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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

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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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...

On this cast, Ray and Augusto discuss overcoming resistance, using Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art and the psychological and practical aspects of dealing with resistance.

Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening!

If you'd like to discuss this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post).

In this Cast

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Show Notes

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

Steven Pressfield

The Legend of Bagger Vance (book) (movie) (IMDB)

The War of Art

Turning Pro

Do the Work

Seth Godin

Getting Things Done by David Allen

Criticism of The War of Art by Psychologist Frederick Heide (See section entitled, “Criticism”)

Changeology by John C. Norcross, PhD (Productivity Book Group discussion) (website with exercises)

Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence by Daniel Goleman, PhD

Pugh decision matrix

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 Sydney Smith and

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gusto pan out welcome back everybody

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this is Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto

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Pinaud good morning good morning how's

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it going this is productivity cast the

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weekly show about all things personal

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productivity and today on this show we

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are gonna be talking about resistance

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there is probably nobody better to

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discuss resistance than the author that

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we'll be discussing and his book which

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is Steven Pressfield and the war of art

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so who's to tell us a little bit about

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Steven Pressfield

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I know his sort of his Wikipedia

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biography but I think you know him a

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little bit better in terms of the

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background and why this book you brought

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up the topic and you sort of have

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championed this this topic and so I'm

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I'm curious about you know what really

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jumped out about pressfield's background

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and and what you know sort of sparked

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your interest in his work and just as

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sort of a little bit of a background for

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folks before you get started at gusto is

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that Pressfield at least at the time

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we're recording

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I think his 73 or 74 years old and he is

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an American author he's written both

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fiction and nonfiction and screenplays

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and people probably most likely know him

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from The Legend of badger fans that's

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probably as big as because it's turned

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into that you know the 2000 film as of

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recent in couple last years several

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years ago he has started a publishing

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house called black Irish books and he

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started that with his his agent Sean

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Coyne and so he has a small publishing

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house but anyway tell us tell us a

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little bit more about Steven Pressfield

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and what makes this topic so near and

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dear to you Lucedale you know press

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field as you said most people know who

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is because of the first book he wrote

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got into

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a movie and and that's you know sadly a

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lot of the reference for the people to

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know that is if the the movie more than

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more than that that said he has

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participated in other movies even some

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of them that people really know but but

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he's here's a quite interesting story

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when he wrote he wrote a book that I

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have no way to to to prove what I'm

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going to say but I think he wrote the

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war of heart for himself and I thought

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telling a story for what his his

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struggles to be in a writer and honestly

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I don't think he thought he was going to

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have that much success but that's

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because he was as he details in the book

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he was homeless living out of his car at

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the time he was writing the war part

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that's why he probably didn't think it

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was gonna be one success well you know

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uh press Hilton right now enjoy a

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certain status as a writer he published

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he bombs delay your burger ones he had

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published some books on his history

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if you fiction history or historic

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fiction if you like history and Romans

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and World War two really his I maybe I

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like them so his books even though some

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of them are our fiction are amazing on

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the content on the historical facts that

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tied up was that fiction to the point

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that really you can come and run and if

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you don't know enough about some of

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those stories you know come and think

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that they have more reality than fiction

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that is one of the things that actually

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make him amazing as a writer his his his

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second novel gates of fires is taught to

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the US military the Naval Academy and at

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Quantico four Marines this is this is

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not like second-class historical fiction

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this is hardcore stuff right right

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one of the things that make him really

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cool really special as a writer is he

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has been able

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to show his humanity you know it takes

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at least on my experience when you look

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at writers and famous people you really

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find two kind of them the ones who are

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perfect and never struggle okay and it

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was expected but they were going to get

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there and the ones who show you all the

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marks that they were led you in their

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way you know I I can tell you as a

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writer I have published II you know

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eleven books and I wish to tell you the

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second one was easier than the first one

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and Dale Evans was easier than the

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second one and sadly that's a lie

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at least has been a lie for me every

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book causes a struggle I'm right now

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finishing a book that is it's difficult

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you know there is a point on writers

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that's what I call the valley of despair

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whatever in his dark mushy you know

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everything that you kind of dislike and

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the only way to finish that book is to

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grow through that valley of despair and

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the work of art come to tell you

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Pressfield version of that he talks to

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what he called the resistance and the

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resistance as he define it is that

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little thing that little voice that tell

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you not to do it but tell you all the

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reasons why you should not do it and

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tell you all the reasons why you should

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quit and when he published that book I

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think it was around 2002 it was really

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this up at the book on his phone it was

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the first time that somebody pinpoint

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that resistance and pinpoint the

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difference between what he called an

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amateur and Arana Pro when he'd make the

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distinction the difference is not that

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the pro doesn't have this resistance the

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difference is the proud owner stop

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because the resistance and he make all

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the difference and even tell his own

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story of when he as a writer changed

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from being what he called

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an amateur rider to being a pro rider

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After our discussion on “Second Screen Productivity” (Episode 003), Augusto and Ray were discussing off-mic about the future of Google's Android and its proliferation around the globe on most mobile devices in use today. We decided to have a high-level discussion (let's plainly call it what it is, pontificating) about the current state of Google’s mobile operating system and how its changes (along with other operating systems) affect users’ productivity.

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In this Cast

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Show Notes

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

Android OS

ChromeOS / Chromium OS

ChromeBit (on Amazon)

G Suite for Education (a/k/a Google for Education)

Chromebook (List of Android App-Supported devices, including non-touchscreen)

Chromebox

Universal Windows Platform (UWP)

Lenovo Yoga Book

Free Software

Samsung DeX Dock (turn your Samsung Galaxy S8 phone into a desktop computer)

#iPadOnly

Internet of Things

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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 everybody to

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another episode of productivity cast the

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weekly show about all things personal

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productivity

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I'm your host Ray Sidney-Smith and I'm

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here with Augusto Pinaud good

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morning we're gonna kick into this show

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with an interesting topic I think or at

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least I believe it was Augusto and I both

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believe this is an interesting topic

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because we decided to talk about it

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and so the the mixing and sort of

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interesting current situation with

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regard to Google's operating systems

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those of you out there who are in the

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know you know what I'm talking about for

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those of you who don't know Google has

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basically they have several operating

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systems that they're currently in

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development with and you know the most

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popularly Android the Google owned

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operating system they've owned for

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several for many years now and it runs

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you know most of the phones in the world

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and and then there is Google's Chrome OS

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and Chrome OS is the operating system

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that runs the Chromebooks the laptops as

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well as the little mini you know devices

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that they have and they have these these

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things that are we're going to come out

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call the chrome sticks or whatever they

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were called but they were basically

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little they look like a you know an

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Amazon fire stick or basically a really

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big thumb drive and you'd stick it into

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a monitor and it would turn it into a

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computer and they plan on you know

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obviously putting the Chrome OS on many

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other devices and so that's Chrome OS

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and of course there have been many media

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leaks about this idea of Google

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currently in development of a new

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operating system and so we wanted to

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talk about what that really meant and

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what would the what the future of

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potentially an Android Chrome OS merge

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or

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really where the future of androids

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operating systems go and that really has

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a lot of effect on our personal

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productivity as we said in the last

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episode because you know you have to

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decide on what you're gonna learn and

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how much you're gonna utilize your

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systems and when you have multiple

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operating systems that can sometimes be

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a drag on the system so of these two you

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you have brought up the topic originally

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and so I'm curious about what your

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initial thoughts were about this as the

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people as ever you know find me before

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this episode knows I been an iPad only

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for many years now and actually from

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2011 and one of the arguments I've been

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making about high but only is that for

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most people they don't need are really

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or what we know as a full computer okay

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most people really what they need is a

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good browser and and a couple of basic

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things and cost wise you know the cost

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of a machine has really go significantly

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down and you can keep a much better

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machine than your old PC that will do

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everything and more of what you need

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getting a different solution you know in

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my case I pick iOS

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I like iOS but if you pick iOS you know

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Android will work you know chrome will

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work and now that they are both you know

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somehow happily merging it's going to

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end up with a you know is a powerful

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marriage of those two and for many

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people people continue thinking oh well

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it is if it's going to be for work or

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I'm going to be working you need to have

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a PC or you need to have a Mac and the

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reality these days is that that horizon

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it's a lot more broader you know you you

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really have your PC's you really have

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their Macs and then you have iOS Android

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/ Chrome

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as your full operating system and as a

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machine that can really do everything

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that you need and everything that at

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least most people need yes there is

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going to be the people who need

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something specific but for most people

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on iOS or a Chromebook it's plenty and I

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what people don't you know I was

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recently upgrade my my iOS to a twelve

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point nine inches high but is huge no

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question about it and that was part of

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my idea get that huge thing and I

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somebody asked me I don't understand why

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you're basically spending the same

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amount of money that you could spend on

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a Mac but you are getting an iPad that

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doesn't make any sense to me and that's

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a lot of what I found when I talk about

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technology same thing with the

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Chromebooks people have not yet come to

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see that these platforms are complete

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and fully capable to be not only a

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substitute for for what you have but in

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many cases they're really even better

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that what you can do for the kind of

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things you do on a regular PC or a Mac

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same thing with the Chromebooks you know

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when you go and get a Chromebook you can

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do so much with them you know with

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really such smooth if you get that same

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price point and then go for a PC it's

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true

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you can find you know computers PC

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compatible for the same $200 what you

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don't understand is that you are getting

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five years ago technology instead of

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2017 technology you are getting a

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computer that Wilbur Lee runs Windows

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versus a computer that will keep being

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fast and effective that is the reason

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it's a fascinating

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shopping for me and it is still quite

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interesting for me to see how many

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companies and how many even IT

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Ray and Augusto recently both obtained new mobile tablets. We talk about how we've implemented them in our work and personal lives, and why mobile tablets are becoming a powerful primary computing device.

Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening!

If you'd like to discuss this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post).

In this Cast

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Show Notes

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

Evernote

#iPadOnly by Augusto Pinaud and Michael Sliwinski

Split Views on iOS

Split Screen on Android

Feedly

Google News and Weather

OverDrive

Amazon Kindle

Stitcher

DuoLingo

Coursera

Udemy

Google Play Music

IFTTT (If This Then That)

Chrome Remote Desktop (including iOS)

TeamViewer

Adobe Premiere

Audacity

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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 our show today is going to

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be about second-screen productivity and

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not really its corollary of the concept

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of second-screen where you use a mobile

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device while you're watching a

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television and you're accessing

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potentially supplemental content and and

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other information or interacting with

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social media while you are watching

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television we're really gonna be talking

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about Hardware the fact of the matter is

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is that gusto and I both recently got

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new tablets and while gusto is the

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tablet ninja I mean he's really the

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expert here in terms of using his iPad

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only he wrote a book on the topic I am

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just getting really comfortable with

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using a tablet for more than just

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watching Netflix so um so we're gonna

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talk about what we've been doing and how

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much more productive we have been as it

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relates to tablet productivity or even

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using your your phone as the second

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device and sort of the experience we've

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been we've been having you are using the

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iPad as a primary computing device and

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have been comfortable with that for many

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years and in contrast I have been using

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both iOS as well as the Google Android

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OS for many years concurrently but not

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really for high level activities and

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only recently did I get a Samsung Galaxy

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and the 8 inch variety so that it was

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large enough for me to be able to read

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on the screen I had the Nexus 7 prior to

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that which is the Google tablet and I

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really loved it it's then it's light

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it's powerful and so the Samsung Galaxy

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Tab that I have also has a sim card in

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it so this one has data so that wherever

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I am I can access you know just basic

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email and and web browsing and that kind

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of thing when I'm on the road so that's

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been really really helpful

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and it has the case that I got has a

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stylist you know that plugs into it and

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at a magnetic screen case and it's just

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really great I have to I have to admit

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it it does do much more today for me now

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that I'm able to take notes say in

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Evernote on the larger screen and also

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you know just sort of getting around I

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can see more email at once so I can

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process multiple emails you know that

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just need to be deleted I don't have to

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scroll through page after page after

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page of email I can quickly go through

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full pages just as I would on my laptop

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screen I can do that here on the tablet

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as well and so you you don't process

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email on your phone but you processed it

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on the tablet and it's a very similar

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interface since you're using and I

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really like this idea here I think that

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this is something not to be lost on

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people that is because you're using iOS

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across all of your devices you are in

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essence creating the compound benefits

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based on the fact that you're going to

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know more and better of how iOS works

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how your computing operating system

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works because you are not having to

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switch gears every time you look at a

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different screen cuz they're all the

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same

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am i correct there you are correct there

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even that I treat them as DIF 3 screen

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as you are you correctly said I have I

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don't check on anything on on the iPhone

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and the reason I do that what I discover

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with email is I was reading email

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multiple times so I was with my phone

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getting distracted because it vibrate or

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let me know or give me a some kind of

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indication or alert that I just received

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an email look at on my phone and then go

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somewhere else were then when I need

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back went back to really processing

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email then I prefer the bigger screen I

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prefer the iPad and then I went and then

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read that email again without any doubt

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reading emails multiple time it is

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highly inefficient ok so that's the

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reason I came with a

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that I don't read email on my phone and

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actually I don't even have email

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configured because the problem for must

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be is if you cannot process email

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efficiently on your phone and there is

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people who can then you should not check

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email on your phone

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period if you have the systems and the

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workload to do it then that's totally

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fine but if you are just checking to see

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if something it's going to explode or

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not and for to see you know just to be

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curious what is coming you are really

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being highly ineffective not only that

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if you are in like you know I received

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between 100 and 150 m of a day you know

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I'm basically getting distracted 100 250

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times a day it's impossible to do

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anything of significance if you are

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getting distracted often by something

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that you are not doing anything with you

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are just getting distracted look who's

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come and then if it sounds fun or

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interesting then open and see what it is

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just to discover oh I need to process

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this later the exception to that is if

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I'm traveling if I am traveling while

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I'm in transit then I may check email

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while I'm transit but as soon as I get

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to wherever I am then I come to the

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settings of the phone and then turn

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email again off so that way I'm

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accessible and available while I'm

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moving around but not on the other on

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the other time and the effect of that

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has been incredible number one you start

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looking your phone in a completely

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different way and you discover ways to

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use your phone in a matter there is more

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effective if they someday I have come to

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use often

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you know the split screen ability on iOS

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that's one of the reasons I don't know

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even if some day Apple come with the

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Writing productively is as much a skill as it is an art. And, you probably find yourself writing more today than you might think. When it comes to being productive, your ability to write well is of paramount importance. In this episode, Ray and Augusto discuss how they approach and the tools they use for writing productively, and hopefully it gives you some perspective on your writing and productivity.

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Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Show Notes - On Writing Productively

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Annie Proulx

Was Charles Dickens paid by the word?

Google Docs (Google Docs Speech to text functionality) - Google Drive

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Evernote

Scrivener

Grammarly / iCab mobile browser

Apple Pages

yWriter 5

Boomerang Gmail - Respondable

Zotero

Getting Things Done by David Allen

Imposter Syndrome

Brene Brown TED Talks

Slack

Pareto Principle

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Robert Hass

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zero two and with that in this episode

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we're going to be discussing writing and

productivity enjoy I just want to get

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right into it because this is a really

important topic I think to everyone who

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is a Productivity enthusiast and really

wants to understand how to be more

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productive in their daily lives

I mean from everything we do in our work

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days there there is some you know form

of writing and we can do it more

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effectively you know more efficiently

and I think that there are many things

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we should think about when it comes to

writing whether it be addressing an

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email appropriately using email

appropriately being able to write that

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next report being able to write you know

even just filling out forms and even

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writing longer materials whether that be

blog posts which a lot of us have to do

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for work now

and because of social media and then you

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know if you're if you're an author or

some other kind of creative professional

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and you're looking to you know write

longer materials it's really important

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for you to be able to do this in the

most productive manner and so I just

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wanted to kick it in with some sort of

general principles for being able to to

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write productively and so so let's just

start off with basically the the what I

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believe is the initial and augusto you

can push back if you if you think I'm

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off off point here but I really believe

that reading is fundamental right it's

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really important for us to remember that

in order to be good writers we have to

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be good readers because if you don't

know what what and how to read well then

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you're not going to have the experience

with the written word that's necessary

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for you to be able to put words down on

paper or on screen that are really going

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to be effective if you don't read you

can't write okay and in a way if you

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think on a weight training K what what a

way trainer do is a series of exercises

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so he can't own his muscles okay and he

did that daily and he do that constantly

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I mean writing is exactly the same thing

you need to read constantly and all the

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time and different things because people

think oh well I'm going to be I want to

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write or I'm going to be writing about

business so I don't need I'm not in the

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business of reading fiction and I

completely disagree I think you need to

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set a schedule of read everything from

fiction to business to self-improvement

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to productivity to even religion in the

sense that it will show you how

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different people use different ways to

express the same things and I'm not

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advocating copy any of those styles but

it will allow you to understand and to

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identify your own style no and if you

can spend the time to read and to do

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that training at the end of the day

how'd you expect you're going to be

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ready for the moment that you are going

to be trying to compete that is at the

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moment you're going to be trying not to

write that text over the years have

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people coming to me and say well how how

can you write this much and say well

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it's simple just what every day okay

just sit and write every day could you

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read every day and if you can only have

a 10 minute to read every day then you

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only have 5 minutes to write every day

because a relationship I think need to

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be two to one twice the time of reading

for the time you want to write yeah I

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have to say I am guilty I have to have

to make the productivity confession that

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I have always leaned into nonfiction

reading and it's it's so powerful to be

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able to utilize fiction based writing

techniques when you are writing non

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you know and I primarily write

nonfiction and you know I I have to say

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you know you're absolutely right Augusto

it's so important it's almost imperative

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that you read both sides and different

genres you know from everything from

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Rumi to Shakespeare to to books that

have been translated from other

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languages it really does give you a

sense of how to communicate in the most

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broad way with specificity you know and

I mean Broadway to the broadest audience

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and with specificity meaning writing

efficiently basically writing so that

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every word counts and and I think you

know some people sort of hear you know

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sort of the e Annie Proulx sort of

writing with with such specificity that

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you know you write very very precisely

and therefore not as many words I don't

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necessarily mean that but I do mean that

you should you should make most words

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count right I mean you know you're not

Charles Dickens you're not being paid by

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the word I presume you're not being paid

by the word if you are then I'll

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continue continue Dickens is you know a

perspective there but if you're not

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getting paid by the word

you know you should still you should

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still make sure that your that your

words count and and so many times I

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receive an email from somebody and you

know it's just it's just so wordy and

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and I I not again I'll probably second

confession of the of the podcast this

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week is that I I happen to be a wordy

writer you know I tend to write multiple

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paragraph emails and we'll talk about

this when we get to sort of tools we can

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use you know I've used the tool recently

to help me sort of cut down on that

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because I did find myself writing you

know four or five six seven paragraphs

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of email and then recognizing that while

those emails were well-written they were

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unnecessary and they're probably going

to compete with my ability to go ahead

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and get a response so always good to

know that that you should be reading and

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you should also be reading your own

writing and I think that's really

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important that's a that's a mechanism

for you to be able to see a final

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product from a year ago to see where you

were to where you are now

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and I think it's really helpful to see

how how you grow and progress as a

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writer two things in what you said I

don't one now it's good to know that my

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emails are short pasted on your standard

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Ray Sidney-Smith, Host

Augusto Pinaud, Co-Host

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Are you ready to manage your work and

personal world better to live a more

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fulfilling productive life then you've

come to the right place

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welcome to productivity cast the weekly

show about all things productivity here

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are your hosts Ray Sidney-Smith and Augusto Pinaud

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welcome everybody to Episode one of

productivity cast the weekly show about

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all things personal productivity on ray

Sydney Smith and I'm with oghuz de pan

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out how are you doing it gusto I'm doing

really good how are you today I'm doing

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great I'm really excited about this

first episode of productivity cast and

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talking to our listeners and letting

them know about what productivity cast

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is a little bit about ourselves and what

the show is going to really entail over

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the next many months and hopefully years

so let's start off with productivity

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cast and what it's all about

and so Augusto and I had had a

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conversation about starting a podcast

several years ago now and after many

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trials and tribulations and I'm sure it

goes to can speak more to the

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tribulations that I had getting this

last uhm well here we are we're

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launching the podcast and we're really

excited we are recording these shows

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with minimal post-production so that we

can just really get them get them done

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get really great substantive content out

and get that out to you the listeners

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and so productivity Casas like I said

about all things personal productivity

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we want to cover you know the the topics

that are going to be of great importance

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to you it's a weekly show so we're going

to be putting out episodes every week

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and Augusto and I will hopefully have

some interesting expert guests and so

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and so forth we'll talk about that a

little bit in the show format and so a

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little bit about myself and a goose joke

I'll start and say that I am a

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Productivity coach and consultant and I

spend a lot of time working with small

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business owners who are looking to

maximize their ability to market and

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manage their business using web mobile

and social media tools technologies and

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I also happen to be an Evernote

certified consultant a HootSuite global

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brand ambassador a LinkedIn certified

expert and

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a Google small business adviser for the

Google small business team and the

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community over there at Chico /g SBC and

I'll put the link in the show notes

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you'll reach the Google small business

community and you can of course ask

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questions of all the Google small

business advisors that are there

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regarding your business so that's a

little bit about me and and my

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background how about you Augusto well

when I mean not in trouble

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I'm trying to keep myself out of trouble

and I did that by writing

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I'm also public speaker I have coach

business on sales and marketing for

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years as well as people and business

ongoing iPad only and getting their PC

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back somewhere where nobody need to

remember they ever had it and that's

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basically what kept me out of trouble

I love to I'm an avid reader and always

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been an avid reader and been working

into the productivity world into trying

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to get to those simple habits that

really change things I am a firm

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believer that productivity is more about

small changes good habits and using

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technology to support it and that's

mostly of what I have written and speak

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over the years my current project it's

been studying about persistence as a

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term that was coined by no other Diana

Steven Pressfield and I've been really

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studying and working the effects of

resistance and how to fight it not only

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from a perspective of the arts but a

perspective of life in general

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fantastic well I'm really excited to

have you here on productivity casts as

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my co-host and I'm really looking

forward to learning from our listeners

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as well one of the things that we have

on the website if you go to productivity

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castanet is an ability for you to leave

voicemail messages from the website so

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it'll give you a little button you click

on it and it'll prompt your microphone

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in your computer to give you the ability

to record audio and it's a less than a

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minute because we don't want people you

know going on and on but if you have a

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question for us feel free to go ahead

and record a question obviously you can

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click on the contact page for us and

send us feedback send us your questions

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and we'll see if we can't answer them

here live on the show so so we're really

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looking forward to the feedback that the

show provides so a little bit about the

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shore show format the productivity cast

is designed around having in-depth

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productivity conversations product

reviews and expert interviews on topics

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that we believe are important to you our

audience so Augusto and I are going to

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be sourcing topics that we think are new

and innovative and interesting to

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productivity enthusiasts like yourself

but also topics that you may not know

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about and things that you know have

surfaced from both of our research into

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the world of personal productivity and

technologies that support it and and see

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about whether or not there's somebody

that we can put you put in front of you

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or in your ears so to speak on the

podcast so that you can hear from the

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experts that really know this stuff in

depth and you can learn something from

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them we are also going to have a regular

contributor on the show Frances Wade

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from two-time labs who will be talking

about productivity technology

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specifically and we've got some great

episodes lined up talking with Frances

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about topics surrounding mobile

technology and otherwise related to

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productivity so we're really looking

forward to having Frances on the show as

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well

our goal will be to keep these shows for

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around 20 minutes and the reason we did

not want it to make a heavy edited

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episode is because we feel that when we

did that you lose some of the cool

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things that come out of these

discussions on productivity so I they

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may be moments where there will be a

long silence and a long laugh and along

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ooh but part of what we want is to allow

the listeners to get into something that

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we have done for a long time now and

where we have benefited tremendously

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that is having these open conversations

where we have not only questioned

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principles and questioned things about

productivity but also where we have come

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back with tests and with new ideas and

with new things that really has helped

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us revolutionize not only what we do but

how we help others as you will learn

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gusto and I do not agree on everything

and and I think that is one of the great

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things about a friendship as well as a

collegiality between us that I think

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will benefit our audience don't you

think augusto I agree completely agree

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with you I think one of the things you

know from from the platform you know I

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live in an iPad only user for a really

long time just studying there ray

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instead has an array of platforms where

he touched every day that I you know not

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really don't so that allows to really

see productivity from a really opposite

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end of the spectrum in a way but also

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