On this cast, we are excited to introduce a new member of the ProductivityCast team, Francis Wade of 2TimeLabs. Francis joins us on this conversation about getting control of your hardware. We begin with this episode on our hardware setup at the moment and why we have chosen the hardware we have. In the next episode, we dive into the practical components of choosing good hardware for your productivity system.

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In this Cast

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Francis Wade

Show Notes

Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.

Android OS

Lenovo

HP

Apple iPad

Google Chrome Remote Desktop

Apple iPhone

Mere Presence of a Cell Phone Distracting Says USM Professor

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey, PhD

Getting Things Done by David Allen

PushBullet

Mac OS X

Toshiba

Linux Mint

Evernote

KVM switch

20-20-20 Rule for Vision

Raw Text Transcript

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are you ready to manage your work and

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personal world better to live a more

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fulfilling productive life then you've

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come to the right place

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welcome to productivity cast the weekly

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show about all things productivity here

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are your hosts Ray Sidney-Smith and

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Augusto Pinaud welcome back everybody to

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another episode of productivitycast I'm

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Ray Sidney-Smith and I am joined with

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Augusto Pinaud today we actually have the

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pleasure of introducing a new

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contributor to the podcast he'll be a

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regular presence here on the show and

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it's Francis Wade the founder of

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2Time Labs and ScheduleU in his

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work as an author consultant and trainer

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Francis actively explores the boundaries

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of time-based productivity you can find

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him tweeting @2timelabs

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and so welcome to the show Francis

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and welcome to our listeners morning

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guys the mahira on a non holiday I know

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you guys are having a great Memorial Day

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but I'm in the middle or just about to

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start a working day so I'm I'm not

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relaxed you guys alright relax it's a

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good way to it's a good way to call this

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Monday yes I am I am actually going to

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have a regular full workday so so for

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those who are listening this is we're

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recording on Memorial Day and so this is

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Monday of the Memorial Day 2017 and so

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you know we are we are here recording

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and I'm gonna be working a full day

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normal day it'll be quiet cuz nobody

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else will be bothering me but we

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recommend to our listeners no not

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particularly actually I think I'm really

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Pro people taking time off and enjoying

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time with their family so do not do as

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do as I say not as I do

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so tonight we're talking about how we we

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productivity advise those give people

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this advice that we don't follow we're

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just talking about that work a lot so

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this is a great example

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absolutely absolutely geez so today we

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are going to be talking about hardware

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I think a lot of us uh in in our sort of

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preparation up to this topic I gusto had

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been talking about this idea that people

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sometimes sort of fall into the hardware

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that they are using to be productive and

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just sort of you know and I think it's

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true we all kind of come to this place

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where we have the phone we have we have

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the computer we have we have the tablet

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maybe that we are using and we really

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don't know why or how it's sort of like

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you know it's sort of like pens of

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yesteryear you know I used to pick up

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pens at conferences

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so whatever pen I picked up at a

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conference was the pen that I was using

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until it ran out and then I would pick

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up the next pen and and then I fell in

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love with pens and so I was like oh my

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gosh I have to go by you know really

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nice pen and so I started looking for

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the pen that I really wanted I think

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that's sort of the case with regard to

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productivity enthusiasts I think over

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time we start to pay very close

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attention to the details of all the

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tools that we use and so I thought it

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would be really great for us all to have

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that discussion I had a nice thought of

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brick because I when I moved to Jamaica

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from living in Florida and I no longer

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had CompUSA and BestBuy and I didn't

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have these electronic stores I didn't

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have overnight Amazon or 100 our Amazon

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delivery anymore so I had to be very

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careful about my technology choices I

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also didn't have access to tech support

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that we added in the States so I became

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a bit of an ascetic you know like a monk

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I became very very stingy because when

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you don't have immediate access to toys

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and gadgets and devices you tend to

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think about it long and hard before you

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actually adopt anything new so today I

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have what I call a I guess a minimalist

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set up so I have an Android Android

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phone it's it's because I work out a lot

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I do a lot of exercise my phones get wet

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so and as a result they fail so I've

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been through a and maybe four or five in

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the last couple years and I decided no

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more big expenditure so I have a minimal

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an Android

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devices just fast enough just has it off

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memory keeps number of apps tones those

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it does what it needs to do but it does

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it quickly cuz it happens to have a

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pretty quick chip tilt into it but not a

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lot of space and then I have that link

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to a Lenovo laptop

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I used to use Toshiba but then I

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switched over turn over because of the

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reliability factor had a same problem

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when my computer dies in Jamaica it

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takes a few weeks to replace it if I'm

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getting it from the states so I went

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through Dell went through Sasebo and I

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know with Lenovo and haven't had one die

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on me yet knock on wood and I use a an

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Amazon fire tablet again pure minimalist

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what do I when I got it I really didn't

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know what I was going to use it for

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because it's a couple years ago I saw

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everyone using their as a nest egg but I

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really want another gadget I thought

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about it long and hard I said well at

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least need to be in the world of tablets

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I know that I have a tablet and I have

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the three devices the three screens that

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I work with I see that I use them

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differently and I'm trying to sort of

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segment the way in which I use each

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device so I use my tablet for

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consumption

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mostly it's my it's what I call my I'm

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lazy boy device you can have all those

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chairs that sort of leans back kicks up

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a footrest and I can lean back and

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consume or read or listen or watch or so

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it's it's it's where I am passive does

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that make sense

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oh yeah absolutely right I'm not

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creating anything when I'm using my

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