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Welcome to syntax today. We have

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a episode for you on productivity

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tools. So these are both the

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apps, but also the, the why

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and the how behind how Scott

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and I will tackle different things from password

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management, to do snippets, mind

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mapping, writing little scripts, email

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habits, things like that. Focus.

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We've talked about this a few times over

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the years, but I'm constantly evolving my own

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and I know Scott, you are as well.

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Just constantly trying new things, seeing what sticks.

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So I thought we'd go through what

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we're working on with, with productivity tools and

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our approaches to things that help

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us get a decent amount done.

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I think I wouldn't say I'm the most productive person

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in the world, but I, uh, I

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have four kids and managed to get

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a job done. So I feel like I

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have something to say here. Yeah. I would

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say productivity is one of those things that

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slides on a scale for me day to

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day, I do try to always

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be very productive. I do take

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it seriously. And

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it's something that for me, I, maybe it's just

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because of how my brain works. If I don't

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take it seriously, I end up just not accomplishing

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very much. And when I do take

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it seriously, I ended up accomplishing a lot and

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it's not a means of like grind

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set, getting things done, but it's in a mindset

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of like. Being accomplished

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and learning a lot and, you

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know, really feeling like you had

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something productive at the end of the day, I

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think is a good life hack to feeling satisfied

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with, with your work in general. Yeah. If you,

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if you have those wins in life, then you

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feel good about yourself. And it just kind of

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snowballs, snowballs out from there. Right.

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And honestly, a lot of the stuff on this

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list is just simply

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systems and tools that help me get

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through stuff. I either don't

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want to do or want to get through

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quicker because at the end of the day,

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I just want to be coding and there's

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certainly lots of productivity hacks in coding

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itself, but the rest of

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life sometimes. can get in the

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way. So if you can make that

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easier on yourself, then you're

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gonna have a better time. Yeah, and to

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me, as you'll probably hear in this episode,

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I think systems really matter a lot in

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this regard and like having systems that work

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for you. Because even, let's say, I'm doing

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the dishes, right? Which I've grown to love

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doing the dishes in some way. I

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get to listen to my podcasts, or more

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recently I've been listening to audiobooks. In fact,

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I started listening to all the original James Bond

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audiobooks. And I just started at the beginning

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of the series. I don't listen to much

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fiction, ever. So for me, this is like

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a big task. And I'm three books

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in now and I'm like, oh, this is a great little

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time. I get a little fiction

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book time while I'm doing

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the dishes. And my system, I don't wanna spend very

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much time with it. So my systems are all in

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place so that I can finish that up as fast

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as possible. You know, clean the rest

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of the downstairs and whatever. So that way I can

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get on with my evening. Because

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let's face it, by the time the kids are down

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to bed and everything like that, their evenings are shorter

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be there. I'm going to be there. The whole

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team is going to be there. It's going to

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be exciting. See you then. Wes,

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a small update before we get into productivity

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things. You remember how I was mentioning there

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was like that dance battle, that breakdancing competition

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that I was doing? Yes. Red

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Bull one. Yeah, the Red Bull one.

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So that not only well, one, I didn't make

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it. I didn't I didn't make it. But into

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the the the West Coast Finals, which is a

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big deal, because they they had all these qualifiers

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throughout the U.S. Then they had the East and

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West Coast Finals. Then they had the U.S. Finals.

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The guy who did the

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graffiti on the syntax basketball

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kid crews. Not only did he win the

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Western Finals, he got all the way to

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the semifinals of the U.S. Finals. And

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he was all over the news here and

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stuff. He just did such a great job.

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So shout out to Kid Cruz, a good

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friend of mine. And yeah, he did the

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graffiti on the syntax basketball. Really cool guy.

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So huge accomplishment for him. Wow.

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That's awesome. Yeah. All

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right. So let's talk password

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management first. Password management is one

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of those things that I cannot

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believe that people live

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without a password manager. Simply

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just living life,

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not knowing what your password

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is or sharing passwords or you

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have like three or four that you kind of cycle

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through. First of all, it's insecure. But like

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second of all, like, where do you put important

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stuff? You know, like I've got passport

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numbers and driver's license numbers and the

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VIN. Like one thing I need all the time this

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morning, I was I went to the dentist and dentist

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says, what's your license plate? I don't

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know my license plate is so just open one

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password and I got it. I don't have

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to walk. out and figure out what my license plate number

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is. Just little things like

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that where you're going

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to need it at some point in the

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amount of times having, of course, having your

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passwords stored in something is good, but also

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just like a secure place to store all

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of your documents and all of your important

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numbers is absolutely key.

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Yeah. Yeah. I know

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when I see people not using password managers or even

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worse, this is actually the a worse one was. Yeah.

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Well, maybe not worse. Maybe not using a pass

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manager, the worst, but Apple

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came out with their own password manager

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in the recent update and like,

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sure, if you're not using anything else, use that.

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But like I would never

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in a billion years tie my password

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manager to my OS or my

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like OS of choice because like

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what you get an Android phone, you're, you're

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pooch or you get some other device, you're

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poached. The everything's stuck in the Apple

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ecosystem. There's just one more thing keeping you there.

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And that's that is personally why I use one

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password because one, I think

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it's just, it's one

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of the low key hacks for getting up

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and running on any system really

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quickly is being able to, the first thing

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you do is get one prep password set

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up on that system. That's like almost the

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first thing I do. I get a new

7:16

computer, a Linux computer or anything. You know,

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I set up one password on it right

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away from there. Any login that

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I could ever need is there for me.

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I one click install or whatever one click

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sign in. And, and for me, that's like

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such a huge productivity boost that I don't

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ever have to worry about it. I

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don't have to think about it. I don't have to go to password reset and

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go to my email. But like you said,

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I do store all kinds of things in there,

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whether it is API keys or any of that

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stuff. So that way if I

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do lose it for some reason, it's available

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to me in an easy enough way to

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get with minimal effort. And then you said

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driver's license, any of that stuff. How many

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times do you need that information? You

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need it quite a bit. So yeah, one password is a

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super productivity. Hack for

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me in general and I like that

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it's like Again, it's

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it's not tied to your OS and it's

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good software Yeah, I used to

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use what was it last pass and I always

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felt like that software was barely holding on so

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yeah I never feel that way with one password

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one password is awesome I know a lot of

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people are say what about bitwarden or whatever and

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I'm sure that's awesome And

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yeah, it's cool. You can host it yourself But

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honestly, I I've been on one password

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for for many many years. It just

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works great I'm a little bit worried

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that Apple is gonna start

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stomping it because every now and then yeah

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every now and then the like Apple Puts

8:39

their own thing where the like one password button is

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supposed to be and then like

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it doesn't doesn't work or like I

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don't know just every now and then there's little

8:48

spots where it's like this doesn't work or you

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can't fill credit cards in He recently

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they renounce you can fill credit cards in

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on Safari, but I don't

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use Safari and like I want

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extensions Those are mostly just Apple qualms not

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one password qualms but a little bit worried

9:04

that they're gonna stomp on it and make

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it less useful, but I Hope

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not that is classic Apple. In

9:11

fact, yeah Was a recent thing of

9:13

them doing that them like removing the feature Where

9:16

you could control the volume of a

9:18

smart speaker from within Spotify So

9:21

you're into Spotify you cast to like a chromecast Yeah,

9:23

or you could just hit volume up and it would

9:25

change the volume of the speaker Apple Like

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nix that and so you can't

9:30

do that anymore And of course everybody goes to

9:32

blame Spotify, but where can you do it? Of

9:34

course, you can still do it with Apple music

9:36

and so really speakers, you know so it's like

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it always bugs me when they do stuff like that so

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I could certainly see that being a a You

9:44

know a stomping on situation, which would

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be a bummer to Do

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applications so we've talked about to do

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applications. Maybe we'll just talk about like

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to do approach You know, what's our

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what's our idea? So for me my

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to do application is a spot where I

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can dump things that I want to do

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at some point. So

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for me, I use it to collect ideas

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for videos that I'm working on. I'll have

10:10

different projects in my to do application. I

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use an app called things. I

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like it a lot because a I've had it for probably

10:17

12, 13 years now, but

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B it's 60 bucks. You

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buy it once and that's it. It's 10 bucks

10:24

for the iPhone app. So sorry, it's, it's 50

10:26

bucks plus 10 for the iPhone app. So 60

10:28

bucks, you're done. You're not going to be paying

10:30

monthly for, for a to do application. And

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I find that it works really well because

10:35

I can quickly just add something. I can

10:37

add in reminders. And then what

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I'll do is I'll go through my

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different projects and I will organize

10:44

things into what I want. And then

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I'll just drag them into my today.

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And when I'm working on my

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today, I will, I call it bubbling. I'll just

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move them up and down into a list. I

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usually try to put the one at the top,

10:58

which it's, it just causing me the most like

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anxiety or making me like not want to do

11:02

it because that

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will make me procrastinate. I don't, I'm not gonna start any

11:07

of this. I don't feel like dealing with that one

11:09

thing that I'm doing this email. I have to write this

11:12

like taxes thing I have to figure out. So try

11:14

to put that first and just do it and

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get it through. I'm a big

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fan of that approach. There's this book called

11:20

getting things done by

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David Allen. It's, if you have never read that,

11:25

like I'm not a, I'm not much of a

11:27

book guy, but if you, if you can listen

11:29

to it on audio book or something like that,

11:32

it's a really good approach

11:34

to, if you have

11:36

like a crazy head like I do, we're just

11:38

things are going on all the time and oh,

11:40

I shouldn't forget that. I can't forget that or

11:42

whatever. And I hate paper so much. I can't

11:44

stand it. This is just such

11:47

a great system for dumping everything into

11:49

your inbox, dragging things into today. You

11:51

can put tags on them. You

11:53

can categorize them into different things. It's just

11:55

a great way for me to organize my,

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the chaos that is going on. on

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my brain. Yeah, I am kind of

12:02

a book guy. And actually I was

12:05

on a podcast book overflow talking

12:07

about all of my favorite, they're supposed to be about developer

12:09

books, but most of mine ended up being like productivity and

12:11

lifebooks. So if you want to listen to that, I posted

12:13

a link to it in the show notes where I really

12:15

go deep on all the books that I read for this

12:17

kind of stuff, you might get even some more productivity

12:20

tidbits from me out of that. But my to

12:22

do strategy has really evolved

12:24

from yeah, it's evolved from getting things

12:27

done. But you know, one thing that

12:29

I learned about myself is that if

12:31

it's too fiddly, the system

12:33

breaks down. If I if I've

12:35

made my system so intense,

12:38

or so like specific, where I have

12:41

to do like eight steps here and

12:43

there, whatever, I don't do it.

12:45

So it needs to be as simple as possible.

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So for me, I've settled on tweak.so t

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w e e k.so is my favorite

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to do app. It's dead simple. It's

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basically just a grid for

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the week to do's of each day, I

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pay for the the pro

13:01

version, which just gives me the ability to basically

13:05

color them with labels or schedule them and stuff.

13:07

I don't even use that I just use the

13:09

coloring with labels. I think it's alerts

13:11

maybe it doesn't get you very much, but the app is

13:13

really great. So I don't mind paying for it. And

13:16

so the only bit of like, real

13:19

hard organization I do besides all of

13:22

my to do's go on a specific

13:24

day, is that I

13:26

label the ones for work

13:28

for syntax, I label those yellow and black, just

13:30

so they stand out from like life stuff. That's

13:32

the only thing I really do. And as far

13:35

as like, I don't move them up and down

13:37

in terms of priority. I don't shift them in

13:39

terms of like, what's most important or least important.

13:41

What I do is Monday morning, the first thing

13:43

I do when I get into the office is

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I go through my email. And

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I get to inbox zero, if there's

13:50

anything in my email that requires it

13:52

to be a task, I put it

13:54

in my to do list on a

13:56

day that I can do it. So

13:59

when it goes into my to do, do

14:01

list and it goes into that day, the

14:03

assumption is, is that I will be doing

14:05

it that day. You know, it's not like

14:07

Sunday, it's that day. And

14:09

so because of that, I don't like to

14:11

keep anything in my daily to do list

14:13

that won't be accomplished that day. And

14:16

if a to do doesn't get completed that day,

14:18

it gets bumped to the next to the bump

14:21

to the next to bump to the next, whatever,

14:23

right? That way, when the next Monday rolls around,

14:25

and I like, like this Monday in particular was

14:27

Monday rolled around, and I had like eight to

14:30

do's roll over from last week into

14:32

this week. And I saw that and I was like, something's

14:34

a problem. There's a problem here. I either

14:37

need to do all of these today. Or

14:40

I need to figure out if I'm actually going to

14:42

do them or not. And believe it or not, I

14:44

did all of them yesterday or redistributed some

14:46

of them here and there this week. But for the most

14:48

part, I did all of them because they were just like

14:50

little tiny things that you're putting off, right? And you can

14:53

only put little tiny things off for so long before it

14:55

turns into something that you're you're never going to do. So

14:58

yeah, Monday is my day to reassess the to do's

15:00

Monday morning. That way, it sets me off for a

15:02

week of where I know what to do every single

15:04

day. I know what I'm going to be doing, what

15:06

I have time to do. And if I don't do

15:09

it, it's because I'm being lazy, or I goofed up,

15:11

or you know, I missed an opportunity or something came

15:13

up, you know. So yeah, I

15:15

only add things to my daily to do list if I'm

15:17

going to do it. If I have a longer term to

15:19

do list, I have separate list for those. This is in

15:21

tweak. And these things have no

15:23

deadline necessarily. A lot of times their ideas

15:25

or things that need to happen at some

15:27

point, if they need to happen at a

15:30

specific day, I will move it to that

15:32

day. But if it needs to happen at

15:34

some point in the future, then it goes

15:36

into one of these lists. I have like

15:38

a someday list, a work list, a honey

15:40

do list, app sick picks, and like an

15:42

on hold for things that I

15:44

know I'm probably not going to get to anytime soon.

15:47

Oh, yeah. I even use it for just

15:49

like grocery shopping. I just went into my,

15:52

my to do list and was looking

15:54

at what was logged. And it says

15:56

pineapple, carrots, mushrooms, broccoli. For

16:00

me, I like when my wife sends

16:02

me a list of things to get via text

16:04

message, I always forget something because I can't parse

16:07

the lines out. There's something with

16:09

my brain and I can't look at it. So I'm

16:11

just like, I need to be able to check it

16:13

off and to see it go away.

16:15

And then I just go and get the

16:17

next one. When we do

16:19

that, we've been using Apple notes more

16:22

now that were a little bit more

16:24

ingrained in the iOS ecosystem. Yeah. We

16:26

would keep a shared keep list and

16:28

my wife is super good about that.

16:30

If we're heading to Costco beforehand, Courtney

16:33

will go through and add everything in

16:35

the Costco list and that way

16:37

we can split up divide and conquer. I can take one

16:39

of the kids. She can take one of the kids. We

16:41

can both crush half the list and be done in half

16:43

the time. And it's like real time. Yeah.

16:46

So you're just seeing stuff get checked off and

16:48

she'll start at one end of the store and

16:50

I'll start the other end of the store. Oh

16:52

my gosh. We're experiencing enough Costcoers that like, you

16:55

know, the list is usually in the order in

16:57

which you're going to hit the stuff. So I'll start at the bottom of

16:59

the list. She starts at the top of the list. We'll meet in the

17:01

middle of the store. Yeah. Oh,

17:03

that's great. I just, I just go to Costco

17:05

with the kids and try to burn as much

17:07

possible time as I can there. Here we go.

17:09

Get samples and try to try

17:12

to move the day along. We go

17:14

on Sunday morning. It's a little like chaotic on

17:16

Sunday mornings, you know? Oh man.

17:18

It's my wife will not go

17:21

to Costco with me on like a on a

17:23

busy day. And like, I'm like, like

17:25

a Toronto driver in Costco, you

17:27

know, just flying out doing like,

17:30

like if you hear the wheels on the

17:32

car, go, it's because I'm

17:34

like, I'm doing one of those like, burnout

17:37

turns to the next aisle. Watch

17:40

out for me. Yeah. That's a lot of fun

17:42

in Costco. We could have a whole episode on

17:44

Costco productivity tips. I am. I'm the

17:46

type of guy who'd be just throwing stuff in the cart

17:48

and paying for it when you get to

17:51

the front end. And you're just like, Oh boy, yeah, stuff

17:53

about too much stuff. We tend

17:55

to go to Costco like once a month too. So we'll

17:57

like load up like two cars. Oh yeah. Yeah. super

18:00

close to it, so I'll often just, I'll go once a

18:02

week or whatever. You are that

18:04

person. We see people there that got

18:06

like three things in your cart. Why are you shopping

18:08

here? Yeah, you see one person with like one pie,

18:10

and I don't have that self-control. I

18:12

go for one pie, but I'll come home with basketball

18:15

net or something like that. Yeah. So.

18:18

Yeah, yeah, I hear you on that one. To do

18:20

apps in code you have here, what

18:22

do you use for that? I simply just do a

18:24

search. Yeah, well I use to

18:26

do tree as an extension that will show you them

18:28

all in the sidebar. Oh, that's nice. And

18:31

a lot of people hate to do is, I

18:33

like to just drop them in low stakes. If

18:35

it's like a team project, and it's a real

18:38

thing that the team needs to keep track of,

18:41

what I'll do is a GitHub issue, right?

18:43

That makes it a GitHub issue. You

18:45

have discussion on it. People can. Yeah.

18:48

You can attach it to a PR or whatever. But if

18:50

I'm working on a feature, and

18:53

I delete something, or I wanna come back

18:55

to something later, I'm just throwing to do's

18:57

left and right. Because I will

19:00

remove them before any PR. Yeah.

19:04

Simply because they are just there as

19:06

a reminder to me for hey,

19:08

don't forget this before you push it up.

19:10

That's it for me. Yeah, so to

19:12

do tree, I use to do's in my

19:14

code. But again, nothing high stakes, all low

19:17

stakes stuff. Yeah, I do the same thing

19:19

as well when I'm like scaffolding it out.

19:21

So for example, Totally. The

19:24

new user submission form for

19:26

the spookies and the potluck or whatever.

19:29

And I was like, I'm just gonna get this

19:31

thing working. So I

19:34

put a to do in there, say, oh, make sure

19:36

you add rate limiting and

19:38

make sure you add a CAPTCHA. And

19:40

there was all this stuff that I needed to

19:42

make sure that I added, but I

19:45

needed to do that later, right? I needed to do it.

19:47

So I'll just throw a to do in there. And

19:50

I also use this VS Code extension called better comments.

19:53

And that will highlight your to do

19:55

comments in different colors. That's really helpful.

19:58

I like that as well. Yeah. to do's

20:00

for me, I think they they do really

20:02

they do really help. I you know, because

20:05

I will forget a whole section of the

20:07

album. And then if I don't have a

20:09

to do there or something like that, I

20:11

could forget a whole dang file that I

20:13

modified and didn't fix or you know, just

20:15

by creating the file, my brain says, Oh,

20:17

that's done. You know, yeah, that's so yeah.

20:21

snippets. I'm an extremely

20:23

heavy snippet user myself.

20:25

So I've switched snippets.

20:28

I was on text expanded for

20:30

many, many years. And I finally moved

20:32

over to Raycast once they supported almost

20:35

everything that I wanted. And I

20:39

find them to be very helpful for for kind

20:41

of two things. First, things

20:43

that you're writing all the time, you know,

20:46

like we get a bazillion emails for people

20:48

who are like, like,

20:50

want people to come on this podcast, you know,

20:52

and it's almost all time. It's like not, like,

20:54

don't feel bad if you're asking about this podcast,

20:57

if you're actually a listener, it's almost always just

20:59

like some, Oh, this

21:01

person wrote a dotnet book

21:05

14 years ago. And like, they

21:07

have a PR company trying to get

21:09

them on or like this crypto BS

21:11

is needs some needs some pump and

21:14

dump. So let's bring them on podcast.

21:16

And like, they are incessant about emailing,

21:18

and they just they follow up. It's

21:21

all automated. It's all garbage is so

21:23

obnoxious. So what I'll do is

21:25

I'll just have like these little snippets of like,

21:28

hey, or like the I this one called

21:30

USS. So if I type colon USS, it

21:32

says, Hey, I appreciate the email. You're great.

21:34

And this looks awesome. I don't have any

21:37

need from this. Please subscribe me and stop

21:39

any future drip sequences from following up. Thanks

21:41

again, having a good day. Because otherwise, I

21:43

would be a jerk when I'm mad. Yeah,

21:46

I need to have a very

21:48

clear pointed way to say stop

21:51

emailing me. Do not email me

21:53

ever again. And that's just like a quick

21:55

one you can you can do in

21:57

there. So like customer service, common replies

21:59

that you have are one of them.

22:01

And then the other one is just

22:03

things like my, one of my pet

22:06

peeves is using the wrong X. I

22:09

always get mad at everybody for not

22:11

using the multiplication X and they use

22:13

the, the letter X and it's not

22:15

slanted the right amount. So I

22:17

have little shortcuts for that. I have little

22:19

shortcuts for all of the arrows, like

22:22

the Unicode arrows. So I

22:24

have a shortcut for a ghost space.

22:27

So if you're trying to use in

22:29

an at sign on Twitter, you're like,

22:32

Oh, does anyone know how to use

22:34

CSS at imports or at media? It'll

22:36

like try to link that someone's name.

22:39

So I have a shortcut called

22:42

colon Z WJ, which is a zero

22:44

width joiner. And it's basically just a

22:47

ghost space. And then it will,

22:49

it will break that automatic highlighting

22:51

that, that is in there. So I have

22:53

tons of these little fancy

22:55

little ones in there along with the

22:57

customer support ones and

22:59

like addresses too. Sorry, go ahead. No,

23:02

yeah. I wish I, you know, snippets are one of those things

23:04

that I feel like I, I

23:07

don't categorize my myself like enough

23:09

when I'm working to say,

23:12

Oh, I'm doing this too many times. I should make

23:14

a snippet for it. Oh yeah. For

23:16

some reason I don't do that

23:19

enough. But what I, what

23:21

I do do is I have like a

23:24

one or two snippets that I use insanely

23:26

frequently, you know, like a valid

23:28

test credit card and stuff like that. I know you have

23:31

your whole flow for that, but one

23:33

of them was just my email. Cause

23:35

my email is kind of long. My

23:37

name is kind of long and

23:39

having to type that out, especially on my phone

23:41

or on my computer frequently is

23:44

just a giant pain. So

23:46

like that's my most used snippet is

23:48

S at is my snippet. And

23:50

that knows it's like, okay, it's an email

23:53

that I'm writing Scott at. So I use

23:55

that very frequently. I do use Raycast for

23:57

my snippets and I do find them to

23:59

be lovely. I do the colon

24:01

X as well to give me the West boss X.

24:05

I use the ampersand ampersand and then

24:07

I also set it up on iOS

24:10

to give me in my email because

24:12

yeah, I hate typing my email address.

24:14

It's it's brutal in my address as

24:16

well when people need it. And then

24:18

I also have a whole bunch of

24:20

like coding snippets in Raycast for

24:22

things like box sizing border

24:24

boxes when I use a lot CSS reset

24:26

I use a lot and

24:29

then like markdown back ticks. So

24:31

if I do colon JS or

24:33

colon TS it'll do it's so

24:35

smart three back ticks JS because

24:37

I put those in Raycast because

24:40

it's it doesn't make sense to put them

24:42

in VS code because I'm writing those in

24:44

notion in GitHub things. I'm writing them in

24:47

code pens sometimes discord you're writing them all

24:49

over the place. So if I'm

24:51

writing a snippet I'll try to say. Does

24:54

it make sense to do it outside of

24:56

VS code so I can use it everywhere.

24:58

Yeah, that's a good idea

25:00

man. I yeah, I agree

25:03

that that's my like barometer for whether or not

25:05

I should be creating

25:07

a snippet inside of VS code or outside.

25:10

It's like where do I need to use

25:12

this because like my felt snippets that I

25:14

use in VS code that I wrote myself

25:16

using simple snippet in VS code. It's like

25:19

those are fine to stay in VS code. Yeah, never

25:21

writing those outside of my text editor. But

25:24

yeah, this kind of stuff makes a lot of sense. I

25:26

find with copilot I don't actually use coding

25:29

snippets as much. I still use

25:32

Emmet quite a bit for scaffolding

25:34

out HTML very quickly and

25:37

in JSX, but I don't use the

25:39

like too many custom

25:41

snippets in VS code anymore. Yeah,

25:44

yeah, I know cursor has

25:46

changed that for me as well

25:48

where I do feel like I'm just

25:50

not. I'm just kind of writing as

25:52

yeah yeah. Interesting. Mind

25:55

mapping so mind mapping is this idea where

25:58

you. When

26:00

you have to plan out something like for

26:02

me when I want to plan out a

26:05

course or I want to plan out a

26:07

conference talk or whatever often

26:09

it's simply just a brain dump

26:11

of I need to include these

26:13

things or this is what my thoughts

26:15

are and being able to move it

26:17

into a It's

26:21

not a 3d space What would you call the the

26:24

space that a mind map is you know,

26:27

it's kind of just a spatial space? Yeah

26:29

Yeah, spatial space where you can drag and

26:31

drop and reorder and bring things from one

26:33

to another and and rename and basically just

26:36

sort of Like get your ideas in order

26:38

I find that to be extremely helpful when

26:41

I'm trying to when I'm in the early

26:43

stages of planning something And

26:45

I use one called mind node. I've been

26:47

using it for many many years. It's a

26:49

fantastic little application where

26:51

you can just plan out a

26:53

course or plan out a conference talk and

26:56

and It's when

26:58

it comes time to actually doing it. I I've

27:02

always wanted something that is both note-taking

27:04

and mind mapping in one Yeah,

27:06

I have not hit that just yet. Well, I'll

27:08

talk about some I tried and just a sec

27:10

though Yeah, I don't know if I've ever wanted

27:12

that note-taking my guess, you know Obsidian

27:15

can do cut some of that stuff, but you know for me

27:17

I use fig jam primarily

27:20

to do my mind mapping I love the

27:22

UI for it. I think it's super smooth

27:24

super easy I like that when

27:27

you're doing like a multiplayer fig jam

27:30

You can like throw stickers and drop,

27:32

you know stuff on there and react

27:34

to it and recently they said you

27:37

can create slides from the Mind

27:40

nodes to like if you want to do

27:42

a presentation so I'm actually

27:44

using the figma slides to do my

27:46

presentation for svelte summit and I'm

27:49

having a hard time going from code to a

27:51

visual UI to do slides I found it to

27:53

be like way more tedious for some reason you

27:55

think it'd be the other way around But

27:58

I found it to be so tedious to get And

28:01

I also found that the Figma mind nodes

28:03

to slides did not work how I wanted

28:05

it to but I think it's an option

28:07

if it yeah, maybe it's just

28:10

like how I was trying to use it. There's not a lot

28:12

of guidance. I think it's too new for that. So there's

28:14

stuff here. I think a lot of

28:17

these are interesting options, but for me,

28:19

yeah, mind mapping Fig Jam is really

28:21

super great. In fact, we're

28:23

using it right now on some cool stuff. I

28:26

almost wish that notion had like

28:29

built in mind mapping. I know you can like

28:31

hack it and whatever, but it's not very good

28:33

because the way that Scott and I put episodes

28:36

together is we will kind of do that.

28:38

We'll dump a whole bunch of high level

28:40

topics, you know, dump a whole bunch of

28:43

ideas and we'll basically just do indentation of

28:45

bullet points, which is kind of

28:47

mind mapping. But I think it

28:49

would be kind of nice to have a bit more of

28:51

a visual look at it. I agree.

28:53

Yeah, I know. I do my brain does

28:56

function largely in to do list though, or

28:58

not to do this, like indented list and

29:00

outlines now. So the next

29:02

one is a big one. It is note taking. You

29:04

know, everybody has their favorite note taking app. Some

29:07

people refer to this as like a second

29:09

brain sometimes, depending on how you set it

29:11

up. And, you

29:13

know, I've used Figma for or not Figma. I've

29:15

used a notion for this in the past notion

29:18

just feels a little too clunky

29:20

for me for to be like my full on

29:22

note taking app. One

29:24

reason it's proprietary, it's being saved

29:26

to a database, whatever. I

29:29

like my notes to potentially

29:31

not be stuck in the software that I

29:33

wrote it. So my note taking

29:35

app of choice is Obsidian,

29:38

which uses markdown and you can

29:40

write markdown and it's nice for

29:42

the most part. Working

29:44

in Obsidian is like a hybrid

29:47

between VS code and notion. You

29:49

get a lot of the great stuff from

29:51

notion, but it still feels a little bit

29:53

more like a text editor. A lot of

29:55

the VS code shortcuts still work like

29:57

if I want to move a line up and

29:59

down. I can hold the option key and hit

30:01

the arrow keys like I can in VS code

30:03

so I can be reasonably assured that my VS

30:05

code Shortcuts are gonna work and for

30:07

a long time. My big issue was Like

30:11

it just didn't feel You

30:13

IE enough but now the I

30:16

don't know when this changed probably not that recently

30:18

at the start of each file If you do

30:20

a three hyphens to do The

30:22

front matter it actually gives you like that

30:25

exact same kind of notion UI where you

30:27

have a property and value whatever And

30:29

so like if I want to tag a specific

30:31

file in the past I had to like write

30:33

those tags and markdown But now I actually get

30:36

like a UI and I visually can see all

30:38

the tags and all the tags I previously had

30:40

and stuff and I'm adding this metadata whether it's

30:42

created at or yeah, that stuff I'm adding all

30:44

that via markdown at the top of my file

30:47

in a UI sort of way that I really

30:49

enjoy and One

30:51

thing that Obsidian does really well is it

30:53

has this massive community plugins

30:56

Community plugins, you know

30:58

first party supported plugins and some of those

31:00

are incredible Like I have one that creates

31:02

a new let's say I open Obsidian today

31:05

West it automatically creates when I

31:07

open it a notes file for today That

31:10

way if I open it, I just have a file

31:12

blank file Labeled for today ready

31:15

to go and I can just start typing

31:17

I can tag it I can link to

31:19

other files really super easily I like that

31:21

if I write a link to a file

31:23

and that file doesn't exist I

31:26

hit command click on it and it creates

31:28

that file in the location that I made

31:30

the link for Yeah, it's kind of VS

31:32

Cody. That's nice There's just so many great

31:35

things and the best part is it's a

31:37

folder full of markdown Yeah, so like you

31:40

can take that anywhere you can write blog posts in

31:42

here. I can move those blog posts to anything It's

31:45

just a really nice really nice

31:47

little service and there's just so many There's

31:50

so many edges to this thing that

31:52

has more functionality than you may expect

31:55

So yeah, Obsidian is just it's the

31:57

goat for me. It's great man. I

31:59

I had tried Obsidian a few times

32:01

over the years and I've always found

32:03

myself going back to what I've been

32:06

doing, which is simply writing markdown files

32:08

in VS code. And I

32:10

always did that because I felt like, oh,

32:14

this is not my VS code. Then you got to

32:16

send all the shortcuts up and then all

32:19

the syntax highlighting is a little bit different.

32:21

And I felt like, this is not as

32:23

good as my VS code, but I just

32:25

opened it for the first time in a

32:27

couple of years. And what

32:29

you're saying, I think I'm going to try

32:31

it again because I've wanted it to make

32:33

it work so much. I feel like I've

32:35

been trying to find a better note taking

32:37

app than simply just markdown files. That's what

32:40

I've been using for probably 10 years. I

32:42

wrote a book in it. I published something

32:44

like 70 different JavaScript guides.

32:47

I have hundreds of blog posts, all

32:49

markdown, all written in my code

32:51

editor. So I tried

32:54

Stashpad for quite a while, which

32:56

I was pretty excited about.

33:00

Stashpad is kind of like markdown

33:04

and a

33:06

mind mapping all in one, which is what I've been

33:08

saying I want for a long time. But

33:10

again, there's no way to

33:12

move your data out of

33:15

it. I let my

33:17

trial expire and all my notes were

33:19

locked in. And unless

33:21

I upgraded to the paid one, I was

33:23

like, all right, screw this. I'm not paying

33:26

$14 a month and then let them

33:28

jack the price up on me once

33:31

the investors want their money back. It

33:34

was a cool product. It didn't work as good as

33:36

I wanted. Oh,

33:38

Stashpad, Scott just put a link in

33:41

here. Stashpad is winding down operations. Oh,

33:45

interesting. So like September 30th, so it's

33:47

done though. It's done today. Oh,

33:50

well, maybe my, uh, I

33:52

did. I think I did have some notes in there, so they're

33:54

probably gone. Let

33:57

that be a thing. So I tried Stashpad.

34:00

A lot of people told me try

34:02

observable HQ, which is a kind

34:04

of a hosted Jupiter notebook. I

34:07

just, I couldn't get into it. I just want my,

34:09

my VS code working on it.

34:11

And I also, I think you pay

34:13

for it. Yeah, you got to pay for it. 22

34:16

bucks a month. That's not worth it to me. It's

34:19

a cool, it's a cool thing though. Yeah,

34:21

I don't use it, but it's cool. It's

34:23

more for like data, data people. So what

34:26

I am trying to move to right now

34:28

is Jupiter notebooks, which is what observable HQ

34:30

is built on Jupiter notebooks are huge in

34:32

the Python space because what it lets you

34:34

do is you can write Markdown and then

34:37

you can inline code and you can run

34:39

that code right inside of

34:41

the file and see the actual output,

34:43

which is as somebody who writes lots

34:45

of technical stuff, that's kind of exactly

34:47

what I want. I want all of

34:49

my TypeScript types and inference. I want

34:52

all of that to work inside of

34:54

my Markdown. Like when I wrote my

34:56

TypeScript course, I would have to duck

34:58

out to a TypeScript file and

35:00

actually do the example because I

35:02

wanted the full TypeScript inference, but

35:04

Jupiter notebooks now has a Dino

35:07

engine. So you can run not just

35:09

Python, but you can now run JavaScript on

35:11

it. We talked about it when Ryan Dahl

35:13

came on the podcast. So I'm really hoping

35:16

that I can make

35:18

the move. Next time I start like a new

35:20

project, I'm going to try go all in Jupiter

35:22

notebook. I would like

35:24

sincerely love for you to spend

35:26

some time doing that because I

35:28

don't have the time to do

35:30

it, but I want to get a good

35:32

report on what's yeah, what's it like? Yeah,

35:35

it's so I did try it for a while and

35:37

I even posted like a little guide on Twitter on

35:39

how to get it set up and

35:42

it was it worked pretty good. You

35:44

know, like it's it's it's

35:46

really cool that you can write code and then

35:48

like I would say, all right, here's

35:51

what we're going to do. We're going to

35:53

filter this array down for items that only

35:55

have this type and then you can click

35:57

the button and run the code and see

35:59

the output right underneath. And then you can

36:01

also write adapters for what the output looks

36:03

like. So if the output

36:05

is simply just data, you can just display

36:08

the data. But if the output is HTML,

36:10

you can embed the HTML right below it.

36:12

Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. I'm curious. I just, I'm

36:14

a little bit worried. It's going to be

36:17

one of those things where, like you said,

36:19

you got to fuss with it too much.

36:21

And then it's you're spending time. Yes. Clusing

36:23

a notebook enthusiast and not somebody who's actually

36:26

getting work done. Well, then you could

36:28

get a course out of it, right? You could start the.

36:30

Yeah, that's true. I like it.

36:32

Start the engines there. Next is

36:34

little scripts. And these are just scripts that

36:36

you might have around on your computer to

36:38

run various things. I don't run any scripts

36:40

and I'm interested at like snippets to know

36:42

what you're running. The one I run the

36:44

most is to remove all

36:47

node modules, folders recursively. You

36:50

know, those things, they accumulate on your computer.

36:52

And next thing you know, it's taken up

36:54

gigabytes worth of space, depending on how many

36:56

projects you have. So for me, sometimes I'll

36:58

just run a recursive removal node module script

37:01

and get that stuff out of here for

37:03

a directory or even like my entire sites

37:06

folder. I knew that stuff. Yeah,

37:08

I'll often need to do things like download

37:11

all of the images from a folder.

37:14

So like we have

37:16

all these syntax background grunge and

37:18

there's like 190 of them, right? So

37:21

I just wrote a quick little script to visit

37:23

the web page, scraped all the links,

37:26

download them and save them to disc.

37:28

You know, just a quick little stuff

37:30

where I could do this or like

37:32

renaming files or making something

37:34

consistent. I could figure out how to

37:36

do this via the UI and I

37:38

could click it here and there, but

37:40

it's much more enjoyable and sometimes even

37:42

faster to write

37:45

a little script for it. So I

37:47

just simply write scripts and

37:49

then either run them via Dino

37:52

bun or TSX. But

37:54

there's also John Link was has this little

37:57

app called script kit,

37:59

which is. is it looks

38:01

like Raycast. It's not really the same

38:03

area, but it's just like resizing an

38:05

image. Converting an SVG to a JPEG

38:07

is another one that I have to

38:10

do all the time where it's

38:12

like, Oh, I try to drag an SVG

38:14

into my video editing software and it

38:16

doesn't work. So having

38:18

a little library

38:21

of commonly done things, stripping

38:23

types from TypeScript is another

38:25

one. Scraping images

38:27

off of a file, downloading all

38:30

of the sale items from Canadian

38:32

Tire's website. I probably have hundreds

38:34

of these little random scripts on

38:36

my computer that I'll dip into

38:39

every now and then. I've never

38:41

gotten into ScriptKit, but I feel

38:43

like I should. Yeah,

38:45

it's a type of thing I wouldn't mind just

38:48

having a directory of scripts around my

38:50

own to run whenever, but I think

38:53

as long as you can read the scripts and

38:56

that you know what you're doing, writing

38:58

little scripts in the era of a chat

39:01

GPT to me has become so much more

39:03

useful because I will suffer through doing something

39:05

by hand instead of writing a script sometimes

39:07

just because I don't feel like opening it

39:09

up and testing it and making sure it

39:11

works. But if I can get chat GPT

39:13

to spit me out a simple script, I

39:16

can go over it line by line by

39:18

line, confirm that everything is what I would

39:20

have done, tweak it as needed, and then

39:22

run it. That sometimes to me can be

39:24

very fast. Like the other day I asked

39:26

it while we were at a Denver

39:29

script, I asked it to go

39:31

through the page of what

39:33

was it? meetup.com, grab everybody's name

39:35

who had RSVP to be at

39:37

the meetup.com and then enter them

39:39

into the raffle that CJ had

39:41

written. And it took like

39:43

seconds. I just effortlessly fast. So

39:46

I think that can be a nice little

39:48

boost if you know what you're doing. Next

39:50

up is email. Email is such a big thing. I think

39:52

a lot of people, they do

39:55

email kind of chaotically, I tend to

39:57

do the opposite of that. I'm very

40:00

Invested in my email process in a way

40:02

when I spend money on it, which seems

40:04

ridiculous Let me tell you I use I

40:06

use superhuman Which is like the email client

40:08

of choice for all of the people who

40:11

are you know super productive

40:13

CEO types, right? Which it's ridiculous. I when

40:15

I saw the pricing for superhuman. I was

40:17

like there is not a chance in the

40:20

world. I care about

40:22

this enough to spend money on

40:24

this and Man, I

40:26

gotta say I've been using superhuman now for

40:28

like a year and a half two years

40:31

And even though I was able

40:34

to get to inbox zero fairly

40:36

regularly before Nothing has

40:39

made me as productive at email as

40:41

superhuman it you go down their feature

40:43

list Wes And it looks like a

40:45

thousand other email clients I swear but

40:47

something about it you can navigate the

40:49

whole app through effortless Cuts

40:52

yeah, it's it's local first in

40:54

a way that every single email

40:56

loads instantly There's no lag ever

40:58

if I want to do anything

41:00

I hit a key hit a

41:02

key hit a key either unsubscribe

41:04

or Trash all or filter

41:06

or snooze or whatever. I'm so efficient

41:08

with it that I can get to

41:10

inbox zero No in no time

41:12

and then when you do get to inbox zero, it

41:14

gives you a fun little video of

41:17

animals, which So stupid, but

41:19

I love it. I I'm I talked

41:22

so much trash about superhuman before actually

41:24

using in subscribing to it and

41:26

now I'm like This is I'm gonna

41:28

pay for this app. So yeah, I've been

41:31

hooked on it and sadly it's I'm

41:34

paying for it for sure. Yeah, sometimes

41:36

those things are are worth

41:38

it You know, like I'm not I'm not

41:40

the guy that lives loves paying monthly for

41:42

things. But when something does Take

41:46

the pain out of your day, which is something

41:48

that all of us hate which is doing email

41:50

It's it's worth it. Right? I I

41:53

use missive Which is

41:56

we've we've had them on the show before

41:58

it's fantastic application So, Misiv

42:01

is more for teams that

42:03

need to be able to not

42:05

share email, but like kind of assign it. So

42:08

I have multiple email addresses being piped into

42:10

Misiv. And then you

42:12

can, like if it's a customer support, I

42:15

can just write to the my

42:18

assistant and say, hey, what's going on

42:20

here? Or this person is

42:22

not seeing all of their courses when they

42:24

log in, maybe it's under or whatever. And

42:27

I can just assign it to somebody else

42:29

and then they get it dumped into their

42:31

Misiv inbox. And it's a

42:33

really nice way to sort of do

42:35

it. I still am garbage. I email

42:37

because the one thing I really want,

42:39

like my biggest problem is just like,

42:41

there's just too much stuff that

42:44

comes in. And I find like, even with

42:46

all the filters and

42:48

tagging and all that under

42:50

the world, I feel like I'd still just get

42:52

way too much garbage coming

42:54

in. And I unsubscribe from absolutely everything. But

42:57

like even like we get a pull request

42:59

on the syntax thing. I

43:02

get like 17 emails from

43:04

GitHub about what's going on there. And it's

43:06

just like, oh, get

43:08

this out of here, you know, and like that

43:10

times a thousand different services. And

43:13

also I don't really want to spend

43:15

a lot of time sort of filtering through it.

43:17

The one thing I really do want, though, is

43:19

I want the ability to tag

43:21

with AI. So

43:24

Misiv has the ability to reply with AI.

43:26

You put your little open AI key in

43:29

there and you can highlight something and say,

43:31

summarize this for me or reply nicely. You

43:33

can make your own prompts, right? But what

43:35

I want is the opposite. I want every

43:37

email that comes in to be

43:40

filtered through AI. And I want

43:42

to be able to say, like, does this look

43:44

like somebody from a PR company is trying to

43:47

get somebody on our podcast? If so

43:49

immediately reply to them or if so,

43:51

just tag it with whatever, because I

43:53

find like the actual important stuff is

43:56

hard to find through all the

43:58

cruft that comes into my email.

44:00

box. Yeah. On that note

44:02

of superhuman and inbox zero, West, I found

44:04

out that it gives you stats in

44:06

the past year. I have hit

44:09

inbox zero one hundred and eighty

44:11

two. Holy smokes. I have

44:13

a twenty nine day streak of

44:16

inbox zero right now. And like

44:18

so I'm I'm legitimately able to

44:20

do that. And I have what

44:22

three different email addresses. So yeah.

44:24

Yeah. What do you do

44:26

about like transactional email? Like you get a

44:28

like I'm just looking at my email address

44:30

right now. So Cloudflare, your invoice is available.

44:32

Cloudflare, your domain is renewed. Your

44:35

dentist, you have appointment coming. Google

44:37

search console performance for the month.

44:39

Spotify upcoming premium subscription

44:41

is being increased. You know, like that

44:43

plus forty other just this morning. Do

44:46

you just delete them? No,

44:48

there's a mark is done. You just hit

44:50

the mark is done key. Yeah.

44:52

Which is like you don't you don't auto filter

44:55

them or anything. They don't have any system for

44:57

getting through all that crap. I

45:00

tend to treat the emails that come

45:02

in as like stuff I need

45:04

to pay attention to. And

45:07

then I can see from the list

45:09

view if it's something I

45:11

need to open. If I like I like

45:13

to keep that stuff, but I don't need

45:15

to action item it. And since again, superhuman

45:18

is instant and it has keyboard shortcuts, I

45:21

my my current one is

45:23

highlighted. I hit the key next one highlighted EK.

45:25

Oh, yeah. EK just and EK. Yeah. You dwindle

45:27

dwindle it down so fast. And so for me,

45:29

I check email first thing in the morning when

45:31

I get into work, I get into work, I

45:33

check my email, I get it to inbox zero.

45:35

If it's something that I can't take care of

45:38

right now, I put it in my to do

45:40

list and then I snooze the email for when

45:42

I'm going to plan on doing it. So that

45:44

way it does show back up and that way

45:46

I can confirm I did it. And then I

45:48

check it again at the end of the day

45:50

before I leave work. And not even like the

45:52

very end of the day like three o'clock ish

45:55

for me. And then I again I get down

45:57

to inbox zero. Reason being is

45:59

like You never get overwhelmed that way. And

46:01

if, you know, if you treat everything like

46:03

a to do, nothing just sits in your

46:05

inbox, which I can't have

46:07

an eye unsubscribe for from everything religiously like

46:10

crazy. And so I do love that, like

46:12

any of these mail apps that build in

46:14

like a new like this has a keyboard

46:16

shortcut for unsubscribing. So like I do that

46:19

on anything that I see. That's great.

46:21

Yeah. The snooze is also

46:23

you absolutely have to have snooze because what

46:25

happens is when people are going through their

46:28

email, they hit something like I have

46:31

to do this, but I don't want to do it now. I

46:33

need to do it at some point and then there's whatever

46:36

close the email app, you know, but if

46:38

you can snooze it, you keep on that

46:40

role, you know, the E-key role that Scott's

46:42

talking about here. Yeah, exactly. And

46:44

I know, I know snooze to me is

46:46

one of those must have things that it's

46:49

shocking that like every email client in the

46:51

world isn't like defaulted to that. I first

46:53

pick up snooze with Google inbox and Google

46:55

inbox to me was like the best in

46:58

a. Yeah. Yeah.

47:01

Yeah. I do. I

47:03

certainly missed that, but snoozing and all those things, I got to have it, get

47:05

it out of there, get down to zero. Another thing

47:07

I like about it that, you know, I'm just

47:09

not going to go on about superhuman, but when

47:12

you unsubscribe from something less, it gives you an

47:14

option to unsubscribe and mark all is done or

47:16

unsubscribe and trash all. So like,

47:18

let's say you've been on a and been

47:20

put on a newsletter subscription list that you

47:22

do not care about. You never want to

47:24

see again unsubscribe and trash all. Or

47:26

what if it's like something that's coming in regularly that

47:29

you kind of want to still unsubscribe

47:31

and mark done. So if you are

47:33

the type of person that has like a massive list

47:35

of emails in your inbox, you

47:37

could cut through that pretty quickly, I think. Yeah.

47:40

One other thing I like about missive is if

47:42

you get like a lot like I get a

47:44

lot from GitHub, I'll often

47:47

just you could

47:49

click on the person who's sending it to you

47:51

and you can say all from this person

47:54

or all from this domain and just click

47:56

on it and it'll immediately filter your

47:59

entire inbox. for all of those. And then I'll just

48:01

command a command backspace and just

48:03

blow them all out. And that helps me get

48:05

down from, you know, you got 300 and you

48:08

call that brought down to 125. All

48:10

right, we're doing a bit better now. Totally.

48:12

Yeah, here's a here's a couple more.

48:14

Before we get out of there, I

48:16

use my habit tracker. There's a billion

48:18

habit trackers, I find them to be

48:20

very helpful. My habit trackers habit path.io

48:22

I check in with this thing every

48:24

day to make sure that I'm maintaining

48:26

the positive habits that I want

48:29

in my life. Even things like

48:31

doing handstands every day or making a to

48:33

do list or doing, you

48:35

know, cardio or stretching, the kind of stuff

48:37

that just like, you want to

48:39

make sure that you're staying on top of. And

48:41

so for me, it's very gratifying to not

48:44

just have streaks, because I don't think I

48:46

think streaks can be a little discouraging sometimes.

48:48

But for me, it's more or less about,

48:50

all right, I have things

48:52

I would like to see. And the more

48:54

I see those things checked, the better I

48:57

am about it. So it's, I'm definitely

48:59

motivated by a habit tracker type of

49:02

system. It's allowed me to instill a

49:04

lot of positive habits in my life.

49:07

Another one is focus apps, I use

49:09

hey, focus.com to block all social media and

49:11

stuff on my computer. If I'm working, I'm

49:13

the classic person who will close Twitter and

49:16

then open it again in a second

49:18

or read it. Yeah, and read it for

49:20

me is the worst one, I will close

49:22

Reddit and then like a command W on

49:25

Reddit, command T start typing in Reddit, like

49:27

my brain is just so broken with that

49:30

stuff. So I need something to step in

49:32

there and stop it. So hey, focus.com is

49:34

the app I use. But another one I

49:36

use for notifications and turning off all that

49:39

stuff is just the Apple

49:42

focus. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, I use a

49:44

share across all my devices. I have them

49:46

set up really completely. I have like my

49:48

wife can text me at any time. And

49:50

there will be that notification that will come

49:52

through at least some sort of way. But

49:55

if anybody else does no notifications other than

49:57

that, I shut off notifications for most all.

49:59

Like yeah, I don't ever have notifications on

50:01

for email. I will not get a notification

50:04

for an email no matter what It's pretty

50:06

much just text messages for me that I

50:08

get Notifications or yeah,

50:10

I have I have just email and

50:13

texts and Twitter

50:16

DMS, but otherwise no Twitter

50:19

no no tik-tok every time

50:21

I open tik-tok. It's like hey turn on

50:23

Notifications like no chance. No no chance.

50:25

I'm doing that euro chance. Yeah, I

50:28

would rather Jump off

50:30

a bridge. I think I have Twitter notifications on

50:33

How often do you throw this hey focus on cuz I?

50:36

Haven't done it in a while, but I think I need

50:38

it especially after I post a video I'll

50:41

go to like at like the seven

50:43

websites that I posted a video to and then

50:45

see what people are commenting and That's good because

50:47

I can reply but at a certain point. I

50:49

gotta just get working on the next one

50:52

Yeah, I I if I

50:54

let's say I open reddit twice in the span of

50:56

15 minutes Something will happen in my brain, and I'll

50:58

say Scott. What are you

51:00

doing man? Like I feel like the moment I

51:03

feel disappointed with myself for opening

51:05

reddit too many times I then turn it on you

51:07

know it'd be nice to have it on on a

51:09

schedule One thing that I had to

51:11

tweak it because like I do a lot of

51:13

work on YouTube So I don't block YouTube, but

51:15

I also don't have the problem of mindlessly watching

51:17

YouTube I do mindlessly watch YouTube just not when

51:19

I'm at work for some reason. I have no

51:22

problem with that so all right

51:24

So those are our productivity tips and tricks

51:26

and apps Let us know if

51:29

you have any thoughts every time

51:31

we do these I get really good recommendations for

51:33

you There was one I

51:35

was trying to forget remember when I said I

51:37

want my own like personal Pinterest for

51:40

logging Things that

51:42

I find you know it's not just bookmarks, but

51:45

just dumping stuff into someone sent me a really

51:47

good one And I totally forgot to check it

51:49

out, so if you know what that is send

51:52

it to me again I'd love to hear it. I

51:54

yeah, I started making a delicious clone for

51:56

that really reason when I got bored, so

51:59

I stopped doing it, but that feels

52:01

like something that I would love to have

52:03

too. Um, maybe, maybe once my, um, site

52:06

kit is done, I can just fire up

52:08

a delicious clone. Yeah. Beautiful. All

52:10

right. Uh, let's go into sick picks. You

52:12

got a sick pick for me today. Oh

52:15

yeah. Yeah. I had, um,

52:18

you know, I like podcasts. I've

52:20

been pod listening to podcasts for

52:22

a long time. Right. I like

52:24

podcasts. Yeah. I like podcasts. Yeah.

52:26

There's a fun new podcast from,

52:28

um, I think Jamie Loftus Loftus.

52:31

She does a lot of podcasts. She's a

52:33

fun kind of internet personality, but it's called

52:35

the legend of sword quest. Um,

52:37

let me read you the trailer for this thing. It's one

52:39

of these limited run series. It's from my heart. So what

52:42

started as a promotion for a new Atari

52:44

game would become one of the most controversial

52:46

moments in eighties pop culture. I doubt

52:49

that's the case because I had never heard

52:51

of this before. This, um, with a central

52:53

mystery, that's consumed fans for decades. What happened

52:55

to the missing sword quest prizes to unlock

52:57

the biggest mystery and video game history? I

52:59

never heard of this. Basically, there was like

53:01

a video game competition for a lot of

53:03

money and you have, it's like a fun

53:05

little documentary podcast. The one thing I like

53:07

about it is a lot of times with

53:10

these, they'll they'll have like a big last

53:12

time on the podcast and then like 10

53:14

minutes of information. And then, uh,

53:16

next time this is not that it's like, actually just

53:18

good interviews and the people, you know, it's a bunch

53:20

of video game players from the eighties and stuff talking.

53:23

So it's just fun. Um, there's only five episodes out

53:25

as of right now, but it's, it's still coming out.

53:27

So if that sounds interesting to you, it's a nice

53:29

little mini series there. Um, I've

53:31

also been listening to a new

53:34

podcast lately called the economics of

53:36

everyday things. And it's for

53:38

people who like like planet money or how

53:40

I built this. And it goes into the,

53:43

just these areas of life and explains how

53:45

it works. You know, like how does the

53:47

sushi fish supply chain work or

53:49

like, like, where do truffles come from? How does

53:52

money laundering work? You know, uh, why

53:55

do we need so many firefighters? And

53:58

it's all, it's all just a. really

54:00

good. Listen, you know, really interesting comes

54:02

up some nice facts that you can share with your

54:05

friends, but also you learn a thing or two. Yeah,

54:08

cool. I like that. I gotta, I gotta check

54:10

that out. Uh, thanks for the

54:12

suggestion. All right. Thanks everybody for tuning

54:14

in. We will catch you later. Peace.