00:00:00 ◼ ► What color is it? I like to do a lot of sort of neon 80s kind of magenta and cyan kind of colors. Is that just for podcasting?
00:00:07 ◼ ► It's in the Hue app. There's like a theme that's called Soho. I use that a lot when I'm doing work. So I'm doing writing stuff
00:00:13 ◼ ► I also put on the Soho colors which matches my obsidian theme which is neon 80s. So it's a very consistent lighting look
00:00:21 ◼ ► I'm gonna take a look at the Hue app. Do you have the Hue app for your office? Do you have Hue light stuff?
00:00:25 ◼ ► I have a couple of lamps of Hue bulbs in them. However, for some reason that I can't fully understand and it's happening again
00:00:43 ◼ ► So it's like yeah having four light bulbs is eight times better than having two light bulbs
00:00:55 ◼ ► I discovered the delights of LED strips as part of redoing this office and that I was like, oh, right
00:01:02 ◼ ► Yeah, we have one of those couple of those at home. Actually, I used to have one of my old desk in mega office
00:01:30 ◼ ► Hmm, like that's a thing that they do that they didn't do when I first started buying these they actually just have like much brighter bulbs
00:01:41 ◼ ► But this is now gonna be a project which goes along with the home because we like floor lighting at home to Robin and overhead
00:02:04 ◼ ► But I think it might be something I'd take a look at towards the end of the year starting next year
00:02:10 ◼ ► But I like whatever I discovered the existence of LED strips as like oh, that's intriguing
00:02:14 ◼ ► I was watching some tutorial where someone was putting them together and they just they made the off-handed comment about how all
00:02:20 ◼ ► Lighting is so much better if you're never looking directly at the source of the lighting. Yeah, and I was like, ah
00:02:25 ◼ ► Right. So like I've tried to do that with all of the lights in my office is like none of them
00:02:31 ◼ ► Am I ever looking directly at they should all be bouncing off of something or like you use the LEDs to hide them under the desk
00:02:46 ◼ ► I think it's funny that you were saying that you want brighter bulb because I want nothing more than dimmer bulbs
00:03:05 ◼ ► The studio is a lot of light needed, you know, hmm something I did get with Hugh recently in the bedroom
00:03:11 ◼ ► They have Edison style bulbs now, which I really like. What does that mean? I don't know what that means
00:03:21 ◼ ► It's like a bulb style where you would see the filament in like a coil. Oh, I think of these as hipster light bulbs
00:03:29 ◼ ► yeah, and so Hugh made a range of hipster light bulbs and of course we got them for the bedroom and
00:03:37 ◼ ► So they're really good for the bedroom like we have a lamp on each side of bed and like it they like shine down towards
00:03:44 ◼ ► Us but you can put it really low. It's it feels to me low at any other hue bulb that I've used
00:03:58 ◼ ► 0.25% brightness that that's how I work. I've got 20 light bulbs, but I all want them at like
00:04:16 ◼ ► Mmm, because it's hilarious to me that it was two episodes ago two episodes ago where I was talking about how busy I was
00:04:35 ◼ ► Uh-huh, it has a different emotional valence perhaps. Yeah, I think that's what's going on
00:04:40 ◼ ► I don't really feel this way about other months maybe December right because December's Christmas, you know
00:04:55 ◼ ► I say it a lot during the month more than I would a regular month right like September is childhood cancer awareness
00:05:03 ◼ ► But then you know, it's just coupled in the iPhone event and travel and like yeah this one
00:05:12 ◼ ► But I found some moments this month where it's been rewarding feeling you're like once we actually start getting into the fundraising stuff
00:05:24 ◼ ► I'm a couple of days away from traveling to Memphis and that also really changes the feel of the month for me
00:05:33 ◼ ► So complicated because I am also gonna be away for like a third of the month so they could you know that adds in
00:05:39 ◼ ► Complication to the rest of it. So it's been pretty busy and I don't think anything could highlight their busyness of the month
00:05:46 ◼ ► Then the fact that I got invited to the iPhone event and I said no. Yeah, that's an indicator of
00:05:59 ◼ ► It was just too complicated and I've got too much stuff on this month and I I could not see a way to make it work
00:06:11 ◼ ► Mm-hmm. So like for a selection of reasons which are complicated. I cannot change my travel from London to Memphis
00:06:20 ◼ ► Mm-hmm. And so it was always gonna have to be I would need to be back here to leave again. That's crazy
00:06:30 ◼ ► And so I said no but like the thing about it that's just so interesting to me is it's like well
00:06:36 ◼ ► That's like the hot ticket, right? I just listen to a podcast as someone described the iPhone event. It's like the Super Bowl of Technology
00:06:42 ◼ ► It's like yep, that's pretty fair. Yes. Everyone's paying attention whether you usually care or not
00:06:48 ◼ ► Like I'm listening to like podcasts this week that aren't tech podcasts and they're referencing the fact that there's a new iPhone, you know
00:06:55 ◼ ► Like it's just like it permeates popular culture. Yeah, I have a friend who calls it Apple Christmas see for me
00:07:03 ◼ ► But that's because I mean it more right for me like finding the software is the most exciting but I can understand how
00:07:12 ◼ ► So you got invited to the North Pole and you're like, I can't make it. I was like no Santa
00:07:23 ◼ ► I'm like, here's the thing that you had always like I imagine they're like maybe not even thought like because it's such a
00:07:32 ◼ ► Even more so than debbity see right because it's like in the Steve Rose Theatre which puts a hard cap on how many people they can
00:07:40 ◼ ► Outside so they can just keep increasing the number if they want to add more rows of chairs
00:07:45 ◼ ► All right, it's a very different thing. However many humans you can fit in that enormous circle
00:07:55 ◼ ► Or 2022. Sorry, I should say 20 22 WBC the first one where they have people come to the campus
00:08:02 ◼ ► It did feel like that like it just kept getting bigger and bigger more more people were getting invited
00:08:16 ◼ ► happy and honored to receive the invite immediately right like as soon as it came out it landed in my inbox and
00:08:22 ◼ ► I sat on it for a couple of days and I thought about it and I had a bunch of conversations
00:08:27 ◼ ► With people in my life. I looked at it. I looked at it from a bunch of different angles and just ultimately
00:08:47 ◼ ► Episodes right like the episodes of upgrade and connected and this show that was scheduled to be done this week
00:08:59 ◼ ► Wired in a bad way. I was gonna be it would have made everything worse and it would have made st
00:09:06 ◼ ► It would have made family stuff worse like everything would have been brought down and buy in this one instance
00:09:19 ◼ ► Thing to mark to have gotten it and also a thing to mark in my personal growth that I could turn it down and feel
00:09:26 ◼ ► Confident and content with that decision it is strange to say I think you did make the right decision
00:09:37 ◼ ► But it it is surreal to be at a position like that to try to think through like is this a thing that I can add
00:09:47 ◼ ► Again, like you said you don't plan your September's around the idea that you're going to get an invitation to something like that
00:10:02 ◼ ► September has become this really big month that started with the iPhone and then these other events
00:10:22 ◼ ► It's like oh the thing that started all of this I cannot actually make time to go for because of my prior commitments
00:10:41 ◼ ► Thought about this like I was talking with another friend of mine who was in a very similar situation and also couldn't make it and
00:10:56 ◼ ► We are you think about like when you say younger like 20 year old me? Yeah, I'd like two or three years ago
00:11:18 ◼ ► It's like oh the you'll have different priorities of like but there is no other priority. It's the iPhone
00:11:25 ◼ ► You know, yeah, I like that you already shortened this timeline to three years ago you because yes
00:11:30 ◼ ► I was imagining like young Mike right? Let's say ten plus years ago and explained to him the situation
00:11:36 ◼ ► Would you like no three years ago Mike would have a very hard time with understanding the situation
00:11:40 ◼ ► Yeah, we don't even need to go back that far. Yeah, it's just a strange thing to have done. I really like
00:12:22 ◼ ► It was unbeatable like and I knew that as well which really helped like it's like this event
00:12:45 ◼ ► Yeah, yeah of people being able to use a device like we've significant time before it comes out
00:12:50 ◼ ► And so it's just never a thing that I even would have imagined for myself to be able to have done
00:13:02 ◼ ► It didn't sting so much that I couldn't make it because I already had something this year
00:13:36 ◼ ► I think it's mentally useful a lot of times I've discussed this like previous theme episodes
00:13:40 ◼ ► Right as you sort of like imagine if you're in this situation today like clean slate without all of the history that got you here
00:13:48 ◼ ► What kind of decisions would you make I often find that as like a like a clarifying way to try and?
00:14:06 ◼ ► Especially if it's a goal over a long period of time both like your career and the world around you
00:14:29 ◼ ► Right, but it was like a different you who started this like and does this make sense right now?
00:14:37 ◼ ► Yeah, I think that's really difficult to do for everyone like I know I sometimes catch myself doing that sort of thing
00:14:45 ◼ ► Unintentionally carry forward past versions of yourself that aren't actually relevant to your current goals and current decisions
00:14:59 ◼ ► And it would it's still a bucket list item to tick off and I hope that one year everything lines up and I'm able to
00:15:06 ◼ ► Time it out differently. Like for example, if the iPhone event was next week, it would have been doable
00:15:16 ◼ ► I think we could have worked around differently, but it just couldn't work out this time
00:15:26 ◼ ► Myself that I'm in a position where I was able to do it and I was able to get through it all
00:15:35 ◼ ► Like that was the thing I was worried about like, oh am I gonna be super jealous and like I wasn't
00:15:49 ◼ ► Basically, there was no regret all my friends are at the prom, but I'm not at the prom right now
00:15:56 ◼ ► Well, I'm very happy for you. But yeah, it could not have fit into what I'm going to dub stacked September
00:16:19 ◼ ► Right, you have that like tension like oh god, right like immediately you wake up with like the list of things that you have to do
00:16:26 ◼ ► And it was like it was a five in the morning, right? And I'm like, oh god, right? I've got all these things
00:16:44 ◼ ► Mean like if it helps you not feel bad, right but like that's awesome. It's an exercise in comparison
00:16:50 ◼ ► Yeah, but I wouldn't set it as like I shouldn't feel this way because oh, I don't mean it that way at all
00:16:55 ◼ ► No, like yeah, just to be very clear. I think that's a really dumb mental framing that lots of people do
00:17:11 ◼ ► It's like we got that great ask cortex question a while ago about like doing each other's jobs, right?
00:17:15 ◼ ► Yeah, just any time I think about trying to do your job. It's so horrifying to me, right?
00:17:21 ◼ ► It's more like that. You want my job in like April if you want it like that's like a good time
00:17:26 ◼ ► Is that the chill Mike time? It feels like it. I don't have any bad feelings about the word April
00:17:32 ◼ ► So right, it's probably pretty good. Just a negative valence for a stack September stack September. Oh
00:17:39 ◼ ► Hi Mike, what are you doing here? You're in my ad. I'm here because the subtlety is back
00:17:51 ◼ ► The only problem is it's running until October but don't even think about that it starts in September
00:17:56 ◼ ► Yeah, it starts in September. They will still be on sale at October, but you know, you want to get them in stack September
00:18:02 ◼ ► Maybe that's the thing about stack September actually lasts for six weeks. That's what makes it so stack
00:18:12 ◼ ► Dot-com you will find all five colors of our teas and sweaters navy black gray red and green
00:18:24 ◼ ► Lightweight hoodie in the same colors and material as the subtle sweater. I am very excited about this
00:18:40 ◼ ► I like in the kind of spring and autumn time to have like a thin hoodie. We're in the studio
00:18:51 ◼ ► And so we've been able to bring the subtle embroidery to a nice lightweight hoodie this year
00:18:57 ◼ ► So close expand calm is where you go find them. We have them in all the colors something
00:19:02 ◼ ► I'm actually pretty pleased about this year. We have more color consistency than we've ever had before
00:19:07 ◼ ► Between the items so we've made some tweaks to some of the colors. One of them is a new blue
00:19:16 ◼ ► They are much closer than before the sweater as well in general. I think is a higher quality item
00:19:29 ◼ ► Finally being able to make more decisions on stock management. Yeah because of the pandemic
00:19:53 ◼ ► So it's still not as easy as it could have been but this is the easiest it's ever been so we can finally offer
00:20:03 ◼ ► It's just about what we were able to get access to color wise and I think now the entire product line
00:20:08 ◼ ► Looks how I want it to and I'm super excited about it. So as we mentioned it's a limited time sale
00:20:13 ◼ ► It's available for just three weeks. So you have until October the 10th to get your order in
00:20:18 ◼ ► So if you're listening to this right now, and you're like, oh man, I've wanted to get one of those or that sounds really good
00:20:35 ◼ ► This has got to be our most I regret I didn't purchase it item because we always get messages
00:20:43 ◼ ► After it's done where people like oh, it's like I want to get like no no limited time until October 10th
00:20:53 ◼ ► This is the time of year right? It starts at Stacks of timber if you're hearing this early October
00:20:59 ◼ ► You better get a move on right before it actually closes, especially our subtleties. This is basically
00:21:13 ◼ ► Love the material. It feels really nice. It's like the perfect weight for an everyday t-shirt little thing
00:21:27 ◼ ► Extremely picky about t-shirts and I always feel like God is such a hard time finding one. That's good
00:21:38 ◼ ► So I put in a huge order to make sure that I have enough for the whole year every time because it's like I want all
00:21:47 ◼ ► here's how much I know that people really like this shirt, so we've done this for a number of years now and
00:22:07 ◼ ► and what that says is that the people who bought it last year like all of them buy it again when this year comes around and
00:22:17 ◼ ► So I feel like that speaks for itself that people buy these shirts love them and then want more of them. I just like
00:22:24 ◼ ► Cannot praise them highly enough. That's why I'm wearing them all the time and it's just worth remembering if you know around here
00:22:33 ◼ ► Like obviously the name was a joke that when it was just a subtlety because it's like subtlety
00:22:38 ◼ ► But then we added the sweater and the hoodie and then the joke didn't make any sense anymore
00:22:42 ◼ ► I forgot that like it's funny. It's so long ago. I forgot that's the origin of where it was in my head
00:23:05 ◼ ► t-shirt and like we have that you can go to our store at any time and buy like the big screen printed cortex logo on a
00:23:14 ◼ ► But I don't want to wear that all the time and I don't want to wear that in every instance and I feel like I can
00:23:24 ◼ ► And I can be wearing the subtlety or I can wear the subtle sweater and I fit in and it's comfortable
00:23:37 ◼ ► Understated but you're still able to wear something with a brand that you appreciate which I hope is our one
00:23:47 ◼ ► I will be buying a bunch of the hoodies and a bunch of the sweaters and a bunch of t-shirts like I do
00:23:57 ◼ ► Dot-com and you can find the subtlety the subtle sweater and the subtle hoodie today, by the way to find the subtle hoodie
00:24:05 ◼ ► That's where it is on the store or you can just click any of the links in the show notes and it'll go directly to
00:24:39 ◼ ► You know, he wrote like the first book and it was very popular and then like the pressure is really on
00:24:47 ◼ ► well short answer is he didn't he was having an extremely difficult time working on the sequels and
00:25:00 ◼ ► Rented a big suite in a hotel and locked him in it to finish a book that was way overdue
00:25:12 ◼ ► but also kind of crushing because it's like clearly he had a bunch of difficulty working on these kinds of projects and
00:25:38 ◼ ► And so the article is just describing here how the editor was saying like oh he'd you know
00:25:43 ◼ ► he'd bring like his crossword puzzles and books and like admin work to do or whatever and
00:25:48 ◼ ► He would just be listening for the sound of typing and if he didn't hear typing for a significant amount of time
00:25:55 ◼ ► He would like turn around and see how Douglas Adams was doing and apparently Douglas Adams was just like very sad most of the time
00:26:11 ◼ ► Put someone in a place where there are just no distractions and only give them one thing to do
00:26:16 ◼ ► Which is this typewriter because we need to get this book finished man. So this is the follow-ups to the hitchhiker's guide
00:26:22 ◼ ► Yeah, this one is particularly talking about like so long and thanks for all the fish, which I think is the last one in the series
00:26:49 ◼ ► Listen first of all, the thing that's different is I basically don't have deadlines, right?
00:26:56 ◼ ► Like I set up my whole life so that there aren't really deadlines. So I don't miss deadlines. I just don't have deadlines
00:27:04 ◼ ► So I've got this friend who does have deadlines right set by publishers who he has missed
00:27:12 ◼ ► half a decade off right it's like the biggest misses of deadlines of anyone I've ever known and
00:27:36 ◼ ► That's not what I thought you were gonna say if you say get on zoom or whatever. That is the nuclear option
00:27:42 ◼ ► It's the fun. I like the idea that like this assistant could just move the mouse point back to the word processor
00:28:12 ◼ ► like she's waiting to see that the cursor doesn't move that words aren't appearing on the screen for a little while and then is like
00:28:21 ◼ ► You know you mentioned that you found this sad or whatever and I can imagine a lot of people do
00:28:27 ◼ ► Feel that way like like I don't think this is sad. This is just these people's processes like
00:28:51 ◼ ► Literally weeping when asked about his deadline. Sorry. He was having a much harder time
00:29:03 ◼ ► Like he's doing the thing where he's trying to set up a system that gets more work out of him
00:29:07 ◼ ► This is the thing. I think if you set it up for yourself, that's fine. Yeah, if somebody sets it up for you
00:29:14 ◼ ► Commerce in the middle of it. All right, like that's not so good. That's exactly what this is
00:29:19 ◼ ► Like he was forced to do this. It's like the publishers like we're the people who pay your money
00:29:33 ◼ ► Alright if we remove that part of it just like this idea that I'm happy you brought in it
00:30:00 ◼ ► deadlines clearly do work like that for some people that like and if you know that that's the thing and if it feels to me like
00:30:09 ◼ ► It's got to be like the vast majority of people are like that. I think the majority of people
00:30:27 ◼ ► People by and large meet deadlines and that inherently suggests that it works at least a little bit
00:31:08 ◼ ► Yeah, there was a new iPhone event. I hosted you at mega studio. We had like a fun little evening
00:31:18 ◼ ► I like that crew good crew definitely more entertaining than just watching it on your own
00:31:23 ◼ ► I really don't like watching these events on my own. Oh, yeah at this point. I've seen like a lot especially
00:31:35 ◼ ► And so like I've gotten that feel for what it's like to watch with people talk to people laugh make jokes
00:31:45 ◼ ► Like I much much prefer being able to watch these events with people rather than watching them on my own
00:31:56 ◼ ► that again in stack September was a very busy day for you because we're watching the event and
00:32:17 ◼ ► I thought watch that event on my own but like hosting two other people that's a whole day in and of itself
00:32:24 ◼ ► Well, there were some moments after the event before you guys left because I had hours to spare still which was good
00:32:31 ◼ ► where you were talking and I was just silent for a while because I was like making some notes, but
00:32:36 ◼ ► Mmm, I just enjoy watching these events with people because I also like to hear different
00:32:51 ◼ ► Reactions out of people right like what causes someone to like laugh or go huh or whatever like it is interesting to see like word
00:33:13 ◼ ► Less exciting Apple events that I have ever seen. I don't know if I'd necessarily agree with that like, okay
00:33:22 ◼ ► Like well the iPhone at least maybe you're excited by the Apple watch ultra because it was new, right?
00:33:26 ◼ ► Mm-hmm, but like the iPhone portion and like just in general if you're a pro customer, especially if you're a pro max customer
00:33:39 ◼ ► So that is the difference because like you're the pro max guy right? Whereas I like I made this decision of I'm just never doing this
00:33:45 ◼ ► I'm always tempted but I don't know I'm gonna have a policy decision of I'm not buying the big phone
00:33:50 ◼ ► Well, because I always regret it. We'll see I think there's a lot of this going on this time. It's gonna change again
00:34:09 ◼ ► Actually, you know I was talking to a guy and he found a way to get around these central policies
00:34:15 ◼ ► So I just need somebody to like I don't know like turn off your Wi-Fi and order an iPhone for you
00:34:39 ◼ ► If not, actually having these phones and like there are of well when we're recording there are no reviews
00:34:44 ◼ ► There might be reviews by the time this episode comes out. I don't know right? Yeah, we're still under all the embargoes
00:34:49 ◼ ► Well people are we're not I meant we is it like the greater we the great like the society is still under the embargoes
00:34:56 ◼ ► Last year they introduced the larger sensor the 48 megapixel sensor, right and it enabled 48 megapixel
00:35:06 ◼ ► the other thing that it did it brought the 2x back because they were just sample certain portion of the sensor and I was very
00:35:12 ◼ ► Excited about the 48 megapixel sensor because I was looking forward to some big jumps in image quality
00:35:30 ◼ ► Didn't know I was asking for but what I was asking for which is a new 24 megapixel default super high-resolution image
00:35:37 ◼ ► where it is taking the data from the 48 megapixel sensor and putting it into their pipeline to create a better image at the end and
00:35:44 ◼ ► What I think is fantastic is this is actually gonna be on all the phones all four phones are getting this feature this year
00:35:55 ◼ ► Because I was a little let down with the sensor last time because I didn't really feel like I was getting what?
00:36:00 ◼ ► Was promised to me in a way. Yeah. Yeah, at least from the like the rumors beforehand, right?
00:36:10 ◼ ► my hope was that they would take the next year of it being on people's devices and work on it and
00:36:17 ◼ ► Generate something new at the end of it and that's what they've done. I don't believe that this changes the 14 Pro
00:36:23 ◼ ► I think because there is actually changes to the 48 megapixel sensor itself to enable for this new whatever
00:36:33 ◼ ► But now like all of the phones the 15 the 15 plus the 15 Pro 15 max get this 48 megapixel sensor and the 24
00:36:49 ◼ ► But I feel like I did not put that together about like of the actual image being bigger part
00:36:54 ◼ ► I think in all of these presentations now like some of these numbers like they're just crazy big numbers
00:36:58 ◼ ► Right or they're talking about different things and it's like there's sometimes in the yeah the technical detail sections
00:37:06 ◼ ► Because you're just gonna say that the numbers are bigger each time right or am I fully paying attention?
00:37:13 ◼ ► Like in the pro phones they're talking about like you can choose the focal distance. So like the focal length for images
00:37:29 ◼ ► Right. It's like I need to see that part but I can understand the concept that they're giving
00:37:34 ◼ ► The other thing that I'm happy about is this is on the 14 now. It's in the final version of iOS 17
00:37:50 ◼ ► But you're able to take full advantage of the 48 megapixel sensor without going through the processing
00:37:55 ◼ ► So if you want a full data high quality image, you're able to get that in a more compressed form
00:38:12 ◼ ► For a better default and that with the heath stuff will make it more likely for me to take the larger sensor images again
00:38:19 ◼ ► I was shooting photos for a little while in the raw thing and then I realized very fast like oh this is
00:38:32 ◼ ► Mm-hmm, and now they've got this for the like the 48 megapixel sensor as well and there's other stuff like portrait mode
00:38:42 ◼ ► What looks too much better you take a photo of a person and it captures the data of the portrait and you can later on
00:38:48 ◼ ► Turn it into a portrait mode image. Yeah, I mean importantly Mike a photo of a person or a dog
00:38:56 ◼ ► Literally my first note under the iPhone section when I was watching the event was I was dog auto portrait exclamation mark
00:39:04 ◼ ► I am really happy with that on the software side because I feel like that's a constant annoyance
00:39:10 ◼ ► Of do I want to take a portrait mode photo here? And for me the main thing with that was always
00:39:47 ◼ ► I think looks really good and I have a bunch of photos where I'm very happy that I got them as portrait mode
00:40:09 ◼ ► Mm-hmm, like if someone's like hey take a picture of me like it's just you know, I'll go landscape portrait and then portrait mode
00:40:19 ◼ ► Maybe you want to post it on Instagram story. So I've got to get a portrait image for you
00:40:36 ◼ ► I also take like a portrait mode photo. And so I like that now I wouldn't need to do this
00:40:45 ◼ ► Right, if you're gonna allow me to do that if I can take a live photo and then turn it into a portrait mode later
00:40:53 ◼ ► I mean they must be able to do that at some point because they basically do that with their cinematic mode
00:40:58 ◼ ► I mean, that's what cinematic mode is exactly. That's why I think it's like let's do it
00:41:03 ◼ ► Let's just go for it because as well like they've brought some of those cinematic mode ideas to portrait photos as well
00:41:13 ◼ ► So you've got two people you could change it to the other person. Yeah, that's cinematic mode stuff is interesting
00:41:22 ◼ ► I've noticed a few like vloggers on YouTube are clearly using cinematic mode on their phone to shoot stuff
00:41:32 ◼ ► Like I think most people would never notice again, like if if you're working in this professionally
00:41:39 ◼ ► I can see that that's not a real lens like this is being done with portrait mode on an iPhone
00:41:50 ◼ ► Everyone who is not the primary focus of the vlogger. I just I wondered like I wonder if this is just kind of
00:41:57 ◼ ► Crossed over some useful threshold because it's just like turning up a little bit here and there but yeah
00:42:03 ◼ ► It does make me think about live portrait mode photos. Like it's the same idea. I wonder if it's just a
00:42:08 ◼ ► Again, if it's like a computational processing problem, like they just can't do it fast enough, but I don't know but either way
00:42:21 ◼ ► cognitive task of do I want this to be a normal photo or do I want this to be a portrait photo and all
00:42:34 ◼ ► You never know what they're going to do, right? They're not like patiently waiting for their photo to be taken
00:42:47 ◼ ► Five times zoom is a lot of zoom. I'm not gonna be able to make a decision about this until I use it
00:42:53 ◼ ► I'm not like really excited about it though. Why not? Why aren't you all into the big zoom?
00:43:04 ◼ ► Like I'm not sure how I feel about 1x 2x 5x like that jump from two to five is quite a lot. Oh
00:43:12 ◼ ► That is I would have ideally like to fourth lens at each other fun like so I got one two three and five like that
00:43:20 ◼ ► Hmm, and so I'm not gonna know really until I use it like maybe 2x will do most of the time what I need
00:43:29 ◼ ► Like for things that need that and that's just like a better option than 3x was I don't know like this is gonna have to
00:43:38 ◼ ► Like it's very impressive like the images on their website. It's very impressive what you can get for a 5x zoom
00:43:53 ◼ ► Think they're 5x is like a hundred and twenty millimeter or equivalent. I wasn't really thinking that is that right?
00:43:59 ◼ ► Is it 120 120? Yeah, like that's what I used to shoot when I was the second shooter for weddings and
00:44:09 ◼ ► Like that was the purpose of using that lens is to get natural photos of people because they just don't even realize that they're they're getting
00:44:17 ◼ ► Oh, here's the family just acting natural at the dinner kind of photos because people just don't tune into it the good photos
00:44:23 ◼ ► They're different from the portraiture photos. Yeah, I like candid. That's that's my favorite
00:44:28 ◼ ► Yeah, and I liked being the candid photographer because then I could be further away from everyone
00:44:34 ◼ ► Right, that's why I had that job and my wife had the job of doing all the formal photos
00:44:47 ◼ ► Whereas I have felt that when it was just the 2x zoom is like oh if I could just get a little closer
00:44:52 ◼ ► That'd be great. Yeah, but the 3x for everything that I'm taking photos of normally that's as far as I ever want to go and
00:44:59 ◼ ► Yeah, 120 millimeters is that's really far with 5x the thing that I'm wondering about with that is because I do agree with you
00:45:07 ◼ ► But the pause that I have in my mind is like is there just things that I think there's no point taking a photo of this
00:45:18 ◼ ► Maybe that will be good. The jury is out for me on this lens. Well like for everything else. I'm like, yes
00:45:26 ◼ ► This is what I was hoping they would do and now I just need to make sure that it lives up to what the presentation shows
00:45:31 ◼ ► You know, so you're still definitely getting the big phone then for oh, I mean, there's no doubt
00:45:42 ◼ ► I buy the big phone and I've always bought the big phone because I want the biggest screen right right like for watching videos for
00:45:50 ◼ ► Reading messages for reading web pages. Like I always want the biggest screen iPhone that I can get
00:45:57 ◼ ► All day every day like now it's on the standby mode. I want a nice big screen for the standby mode like
00:46:03 ◼ ► That's just my preference big screen for standby mode would be nice. Yeah, there's loads of great reasons to get the big phone
00:46:39 ◼ ► So lighter to me feels like the kind of thing that it can be a double-edged sword. I just kind of wonder how that feels
00:46:51 ◼ ► Where ultimately you want the phone to feel like nothing right you want it to feel just like a almost massless object
00:47:26 ◼ ► Do our friends on the ground like the lightness because saying that it feels lighter is different from saying that they like it
00:47:34 ◼ ► I mean I am happier for thinner bezels right like I'm always happier for that like even if we're just like decreasing the physical size
00:47:43 ◼ ► So that's great for the case either way the other thing of course just with the titanium
00:47:58 ◼ ► Like I was just talking about a suggestion the other day because there was recently was the 25th anniversary of the iMac. Mm-hmm and
00:48:38 ◼ ► phone or a laptop or something like bursting into the scene and being like this is up ending everything with its brand new design because
00:48:46 ◼ ► These things are just all about screens now. Yeah. Yeah, it's just about a screen and so like I figure maybe something
00:48:54 ◼ ► Right then like the ones that we're currently using might be the thing that comes in and changes what it means to look
00:49:15 ◼ ► Color infused glass like all of the images look really interesting like it's got this kind of like weird
00:49:22 ◼ ► Frosted and like the color pools in certain areas like it looks interesting like visually interesting
00:49:35 ◼ ► Tones this again was a laugh-out-loud moment for me when they said and it comes in four great colors, right?
00:50:07 ◼ ► This is Steven said to me that it looks like that. All right, that's sort of what I was expecting
00:50:16 ◼ ► if I was like giving things a grade it feels like it's a student who's trying to like just barely pass with a thing as like
00:50:22 ◼ ► Yes, that is technically a color right midnight blue is like you've just crossed the threshold into blue
00:50:31 ◼ ► Like I just I just reached behind me to one of my old iPhones and it like it still kills me
00:50:35 ◼ ► I've got the the one that they actually did the pro one. That was really blue. I think this is the 13
00:50:41 ◼ ► It's like that one year they made one that was beautiful and actually blue like no one would disagree that it was blue
00:50:50 ◼ ► It was one of my favorite phones ever and it's like and we only did it that once like why?
00:51:04 ◼ ► like maybe the richest company on earth knows something that you don't about colors and there's a reason that they're not doing
00:51:13 ◼ ► Do you think you know better than them for what colors their phone should be and a reasonable answer to that is no, right?
00:51:19 ◼ ► I don't know better the richest company on earth probably does know better what colors to make their phone
00:51:24 ◼ ► But then it still seems crazy to me and you even talk about the regular iPhones again when they introduced it
00:51:42 ◼ ► It looked for a second like oh they made like a Barbie pink phone and then they zoom back out and it's like oh no
00:51:48 ◼ ► It's a little bit more like they put some drops of pink dye in milk. That's what it actually looks like
00:51:57 ◼ ► I think you'd sell a billion of them if you made it like really pink make the green one really green, you know
00:52:09 ◼ ► We say this every year, but every year I'm like continually baffled anew by this. I don't get it
00:52:16 ◼ ► It does make you feel like you're losing the plot a bit right because it is that thing of like surely they know
00:52:30 ◼ ► Everyone I know like it's one of the things that my wife complained about immediately. Like what are these colors?
00:52:40 ◼ ► Everyone I talked to you they want to know like why doesn't Apple make colors like I don't know. I just don't get it
00:52:46 ◼ ► I don't know if I can really talk myself into I know better than Apple on this one, but I would pay
00:52:52 ◼ ► Real money to be the fly on the wall at whatever meetings they have when they decide colors
00:53:01 ◼ ► What's your reasons? Like there's got to be reasons, right? There can't just not be reasons
00:53:09 ◼ ► It really bugs me like I just I just want a like a nice blue phone like they made that one time
00:53:15 ◼ ► But I don't know maybe like I'm the only guy who bought the blue one and that's why they don't make it
00:53:26 ◼ ► I am intrigued about the titanium, you know for me. I'm sad that they got rid of the gold, but it's something different
00:53:38 ◼ ► and so I'm also gonna we'll talk about this in a second and the treatment soft to an Apple watch ultra this year and
00:53:44 ◼ ► The natural titanium iPhone looks like it will kind of match with the Apple watch ultra and I guess I can live with that
00:53:54 ◼ ► But I like I'm hugely biased here because I've like I've had the brushed metal on my wedding ring for forever
00:54:34 ◼ ► this is the same for both watches brighter screens faster processors ultra wide band 2 and the faster processor has this like
00:54:44 ◼ ► Finger and thumb thing to do stuff in the UI. I think they call it double tap which is very
00:54:50 ◼ ► Reminiscent of how you interact that's not reminiscent is the way you interact with the vision Pro
00:55:25 ◼ ► This isn't necessarily something that I would have up and I don't think anybody should upgrade that Apple watch for this feature
00:55:35 ◼ ► So and I get like 11 hours battery life on my watch now every day. He's just driving me mad
00:55:41 ◼ ► So like I'm ready for an upgrade so that feature where you tap your fingers together the reminiscent one
00:55:58 ◼ ► It's interesting now, I'll just grant that whatever version they currently have is better than the accessibility version
00:56:11 ◼ ► But I mean I mean gross as opposed to fine like your movements had to be sort of gross to make it work
00:56:21 ◼ ► My experience was that there was still kind of a like fundamental UI problem here in that
00:56:34 ◼ ► Yeah, they describe it as like oh when you do this gesture when you tap your fingers together
00:56:50 ◼ ► The system watch OS apps have been designed with this in mind. So maybe it will do the thing you're expecting
00:57:01 ◼ ► User experience challenge. Yeah, you have to anticipate what the user will want to do and
00:57:22 ◼ ► like yeah, every time somebody wants to do a thing and they tap the thumb and finger together and
00:57:28 ◼ ► It does a different thing is going to be annoying. So this is a very intriguing thing and at the moment
00:57:36 ◼ ► This is only in Apple's apps. There is no API for this third-party apps cannot use this feature
00:57:41 ◼ ► Hmm, maybe that's why like it's got to be a bit more refined and thought through I don't know
00:57:59 ◼ ► It's just like a system thing rather than just the accessibility thing that has existed before
00:58:04 ◼ ► Yeah, I mean I never I never had any problem like again once you sort of learn what is it looking for?
00:58:12 ◼ ► I still think it's it's not even a question of predicting what the user does even in their demo
00:58:17 ◼ ► It highlights what I think is a weird problem of when someone calls you you do the gesture to answer
00:58:34 ◼ ► That one makes sense to me because it's like if someone calls you you put your AirPods in
00:58:38 ◼ ► You click the button and then when you're done you click the button again, like that's what they're trying to build on right of like
00:58:44 ◼ ► What is the thing that you're most likely to do at any point? So they showed an example of the alarm went off
00:58:50 ◼ ► Yeah, and the lady tapped her thumb and finger together and the alarm stopped that it was like the reason I turned it on was
00:58:57 ◼ ► Exactly that use case right? It's competing with the nose tap right? No more nose tapping. That's what they're trying to do here
00:59:05 ◼ ► I'll be curious to see if there is a new version but I was just aware of like I tried it for a while
00:59:21 ◼ ► It would it would still make it very clear if you were looking at the phone like which button is it going to press or?
00:59:34 ◼ ► Like I've been doing all of these years. That's there is a precision in that and at least you're making a choice
00:59:46 ◼ ► You're more forgiving of the errors and also if we were to reminisce about the way that the vision Pro gesture works
00:59:58 ◼ ► So I can imagine there it just feels so much more natural because the system knows like you're looking at this thing
01:00:05 ◼ ► Again, like in a way that is even hard for me to explain is it was precise in a way that I could not even explain
01:00:37 ◼ ► Fingers together and the thing would happen because I was looking there. Mm-hmm. Like there didn't need to be a lot of
01:00:46 ◼ ► Appreciation between my brain and my fingers because my eyes were just in the middle doing the thing for me
01:00:53 ◼ ► Yeah, it's very peculiar and this obviously isn't gonna be like that because it's live quite limited
01:01:02 ◼ ► My hope would be that there might be a developer story between now and then but that doesn't seem to be one yet
01:01:08 ◼ ► And because that will be weird to me right that like if this is the thing that only Apple's apps can do is like well
01:01:21 ◼ ► It feels like the first step along with the vision Pro of maybe Apple trying to build up some kind of
01:01:28 ◼ ► Physical language interface with the system like that's what this is. Yeah, I'm on board with that. But like if it's going to
01:01:43 ◼ ► Yes, and if there's only a subset of applications that it works in people aren't going to build it into their muscle memory
01:01:50 ◼ ► if every time you want to check the weather and you want to like I don't know what it would be like a
01:02:03 ◼ ► You know what? I mean, like I think that's the weirdness about it. But yeah, I'm excited about getting an Apple watch ultra
01:02:13 ◼ ► It's bigger than I want overall like physically not the screen like the actual case of the watch
01:02:31 ◼ ► some of the time and like I'm gonna get to watch bands that will have orange in them because it will match but
01:02:41 ◼ ► Sometimes I still want to wear my Apple watch and I have a gold Apple watch and I put the gold
01:02:49 ◼ ► I don't think it is as easy to dress something up in a way that I like when there's orange all over the thing
01:02:57 ◼ ► I don't think you can make that thing look fancy for a fancy party. Like it's just not gonna happen
01:03:03 ◼ ► I have a couple of watches that I love and that I haven't won in a long time and maybe they will get used a
01:03:16 ◼ ► if I want to wear a nice watch because you put orange on the watch, you know, like that's the
01:03:21 ◼ ► The trade-off. Yeah, I think the biggest surprise for all three of us watching the event that all of us were like
01:03:44 ◼ ► It's all I don't think you saw them this all it's all there you didn't want to get black titanium. Yeah, I just think
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01:06:25 ◼ ► Should we just mask cortex questions? Yeah, let's do some mass cortex. Love it. Lyber asks
01:06:49 ◼ ► MacBook Air, which is the machine I do most of my work from I do have a bunch of tabs open there and just like the
01:06:54 ◼ ► Non grouped tab section and that tends to be around 10 tabs and this is usually like things that I want to remember
01:07:12 ◼ ► Uh-huh, but outside of that I am very heavy on tab groups. I have five tab groups relay FM
01:07:23 ◼ ► I say home and vacation. They are like here's a thing that I found that I might want to get for my house
01:07:36 ◼ ► That's where I'll put like the restaurants that I like and then I'll go through them and pick the ones that I want and put
01:07:43 ◼ ► Then cortex brand and relay FM. I feel like a pretty self-explanatory right? Like these are the tabs that I have open
01:08:02 ◼ ► It's got the tabs open for our publishing systems and that kind of stuff. I'm excited for Mac OS Sonoma
01:08:26 ◼ ► So I could be signed in to say two different YouTube accounts on each one or whatever stuff like that
01:08:31 ◼ ► I actually have you used the beta at all on the mat. No, I haven't used it. Okay. I don't mess around with the Mac OS base
01:08:44 ◼ ► With the tab groups like does it just change what things you're signed into or is there a whole different group of tab groups?
01:08:56 ◼ ► But inside of these profiles you can then have tab groups so you can have separate tab groups for different profiles
01:09:03 ◼ ► And I think once you set these up on the Mac, they didn't sync to your other devices. Oh, that's intriguing
01:09:08 ◼ ► So I'm pretty excited to try some of that out, but it might not stick. I might not like it
01:09:18 ◼ ► Which is like this is the limited set of tabs that I have open when I'm recording a show
01:09:22 ◼ ► Which would be like the CMS ad system and whatever show document I'm working on except for cortex where it's in notion
01:09:44 ◼ ► I was a big proponent of something like tab groups in Safari and then we got tab groups and I really like them
01:09:56 ◼ ► Which is that like the default tab group in some sense is this local only tab group that doesn't sync across
01:10:07 ◼ ► Infuriating to work with for a bunch of reasons like it kills me that this the whole thing doesn't sync
01:10:13 ◼ ► The analogy I always use is it's like if in the notes app every time you made a new note that note was
01:10:19 ◼ ► Only saved on that device and you had to manually put it into the sync folder if you wanted it to sync everywhere
01:10:28 ◼ ► But whatever they've made a decision that when you click a link it opens in like the local tab group and fine
01:10:34 ◼ ► Whatever. I find that frustrating but it's something that I've gotten used to over time that I now don't think about it anymore
01:10:40 ◼ ► Yeah, I think this is like the computer version of what we were talking about before with having goals or like things that you did
01:10:51 ◼ ► It works this way because this is the way browsers have always worked with just the local stuff
01:10:56 ◼ ► But if you were building a browser today, you would never make this design decision. Like if you were starting from scratch
01:11:02 ◼ ► No one would do it like this, but so I so cannot live with this that what I've been doing
01:11:07 ◼ ► This whole year is I have two browsers and my default browser is actually I cannot believe
01:11:45 ◼ ► Two years from now. You're gonna set Microsoft Edge as the default web browser on your computer
01:11:52 ◼ ► Why do you think this will happen? I would have no ability to describe that future scenario be like, I don't know
01:11:59 ◼ ► I had a brain concussion and like couldn't think straightly anymore. Like I have no idea why I would do that kind of thing
01:12:09 ◼ ► It is because I have been being pilled and I do want to use Bing as my main search engine
01:12:14 ◼ ► I think being with their Bing chat just like is just straight up better than Google in a lot of scenarios
01:12:32 ◼ ► Like I do like it but like what's the marginal increase in value over something like Google or duck duck go?
01:12:37 ◼ ► I think it's better but it's not like enough better to be running an entire separate browser
01:13:04 ◼ ► It's just like living in this browser on my computer in that context making the decision
01:13:09 ◼ ► Then if I use edge I can use Bing is like the deciding factor for what is the other browser?
01:13:33 ◼ ► Better with other people's brains that like the tabs are in a sidebar rather than at the top of it
01:13:54 ◼ ► Know that this would have come up in state of the apps. Like I can't imagine having asked what browser are you using?
01:14:04 ◼ ► I know I'll have another question before I get to the question that I wanted to get to which is do you use this on your
01:14:11 ◼ ► Actually do use edge on my iPhone. I feel like you have to like this is this is a thing
01:14:21 ◼ ► Because yeah, like this is why I use the Chrome app for like a really really long time because when I was using Chrome
01:14:26 ◼ ► Well, you've got to use the browser you're using because you got all your history there or you're like synced tabs and stuff
01:14:34 ◼ ► Flip-flop between browsers. I think it's wild that people do that. I have an exception to that which is okay
01:14:40 ◼ ► I don't use edge on my iPad, but it's just because I have a very different use case on my iPad show moments entirely
01:14:54 ◼ ► I'm willing to make the trade the other way, but it's just like I have a very particular use case for the iPad. Yeah
01:14:59 ◼ ► I found yeah, it's edge. So the question I wanted to ask you was like how much are you actually using?
01:15:07 ◼ ► The Bing AI's such I mean, I'm using it in every case when I would have used Google two years ago
01:15:24 ◼ ► Have felt for years like the quality of search engine results has just gotten worse across all search engines
01:15:39 ◼ ► It's that problem of like oh page rank is a genius idea until everyone knows that you're using page rank and then they game the system
01:15:46 ◼ ► So it has been a problem for years for me that like search engines are obviously less useful than they used to be
01:16:01 ◼ ► Looking at something like the first two pages of search results and summarizing them for you
01:16:08 ◼ ► So instead of just going to Google and then I have to be like, okay, which of this is spam SEO garbage and which isn't
01:16:18 ◼ ► It's not that the search results themselves if you just go to Bing and like see what URLs it returns are that different
01:16:25 ◼ ► It's that it is then doing the thing that I would do which is look at all of these and try to make some kind
01:16:32 ◼ ► Of judgment about which of these is the actual good one, but why do you think you can trust its answer?
01:16:40 ◼ ► When it gives you the answer it also gives you the link to click and see where it has come from. Okay, so
01:16:52 ◼ ► Looking for the search engine to give me the answer. I'm looking for where the answer is
01:16:59 ◼ ► Yeah, the end result for me is that I'm always clicking on one of the things that Bing tells me about with the footnote and
01:17:05 ◼ ► Yeah, totally. Sometimes I click that link and I mean it's like it's the same story like with the citation links on Wikipedia
01:17:15 ◼ ► I found that over here and you click it and it's like the thing doesn't say remotely what you just said
01:17:25 ◼ ► Sure, I mean if you're using a search engine the way you use it, which is not how people use search engines, right?
01:17:31 ◼ ► Like how do you think people use search engines like they're they're searching for things for answers like and they
01:17:36 ◼ ► Take the answer that the engine gives them. They don't be like, oh, let me go get the citation for this
01:17:42 ◼ ► Mmm, I am also one of these people like I am searching for the answer. I only want the answer
01:17:58 ◼ ► But so in some sense what you're saying is that you're looking for like Google gives you a little summary box at the yeah
01:18:06 ◼ ► Most of the time when you're googling something you're really just looking for that summary box
01:18:12 ◼ ► If it has one that's where I'll stop right and like and if that seems to make sense to me
01:18:24 ◼ ► Experience of a search engine I can give you another use case like why is being really useful?
01:18:55 ◼ ► Gratation right? Well, like find me a hotel and I can do the thing which is like hey, I'm looking for a hotel
01:19:06 ◼ ► I'm trying to find places that have air conditioning like there should be a supermarket
01:19:17 ◼ ► Look if I could get Bing to call the front desk and ask them what is the real temperature in the room?
01:19:23 ◼ ► I would 100% do that. How far away are we from that? I don't think that far. I don't think we're that far
01:19:29 ◼ ► No, it's not Google did that a couple years ago and people were super mad and now look at us now look at us again
01:19:35 ◼ ► It's like oh the first person who does the demo how outrageous and then you just wait 18 months and it's like I doesn't have this
01:20:14 ◼ ► Which is I'm looking for a hotel with these qualities and you can preempt it when you previously used it
01:20:23 ◼ ► But then the next time you search you can tell it like this one was no good because of this
01:20:31 ◼ ► And it clearly does get better at that and then doesn't waste time suggesting things that it's suggested in the past
01:20:48 ◼ ► Are you sure they call that prompt engineering, you know? Yeah. No, I'm a prompt engineer. This is the future of work, right?
01:21:04 ◼ ► Unlike something like chat GPT which just tells you a story and you have no idea why chat GPT thinks the thing that it does
01:21:11 ◼ ► right being actually gives you the link of like here's why I think this and you can go look and
01:21:23 ◼ ► So what you're saying is when it comes to web searches citation needed. Yes citation needed
01:21:29 ◼ ► It's good to know. So this is why Microsoft Edge is my default web browser is I do want to use Bing and
01:21:40 ◼ ► It's gonna go into this place and I know that this browser works like web browsers have worked for a thousand years and that
01:21:46 ◼ ► The tabs don't go anywhere. They just live on whatever computer that I'm on and so on my edge browser on my different devices
01:22:20 ◼ ► I just love this like tab groups are so good for me for this of the ability to just open up like
01:22:32 ◼ ► Can't you do this in Bing like why do you do this in Safari? It doesn't work the same way
01:22:36 ◼ ► This is one of these like the devil's in the details lots of browsers if you look at a feature list will say oh
01:22:47 ◼ ► Whereas the Safari one is just seen you just ask the search engine. Hey sync my tabs because now
01:22:54 ◼ ► What I'm gonna do is I'll ask Bing. Hey Bing. Can you iteratively self-improve and I would like you to have syncing tabs
01:23:11 ◼ ► You remember all these URLs, please just do that for me, please and then I'll come back to you every day and say
01:23:21 ◼ ► I forget exactly how the like syncing works for Microsoft, but it's like it's not as seamless as Safari
01:23:26 ◼ ► There's some reason it's slightly annoying. I can't remember the details right now, but the Safari one is just great
01:23:37 ◼ ► I've got about 20 tab groups that are all related to some project. Well that sort of overstates it because of what often happens is
01:23:49 ◼ ► Tell me more because what I really want is I want folders for my tab groups because I want to distinguish visually much more clearly
01:23:57 ◼ ► These are inactive projects or these are things that like I've started but I'll come back to later
01:24:06 ◼ ► I would like to like visually distinguish times where it's like here are the two active projects and
01:24:20 ◼ ► But I mean you could I don't know if you'll like the result but it is a way to put your group somewhere
01:24:27 ◼ ► But if there is some way I can hide the ones that are inactive, I would like to do that
01:24:34 ◼ ► It's like, you know, cuz I've just got some weird names that I look at all the time where it's like oh, yeah
01:24:38 ◼ ► Project jelly like 50 tabs on a topic. It's like alright, but that one's not gonna be done for like a year if ever
01:24:44 ◼ ► Over like Oh project blue. I don't even remember what project blue is that I click on it
01:25:16 ◼ ► It's just like there's no reason to share it with someone because what I'm constantly doing is
01:25:20 ◼ ► You're growing the branches and then you're pruning the branches and you grow them again and prune them again. So it's like
01:25:30 ◼ ► okay, close all the unnecessary things new phase of exploration close all the unnecessary things and
01:25:43 ◼ ► Like what's the useful information on here get it into obsidian because you don't actually want it to live in this tab group
01:26:02 ◼ ► Coalesced down into the project. It's actually not the next project. That's the project after the next one. But yes, that's naturally that
01:26:08 ◼ ► The current project actually hasn't zero tabs. Okay, it's in animation, right? It's getting done the September video
01:26:16 ◼ ► That makes sense though. The research is done, right? Actually the video didn't have research which is delightful
01:26:23 ◼ ► So the thing that'll probably be for if I'm being realistic about it the thing that's probably for November
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01:30:12 ◼ ► This one has been in here for quite a while. I think it just like moves around a bunch and
01:30:28 ◼ ► This question has always intrigued me. I think the way that in probably intrigues you to of like
01:30:36 ◼ ► Mm-hmm. What does he even really mean? That's all Ben gave. Yeah, there's no context or anything
01:30:45 ◼ ► what you're putting into it and my assumption is we probably are coming at this from the same place of like
01:30:52 ◼ ► The fear of it all going away. Yeah, I don't know. I just I found this question kind of
01:31:04 ◼ ► Like I said at the start I find myself extremely stressed leading into the final months of the year, right?
01:31:13 ◼ ► Yeah, I had someone say to me the other day when I was like talking through like oh man
01:31:22 ◼ ► September is the beginning of winter and winter is the end of the year. So the year is almost over
01:31:31 ◼ ► That doesn't help right compressing the timeframe, but now I can't get that out of my head
01:31:40 ◼ ► but it also just like it has lived here as just an intriguing question like how do you deal with the fear and
01:31:50 ◼ ► But it already sounds like you're taking this in a very different way than I'm taking this. Yeah, I think I am
01:31:55 ◼ ► I want to know what you're thinking about and then we could talk about what I'm thinking about. So
01:32:18 ◼ ► We know you're not afraid of being eaten by a tiger where it's like, ah, I have a very clear image of what that is
01:32:24 ◼ ► I think that's just not the sort of fear or stress that people deal with mostly in modernity
01:32:33 ◼ ► Like as a good example, we talked at the end of the year and have still kind of yet to revisit the topic
01:32:49 ◼ ► Yeah, at some point we should get back to this and I'm actually this is the great thing about the cortex podcast content calendar
01:33:12 ◼ ► but I think like that's a good example of like a thing comes up and there can totally be a
01:33:26 ◼ ► There's always like this uncertainty about the things that you make and how they're going to be received
01:34:04 ◼ ► Like it's taken a long time to do and is a big thing and if it misses it's just very bad if that happens
01:34:21 ◼ ► Embarrassing if you make something that's like earnest and it just does poorly and you go. Oh, right. That's bad
01:34:29 ◼ ► It's uncertain about like what is the future of your work look like if a tool comes around all of a sudden that like might impact
01:34:57 ◼ ► Two things it's like one you have to sort of notice in the first place that you're feeling this uncertainty about the future
01:35:10 ◼ ► Again, it can get kind of muddled up in other feelings like I am stressed, but you don't necessarily recognize like oh
01:35:17 ◼ ► I am uncertain about something like that's the more precise thing that's going on here and
01:35:55 ◼ ► Like tearing out pages and rearranging them and looking at them and thinking about like, okay
01:36:07 ◼ ► Actual paper even though like so much of my life is digital and it is that like slowing down. It's that
01:36:42 ◼ ► what is the point at which you need to make a decision about if this is going to happen or if that is going to
01:37:39 ◼ ► No, I mean it what I'm thinking about with the fear is like the fear that this is all gonna go away
01:37:48 ◼ ► I'm gonna lose it all or I'm gonna lose enough of it that I can't do it anymore. You know, like
01:38:19 ◼ ► I look at my past and I'm like, well, I made it through all of these things over the last ten years
01:38:25 ◼ ► I'm sure I will be able to continue doing that and like that's what gets me through most of the time
01:38:30 ◼ ► Mm-hmm, and I believe in myself as a you know, the ability to be able to adapt and change and we've done enough of that over time
01:39:30 ◼ ► Start treating everything like it's the end like and I'm catastrophizing, right? Mm-hmm
01:39:44 ◼ ► Bad thing that happens is kind of like well, that's that's it then. Mm-hmm. And this is because I am
01:39:55 ◼ ► wits-end kind of feeling you know, like I've been talking about this over the last few weeks, right like
01:40:00 ◼ ► We've just got enough going on all at the same time in all of my various endeavors that all feel really important
01:40:25 ◼ ► but I think I've just got a few things just hitting at the same time and that mixture of stuff is now making me like
01:40:35 ◼ ► So this is just like a really interesting time to ask me this question because I think I have this
01:40:41 ◼ ► Stress on me right now more than I not even normally do like more than I can remember in a while. Maybe like
01:40:53 ◼ ► April 2020. Mmm, right like that was maybe the last time I felt like or any minute this
01:41:01 ◼ ► The complicated thing is it was really easy to point to what it was then and be like, well, obviously, right?
01:41:11 ◼ ► it's just like what because I've got like a bunch of stuff going on for some reason I'm now like
01:41:16 ◼ ► Just assuming that the whole thing's gonna fall down. I mean, yeah, I guess welcome to my brain
01:41:33 ◼ ► So the big box in the middle where I usually write down what I'm thinking is now gratitude
01:41:47 ◼ ► Pressure release valve of like, alright, you're stressed. You've got a bunch of stuff going on. But what's the good stuff?
01:41:51 ◼ ► What are you happy about? And that is nice. Like I do enjoy that as an activity every day
01:42:03 ◼ ► Before we go today, I want to let the clotexins know that on Saturday September 22nd from 12 p.m
01:42:23 ◼ ► We're gonna be at the st. Jude campus and we're gonna be streaming for 12 hours this year
01:42:28 ◼ ► With a variety of games challenges and activities the theme for the podcastathon this year is Mike versus Steven
01:42:49 ◼ ► They can earn a desk mat that we've made and this artwork is gonna be making its way into lots of things in the podcastathon
01:43:03 ◼ ► Adjudicators and they're gonna be helping score some games and getting involved in some of the games
01:43:07 ◼ ► That means Steven will be competing against of each other from a production standpoint. This is gonna be the biggest and best
01:43:21 ◼ ► Believe how this grows every year. I'm very excited about it to be honest. I cannot wait. I love doing the podcastathon
01:43:30 ◼ ► It is a great day. I'm full of nervous anticipation for 12 hours. Like I think it will be fine
01:43:37 ◼ ► But we'll find out. Yeah, because we've done like 10 and it was it doesn't really feel any different to 8
01:43:50 ◼ ► I don't know how that's gonna change things. Maybe I'll get to our six and we'll need a little nap
01:43:54 ◼ ► I don't know. We'll find out that's gonna make it harder. Yes, that's there's not a mystery if it's gonna be more
01:44:05 ◼ ► Which I think will also be a fun thing of its own. So that is Saturday September 22nd from 12 to 12 u.s
01:44:14 ◼ ► I'm pretty sure that no matter what time zone you're in you'll be at least catch some of it this time
01:44:19 ◼ ► So come and check us out. We're gonna have a great time and I hope you'll be able to join us