into individual songs like one hour long track that changes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/738">TS</a>]
00:12:24 ◼ ► tone as it goes on and as they would you say that is that a fair way to describe [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/744">TS</a>]
00:12:28 ◼ ► it always have a hard time trying to describe it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/748">TS</a>]
00:12:30 ◼ ► yeah it's mashups basically yeah but it's done in such a way that it's just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/750">TS</a>]
00:12:38 ◼ ► it all ties back into each other and Girl Talk is an artist albums I actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/758">TS</a>]
00:12:46 ◼ ► she's just another one heard I really really love but they're all just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/766">TS</a>]
00:12:51 ◼ ► soldiers fantastic effort for me I've tried a few of the other albums I've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/771">TS</a>]
00:12:58 ◼ ► never quite gotten into any of the others but but I knew the reason for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/778">TS</a>]
00:13:01 ◼ ► that and the reason is I have listened to girl talk all day on repeat I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/781">TS</a>]
00:13:08 ◼ ► know how many times hundreds of times is very easy to say and that is the only [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/788">TS</a>]
00:13:15 ◼ ► exception to the no words that I can listen to that album when I am writing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/795">TS</a>]
00:13:23 ◼ ► and I find it very helpful to listen to that album on repeat when I'm writing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/803">TS</a>]
00:13:29 ◼ ► and its I try to build that this little association with my brain of a various [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/809">TS</a>]
00:13:35 ◼ ► things like ok we're you know we're sitting down in this environment and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/815">TS</a>]
00:13:38 ◼ ► this album is playing now you know what you're supposed to do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/818">TS</a>]
00:13:41 ◼ ► monkey brain you know you're supposed to right now and it is it is very helpful [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/821">TS</a>]
00:13:46 ◼ ► and it's because I have listened to that one so much it's like the words are in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/826">TS</a>]
00:13:51 ◼ ► even registering in my brain as words anymore they don't so they don't have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/831">TS</a>]
00:13:55 ◼ ► this kind of collisions with very strange but if not at the very beginning [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/835">TS</a>]
00:13:58 ◼ ► part of writing a script but when a script has gone through a couple of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/838">TS</a>]
00:14:02 ◼ ► drafts are there some kind of structure to it then I can very easily put on girl [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/842">TS</a>]
00:14:07 ◼ ► talk all day and just right while listening to that that's that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/847">TS</a>]
00:14:11 ◼ ► something else is kind of in my working environment I guess the way to describe [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/851">TS</a>]
00:14:16 ◼ ► it I have another album the others into for the same kind of purpose and it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/856">TS</a>]
00:14:22 ◼ ► called retroactive part 1 and its by its by there's a there's a record label [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/862">TS</a>]
00:14:29 ◼ ► called brave wave and they tend to do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/869">TS</a>]
00:14:34 ◼ ► composition for video games they've actually they did the music for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/874">TS</a>]
00:14:38 ◼ ► inquisitive on real FM and they also do the theme song for virtual relay event [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/878">TS</a>]
00:14:43 ◼ ► we use these guys to help us resolve our music because it's just fantastic stuff [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/883">TS</a>]
00:14:48 ◼ ► now and the guy the composer of this album its name is cagey ago she has done [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/888">TS</a>]
00:14:54 ◼ ► some incredible music in the past I just a bunch of different games this album is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/894">TS</a>]
00:14:59 ◼ ► just incredible and it's like you know chiptune type staff and its video game [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/899">TS</a>]
00:15:04 ◼ ► sounding music but I put this on and it's like ok I'm in full concentration [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/904">TS</a>]
00:15:09 ◼ ► mode now and I use this alot when when when I ever do script writing and stuff [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/909">TS</a>]
00:15:14 ◼ ► like that I used this album because it really it's the same idea when I when I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/914">TS</a>]
00:15:19 ◼ ► hear it's like oh ok its concentration time in its locks Mian and I kind of can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/919">TS</a>]
00:15:26 ◼ ► just do what they need to do the music is helpful both because of its [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/926">TS</a>]
00:15:33 ◼ ► many routines are just about trying to associate particular activities with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/933">TS</a>]
00:15:36 ◼ ► particular actions but the music i think is helpful because it's like it it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/936">TS</a>]
00:15:42 ◼ ► engages the part of your brain that wants to get distracted you know it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/942">TS</a>]
00:15:47 ◼ ► it's kind of like you've given the monkey a Rubik's Cube to play with and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/947">TS</a>]
00:15:50 ◼ ► and it's really focused on that and so it can kind of let the human part of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/950">TS</a>]
00:15:55 ◼ ► your brain get to work and be focused instead of constantly looking over your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/955">TS</a>]
00:15:59 ◼ ► shoulder and going like hey what about the other thing hey why don't we go over [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/959">TS</a>]
00:16:02 ◼ ► there why don't we do this other thing over over this place I feel like that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/962">TS</a>]
00:16:06 ◼ ► what the music is doing is it's like occupying the distractible part of your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/966">TS</a>]
00:16:10 ◼ ► mind it's not so much even that is helping you focus its just keeping [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/970">TS</a>]
00:16:17 ◼ ► busy and spinning away from you so that you can you can actually get something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/977">TS</a>]
00:16:21 ◼ ► done do you have a bag that you can't carry around because you know you have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/981">TS</a>]
00:16:26 ◼ ► these different setups it seems like you kind of have stuff where you needed to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/986">TS</a>]
00:16:30 ◼ ► be do you carry stuff around with you in a rucksack or briefcase or even if we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/990">TS</a>]
00:16:35 ◼ ► talk about my working life for the past few years [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/995">TS</a>]
00:16:42 ◼ ► a big part of that is actually working in London I live in central London I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1002">TS</a>]
00:16:48 ◼ ► really love the city and one of the reasons that I love it is because I mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1008">TS</a>]
00:16:55 ◼ ► 12 years now and and for the for that entire time I have always loved to just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1015">TS</a>]
00:17:00 ◼ ► take a backpack and go out into the city and walk around and then find a place to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1020">TS</a>]
00:17:07 ◼ ► sit down to work for maybe an hour and a half or two hours and then get up again [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1027">TS</a>]
00:17:12 ◼ ► and take another little walk and find some other place to sit down and do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1032">TS</a>]
00:17:15 ◼ ► another burst of work and then get up like that little cycle I find is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1035">TS</a>]
00:17:20 ◼ ► extremely conducive to working and to getting things done is location movement [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1040">TS</a>]
00:17:28 ◼ ► location movement I don't know why I just find it very helpful but of course [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1048">TS</a>]
00:17:33 ◼ ► that then requires a backpack and you need to have a little mobile working [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1053">TS</a>]
00:17:39 ◼ ► station in there and that's why most of the days when I go out I have in my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1059">TS</a>]
00:17:43 ◼ ► backpack at the bare minimum have my iPad the iPad stand a keyboard and a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1063">TS</a>]
00:17:48 ◼ ► pair of headphones and that's that's what I will take is my mobile working [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1068">TS</a>]
00:17:54 ◼ ► environments ninety percent of the time it's every once in a while I'll take a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1074">TS</a>]
00:17:58 ◼ ► laptop but that's pretty rare and I i usually have some specific laptop [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1078">TS</a>]
00:18:02 ◼ ► required task that needs to get done but 90% of the time it's the iPad [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1082">TS</a>]
00:18:08 ◼ ► your bag to bag the you do take with you is that something that you pack or is it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1088">TS</a>]
00:18:13 ◼ ► something that is always packed like it has stuff in it but stays in the bag and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1093">TS</a>]
00:18:17 ◼ ► never leaves the back I have two backpacks that I tried to keep in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1097">TS</a>]
00:18:22 ◼ ► constant state of readiness go thanks exactly I have passports in the currency [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1102">TS</a>]
00:18:30 ◼ ► for different countries that's right there's $100,000 and fake IDs whole life [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1110">TS</a>]
00:18:38 ◼ ► Russia but yes I have two bags and I do my best to try to keep them packed all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1118">TS</a>]
00:18:45 ◼ ► the time because this this goes back to the idea of eliminating resistance and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1125">TS</a>]
00:18:51 ◼ ► do a lot of things that people think are kind of weird but if you they're all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1131">TS</a>]
00:18:57 ◼ ► unified under this idea of I wants to make it as easy for myself to get some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1137">TS</a>]
00:19:04 ◼ ► and even a little thing like oh I want to go out for the day and do some work [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1144">TS</a>]
00:19:09 ◼ ► my backpack isn't packed it it's remarkable how I can find that kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1149">TS</a>]
00:19:15 ◼ ► stuff will actually interfere with how quickly will I get ready in the morning [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1155">TS</a>]
00:19:19 ◼ ► and then how long does it take me to get out the door and then there's like this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1159">TS</a>]
00:19:22 ◼ ► knock-on effect for the whole rest of the day so at night time as part of my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1162">TS</a>]
00:19:29 ◼ ► kind of shut down routine I have a little little note to myself to just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1169">TS</a>]
00:19:33 ◼ ► double check that the two backpacks that I have are kind of set and ready for the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1173">TS</a>]
00:19:38 ◼ ► next day with everything in them that needs to needs to go and this is where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1178">TS</a>]
00:19:43 ◼ ► we talked about last and I have multiple iPads and so I have like one iPad is in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1183">TS</a>]
00:19:48 ◼ ► each and I have a little station in my office where i can put the two backpacks [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1188">TS</a>]
00:19:52 ◼ ► and have both iPods charging one in each of them at the same time they always [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1192">TS</a>]
00:19:57 ◼ ► live over there and they're just set and ready to go at a moment's notice that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1197">TS</a>]
00:20:01 ◼ ► it's just so beautiful like you know there is the place with the two iPads [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1201">TS</a>]
00:20:07 ◼ ► and above charging and they're ready to go that way of working give this is it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1207">TS</a>]
00:20:11 ◼ ► records I suffer from the same thing that you do if I plan to do something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1211">TS</a>]
00:20:16 ◼ ► and just the tiniest thing gets in the way of that will days over cut cargo [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1216">TS</a>]
00:20:21 ◼ ► work now because chuletas snapple something magical over so having that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1221">TS</a>]
00:20:28 ◼ ► removing the resistance from allowing you to do something is so important and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1228">TS</a>]
00:20:34 ◼ ► if you are personal works that way finding ways to get around that stuff is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1234">TS</a>]
00:20:38 ◼ ► incredibly useful in remain in productive and I feel like we could we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1238">TS</a>]
00:20:43 ◼ ► could do a whole show kind of talking about routines but there's when you work [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1243">TS</a>]
00:20:48 ◼ ► yourself into a situation where you are self-employed person and you you don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1248">TS</a>]
00:20:52 ◼ ► have anyone to report to and then this is extra to the somewhat true for you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1252">TS</a>]
00:20:57 ◼ ► but it is extra 24 me that you don't necessarily have anywhere in particular [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1257">TS</a>]
00:21:01 ◼ ► to be at a particular time just like the whole day is free in front of you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1261">TS</a>]
00:21:08 ◼ ► it turns out it is remarkably hard sometimes to to keep on track when you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1268">TS</a>]
00:21:17 ◼ ► external external deadlines and yes I have discovered the same to bring to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1277">TS</a>]
00:21:22 ◼ ► that the the way my day goes in the morning [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1282">TS</a>]
00:21:26 ◼ ► determines how the whole rest of the day goes which kind of sounds crazy because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1286">TS</a>]
00:21:30 ◼ ► I used to work as a teacher at like hey guess what you have a bad time getting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1290">TS</a>]
00:21:34 ◼ ► ready in the morning like you still need to be at a particular class at that time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1294">TS</a>]
00:21:38 ◼ ► and you need to be doing this thing and there's like this whole this whole train [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1298">TS</a>]
00:21:42 ◼ ► that you just step on that takes you through your whole day when you are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1302">TS</a>]
00:21:46 ◼ ► employed and somebody else is telling you what to do or if you have meetings [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1306">TS</a>]
00:21:50 ◼ ► throughout the whole rest of the day when you don't have that external [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1310">TS</a>]
00:21:53 ◼ ► structure you it is much more important that certain things go smoothly to kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1313">TS</a>]
00:22:00 ◼ ► of help you along with here's how the day is going to go here's how how work [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1320">TS</a>]
00:22:06 ◼ ► is going to play out and yes oh my my bags are are one of the many things that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1326">TS</a>]
00:22:12 ◼ ► I I have set up to try to make it as easy as possible for me to work you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1332">TS</a>]
00:22:17 ◼ ► wanna hear and I know if you wanna hear the store near my bag checklist yes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1337">TS</a>]
00:22:21 ◼ ► where is the check us live this lives in new focus just about every other weekend [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1341">TS</a>]
00:22:28 ◼ ► do this kind of big review and one of the things on that review is to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1348">TS</a>]
00:22:33 ◼ ► completely empty the two backpacks and then go through all of the items and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1353">TS</a>]
00:22:38 ◼ ► make sure everything is everything is there or to remove any extraneous items [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1358">TS</a>]
00:22:43 ◼ ► that have somehow gotten into the bag that's very easy just to they have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1363">TS</a>]
00:22:47 ◼ ► receipts related stuff you just throw into the bag without thinking or do I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1367">TS</a>]
00:22:52 ◼ ► need this thing over here and to take something out and then forget that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1372">TS</a>]
00:22:56 ◼ ► know it's like i just want to make sure that at least every two weeks I have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1376">TS</a>]
00:22:59 ◼ ► re-established that these two bags are in there they're kind of perfect state [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1379">TS</a>]
00:23:04 ◼ ► so here is the list and I've arranged a list of that when I am going through it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1384">TS</a>]
00:23:09 ◼ ► it's easier for me to have they both backpacks next to me and just check off [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1389">TS</a>]
00:23:12 ◼ ► these items ok so this template is an army focus and then I can invoke it and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1392">TS</a>]
00:23:18 ◼ ► go through all of the items so I need to check each bag has its appropriate iPad [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1398">TS</a>]
00:23:23 ◼ ► now the one bag is for a regular day and the second bag the blue bag is for him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1403">TS</a>]
00:23:32 ◼ ► going to the gym and this is why there are two of them because the gym bag [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1412">TS</a>]
00:23:36 ◼ ► needs to be a little bit different than the regular day bag but I want both of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1416">TS</a>]
00:23:40 ◼ ► them just set at a moment's notice [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1420">TS</a>]
00:23:42 ◼ ► ok so i pad in each then the gym bag additionally gets gym clothes flip-flops [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1422">TS</a>]
00:23:50 ◼ ► don't have to walk with bare feet in the area in the back of the gym and then hit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1430">TS</a>]
00:23:55 ◼ ► the gym membership card in the gym bag as well then each bag requires a twelve [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1435">TS</a>]
00:24:01 ◼ ► what charger each bag requires a two metre lightning cable each bag requires [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1441">TS</a>]
00:24:08 ◼ ► a micro USB cable each bag requires a Logitech keyboard and then again each [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1448">TS</a>]
00:24:15 ◼ ► other each bag at each of these things is also an iPad stand a small packable [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1455">TS</a>]
00:24:21 ◼ ► umbrella a pack of caffeine pills a pack of aspirin like come on a small screen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1461">TS</a>]
00:24:28 ◼ ► cleaner dunno with stopping we got back like Pro Plus yep that'll come up on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1468">TS</a>]
00:24:37 ◼ ► another show don't you worry about the case of the caffeine pills the aspirin a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1477">TS</a>]
00:24:43 ◼ ► small screen cleaner like one of those little wipes clean off-screen a 50 pound [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1483">TS</a>]
00:24:48 ◼ ► note a protein bar the small pack a 50 pound note a small pack of our men's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1488">TS</a>]
00:24:56 ◼ ► spare pack of triple A batteries the batteries for and then and then each bag [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1496">TS</a>]
00:25:06 ◼ ► gets a noise-canceling headphone plus the case for the noise cancelling [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1506">TS</a>]
00:25:11 ◼ ► headphones are those of the items that each bag is required to have an edge in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1511">TS</a>]
00:25:15 ◼ ► bag also has just gym stuff in it so I run through that checklist once every [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1515">TS</a>]
00:25:20 ◼ ► two weeks to make sure all of these items I need to the banks and there are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1520">TS</a>]
00:25:23 ◼ ► no follow-up questions which is very nice I think it's all pretty straight [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1523">TS</a>]
00:25:30 ◼ ► why do you think there's a fifty-pound oh ok so this is this is like a pro tip [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1530">TS</a>]
00:25:38 ◼ ► for everybody this is like a life tip I have found it useful to have on hand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1538">TS</a>]
00:25:46 ◼ ► just some backup cash for minor emergencies or problems now these things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1546">TS</a>]
00:25:55 ◼ ► rarely happen but every once in awhile it really helps to just have some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1555">TS</a>]
00:26:01 ◼ ► additional cash on hand for like I guess the thing that has happen most often in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1561">TS</a>]
00:26:07 ◼ ► london is if for some reason I've forgotten my keys for example and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1567">TS</a>]
00:26:13 ◼ ► ok well now I'm kind of stuck out in the world and I just want to make sure that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1573">TS</a>]
00:26:19 ◼ ► I have a little bit of additional cash because things like when one thing in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1579">TS</a>]
00:26:25 ◼ ► suddenly a bunch of things in life can go wrong and it always happens that if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1585">TS</a>]
00:26:29 ◼ ► you forget your keys this is also the time that the wallet is in your pocket [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1589">TS</a>]
00:26:33 ◼ ► because you were just going outside you know briefly for a moment you weren't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1593">TS</a>]
00:26:37 ◼ ► intending to to like do a whole bunch of things so if one thing goes wrong a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1597">TS</a>]
00:26:42 ◼ ► bunch of things go wrong and I want to have little like capacitors almost [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1602">TS</a>]
00:26:45 ◼ ► little little bits of backup system to make sure that life can get on back on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1605">TS</a>]
00:26:50 ◼ ► track or kind of goes smoothly and so just having a little bit of cash [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1610">TS</a>]
00:26:53 ◼ ► available after some kind of problem is is helpful [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1613">TS</a>]
00:26:59 ◼ ► feel like I need a better example to try to try to convince you of this dunno I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1619">TS</a>]
00:27:04 ◼ ► just interested by because I assume that you are probably not a cash person that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1624">TS</a>]
00:27:09 ◼ ► thing with a 50 pound note is that this is something that has become less and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1629">TS</a>]
00:27:14 ◼ ► less of a problem over time I'm aware that this is kind of an old habit now as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1634">TS</a>]
00:27:20 ◼ ► opposed to an actual necessity because I mean even like with my iPhone I can pay [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1640">TS</a>]
00:27:26 ◼ ► for some limited stock for you can get help with an iPhone uses and this isn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1646">TS</a>]
00:27:32 ◼ ► a long time ago when I was traveling in America I used to have a key ring [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1652">TS</a>]
00:27:38 ◼ ► that had a special little fob on the end that you could stick some money into and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1658">TS</a>]
00:27:44 ◼ ► you could put like it you could cram in like just barely like $100 bill into [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1664">TS</a>]
00:27:49 ◼ ► this so you don't we just have on hand like an emergency hundred dollars that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1669">TS</a>]
00:27:52 ◼ ► thing was very useful in the kind of pre iPhone worlds and there was one time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1672">TS</a>]
00:27:57 ◼ ► when my wife and i got into into a car accident and I we needed we need to call [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1677">TS</a>]
00:28:03 ◼ ► a taxi cab company to drive us in our stuff to the nearest hotel but they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1683">TS</a>]
00:28:07 ◼ ► wouldn't take credit cards and so like knowing that you just have some cash on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1687">TS</a>]
00:28:11 ◼ ► hand to try to solve this little bit of a problem is is a security that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1691">TS</a>]
00:28:17 ◼ ► don't need it almost all the time but every once in awhile it turns out to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1697">TS</a>]
00:28:21 ◼ ► very useful that's why there it's just like if I find myself out of the house I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1701">TS</a>]
00:28:27 ◼ ► have this little bit of backup money even if other things go wrong like all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1707">TS</a>]
00:28:30 ◼ ► my credit cards were declined and I'm locked out of the house well I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1710">TS</a>]
00:28:34 ◼ ► have to just be stuck in the city with no money I can I can just get a sandwich [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1714">TS</a>]
00:28:38 ◼ ► and some water or whatever that's why it's there I guess that was kind of rude [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1718">TS</a>]
00:28:42 ◼ ► I thought it was gonna go but it was just interesting to me that it's there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1722">TS</a>]
00:28:46 ◼ ► you know I just can't imagine you being a cash persons but it totally makes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1726">TS</a>]
00:28:51 ◼ ► sense I get that the caches and for me I have no cash it's to give other people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1731">TS</a>]
00:28:56 ◼ ► in exchange for goods or services to alleviate problems that's like the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1736">TS</a>]
00:29:01 ◼ ► other people feel like a life lesson in money that's that's how the money works [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1741">TS</a>]
00:29:10 ◼ ► right now it is not like looking at the list like the protein bar that I keep in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1750">TS</a>]
00:29:17 ◼ ► my backpack that's for me that's not for other people other people can't have my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1757">TS</a>]
00:29:21 ◼ ► protein bar that's the difference between these items I'm very happy to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1761">TS</a>]
00:29:26 ◼ ► say that this episode of cortex is brought to you by the good people of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1766">TS</a>]
00:29:31 ◼ ► OmniFocus OmniFocus is the task manager that I used to run my whole life is one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1771">TS</a>]
00:29:38 ◼ ► of the most important apps that is available to me everywhere I needed it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1778">TS</a>]
00:29:43 ◼ ► on my phone its on my Mac on my iPad's it all sink together so that I always [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1783">TS</a>]
00:29:49 ◼ ► know that I have a complete list of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1789">TS</a>]
00:29:51 ◼ ► everything that I need to get done the great thing about OmniFocus is that it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1791">TS</a>]
00:29:56 ◼ ► scales for what you needed to be if you just want to get started with all-new [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1796">TS</a>]
00:30:00 ◼ ► focus to just to keep a few simple lists it can do that but if you find that over [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1800">TS</a>]
00:30:06 ◼ ► time your needs are growing OmniFocus can do that as well one of the things I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1806">TS</a>]
00:30:11 ◼ ► like about it is how OmniFocus allows me to slice and dice the various actions [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1811">TS</a>]
00:30:17 ◼ ► that I have in my system so any moment I can pull up all of the actions that are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1817">TS</a>]
00:30:22 ◼ ► say do today or I can see all of the things that I need to do that are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1822">TS</a>]
00:30:26 ◼ ► related to cortex that's what's on my screen right now as I'm recording this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1826">TS</a>]
00:30:30 ◼ ► ad actually I can just press a button and see all of my cortex related tasks [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1830">TS</a>]
00:30:35 ◼ ► because that's what I'm sitting down to work on now and when I'm done with this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1835">TS</a>]
00:30:39 ◼ ► ad I'm going to go out and run a few errands and there's just a button that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1839">TS</a>]
00:30:43 ◼ ► press on OmniFocus that shows me all of the areas that have to do that ability [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1843">TS</a>]
00:30:47 ◼ ► to see the tasks that you need to see right now and to ignore everything else [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1847">TS</a>]
00:30:53 ◼ ► in your system is the reason that I use OmniFocus because it is built into the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1853">TS</a>]
00:30:59 ◼ ► program from the ground up we're going to put the link in the show notes at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1859">TS</a>]
00:31:03 ◼ ► Army Group dot com where you can go check out on me focus and you should [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1863">TS</a>]
00:31:07 ◼ ► definitely give that a little click and take a look at it now if you have never [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1867">TS</a>]
00:31:11 ◼ ► tried OmniFocus one of the things that i think is quite amazing about the company [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1871">TS</a>]
00:31:15 ◼ ► that makes it is they offer a 30 day return policy on their apps which is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1875">TS</a>]
00:31:21 ◼ ► almost unheard of on the App Store if you want to give OmniFocus a try and it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1881">TS</a>]
00:31:26 ◼ ► turns out that it's just not a good match for your brain you can return it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1886">TS</a>]
00:31:30 ◼ ► and they will give you your money back [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1890">TS</a>]
00:31:32 ◼ ► only focus really has become the dashboard for my entire life where I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1892">TS</a>]
00:31:38 ◼ ► need to go to take a look at what other projects I'm committed to how far they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1898">TS</a>]
00:31:43 ◼ ► along and what do I need to do now I have tried every other task manager that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1903">TS</a>]
00:31:50 ◼ ► and I'm all-in on OmniFocus it is an amazing program and you should [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1910">TS</a>]
00:31:55 ◼ ► definitely try it out today so go click the link in the show notes that way on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1915">TS</a>]
00:32:00 ◼ ► me knows that you came from here and try out on the focus today just get back to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1920">TS</a>]
00:32:05 ◼ ► talking about working environment so I assume you have a home office is that a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1925">TS</a>]
00:32:11 ◼ ► yes I'm talking to you right now from my home office and do you have a standing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1931">TS</a>]
00:32:15 ◼ ► desk Oct desk you have a big desk desk I had originally intended to set up my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1935">TS</a>]
00:32:20 ◼ ► office and a whole bunch of ways we moved into this apartment which is still [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1940">TS</a>]
00:32:22 ◼ ► in my mind new apartment other we've been living here for like a year and a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1942">TS</a>]
00:32:26 ◼ ► half now and I intended to get a standing desk but this is just one of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1946">TS</a>]
00:32:30 ◼ ► those things that has fallen through the cracks so I just kind of have a normal [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1950">TS</a>]
00:32:33 ◼ ► black sitting desk that I'm in front of right now and this is the one that my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1953">TS</a>]
00:32:38 ◼ ► iMac is on but yet the dedicated room in my house I have a door that I can close [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1958">TS</a>]
00:32:42 ◼ ► which is very exciting because I used to live in a technically it was a more than [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1962">TS</a>]
00:32:48 ◼ ► one room apartment with my wife but I always describe it to people as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1968">TS</a>]
00:32:52 ◼ ► functionally estudio because the the place that we lived was so small that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1972">TS</a>]
00:32:58 ◼ ► while yes there is a door between the living room and the bathroom it didn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1978">TS</a>]
00:33:03 ◼ ► make any practical difference in all the ways that you might want to imagine that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1983">TS</a>]
00:33:07 ◼ ► a door would make a practical difference with a bathroom situation so in our [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1987">TS</a>]
00:33:12 ◼ ► current living environment it's still I still walk around some time and think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1992">TS</a>]
00:33:16 ◼ ► how we have doors in rooms like this is amazing what's in here is another route [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/1996">TS</a>]
00:33:25 ◼ ► it is it is a novelty that I mean again we've been here a year and a half but my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2005">TS</a>]
00:33:31 ◼ ► wife and I will still remark on the fact that it is possible for one of us to not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2011">TS</a>]
00:33:36 ◼ ► know exactly where the other person is because if I married life we lived in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2016">TS</a>]
00:33:43 ◼ ► space where you could either always see where the other person was or they'd be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2023">TS</a>]
00:33:52 ◼ ► there was never any mystery about where the person he's behind the door so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2032">TS</a>]
00:34:02 ◼ ► that's why they having having an apartment now that has doors and an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2042">TS</a>]
00:34:05 ◼ ► apartment where I can have a dedicated office this feels like amazing amazing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2045">TS</a>]
00:34:11 ◼ ► luxury to me it's it's it's quite the upgrade what you like about working on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2051">TS</a>]
00:34:17 ◼ ► but is it more relaxed do you like the thing is you're starting from a false [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2057">TS</a>]
00:34:27 ◼ ► premise it is convenient to work at home but I'm not exactly sure that I really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2067">TS</a>]
00:34:31 ◼ ► like working from home which is one of the reasons why I very often go out into [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2071">TS</a>]
00:34:36 ◼ ► the city to just work from random places boring or I go to the coworking space [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2076">TS</a>]
00:34:42 ◼ ► that I pay money to rent so I i very much liked the ability to work from home [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2082">TS</a>]
00:34:48 ◼ ► and there are certain things that are are just easier to do when you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2088">TS</a>]
00:34:51 ◼ ► working from home because I now have a dedicated place where I can have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2091">TS</a>]
00:34:55 ◼ ► paperwork that I need to deal with her I have all the equipment that I'm familiar [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2095">TS</a>]
00:34:59 ◼ ► with around me but I think I like working from places that are not my home [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2099">TS</a>]
00:35:04 ◼ ► much much better even though working from home is is very convenient whether [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2104">TS</a>]
00:35:08 ◼ ► you're working from home right you call me from your bedroom or something aren't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2108">TS</a>]
00:35:12 ◼ ► yeah I don't have an office like my office is one corner of my bedroom and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2112">TS</a>]
00:35:18 ◼ ► that's you know I have to change that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2118">TS</a>]
00:35:20 ◼ ► still living in the moment me and my girlfriend is saving to buy a place [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2120">TS</a>]
00:35:24 ◼ ► where are you looking for two bedroom places because I will turn into a proper [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2124">TS</a>]
00:35:29 ◼ ► office yet you need an office at this point I need like a real office I just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2129">TS</a>]
00:35:34 ◼ ► don't have one in the current house then you know and I have a big city desk it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2134">TS</a>]
00:35:39 ◼ ► a big glass desk and I'm in the same kind of thing as you like and like every [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2139">TS</a>]
00:35:43 ◼ ► couple of days in like i really wanna just set the desk up the way I want it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2143">TS</a>]
00:35:47 ◼ ► I like the idea of it cleared some stuff off at the desk so it's more space on it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2147">TS</a>]
00:35:52 ◼ ► but like I have in my mind this like amazing set up that will make me a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2152">TS</a>]
00:35:57 ◼ ► thousand times more productive it won't it will grow and Bella talent got around [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2157">TS</a>]
00:36:04 ◼ ► to doing it and I pay for a co-working space but don't go there enough and that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2164">TS</a>]
00:36:12 ◼ ► is something that is always in my mind I need to do that but I feel change to my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2172">TS</a>]
00:36:18 ◼ ► home because it's where my equipment is to record so it's all about me trying to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2178">TS</a>]
00:36:23 ◼ ► manage my time better Saturday's run not recording so I can actually go and do it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2183">TS</a>]
00:36:28 ◼ ► because as well my coworking space is an hour from my home [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2188">TS</a>]
00:36:32 ◼ ► know you'll never go there I do sometimes I don't go there enough I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2192">TS</a>]
00:36:36 ◼ ► trying to go the more like basic where I live there is nothing there is no no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2196">TS</a>]
00:36:40 ◼ ► nothing like you know I live in a house probably more of a suburb I guess but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2200">TS</a>]
00:36:45 ◼ ► its way out of London don't even know where you are I just know you're East [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2205">TS</a>]
00:36:49 ◼ ► you know hundreds of miles east is the thing that I imagine that technically [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2209">TS</a>]
00:36:54 ◼ ► London but not actually London because I think the eastern border of London goes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2214">TS</a>]
00:36:58 ◼ ► all the way to the ocean as far as I can tell something like that yeah you can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2218">TS</a>]
00:37:04 ◼ ► see it from the top of the chart right is everything that we can see from here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2224">TS</a>]
00:37:08 ◼ ► gives is London that's that works but it's the way to think about it if you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2228">TS</a>]
00:37:13 ◼ ► know London is I live two stops away from the end of the tube line so that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2233">TS</a>]
00:37:19 ◼ ► far enough lol so there's nothing here so I'm always traveling that kinda [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2239">TS</a>]
00:37:24 ◼ ► dismissed its yes just my house you get off that he just get healthy underground [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2244">TS</a>]
00:37:31 ◼ ► and there's tumble use around so you know i i dont do that enough and I want [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2251">TS</a>]
00:37:38 ◼ ► to do it more because if I have something to work on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2258">TS</a>]
00:37:44 ◼ ► coworking space tomorrow do a home so you have 1234 coworking space how many [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2264">TS</a>]
00:37:52 ◼ ► cookies basis do you actually goes I have I have one coworking space that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2272">TS</a>]
00:37:58 ◼ ► pay money to have a bunch of places around London that our little coffee [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2278">TS</a>]
00:38:04 ◼ ► shops are other corners that I've found that I like to go to work in but they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2284">TS</a>]
00:38:08 ◼ ► not official office places but there is there is an office block that is pretty [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2288">TS</a>]
00:38:14 ◼ ► near me that he has a floor basically that they rent out as coworking space to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2294">TS</a>]
00:38:19 ◼ ► a whole bunch of people and so I pay them monthly membership for you to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2299">TS</a>]
00:38:23 ◼ ► able to have access to that space and I have to have to travel an entire 10 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2303">TS</a>]
00:38:30 ◼ ► minutes from my house to get to that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2310">TS</a>]
00:38:32 ◼ ► coworking space AC I know that if I was that close more cuz I could just go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2312">TS</a>]
00:38:37 ◼ ► there for a couple of hours violent go to my coworking space on there for the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2317">TS</a>]
00:38:40 ◼ ► whole day because it takes me you know I'm not traveling for two hours there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2320">TS</a>]
00:38:45 ◼ ► and back an hour to a so I know if I'm gonna go to the color space that is my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2325">TS</a>]
00:38:49 ◼ ► day is collecting space right that's what makes it a bit bigger hurdle for me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2329">TS</a>]
00:38:54 ◼ ► to take me going there isn't even any coffee shops anything I could work in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2334">TS</a>]
00:38:58 ◼ ► where I live by because we've established there's nothing where you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2338">TS</a>]
00:39:01 ◼ ► place down ways barren wasteland however I do have a bit of a joke sometimes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2341">TS</a>]
00:39:06 ◼ ► which is kinda terrible but we talked about how when you get out to those [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2346">TS</a>]
00:39:10 ◼ ► those those stopped at the end of the underground lines that it reminds us of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2350">TS</a>]
00:39:15 ◼ ► Firefly and the outer rim planets is always just the way that it feels like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2355">TS</a>]
00:39:20 ◼ ► oh where have we got it somehow feels way and deer which of course is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2360">TS</a>]
00:39:25 ◼ ► ludicrous because the whole country is so dense compared to many other places [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2365">TS</a>]
00:39:32 ◼ ► but when when you live in the center and then you go out to the edge can feel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2372">TS</a>]
00:39:36 ◼ ► weirdly empty even though it isn't by any kind of objective standard but our [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2376">TS</a>]
00:39:41 ◼ ► our slang reference to basically anything beyond like zone to like it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2381">TS</a>]
00:39:47 ◼ ► all just the outer rim planets the whole rest of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2387">TS</a>]
00:39:51 ◼ ► of suburban london is the outer rim and many anybody who lives in any kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2391">TS</a>]
00:39:56 ◼ ► suburban environment just walking two places is very much not an option I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2396">TS</a>]
00:40:02 ◼ ► just aware that as you get further out from the center of the city if you want [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2402">TS</a>]
00:40:07 ◼ ► to go anywhere you really need a car and I used to teach in a school that was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2407">TS</a>]
00:40:11 ◼ ► pretty outer rim and I was always aware of how endlessly long those suburban [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2411">TS</a>]
00:40:17 ◼ ► streets are and and they just feel like oh there's nothing there's nothing here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2417">TS</a>]
00:40:21 ◼ ► except endless endless rows of houses there's nowhere to go so you you have to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2421">TS</a>]
00:40:26 ◼ ► have a car or you have to be near a transportation point to be able to get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2426">TS</a>]
00:40:31 ◼ ► anywhere else and they the advantage of that is you get to live in a huge place [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2431">TS</a>]
00:40:35 ◼ ► you don't get to live in as I did for many years a place with a door right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2435">TS</a>]
00:40:40 ◼ ► like that's that's the tradeoff the further out you go we have like eight or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2440">TS</a>]
00:40:44 ◼ ► nine goals in this house is doors everywhere like I'd sometimes open doors [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2444">TS</a>]
00:40:47 ◼ ► is more to come true for those you know we don't have we don't have any nested [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2447">TS</a>]
00:40:53 ◼ ► doors there's no door that you can open in our place now which leads to other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2453">TS</a>]
00:40:56 ◼ ► doors that system does not exist but that that's the tradeoff I have always [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2456">TS</a>]
00:41:01 ◼ ► really liked being able to walk around in the center of the city but there are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2461">TS</a>]
00:41:06 ◼ ► like everything in life there are big tradeoffs and cost for that and and one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2466">TS</a>]
00:41:09 ◼ ► of those is that I have to accept that I end up living in a much much smaller [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2469">TS</a>]
00:41:14 ◼ ► place then I could otherwise I could have had a home office for years if we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2474">TS</a>]
00:41:20 ◼ ► were living further out but we've made the decision that no we want to live [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2480">TS</a>]
00:41:23 ◼ ► more centrally and so then you have to live in a smaller place but it didn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2483">TS</a>]
00:41:27 ◼ ► matter to me like I said because I like to go around and work in a bunch of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2487">TS</a>]
00:41:30 ◼ ► different places I find that a very enjoyable experience is your coworking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2490">TS</a>]
00:41:35 ◼ ► space very businesses still in mind my coworking space there are no hipsters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2495">TS</a>]
00:41:42 ◼ ► there my coworking space is full of businesspeople and I kind of wonder what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2502">TS</a>]
00:41:50 ◼ ► they're up to but it's it's a strange environment because you do well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2510">TS</a>]
00:41:55 ◼ ► yes describe the so basically there's this floor which is sort of open plan [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2515">TS</a>]
00:42:04 ◼ ► that I have access to and above and below us our regular office floors in in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2524">TS</a>]
00:42:12 ◼ ► the sense like some some company has bought a floor of the building right so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2532">TS</a>]
00:42:16 ◼ ► they have all their employees on that floor but the coworking space is also [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2536">TS</a>]
00:42:22 ◼ ► like a shared area for all of the other office people in the building and so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2542">TS</a>]
00:42:29 ◼ ► it's very often like I'm just sitting down in in the coworking space and like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2549">TS</a>]
00:42:34 ◼ ► these herds of people with ties and briefcases come in and you know they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2554">TS</a>]
00:42:38 ◼ ► talking about all of their business stuff and it's it's strange because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2558">TS</a>]
00:42:42 ◼ ► there's a very clear divide between the people who are the coworking people like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2562">TS</a>]
00:42:46 ◼ ► me and the business people and the way that these tribes are usually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2566">TS</a>]
00:42:52 ◼ ► distinguished from each other is whether or not people are wearing ties so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2572">TS</a>]
00:42:56 ◼ ► everybody who's wearing a tie it's like ok you're not one of the free-range [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2576">TS</a>]
00:43:03 ◼ ► monkeys like me right you are like a caged creature your battery monkey yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2583">TS</a>]
00:43:08 ◼ ► you are you are they were kids monkey you have to go back into a particular [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2588">TS</a>]
00:43:13 ◼ ► spot upstairs and the way we mark this is that you have a tie and I know it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2593">TS</a>]
00:43:19 ◼ ► just a strange overlap sometimes between these these different groups of people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2599">TS</a>]
00:43:23 ◼ ► but I like the coworking space it's very convenient for me but I often feel like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2603">TS</a>]
00:43:29 ◼ ► over here these these businesses conversations and often think I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2609">TS</a>]
00:43:32 ◼ ► have any idea what the heck these people are talking about they're always talking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2612">TS</a>]
00:43:35 ◼ ► about it like it is very abstract waves about quarterly reports and and just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2615">TS</a>]
00:43:41 ◼ ► like except that anyone know what you're saying none of the sound like concrete [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2621">TS</a>]
00:43:45 ◼ ► you know where we're shipping a product to a certain number of people it's all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2625">TS</a>]
00:43:50 ◼ ► just like spreadsheets and things so I don't actually hoping go to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2630">TS</a>]
00:43:55 ◼ ► coworking space when there are other people around I used to and it was less [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2635">TS</a>]
00:44:01 ◼ ► busy go during the day but for the most part now actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2641">TS</a>]
00:44:05 ◼ ► pretty much exclusively go to my coworking space on the weekends and at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2645">TS</a>]
00:44:11 ◼ ► night because then there's nobody else around and I like that much better [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2651">TS</a>]
00:44:15 ◼ ► there's much preferred for me to not have other people around I went to my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2655">TS</a>]
00:44:20 ◼ ► coworking space today two days before Christmas and it was the best however [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2660">TS</a>]
00:44:26 ◼ ► spent all of these other people they do nothing but kind of get in the way or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2666">TS</a>]
00:44:30 ◼ ► they just make it harder to work if they're around it's much it's much nicer [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2670">TS</a>]
00:44:34 ◼ ► when you have an entire floor of a building all to yourself that's the way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2674">TS</a>]
00:44:38 ◼ ► I prefer to work in your coworking space is where lives the redundant bag system [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2678">TS</a>]
00:44:45 ◼ ► as well I call it and I'm sure you have a better name for it would you this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2685">TS</a>]
00:44:49 ◼ ► where you have a bunch of staff that is they're constantly like one of your plea [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2689">TS</a>]
00:44:55 ◼ ► of iPads I think lives there a computer lives there what do you have a name for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2695">TS</a>]
00:45:00 ◼ ► the stuff that you have like everything you like a recording equipment to hold [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2700">TS</a>]
00:45:04 ◼ ► back the redundant bags live in my home office because I was grabbed them in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2704">TS</a>]
00:45:08 ◼ ► morning but I do have like a little redundant office that is in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2708">TS</a>]
00:45:12 ◼ ► coworking space so luckily the coworking space has these little cubes that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2712">TS</a>]
00:45:17 ◼ ► can rent and I i just have accumulated mind that I have a key to be a little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2717">TS</a>]
00:45:23 ◼ ► cubby and Cubase it sound luxurious like having a cubicle but that's not the case [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2723">TS</a>]
00:45:29 ◼ ► now it's a little company and in there yes I have everything that I would need [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2729">TS</a>]
00:45:34 ◼ ► to theoretically get just about everything done so that's where I keep [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2734">TS</a>]
00:45:38 ◼ ► my MacBook Pro I keep one of my older iPads I do have some older recording [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2738">TS</a>]
00:45:45 ◼ ► equipment in there so that if I need to record something I can do it from the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2745">TS</a>]
00:45:48 ◼ ► coworking space I like to have that mirrored set up because this again goes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2748">TS</a>]
00:45:55 ◼ ► back to the idea of eliminating friction and sometimes I will go out into the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2755">TS</a>]
00:46:02 ◼ ► city just to run some errands or maybe I'm just taking a walk or something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2762">TS</a>]
00:46:05 ◼ ► because kind of everything that I need in my daily life is in a very small [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2765">TS</a>]
00:46:13 ◼ ► like the supermarkets nearby I have a bunch of nice parks to walk to that are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2773">TS</a>]
00:46:19 ◼ ► nearby and I have a few regular places I like to go that are nearby the gym is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2779">TS</a>]
00:46:23 ◼ ► nearby and also the coworking spaces nearby so it is not unusual rare find [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2783">TS</a>]
00:46:30 ◼ ► out just taking a walk I can suddenly feel like you know what I'm in the mood [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2790">TS</a>]
00:46:33 ◼ ► to get a particular kind of thing done and then if the coworking spaces nearby [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2793">TS</a>]
00:46:39 ◼ ► I can just walk right to their and have everything ready to go I don't have to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2799">TS</a>]
00:46:45 ◼ ► think oh let me go back home to get my bag to then go out to then work no I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2805">TS</a>]
00:46:51 ◼ ► don't want to do that I want to be able to just walk into the coworking space [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2811">TS</a>]
00:46:55 ◼ ► and be able to sit down and just get started on something if I feel like I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2815">TS</a>]
00:46:59 ◼ ► in the mood to do that that happens pretty regularly and so that that's why [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2819">TS</a>]
00:47:02 ◼ ► I like to keep all of the redundant equipment there is just to have that as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2822">TS</a>]
00:47:06 ◼ ► as an additional space that I'm not having to bring equipment to I had to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2826">TS</a>]
00:47:12 ◼ ► physically bring equipment there it would reduce the number of times that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2832">TS</a>]
00:47:17 ◼ ► would ever really want to go so I'm just trying to make things easier for myself [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2837">TS</a>]
00:47:20 ◼ ► because it allows you to just walk in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2840">TS</a>]
00:47:24 ◼ ► that's exactly what I want to be able to walk in just off the street and get to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2844">TS</a>]
00:47:29 ◼ ► work I forgot to bring my laptop charger right that that kind of thing I hate I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2849">TS</a>]
00:47:34 ◼ ► hate missing some small piece of a vital equipment that then just throws off the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2854">TS</a>]
00:47:38 ◼ ► rest of your day that I gotta go back home to get the laptop charger and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2858">TS</a>]
00:47:41 ◼ ► I have to come back to this place and by that time you feel like the thing that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2861">TS</a>]
00:47:45 ◼ ► wanted to do the moment has passed its gonna happen I feel like this highlights [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2865">TS</a>]
00:47:50 ◼ ► and in i think is going to be a central theme that we're gonna see running for a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2870">TS</a>]
00:47:54 ◼ ► lot of these is that you value your time and convenient way more money and Anna [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2874">TS</a>]
00:48:01 ◼ ► mean that to be a joke cuz I do too I will spend more money than people think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2881">TS</a>]
00:48:06 ◼ ► should be spent on something if I feel like it's going to give me more time or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2886">TS</a>]
00:48:14 ◼ ► broadly how to phrase this would like to have to two bags they get all the things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2894">TS</a>]
00:48:20 ◼ ► you mentioned you have to have another two sets [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2900">TS</a>]
00:48:23 ◼ ► funds right right where you could just have the one you just pick up and put [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2903">TS</a>]
00:48:26 ◼ ► the bag but if you forget as annoying so let's buy another 200 and 250 pound [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2906">TS</a>]
00:48:31 ◼ ► notes right now you could just keep it up and your wallet but instead you put [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2911">TS</a>]
00:48:35 ◼ ► it in the bags it's like it's not that you're like you have a ticker-tape [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2915">TS</a>]
00:48:39 ◼ ► parade wear your friend money out for a convertible car down the streets of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2919">TS</a>]
00:48:43 ◼ ► London yes but it's that you make purchases that are purely for reduction [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2923">TS</a>]
00:48:49 ◼ ► of aggravation yeah I think that that's fair to say because I generally don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2929">TS</a>]
00:48:57 ◼ ► like things I don't spend a lot of money on things in my apartment I like I just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2937">TS</a>]
00:49:06 ◼ ► don't have very much stuff but the things that I find useful I am I'm very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2946">TS</a>]
00:49:14 ◼ ► willing to spend more money on a smaller number of things like I want a smaller [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2954">TS</a>]
00:49:20 ◼ ► number of things but those smaller number of things to be of higher quality [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2960">TS</a>]
00:49:24 ◼ ► and in some sense the redundancy is a kind of quality that from my perspective [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2964">TS</a>]
00:49:32 ◼ ► it's almost like iPad is a service and wherever I need iPad iPad just is and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2972">TS</a>]
00:49:40 ◼ ► that kind of mental release of not having to think where is my iPad today [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2980">TS</a>]
00:49:45 ◼ ► did I leave it on my desk let me go find it and put it in my bag or oh did I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2985">TS</a>]
00:49:50 ◼ ► leave my iPad at the office no I never want to think that I just when I'm ready [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2990">TS</a>]
00:49:54 ◼ ► to work I want something at hand immediately to be available this week's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/2994">TS</a>]
00:50:00 ◼ ► episode of cortex is brought to you exclusively by OmniFocus and then later [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3000">TS</a>]
00:50:05 ◼ ► in the show you heard great tell you about why only focus is so important to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3005">TS</a>]
00:50:09 ◼ ► his life and I want you to first just echo that because I like curry use only [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3009">TS</a>]
00:50:13 ◼ ► focus for everything I don't use it as extensively as him I cannot a super [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3013">TS</a>]
00:50:17 ◼ ► super power user but I use it to keep track of all of the tasks that happen in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3017">TS</a>]
00:50:22 ◼ ► my life about on the focus I would be totally lost all of my tasks all of my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3022">TS</a>]
00:50:28 ◼ ► little time so I put in some things I need to do and it helps me prepare my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3028">TS</a>]
00:50:33 ◼ ► life when I'm getting my work done without me focus I would be lost by [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3033">TS</a>]
00:50:36 ◼ ► wanted to tell you a little bit about on the focus for the Apple watch is a new [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3036">TS</a>]
00:50:41 ◼ ► addition to the only focus family on the focus is on the Mac and the iPhone and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3041">TS</a>]
00:50:45 ◼ ► iPad and on the universal app includes the iPhone and the iPad you can now get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3045">TS</a>]
00:50:50 ◼ ► yourself on the focus for the watch it helps them these apps live together even [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3050">TS</a>]
00:50:55 ◼ ► better than ever before and it just keeps getting better all of the time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3055">TS</a>]
00:50:59 ◼ ► when we focus for the Apple watch if you already have only focus installed on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3059">TS</a>]
00:51:02 ◼ ► your phone is just waiting for you they're ready for you to become more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3062">TS</a>]
00:51:07 ◼ ► the app itself is a great way to get a quick view of what you have to be today [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3067">TS</a>]
00:51:11 ◼ ► upcoming you can very quickly and easily get a glance at what you need to take [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3071">TS</a>]
00:51:14 ◼ ► care of and you can check things off right from within the white jacket open [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3074">TS</a>]
00:51:18 ◼ ► it up and check them off you can even enter tasks into your inbox and only [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3078">TS</a>]
00:51:22 ◼ ► focus by the power series you can just talkin to me like a super secret agent [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3082">TS</a>]
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00:51:31 ◼ ► continuity you can pick up your lost respect of context of project you were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3091">TS</a>]
00:51:35 ◼ ► basically on the focus of the Apple what keeps you in control and make sure that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3095">TS</a>]
00:51:39 ◼ ► your way you want to be when you need to be at there's also a glance as well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3099">TS</a>]
00:51:43 ◼ ► watch glass with only focuses you can see what the next thing is on your day [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3103">TS</a>]
00:51:47 ◼ ► and just get a real quick overview as to how much stuff you've got going on so go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3107">TS</a>]
00:51:52 ◼ ► ahead over to a new group Telecom only focus we are able to also check out a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3112">TS</a>]
00:51:56 ◼ ► full functioning demo of the only focus at the building on their websites you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3116">TS</a>]
00:52:01 ◼ ► can get a feel for how it looks and works before you install it for yourself [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3121">TS</a>]
00:52:05 ◼ ► so go check out on the focus you can go to only group conversation the focus [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3125">TS</a>]
00:52:09 ◼ ► believe you click the link in a show not really don't FM / cortex / to keep you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3129">TS</a>]
00:52:14 ◼ ► click that link then they will know that you come from us and it will help [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3134">TS</a>]
00:52:17 ◼ ► support the show thank you so much the only group and on the focus for their [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3137">TS</a>]
00:52:21 ◼ ► help today so you workin coffee shops which we've mentioned in like little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3141">TS</a>]
00:52:27 ◼ ► places of public spaces and stuff that you work and I think I heard you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3147">TS</a>]
00:52:30 ◼ ► mentioned once that you work in the British Library sometimes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3150">TS</a>]
00:52:35 ◼ ► I used to work in the British Library when it was a bit more convenient but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3155">TS</a>]
00:52:40 ◼ ► there but there are a bunch of locations that are like that around London that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3160">TS</a>]
00:52:43 ◼ ► I've that I frequently work so why did you choose to work in those places [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3163">TS</a>]
00:52:47 ◼ ► rather than you can say is i mean they have a lot of the same problems as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3167">TS</a>]
00:52:51 ◼ ► people around being distracting and you're also paying for the coworking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3171">TS</a>]
00:52:56 ◼ ► space so why do you go to places in thats what scenarios that sounds like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3176">TS</a>]
00:53:03 ◼ ► well okay so the two scenarios are hard during the day if I am NOT staying at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3183">TS</a>]
00:53:11 ◼ ► home to do work i will go out to a bunch of different locations 22 rights on to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3191">TS</a>]
00:53:17 ◼ ► write scripts basically and the reason why the people that say a cafe don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3197">TS</a>]
00:53:24 ◼ ► bother me as much as david the people at a co at the coworking space is I find [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3204">TS</a>]
00:53:28 ◼ ► the people at a cafe are kind of easier to ignore there's no unity of purpose at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3208">TS</a>]
00:53:36 ◼ ► a cafe and also you're not going to run into the same people over and over by [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3216">TS</a>]
00:53:43 ◼ ► going to the same cafes to work out for the for the same other locations around [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3223">TS</a>]
00:53:48 ◼ ► the city to work at it like a random crowd of essentially faceless anonymous [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3228">TS</a>]
00:53:54 ◼ ► people who are who are around you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3234">TS</a>]
00:53:56 ◼ ► where's the problem that I have with the coworking space is like I'm here too [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3236">TS</a>]
00:54:00 ◼ ► frequently during the day I start to recognize some of you and this is just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3240">TS</a>]
00:54:04 ◼ ► this is not something that I really want to deal with it that's part of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3244">TS</a>]
00:54:07 ◼ ► reason why I like working out and around in the city is the anonymity of it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3247">TS</a>]
00:54:14 ◼ ► almost a kind of privacy it's it's own nobody here cares about what I'm doing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3254">TS</a>]
00:54:20 ◼ ► and I don't really care about what do these people are doing so we can all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3260">TS</a>]
00:54:23 ◼ ► happily ignore each other while we're sitting at our our various tables that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3263">TS</a>]
00:54:28 ◼ ► that's one thing that is very beneficial and then there's the second thing is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3268">TS</a>]
00:54:32 ◼ ► what I mentioned before is I don't know why but I am very aware that there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3272">TS</a>]
00:54:37 ◼ ► like a little clock counts down in my head from about an hour and a half to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3277">TS</a>]
00:54:41 ◼ ► two hours of a burst of work so if I'm sitting down and I get like a good hour [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3281">TS</a>]
00:54:48 ◼ ► half worth of work done even if I'm using like music to try to distract part [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3288">TS</a>]
00:54:54 ◼ ► of my brain at that point in time I start to get a little bit fidgety and it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3294">TS</a>]
00:55:00 ◼ ► starts to become harder to kind of focus on whatever I'm doing and I've learned [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3300">TS</a>]
00:55:05 ◼ ► that the best way to get over that is usually to take like a 20 minute walk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3305">TS</a>]
00:55:09 ◼ ► and so that's why I tend to kind of hop from place to place in the city is done [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3309">TS</a>]
00:55:17 ◼ ► somewhere I work for an hour and a half I can't feel my brain getting fidgety [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3317">TS</a>]
00:55:20 ◼ ► I'm having a little bit of a hard time focusing on whatever I'm doing some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3320">TS</a>]
00:55:24 ◼ ► going to get up I'm going to go to a different location and then after that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3324">TS</a>]
00:55:28 ◼ ► 20 minute walk I find it much more easy to sit down and once again kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3328">TS</a>]
00:55:34 ◼ ► concentrate on what it is that I that I want to do so that's another reason why [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3334">TS</a>]
00:55:39 ◼ ► I like going out to different places to work is is the motion and the change of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3339">TS</a>]
00:55:44 ◼ ► environment i find facilitates certain kinds of of getting things done what's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3344">TS</a>]
00:55:51 ◼ ► you have one to get down to give me all occasions people camping there that it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3351">TS</a>]
00:55:56 ◼ ► about two-to-one Baker Street I've been a bit vague because they are definitely [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3356">TS</a>]
00:56:02 ◼ ► places that I would not want to say out loud because I feel like now I found [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3362">TS</a>]
00:56:06 ◼ ► these little places over years and years in the city I'm not I'm not giving up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3366">TS</a>]
00:56:09 ◼ ► various good locations that I like to work with you tell me them like I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3369">TS</a>]
00:56:15 ◼ ► pretend to ignore you know I won't tell you that I guess what would I could more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3375">TS</a>]
00:56:21 ◼ ► say is that I have little roots that I quite like whether there are enough [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3381">TS</a>]
00:56:25 ◼ ► places that I'm going to stop along the way and one of the routes which is easy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3385">TS</a>]
00:56:31 ◼ ► enough to talk about is the south bank of london is I found enough places along [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3391">TS</a>]
00:56:38 ◼ ► that stretch on the river where I can stop that are into crowded normally and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3398">TS</a>]
00:56:44 ◼ ► I can kind of have a nice little walk down the river and know that there are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3404">TS</a>]
00:56:48 ◼ ► locations that are evenly spaced that I can stop when I want to do that that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3408">TS</a>]
00:56:52 ◼ ► like that like a little roots that I use fairly frequently what a great Poland [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3412">TS</a>]
00:56:58 ◼ ► like just one of the very best as the best views has the best bridges like to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3418">TS</a>]
00:57:04 ◼ ► some of the most fantastic buildings and culture and place to eat and drink it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3424">TS</a>]
00:57:08 ◼ ► the south bank is fantastic of course that's one of the reasons why I was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3428">TS</a>]
00:57:13 ◼ ► originally was walking around there because I liked it and eventually kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3433">TS</a>]
00:57:17 ◼ ► of figured out a few places to stop that were convenient and so now it's you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3437">TS</a>]
00:57:22 ◼ ► it's hard to say how often I do it but that's that is a fairly regular go to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3442">TS</a>]
00:57:29 ◼ ► place for all I want to get some work done and let me let me just go walking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3449">TS</a>]
00:57:33 ◼ ► along here for the afternoon for example feel like this is kind of been employed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3453">TS</a>]
00:57:39 ◼ ► today but I wanted to ask it do you think that the you personally being in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3459">TS</a>]
00:57:45 ◼ ► effectual productivity in different ways yeah it does it does I think one of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3465">TS</a>]
00:57:50 ◼ ► two turn it around for a moment one of the reasons that I would say that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3470">TS</a>]
00:57:56 ◼ ► don't like working at home as I'm aware that this is probably one of the places [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3476">TS</a>]
00:58:00 ◼ ► where I am least effective and actually working because the home is an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3480">TS</a>]
00:58:05 ◼ ► environment where you do all kinds of stuff and it's very easy to get a bit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3485">TS</a>]
00:58:10 ◼ ► derailed if you're just staying in the same location all day and that location [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3490">TS</a>]
00:58:16 ◼ ► is also where you live and so it's the same it's the same place where you relax [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3496">TS</a>]
00:58:20 ◼ ► and I like oh the main room of the house that I walk through to get lunch or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3500">TS</a>]
00:58:24 ◼ ► whatever this is where in the evening I will sit on the couch and watch [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3504">TS</a>]
00:58:27 ◼ ► television is a it's a wrong kind of mental environment sometimes for getting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3507">TS</a>]
00:58:32 ◼ ► work done it it feels less serious to my brain somehow as opposed to like oh I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3512">TS</a>]
00:58:39 ◼ ► out and about or i've gone to the coworking space in our brain we need to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3519">TS</a>]
00:58:44 ◼ ► whereas when I'm home all day it's like well I'll be home all day on a weekend [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3524">TS</a>]
00:58:50 ◼ ► not necessarily working so it doesn't I feel like it's very beneficial to have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3530">TS</a>]
00:58:56 ◼ ► sharp dividing lines between things particularly when you're self-employed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3536">TS</a>]
00:59:02 ◼ ► particularly when you don't naturally have those self dividing lines [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3542">TS</a>]
00:59:06 ◼ ► and that's why the working at home it is while it is extremely useful to me to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3546">TS</a>]
00:59:11 ◼ ► have a home office I'm aware that that in terms of like productive output per [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3551">TS</a>]
00:59:17 ◼ ► hour it's probably one of the less effective places for me to work but it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3557">TS</a>]
00:59:23 ◼ ► is always available so there's there's tradeoffs these tradeoffs all the time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3563">TS</a>]
00:59:27 ◼ ► with these things I'll tell you later version yes I'll tell you something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3567">TS</a>]
00:59:34 ◼ ► about how when I first started making the YouTube videos I was extremely lucky [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3574">TS</a>]
00:59:39 ◼ ► with place so in that first apartment which had a door it was not really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3579">TS</a>]
00:59:47 ◼ ► practical for me to be working a lot in the main area of our house because it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3587">TS</a>]
00:59:56 ◼ ► was everything it was the kitchen it was the bedroom it was the main area and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3596">TS</a>]
01:00:00 ◼ ► did have a little desk that was set up that I could work out but this is that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3600">TS</a>]
01:00:04 ◼ ► when I was still working as a teacher and then my wife would be home in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3604">TS</a>]
01:00:07 ◼ ► evenings like it just it was not a great space to be trying to work and this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3607">TS</a>]
01:00:14 ◼ ► this is where a lot of my first habit of wandering around the city probably [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3614">TS</a>]
01:00:20 ◼ ► was like I have to go out somewhere from trying to work but I eventually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3620">TS</a>]
01:00:24 ◼ ► discovered that I had access in that building to this kind of terrifying [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3624">TS</a>]
01:00:32 ◼ ► basement space that was below the building but yet still kind of exposed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3632">TS</a>]
01:00:39 ◼ ► to the elements through broken windows and had a boiler in there that was loud [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3639">TS</a>]
01:00:44 ◼ ► and the room was filled with dust and spiders and all kinds of disgusting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3644">TS</a>]
01:00:50 ◼ ► stuff but it was an additional space that I can get access to that absolutely [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3650">TS</a>]
01:00:56 ◼ ► nobody else would want to go to not buy that description anyway all the spider [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3656">TS</a>]
01:01:06 ◼ ► during the winter it would be freezing cold and turning the summer it would be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3666">TS</a>]
01:01:10 ◼ ► terribly terribly terribly hot but in the in the year and a half when I was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3670">TS</a>]
01:01:16 ◼ ► really trying when I was putting all in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3676">TS</a>]
01:01:19 ◼ ► on trying to make YouTube work as a business having access to that little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3679">TS</a>]
01:01:25 ◼ ► space made a huge difference to me because I would take at that point my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3685">TS</a>]
01:01:32 ◼ ► very first iPad retina iPad down there with a little keyboard and I could do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3692">TS</a>]
01:01:39 ◼ ► this thing which I i do all the time which is talk the scripts out loud and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3699">TS</a>]
01:01:44 ◼ ► work on them that the one of the most effective things I can do when I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3704">TS</a>]
01:01:47 ◼ ► actually working is to talk out loud what I'm going to say in the video and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3707">TS</a>]
01:01:52 ◼ ► make changes in the keep going back and back and forth in keep saying the script [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3712">TS</a>]
01:01:56 ◼ ► out loud over and over again and making a little changes yeah it's obviously not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3716">TS</a>]
01:02:00 ◼ ► something I could do in a cafe is not something I can do when people are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3720">TS</a>]
01:02:03 ◼ ► around but having that little basement space was a spot that I could go to and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3723">TS</a>]
01:02:09 ◼ ► very very regularly in the evenings after dinner which happens to be a very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3729">TS</a>]
01:02:14 ◼ ► useful time for me work wise I would go down to the spider basement and work and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3734">TS</a>]
01:02:21 ◼ ► that space ended up I I would say probably is one of the most productive [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3741">TS</a>]
01:02:27 ◼ ► spaces that I've ever worked in even though was horrible and who isn't hot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3747">TS</a>]
01:02:36 ◼ ► that actually kind of work in its favor because I never want to be there any any [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3756">TS</a>]
01:02:40 ◼ ► longer than was absolutely necessary and so I think that this also really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3760">TS</a>]
01:02:46 ◼ ► contributed to the association in my brain of you know where we're downstairs [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3766">TS</a>]
01:02:52 ◼ ► in the basement and now it is time to work because we're not going back [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3772">TS</a>]
01:02:56 ◼ ► upstairs to our company house until you get enough of you know you until you get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3776">TS</a>]
01:03:00 ◼ ► through enough drafts of this video that you feel satisfied with it and so I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3780">TS</a>]
01:03:06 ◼ ► think there are there are ways in which working environments can actually be too [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3786">TS</a>]
01:03:12 ◼ ► comfortable like having an office that is too nice can actually be a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3792">TS</a>]
01:03:18 ◼ ► disincentive to work you don't want to have stuff that is is extremely 100% [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3798">TS</a>]
01:03:25 ◼ ► comfortable all the time I think the cafes in a way replicate this a little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3805">TS</a>]
01:03:31 ◼ ► it because you can never quite get a cafe to be set up just the way you want [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3811">TS</a>]
01:03:36 ◼ ► right of the chair is always a little bit off the table isn't quite right or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3816">TS</a>]
01:03:40 ◼ ► are you sitting in a spot that you don't necessarily like perfectly and when you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3820">TS</a>]
01:03:44 ◼ ► go there like you don't even know if you're gonna be able to have a place to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3824">TS</a>]
01:03:48 ◼ ► yeah yeah yeah they're all of these little little things that make the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3828">TS</a>]
01:03:52 ◼ ► environment to slightly uncomfortable but I feel like that can actually be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3832">TS</a>]
01:03:57 ◼ ► conducive in a way to working with them aware that that my house while I do love [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3837">TS</a>]
01:04:02 ◼ ► it it's almost too comfortable everything is is just the way I like and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3842">TS</a>]
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01:04:12 ◼ ► the podcasting like doing the podcasting from home this is a kind of convenience [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3852">TS</a>]
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01:04:31 ◼ ► why I go to the coworking space on weekends and during the evenings is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3871">TS</a>]
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01:04:40 ◼ ► to do that thing where I talk the scripts out loud where I can I can walk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3880">TS</a>]
01:04:45 ◼ ► around in this kind of big open area and talk out loud like a crazy person and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3885">TS</a>]
01:04:50 ◼ ► there's nobody there to bother me and again that is a very very productive [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3890">TS</a>]
01:04:56 ◼ ► time for me even even though to answer your question like it seems a bit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3896">TS</a>]
01:05:00 ◼ ► redundant to both work around the city and to also have the coworking space I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3900">TS</a>]
01:05:06 ◼ ► used the coworking space in a very different way than I do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3906">TS</a>]
01:05:10 ◼ ► cafes or or my home office even so having access to that space to be able [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3910">TS</a>]
01:05:16 ◼ ► to kind of like it's much nicer than the basement but be able to replicate this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3916">TS</a>]
01:05:21 ◼ ► ok it is in the evening and I want to go somewhere and just be able to talk out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3921">TS</a>]
01:05:25 ◼ ► loud for awhile effect that's one of the reasons why I keep the coworking space [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3925">TS</a>]
01:05:30 ◼ ► around and that's that's one reason why use it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3930">TS</a>]
01:05:32 ◼ ► do you work in an office oh you mean like a grownup office like an office [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3932">TS</a>]
01:05:38 ◼ ► with like desks of people I see these officers [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3938">TS</a>]
01:05:42 ◼ ► I see these big open-plan offices and some of my walks and some of the places [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3942">TS</a>]
01:05:48 ◼ ► that i go and they don't look very nice I have never worked in one of these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3948">TS</a>]
01:05:54 ◼ ► offices and when we talked last time about why I want to be a teacher I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3954">TS</a>]
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01:06:09 ◼ ► never had any kind of job even my student jobs or anything that were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3969">TS</a>]
01:06:13 ◼ ► stereotypical office jobs I have tried very hard to avoid that and I have I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3973">TS</a>]
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01:06:26 ◼ ► would it's funny I was thinking about you know the movie office space I first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3986">TS</a>]
01:06:33 ◼ ► saw office space in college at some point and the movie is ostensibly a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/3993">TS</a>]
01:06:41 ◼ ► comedy and I remember thinking oh this is a very funny movie but it also had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4001">TS</a>]
01:06:45 ◼ ► this little bit of it teens of like a warning from the adult world of you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4005">TS</a>]
01:06:51 ◼ ► you don't really want to probably work in an environment like this and every [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4011">TS</a>]
01:06:56 ◼ ► every few years i watched office space again and every time I watch it as I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4016">TS</a>]
01:07:01 ◼ ► have gotten older that movie has become less of a of a comedy and more of a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4021">TS</a>]
01:07:07 ◼ ► horse just I don't laugh I kind of like kind of watch it just just filled with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4027">TS</a>]
01:07:13 ◼ ► horror and one of the things I'm really aware of is that if you look at the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4033">TS</a>]
01:07:21 ◼ ► working environment and office space it's presented as this this terrible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4041">TS</a>]
01:07:26 ◼ ► terrible working environment because they're all stuck in these horrible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4046">TS</a>]
01:07:29 ◼ ► cubes but in all of the officers that I can see into in London those cubes would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4049">TS</a>]
01:07:36 ◼ ► seem like a massive luxury most of the officers I see a range people in these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4056">TS</a>]
01:07:42 ◼ ► endless open rooms with just computers on their desk sitting directly opposite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4062">TS</a>]
01:07:48 ◼ ► someone else on a computer with someone on a computer on either side of them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4068">TS</a>]
01:07:53 ◼ ► with half size little walls if they're lucky but very often they're just long [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4073">TS</a>]
01:07:58 ◼ ► tables that are you know sixteen people are sitting out that they that they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4078">TS</a>]
01:08:02 ◼ ► would they would beg beg four cubes and that's why I like the office space thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4082">TS</a>]
01:08:08 ◼ ► that's the one thing I'm really aware of watching that movie was like ok this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4088">TS</a>]
01:08:11 ◼ ► movie is is horrifying as an adult to watch but even since then it looks to me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4091">TS</a>]
01:08:17 ◼ ► like things have really changed in the office world did you have a cuba but you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4097">TS</a>]
01:08:21 ◼ ► didn't know and I wish I did one and one of the things that happened to us who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4101">TS</a>]
01:08:27 ◼ ► dis is one of the worst things we like the marketing department right so we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4107">TS</a>]
01:08:30 ◼ ► were kind of a bit more relaxed about the way that we worked [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4110">TS</a>]
01:08:33 ◼ ► music we have a laugh and joke around and stuff at that time there were banks [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4113">TS</a>]
01:08:39 ◼ ► of desks that kind of set 12 people six on each side we had a decent amount of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4119">TS</a>]
01:08:45 ◼ ► ok they were ok it wasn't great there was barely any meeting rooms and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4125">TS</a>]
01:08:51 ◼ ► one day we were told of their people moving down from another floor so we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4131">TS</a>]
01:08:55 ◼ ► have to move everybody around and you know how to tackle your stuff this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4135">TS</a>]
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01:09:02 ◼ ► seating set up to came in on Monday and dad moved us around to another part of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4142">TS</a>]
01:09:09 ◼ ► the floor and they had increased our tables to two banks are sixteen eight [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4149">TS</a>]
01:09:15 ◼ ► people each side but that but the table wasn't any bigger if the little bigger a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4155">TS</a>]
01:09:21 ◼ ► little bit bigger ok they added like 10 percent more table in 50% more people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4161">TS</a>]
01:09:25 ◼ ► the people that SAT behind us to come down came down from the floor above they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4165">TS</a>]
01:09:29 ◼ ► were the same size tables and they said 10 aside and you know computers anymore [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4169">TS</a>]
01:09:35 ◼ ► hot desking so you wouldn't even be guaranteed you don't have enough each [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4175">TS</a>]
01:09:40 ◼ ► team didn't have enough desks to fit the team so sometimes you were five minutes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4180">TS</a>]
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01:09:49 ◼ ► somewhere to see but you have all your stuff in a locker that was on the desk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4189">TS</a>]
01:09:53 ◼ ► we usually see him back on full day picking it up and be the worst thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4193">TS</a>]
01:09:59 ◼ ► about it was like the people that came down they were very stuffy department [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4199">TS</a>]
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01:10:15 ◼ ► way that we had to work and we were allowed to have a music on anymore and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4215">TS</a>]
01:10:19 ◼ ► we had to be more quiet we weren't allowed to swear as much as we did and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4219">TS</a>]
01:10:24 ◼ ► it took all of our meeting rooms away and it's like i don't ever again wanna [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4224">TS</a>]
01:10:29 ◼ ► be in an environment where my my working environment can be changed by external [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4229">TS</a>]
01:10:37 ◼ ► like someone to make a decision and all of a sudden we're all crammed up in an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4237">TS</a>]
01:10:41 ◼ ► evidence came this is always liked the thing but with working for a company [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4241">TS</a>]
01:10:45 ◼ ► versus working for yourself and there are there are tradeoffs in both of these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4245">TS</a>]
01:10:49 ◼ ► but that is one of the biggest trade offices that other people can can make [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4249">TS</a>]
01:10:55 ◼ ► decisions that radically change your daily experience when you're working for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4255">TS</a>]
01:11:00 ◼ ► another company and and that kind of thing over we're going to change your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4260">TS</a>]
01:11:06 ◼ ► physical environment in a way to make it much less pleasant is extremely [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4266">TS</a>]
01:11:12 ◼ ► extremely frustrating to to deal with and i just i just can't imagine how that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4272">TS</a>]
01:11:18 ◼ ► has been for lots of of workers seeing as I do inside these offices the shape [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4278">TS</a>]
01:11:25 ◼ ► of them change in like more people getting crammed into space is just I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4285">TS</a>]
01:11:34 ◼ ► I tried very hard to avoid that and I have been I have been lucky enough to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4294">TS</a>]
01:11:43 ◼ ► surely you would think you're less productive under the new circumstances [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4303">TS</a>]
01:11:46 ◼ ► I'll definitely be you know then they try and back that up with your gonna [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4306">TS</a>]
01:11:50 ◼ ► meet your objectives you know you have to meet your objectives to meet your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4310">TS</a>]
01:11:55 ◼ ► objectives you might be less productive but you have your objectives to me who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4315">TS</a>]
01:11:58 ◼ ► says your objectives interests for great industries you set my objective we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4318">TS</a>]
01:12:06 ◼ ► should have a quarterly review I can give you a good quarterly review we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4326">TS</a>]
01:12:10 ◼ ► could establish performance rating what do you think about that I would resist [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4330">TS</a>]
01:12:16 ◼ ► I would resist that we can we can talk about we can talk about deadlines and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4336">TS</a>]
01:12:21 ◼ ► and objectives at another point maybe but there's nobody else setting high [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4341">TS</a>]
01:12:26 ◼ ► deadlines are objectives do not have any more meetings where we can talk about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4346">TS</a>]
01:12:29 ◼ ► how good of an employee I have been like I did when I was teaching those those [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+EtBmmXk7g/4349">TS</a>]
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