{"id":187,"date":"2017-10-10T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/productivitycast.net\/?p=187"},"modified":"2017-10-10T12:29:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T16:29:42","slug":"015-creating-ideal-workspace-productivitycast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/productivitycast.net\/015-creating-ideal-workspace-productivitycast\/","title":{"rendered":"015 Creating Your Ideal Workspace &#8211; ProductivityCast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"015 Creating Your Ideal Workspace &amp;#8211; ProductivityCast\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2017-10-10T08:00:07-04:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT49M03S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Where do you work best? 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And for what type of work (focused thinking work, diffuse thinking work, mundane\/ministerial tasks, big projects that require multiple modalities, or specialized handcrafting) do you do best in what environment?\u00a0Creating your ideal workspace is important to being able to be and stay productive. In this cast, the <em>ProductivityCast<\/em> team discusses the factors and tools to get and sustain productivity in your workspace.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy! <a href=\"http:\/\/productivitycast.net\/contact\/\">Give us feedback<\/a>! And, thanks for listening!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to discuss this episode, please <a href=\"#reply-title\">click here to leave a comment<\/a> down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post).<\/p>\n<h2>In this Cast<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/productivitycast.net\/about\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Augusto Pinaud<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/productivitycast.net\/about\/\">Francis Wade<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/productivitycast.net\/about\/\">Art Gelwicks<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Show Notes<\/h2>\n<p><em>Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bluma_Zeigarnik#Zeigarnik_effect\">The Zeigarnik Effect<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2machines.com\/177383\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digital Bankruptcy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehack.org\/articles\/lifehack\/ultimate-way-inbox-zero.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inbox Zero<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unclutterer.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unclutterer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pareto_principle\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">80\/20 Pareto Principle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Raw Text Transcript<\/h2>\n<p><em>Raw, unedited and machine-produced text transcript so there may be substantial errors, but you can search for specific points in the episode to jump to, or to reference back to at a later date and time, by keywords or key phrases. The time coding is h:mm:ss.ms to\u00a0h:mm:ss.ms (e.g., 0:00:00.000,0:00:04.000 starts at 0.00 seconds and ends at 4 seconds in the cast&#8217;s audio).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>0:00:00.030,0:00:04.110<br \/>\nare you ready to manage your work and<\/p>\n<p>0:00:02.159,0:00:06.000<br \/>\npersonal world better to live a more<\/p>\n<p>0:00:04.110,0:00:07.109<br \/>\nfulfilling productive life then you&#8217;ve<\/p>\n<p>0:00:06.000,0:00:09.809<br \/>\ncome to the right place<\/p>\n<p>0:00:07.109,0:00:12.360<br \/>\nwelcome to productivity cast the weekly<\/p>\n<p>0:00:09.809,0:00:14.820<br \/>\nshow about all things productivity here<\/p>\n<p>0:00:12.360,0:00:18.029<br \/>\nare your hosts Ray Sidney-Smith and<\/p>\n<p>0:00:14.820,0:00:20.939<br \/>\nAugusto Pinaud good morning everybody and<\/p>\n<p>0:00:18.029,0:00:24.180<br \/>\nwelcome to productivity cast the weekly<\/p>\n<p>0:00:20.939,0:00:28.410<br \/>\nshow about all things productivity today<\/p>\n<p>0:00:24.180,0:00:31.890<br \/>\nwe have Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks<\/p>\n<p>0:00:28.410,0:00:33.930<br \/>\nwith us and with me Augusto Pinaud<\/p>\n<p>0:00:31.890,0:00:36.540<br \/>\nand Ray is somewhere in the world<\/p>\n<p>0:00:33.930,0:00:39.149<br \/>\nmissing hopefully having fun or sleeping<\/p>\n<p>0:00:36.540,0:00:41.390<br \/>\naccording to the recording time we have<\/p>\n<p>0:00:39.149,0:00:45.719<br \/>\ntoday we are going to be talking about<\/p>\n<p>0:00:41.390,0:00:48.899<br \/>\ncreating your ideal workspace it is<\/p>\n<p>0:00:45.719,0:00:51.059<br \/>\nimportant to understand what are the<\/p>\n<p>0:00:48.899,0:00:53.730<br \/>\nneeds of your work-place mostly or the<\/p>\n<p>0:00:51.059,0:00:57.149<br \/>\nworkspace mostly because you know will<\/p>\n<p>0:00:53.730,0:01:00.600<br \/>\nallows you to establish higher levels of<\/p>\n<p>0:00:57.149,0:01:02.430<br \/>\nproductivity in that space or if you are<\/p>\n<p>0:01:00.600,0:01:05.729<br \/>\nthe lucky kind who can have it anywhere<\/p>\n<p>0:01:02.430,0:01:08.400<br \/>\nanywhere so today we would like to split<\/p>\n<p>0:01:05.729,0:01:11.909<br \/>\nthe show in three parts the first part<\/p>\n<p>0:01:08.400,0:01:14.070<br \/>\nwill be where do we work best the second<\/p>\n<p>0:01:11.909,0:01:17.330<br \/>\npart were the factors for that<\/p>\n<p>0:01:14.070,0:01:20.580<br \/>\nand finally the effects on having that<\/p>\n<p>0:01:17.330,0:01:23.759<br \/>\nideal workspace and what you should if<\/p>\n<p>0:01:20.580,0:01:25.560<br \/>\nyou should have ownership on it or not<\/p>\n<p>0:01:23.759,0:01:29.400<br \/>\nso how are you guys this morning<\/p>\n<p>0:01:25.560,0:01:32.189<br \/>\nI&#8217;m fine a bang I&#8217;m doing well it&#8217;s a<\/p>\n<p>0:01:29.400,0:01:34.380<br \/>\nkind of drizzly day here right now but<\/p>\n<p>0:01:32.189,0:01:36.900<br \/>\nyou know mountain about mmm working<\/p>\n<p>0:01:34.380,0:01:38.939<br \/>\nweird work needs to be done so I&#8217;m doing<\/p>\n<p>0:01:36.900,0:01:41.220<br \/>\nwell how about you been pretty good<\/p>\n<p>0:01:38.939,0:01:44.130<br \/>\ndoing pretty good and joined a really<\/p>\n<p>0:01:41.220,0:01:46.649<br \/>\nnice day out of the window so I&#8217;m<\/p>\n<p>0:01:44.130,0:01:48.659<br \/>\nworking on the home office today and<\/p>\n<p>0:01:46.649,0:01:52.380<br \/>\nrecord in actually from the home office<\/p>\n<p>0:01:48.659,0:01:55.710<br \/>\nlet&#8217;s start this conversation where did<\/p>\n<p>0:01:52.380,0:01:59.780<br \/>\nyou work best my first thought was that<\/p>\n<p>0:01:55.710,0:02:04.530<br \/>\nit worked best in my my office and<\/p>\n<p>0:01:59.780,0:02:08.280<br \/>\nideally my office is a quiet spot quiet<\/p>\n<p>0:02:04.530,0:02:12.690<br \/>\nplace no interruptions there&#8217;s no phones<\/p>\n<p>0:02:08.280,0:02:14.920<br \/>\nand pings and knocks and<\/p>\n<p>0:02:12.690,0:02:17.980<br \/>\nno interruptions from the outside<\/p>\n<p>0:02:14.920,0:02:21.430<br \/>\nenvironment but as I started to think<\/p>\n<p>0:02:17.980,0:02:24.910<br \/>\nabout it some more it&#8217;s it&#8217;s not for the<\/p>\n<p>0:02:21.430,0:02:27.580<br \/>\nwork that requires the quiet that I need<\/p>\n<p>0:02:24.910,0:02:29.620<br \/>\nto get it done then my office is the<\/p>\n<p>0:02:27.580,0:02:31.120<br \/>\nbest place but what about when I&#8217;m<\/p>\n<p>0:02:29.620,0:02:33.790<br \/>\ngiving a speech I can&#8217;t say that&#8217;s the<\/p>\n<p>0:02:31.120,0:02:36.040<br \/>\nbest place to give a speech is in my<\/p>\n<p>0:02:33.790,0:02:38.440<br \/>\noffice you know be kind of crazy to say<\/p>\n<p>0:02:36.040,0:02:40.810<br \/>\nthat so it it&#8217;s a tricky question<\/p>\n<p>0:02:38.440,0:02:43.120<br \/>\nbecause I started to think that maybe<\/p>\n<p>0:02:40.810,0:02:45.130<br \/>\nit&#8217;s not as simple as it seems that<\/p>\n<p>0:02:43.120,0:02:47.200<br \/>\nthere is in order for me to give my best<\/p>\n<p>0:02:45.130,0:02:48.880<br \/>\nspeech for example it&#8217;s not the case<\/p>\n<p>0:02:47.200,0:02:50.530<br \/>\nthat I have to be in my office it&#8217;s the<\/p>\n<p>0:02:48.880,0:02:53.260<br \/>\ncase that I have to be in uninterrupted<\/p>\n<p>0:02:50.530,0:02:56.110<br \/>\nand and I can have an environment in<\/p>\n<p>0:02:53.260,0:02:58.480<br \/>\nwhich I can be focused so I then pivot<\/p>\n<p>0:02:56.110,0:03:01.540<br \/>\naway from it having anything to do with<\/p>\n<p>0:02:58.480,0:03:03.520<br \/>\ngeography and that then I started to<\/p>\n<p>0:03:01.540,0:03:06.070<br \/>\nthink okay it has something to do with<\/p>\n<p>0:03:03.520,0:03:08.920<br \/>\nbeing able to focus for a particular<\/p>\n<p>0:03:06.070,0:03:11.380<br \/>\nlevel of intensity for as long as it<\/p>\n<p>0:03:08.920,0:03:14.890<br \/>\ntakes and that didn&#8217;t seem to be boned<\/p>\n<p>0:03:11.380,0:03:18.430<br \/>\nby geography it&#8217;s it&#8217;s more a function<\/p>\n<p>0:03:14.890,0:03:21.070<br \/>\nof the environment as I&#8217;m able to create<\/p>\n<p>0:03:18.430,0:03:23.530<br \/>\nit I think that that it&#8217;s not really jog<\/p>\n<p>0:03:21.070,0:03:25.930<br \/>\nrafi for me it&#8217;s the environment as I<\/p>\n<p>0:03:23.530,0:03:29.080<br \/>\ncan create it yeah I gotta agree with<\/p>\n<p>0:03:25.930,0:03:31.180<br \/>\nyou on that one Francis for me a lot of<\/p>\n<p>0:03:29.080,0:03:34.330<br \/>\nmy work takes me to client locations or<\/p>\n<p>0:03:31.180,0:03:38.560<br \/>\nvarious places and being able to create<\/p>\n<p>0:03:34.330,0:03:40.840<br \/>\na work space wherever I am is critical<\/p>\n<p>0:03:38.560,0:03:42.370<br \/>\nfor me to be able to be productive so<\/p>\n<p>0:03:40.840,0:03:44.980<br \/>\nwhen I look at things such as you know<\/p>\n<p>0:03:42.370,0:03:46.959<br \/>\nhow am I going to work best my<\/p>\n<p>0:03:44.980,0:03:48.700<br \/>\nheadphones are probably one of the<\/p>\n<p>0:03:46.959,0:03:51.880<br \/>\nbiggest contributors to that to be able<\/p>\n<p>0:03:48.700,0:03:54.100<br \/>\nto plug in to a sound source put in my<\/p>\n<p>0:03:51.880,0:03:56.440<br \/>\nheadphones block out the outside sound<\/p>\n<p>0:03:54.100,0:03:58.390<br \/>\nand drop into a flow state to be able to<\/p>\n<p>0:03:56.440,0:04:01.360<br \/>\nget work done that&#8217;s what makes or<\/p>\n<p>0:03:58.390,0:04:03.430<br \/>\nbreaks it for me now saying that I did<\/p>\n<p>0:04:01.360,0:04:05.620<br \/>\nspend four years working directly from a<\/p>\n<p>0:04:03.430,0:04:08.170<br \/>\nhome office and that was it was very<\/p>\n<p>0:04:05.620,0:04:10.480<br \/>\nnice to have that isolated environment<\/p>\n<p>0:04:08.170,0:04:12.310<br \/>\nyou knew you had dedicated focus for<\/p>\n<p>0:04:10.480,0:04:16.600<br \/>\nextended periods of time but I don&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>0:04:12.310,0:04:19.510<br \/>\nthink that that decrese how productive<\/p>\n<p>0:04:16.600,0:04:22.900<br \/>\nsomeone will be you really have to find<\/p>\n<p>0:04:19.510,0:04:26.139<br \/>\na way that you can put your mind in the<\/p>\n<p>0:04:22.900,0:04:27.939<br \/>\nright operating state regardless of the<\/p>\n<p>0:04:26.139,0:04:30.909<br \/>\nbecause if the environment is what&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>0:04:27.939,0:04:32.680<br \/>\npreventing you from being productive you<\/p>\n<p>0:04:30.909,0:04:34.509<br \/>\ncan either change the environment which<\/p>\n<p>0:04:32.680,0:04:37.330<br \/>\nunfortunately is not an option for many<\/p>\n<p>0:04:34.509,0:04:39.639<br \/>\npeople or you can go through and you can<\/p>\n<p>0:04:37.330,0:04:41.979<br \/>\njust find a way to create your own<\/p>\n<p>0:04:39.639,0:04:44.319<br \/>\nlittle bubble so that&#8217;s what I do I<\/p>\n<p>0:04:41.979,0:04:46.389<br \/>\ncarried the gear that I need in my bag<\/p>\n<p>0:04:44.319,0:04:48.699<br \/>\nand I can sit down and create a bubble<\/p>\n<p>0:04:46.389,0:04:51.789<br \/>\nsomewhere and get work done you know it<\/p>\n<p>0:04:48.699,0:04:55.449<br \/>\nis interesting you put it that way I if<\/p>\n<p>0:04:51.789,0:04:58.300<br \/>\nI look back to my work experienced there<\/p>\n<p>0:04:55.449,0:05:02.110<br \/>\nhas been trickier up to this point at<\/p>\n<p>0:04:58.300,0:05:04.479<br \/>\nleast three really clear work styles you<\/p>\n<p>0:05:02.110,0:05:08.529<br \/>\nknow when I start that it was really<\/p>\n<p>0:05:04.479,0:05:13.270<br \/>\noffice bound and it was trying to make<\/p>\n<p>0:05:08.529,0:05:16.509<br \/>\nthat space productive and been able to<\/p>\n<p>0:05:13.270,0:05:20.560<br \/>\nget in the zone between you know that<\/p>\n<p>0:05:16.509,0:05:23.529<br \/>\nparticular space there is a second stage<\/p>\n<p>0:05:20.560,0:05:27.669<br \/>\nwhere I was what we will call a road<\/p>\n<p>0:05:23.529,0:05:30.909<br \/>\nwarrior and I was traveling 250,000<\/p>\n<p>0:05:27.669,0:05:33.279<br \/>\nmiles per year where I was pretty much<\/p>\n<p>0:05:30.909,0:05:35.580<br \/>\nin that situation you are describing you<\/p>\n<p>0:05:33.279,0:05:38.680<br \/>\nknow where I needed to be productive<\/p>\n<p>0:05:35.580,0:05:40.900<br \/>\nanywhere didn&#8217;t matter it was an<\/p>\n<p>0:05:38.680,0:05:44.650<br \/>\nairplane you know or a cramped airplane<\/p>\n<p>0:05:40.900,0:05:48.129<br \/>\nor a hotel room or looking at the ocean<\/p>\n<p>0:05:44.650,0:05:50.469<br \/>\nclose to a client side and then it it&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>0:05:48.129,0:05:53.289<br \/>\nwe can talk about that the more recent<\/p>\n<p>0:05:50.469,0:05:57.939<br \/>\nstage and where I am where I have now<\/p>\n<p>0:05:53.289,0:06:00.159<br \/>\nthe flexibility to work anywhere I can<\/p>\n<p>0:05:57.939,0:06:02.589<br \/>\nbe here my home office I can actually be<\/p>\n<p>0:06:00.159,0:06:06.610<br \/>\nin the office or I can be on a client<\/p>\n<p>0:06:02.589,0:06:10.860<br \/>\nside and the problem is still the same<\/p>\n<p>0:06:06.610,0:06:13.509<br \/>\nyou still need to find a way to identify<\/p>\n<p>0:06:10.860,0:06:17.259<br \/>\nwhat kind of work you are going to do<\/p>\n<p>0:06:13.509,0:06:20.830<br \/>\nand how to get in the zone for that kind<\/p>\n<p>0:06:17.259,0:06:22.990<br \/>\nof work in my particular case it depends<\/p>\n<p>0:06:20.830,0:06:25.389<br \/>\nwhat I&#8217;m trying to accomplish and what<\/p>\n<p>0:06:22.990,0:06:29.349<br \/>\nis the work I&#8217;m going to do it is not<\/p>\n<p>0:06:25.389,0:06:31.330<br \/>\nthe same kind of rituals or things that<\/p>\n<p>0:06:29.349,0:06:34.719<br \/>\nI need even that I carry them all with<\/p>\n<p>0:06:31.330,0:06:38.229<br \/>\nme if what I&#8217;m going to do is conduct<\/p>\n<p>0:06:34.719,0:06:39.490<br \/>\nbusiness or make sales calls or work<\/p>\n<p>0:06:38.229,0:06:41.889<br \/>\nwith customers<\/p>\n<p>0:06:39.490,0:06:45.389<br \/>\nthan if I&#8217;m what I&#8217;m going to do is been<\/p>\n<p>0:06:41.889,0:06:48.819<br \/>\nwriting so it changed what kind 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if I&#8217;m writing I tend to listen<\/p>\n<p>0:07:55.900,0:08:03.280<br \/>\nto rock in Spanish and if I&#8217;m thinking<\/p>\n<p>0:07:59.530,0:08:06.580<br \/>\nit tend to be classical music because I<\/p>\n<p>0:08:03.280,0:08:09.219<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t want the words of the music<\/p>\n<p>0:08:06.580,0:08:12.969<br \/>\ndistracting me in any way so it need to<\/p>\n<p>0:08:09.219,0:08:15.550<br \/>\nbe classical or instrumental where the<\/p>\n<p>0:08:12.969,0:08:18.610<br \/>\nbrain can block the sound surrounding me<\/p>\n<p>0:08:15.550,0:08:21.580<br \/>\nbut not get me distracted with what that<\/p>\n<p>0:08:18.610,0:08:24.009<br \/>\nthis song is telling or not telling it&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>0:08:21.580,0:08:26.259<br \/>\ninteresting you mentioned how music fits<\/p>\n<p>0:08:24.009,0:08:28.120<br \/>\ninto your productivity scheme because I<\/p>\n<p>0:08:26.259,0:08:30.159<br \/>\nknow a lot of people that&#8217;s the way the<\/p>\n<p>0:08:28.120,0:08:33.130<br \/>\noperator it depends on what I&#8217;m trying<\/p>\n<p>0:08:30.159,0:08:34.870<br \/>\nto accomplish I often turn on podcasts<\/p>\n<p>0:08:33.130,0:08:37.329<br \/>\nand just let podcasts through my<\/p>\n<p>0:08:34.870,0:08:40.000<br \/>\nheadphones beating to them if anything<\/p>\n<p>0:08:37.329,0:08:41.890<br \/>\nof interest pops up I can pause for a<\/p>\n<p>0:08:40.000,0:08:44.320<br \/>\nsecond and then go back to what I was<\/p>\n<p>0:08:41.890,0:08:46.300<br \/>\ndoing and not lose that productive flow<\/p>\n<p>0:08:44.320,0:08:48.400<br \/>\nis per se but it&#8217;s something out of it<\/p>\n<p>0:08:46.300,0:08:51.550<br \/>\nbut if it&#8217;s something that I really need<\/p>\n<p>0:08:48.400,0:08:52.860<br \/>\nto be it&#8217;s a creative endeavor if I&#8217;m<\/p>\n<p>0:08:51.550,0:08:54.510<br \/>\nwriting if I&#8217;m doing a<\/p>\n<p>0:08:52.860,0:08:55.980<br \/>\npresentation if I&#8217;m working on some<\/p>\n<p>0:08:54.510,0:08:59.040<br \/>\ngraphic work anything along that line<\/p>\n<p>0:08:55.980,0:09:01.740<br \/>\nthen yeah I&#8217;ve got particular playlists<\/p>\n<p>0:08:59.040,0:09:05.070<br \/>\nthat I&#8217;ll pop into my headphones and<\/p>\n<p>0:09:01.740,0:09:08.399<br \/>\nthat there&#8217;s no verbal in most<\/p>\n<p>0:09:05.070,0:09:10.260<br \/>\ntremendous so I can truly just on the<\/p>\n<p>0:09:08.399,0:09:13.290<br \/>\nvoice inside my head talking to myself<\/p>\n<p>0:09:10.260,0:09:15.690<br \/>\ngetting things get worked through so<\/p>\n<p>0:09:13.290,0:09:18.839<br \/>\nthat I can keep my productivity flow at<\/p>\n<p>0:09:15.690,0:09:22.519<br \/>\na maximum level but that&#8217;s taken a long<\/p>\n<p>0:09:18.839,0:09:25.170<br \/>\ntime to refine it&#8217;s become very easy to<\/p>\n<p>0:09:22.519,0:09:27.209<br \/>\nit&#8217;s easy to get into things and get<\/p>\n<p>0:09:25.170,0:09:28.829<br \/>\ndistracted because they&#8217;re different<\/p>\n<p>0:09:27.209,0:09:31.260<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s I&#8217;ve heard a couple 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two different artists but I<\/p>\n<p>0:09:59.760,0:10:03.930<br \/>\nthink I need the variety of the<\/p>\n<p>0:10:02.130,0:10:06.570<br \/>\ndifferent songs to be able to make it<\/p>\n<p>0:10:03.930,0:10:08.670<br \/>\nhappen I&#8217;m like the opposite I I don&#8217;t I<\/p>\n<p>0:10:06.570,0:10:11.220<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t touch music at all it&#8217;s not<\/p>\n<p>0:10:08.670,0:10:13.110<br \/>\nbecause I don&#8217;t like music I&#8217;m not much<\/p>\n<p>0:10:11.220,0:10:15.480<br \/>\nof a musical file but it&#8217;s it&#8217;s just<\/p>\n<p>0:10:13.110,0:10:17.100<br \/>\nthat it doesn&#8217;t do much for me if I have<\/p>\n<p>0:10:15.480,0:10:19.500<br \/>\nit it&#8217;s okay if I don&#8217;t have it it&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>0:10:17.100,0:10:22.500<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s okay too but I don&#8217;t I don&#8217;t like<\/p>\n<p>0:10:19.500,0:10:25.260<br \/>\nfussing with the audio I guess I don&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>0:10:22.500,0:10:27.240<br \/>\nlike the the shuffling of the songs and<\/p>\n<p>0:10:25.260,0:10:30.209<br \/>\nthey&#8217;re having to find a song or having<\/p>\n<p>0:10:27.240,0:10:33.269<br \/>\nto play the song or having to to set it<\/p>\n<p>0:10:30.209,0:10:35.640<br \/>\nup or download it I don&#8217;t for whatever<\/p>\n<p>0:10:33.269,0:10:38.519<br \/>\nreason I don&#8217;t like a whole lot of<\/p>\n<p>0:10:35.640,0:10:40.440<br \/>\nfussing around with mp3s and different<\/p>\n<p>0:10:38.519,0:10:42.839<br \/>\nkinds of music but I do require a<\/p>\n<p>0:10:40.440,0:10:45.630<br \/>\ncertain kind of that white noise isn&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>0:10:42.839,0:10:47.910<br \/>\nbad I don&#8217;t find that I have to use it a<\/p>\n<p>0:10:45.630,0:10:49.769<br \/>\nlot meaning because of where I live if<\/p>\n<p>0:10:47.910,0:10:50.910<br \/>\nyou can listen in the background you can<\/p>\n<p>0:10:49.769,0:10:53.399<br \/>\nactually hear a little bit of white<\/p>\n<p>0:10:50.910,0:10:54.720<br \/>\nnoise because I have some birds you<\/p>\n<p>0:10:53.399,0:10:56.790<br \/>\nmight be able to hear them tweeting in<\/p>\n<p>0:10:54.720,0:10:59.579<br \/>\nthe background so they&#8217;re there it&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>0:10:56.790,0:11:01.440<br \/>\nsort of a non-stop tweeting sound in the<\/p>\n<p>0:10:59.579,0:11:03.420<br \/>\nbackground and maybe that&#8217;s that&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>0:11:01.440,0:11:05.250<br \/>\nenough of the white noise I actually<\/p>\n<p>0:11:03.420,0:11:06.840<br \/>\nneed Oh need any more than that just<\/p>\n<p>0:11:05.250,0:11:09.150<br \/>\nenough to sort of cover<\/p>\n<p>0:11:06.840,0:11:11.310<br \/>\nother zones like dogs barking and that<\/p>\n<p>0:11:09.150,0:11:13.230<br \/>\nkind of thing but I find that it doesn&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>0:11:11.310,0:11:15.570<br \/>\nit doesn&#8217;t trouble me what what roles my<\/p>\n<p>0:11:13.230,0:11:18.930<br \/>\nlosses would be a phone ringing or knock<\/p>\n<p>0:11:15.570,0:11:22.170<br \/>\nor a conversation that I that takes me<\/p>\n<p>0:11:18.930,0:11:24.029<br \/>\nalso the floor stage that kind of noise<\/p>\n<p>0:11:22.170,0:11:25.650<br \/>\nis the kind that I&#8217;m sort of working<\/p>\n<p>0:11:24.029,0:11:28.710<br \/>\nagainst even if I&#8217;m giving a speech<\/p>\n<p>0:11:25.650,0:11:30.710<br \/>\nhaving a distracting noise that I need<\/p>\n<p>0:11:28.710,0:11:32.850<br \/>\nto account for in some way like a<\/p>\n<p>0:11:30.710,0:11:35.550<br \/>\nwhistle all of a sudden in the middle of<\/p>\n<p>0:11:32.850,0:11:37.830<br \/>\nmy speech by someone in a different room<\/p>\n<p>0:11:35.550,0:11:41.910<br \/>\nthat I find distracting it so anything<\/p>\n<p>0:11:37.830,0:11:44.880<br \/>\nthat that doesn&#8217;t sort of fall into the<\/p>\n<p>0:11:41.910,0:11:47.040<br \/>\nwhite noise kind of kind of genre I<\/p>\n<p>0:11:44.880,0:11:49.610<br \/>\nguess or anything that jars me or<\/p>\n<p>0:11:47.040,0:11:52.290<br \/>\nrequires some cognitive attention um<\/p>\n<p>0:11:49.610,0:11:54.990<br \/>\nthat I don&#8217;t want I just want it to be<\/p>\n<p>0:11:52.290,0:11:57.390<br \/>\nreally I guess simple simple consistent<\/p>\n<p>0:11:54.990,0:11:58.650<br \/>\nand the same and I don&#8217;t actually have<\/p>\n<p>0:11:57.390,0:12:00.360<br \/>\nto do anything about it<\/p>\n<p>0:11:58.650,0:12:01.680<br \/>\nI guess I&#8217;m lazy that way it&#8217;s an<\/p>\n<p>0:12:00.360,0:12:04.290<br \/>\ninteresting spin on this because when we<\/p>\n<p>0:12:01.680,0:12:06.900<br \/>\nthink about workspaces and in the<\/p>\n<p>0:12:04.290,0:12:08.880<br \/>\nenvironments that we get caught up in a<\/p>\n<p>0:12:06.900,0:12:10.740<br \/>\nlot of people in the corporate space<\/p>\n<p>0:12:08.880,0:12:12.120<br \/>\nhave to work in open floor plan<\/p>\n<p>0:12:10.740,0:12:15.110<br \/>\nenvironments because they were so<\/p>\n<p>0:12:12.120,0:12:18.660<br \/>\npopular and still are to some degree and<\/p>\n<p>0:12:15.110,0:12:21.240<br \/>\nbeing able to create a headspace in that<\/p>\n<p>0:12:18.660,0:12:22.200<br \/>\nenvironment can be even that much harder<\/p>\n<p>0:12:21.240,0:12:24.089<br \/>\nbecause you&#8217;ve got the visual<\/p>\n<p>0:12:22.200,0:12:26.040<br \/>\ndistractions of people moving around you<\/p>\n<p>0:12:24.089,0:12:27.960<br \/>\nyou have audio distractions that people<\/p>\n<p>0:12:26.040,0:12:30.300<br \/>\nmake noise around you and in many<\/p>\n<p>0:12:27.960,0:12:31.830<br \/>\ncountries many places like the client<\/p>\n<p>0:12:30.300,0:12:34.920<br \/>\nI&#8217;m working at now they have created<\/p>\n<p>0:12:31.830,0:12:36.750<br \/>\nkind of isolation areas spread out all<\/p>\n<p>0:12:34.920,0:12:39.180<br \/>\nover the place that you can go and grab<\/p>\n<p>0:12:36.750,0:12:42.000<br \/>\nbasically a one person conference room<\/p>\n<p>0:12:39.180,0:12:44.940<br \/>\nto work in for a period of time but yeah<\/p>\n<p>0:12:42.000,0:12:47.400<br \/>\nthe audio piece I think in 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the<\/p>\n<p>0:13:17.640,0:13:20.700<br \/>\nsound or for the music but as a clue of<\/p>\n<p>0:13:20.220,0:13:24.090<br \/>\nthe<\/p>\n<p>0:13:20.700,0:13:26.730<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t interrupt me and my experience in<\/p>\n<p>0:13:24.090,0:13:30.720<br \/>\nopen floor plans especially when I go<\/p>\n<p>0:13:26.730,0:13:34.320<br \/>\nand visit customers is exactly that it&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>0:13:30.720,0:13:35.880<br \/>\ntend to be more on the lines of getting<\/p>\n<p>0:13:34.320,0:13:38.820<br \/>\nthe headphones so you don&#8217;t get<\/p>\n<p>0:13:35.880,0:13:41.490<br \/>\ninterrupted then getting the headphones<\/p>\n<p>0:13:38.820,0:13:43.980<br \/>\nbecause you are necessarily listen some<\/p>\n<p>0:13:41.490,0:13:46.170<br \/>\nkind of music but since we&#8217;re in this<\/p>\n<p>0:13:43.980,0:13:49.020<br \/>\nand I think it&#8217;s a good time to change<\/p>\n<p>0:13:46.170,0:13:50.880<br \/>\nto so what we talked about environmental<\/p>\n<p>0:13:49.020,0:13:53.070<br \/>\nfactors you know how about the<\/p>\n<p>0:13:50.880,0:13:55.410<br \/>\nergonomics the colors you know the<\/p>\n<p>0:13:53.070,0:13:57.960<br \/>\ncollaborative versus those individual<\/p>\n<p>0:13:55.410,0:14:01.260<br \/>\nspaces you know the tools<\/p>\n<p>0:13:57.960,0:14:04.470<br \/>\nhow about clutter how about clear spaces<\/p>\n<p>0:14:01.260,0:14:07.830<br \/>\ndistraction and again stand-up desk and<\/p>\n<p>0:14:04.470,0:14:09.900<br \/>\nas I said I love my stand-up desk for<\/p>\n<p>0:14:07.830,0:14:12.360<br \/>\ncertain work you know anything that<\/p>\n<p>0:14:09.900,0:14:14.280<br \/>\ninvolve interacting with other human<\/p>\n<p>0:14:12.360,0:14:17.220<br \/>\nbeings I think there is nothing better<\/p>\n<p>0:14:14.280,0:14:19.590<br \/>\nthan standing up actually if I do short<\/p>\n<p>0:14:17.220,0:14:21.240<br \/>\nmeanings I love them when people is<\/p>\n<p>0:14:19.590,0:14:24.750<br \/>\nwilling to do standing up meanings<\/p>\n<p>0:14:21.240,0:14:26.460<br \/>\nbecause they seem to me much more<\/p>\n<p>0:14:24.750,0:14:29.400<br \/>\nfocused than when you&#8217;re comfortable<\/p>\n<p>0:14:26.460,0:14:30.900<br \/>\nsitting in the conference room I&#8217;ve<\/p>\n<p>0:14:29.400,0:14:32.820<br \/>\nexperimented a little bit with stand-up<\/p>\n<p>0:14:30.900,0:14:36.900<br \/>\nstand-up meetings and I found that they<\/p>\n<p>0:14:32.820,0:14:39.330<br \/>\nwork awesomely I really get to be able<\/p>\n<p>0:14:36.900,0:14:42.870<br \/>\nto be around a client long enough to<\/p>\n<p>0:14:39.330,0:14:45.630<br \/>\nsuggest that method and they&#8217;ve never<\/p>\n<p>0:14:42.870,0:14:48.630<br \/>\nthey don&#8217;t none of my clients use it on<\/p>\n<p>0:14:45.630,0:14:50.030<br \/>\na regular basis so it&#8217;s not a part of<\/p>\n<p>0:14:48.630,0:14:53.760<br \/>\ntheir philosophy or anything<\/p>\n<p>0:14:50.030,0:14:57.200<br \/>\nunfortunately I would change that if I<\/p>\n<p>0:14:53.760,0:14:59.910<br \/>\ncould with control over it but um I I<\/p>\n<p>0:14:57.200,0:15:02.490<br \/>\nmuch prefer outside like I like to move<\/p>\n<p>0:14:59.910,0:15:06.120<br \/>\naround I like to when I&#8217;m on the phone<\/p>\n<p>0:15:02.490,0:15:08.880<br \/>\nI&#8217;m always walking with the phone I&#8217;m<\/p>\n<p>0:15:06.120,0:15:11.940<br \/>\nsitting on my desk but if I could walk<\/p>\n<p>0:15:08.880,0:15:14.550<br \/>\naround then and beyond on on our call I<\/p>\n<p>0:15:11.940,0:15:17.610<br \/>\nwould I just I just don&#8217;t have the the<\/p>\n<p>0:15:14.550,0:15:19.260<br \/>\ntools to be able to do that with so in<\/p>\n<p>0:15:17.610,0:15:22.140<br \/>\nterms of ergonomics I prefer to stand<\/p>\n<p>0:15:19.260,0:15:23.550<br \/>\none of the best setups I ever had was to<\/p>\n<p>0:15:22.140,0:15:26.730<br \/>\nhave two different kinds of chairs<\/p>\n<p>0:15:23.550,0:15:28.320<br \/>\num if you guys remember those it was a<\/p>\n<p>0:15:26.730,0:15:31.380<br \/>\nthose chairs that came up for a while<\/p>\n<p>0:15:28.320,0:15:33.510<br \/>\nwhich wish you would Neela it would to<\/p>\n<p>0:15:31.380,0:15:34.440<br \/>\nsave the pressure on your back so they<\/p>\n<p>0:15:33.510,0:15:36.120<br \/>\nwould they would<\/p>\n<p>0:15:34.440,0:15:39.300<br \/>\nhave this d-pad in front and then you<\/p>\n<p>0:15:36.120,0:15:40.830<br \/>\nget into it and basically lean forward<\/p>\n<p>0:15:39.300,0:15:43.350<br \/>\nand they would have done they have no<\/p>\n<p>0:15:40.830,0:15:45.600<br \/>\nback rest so I had a chair like that and<\/p>\n<p>0:15:43.350,0:15:47.580<br \/>\nI had a regular conference room chair<\/p>\n<p>0:15:45.600,0:15:50.310<br \/>\nand I would switch between the two and<\/p>\n<p>0:15:47.580,0:15:52.500<br \/>\nman I thought that was that was the that<\/p>\n<p>0:15:50.310,0:15:55.470<br \/>\nwas a stuffed man that was the best I&#8217;m<\/p>\n<p>0:15:52.500,0:15:59.100<br \/>\nso sorry I actually gave away that that<\/p>\n<p>0:15:55.470,0:16:01.440<br \/>\nthat kneeling chair when I left when I<\/p>\n<p>0:15:59.100,0:16:02.850<br \/>\nleft the US and came to Jamaica thinking<\/p>\n<p>0:16:01.440,0:16:04.590<br \/>\nthat I wouldn&#8217;t I wouldn&#8217;t use it or I<\/p>\n<p>0:16:02.850,0:16:06.720<br \/>\ndidn&#8217;t want it that was a mistake I<\/p>\n<p>0:16:04.590,0:16:09.870<br \/>\nshould have kept that big cuz I miss it<\/p>\n<p>0:16:06.720,0:16:11.400<br \/>\nand I really missed the the way I used<\/p>\n<p>0:16:09.870,0:16:13.500<br \/>\nto sit in it that half and being able to<\/p>\n<p>0:16:11.400,0:16:16.590<br \/>\nshift my body position between the two I<\/p>\n<p>0:16:13.500,0:16:18.180<br \/>\nthought was really really useful but<\/p>\n<p>0:16:16.590,0:16:21.660<br \/>\napart from that I don&#8217;t pay a whole lot<\/p>\n<p>0:16:18.180,0:16:23.520<br \/>\nof attention to her gonna mix it&#8217;s not a<\/p>\n<p>0:16:21.660,0:16:26.370<br \/>\ngood thing because I actually have some<\/p>\n<p>0:16:23.520,0:16:28.670<br \/>\nrepetitive stress injury in from using<\/p>\n<p>0:16:26.370,0:16:31.260<br \/>\nthe move our own mouths I can&#8217;t use a<\/p>\n<p>0:16:28.670,0:16:34.500<br \/>\nregular mouse for too long I have to use<\/p>\n<p>0:16:31.260,0:16:36.800<br \/>\na trackpad because if I my wrist starts<\/p>\n<p>0:16:34.500,0:16:39.600<br \/>\nmoving around too much it starts to hurt<\/p>\n<p>0:16:36.800,0:16:42.720<br \/>\nso I have to use a track a trackpad a<\/p>\n<p>0:16:39.600,0:16:44.490<br \/>\ntrackball rather a little ball that you<\/p>\n<p>0:16:42.720,0:16:46.920<br \/>\nmanipulate with your finger so I should<\/p>\n<p>0:16:44.490,0:16:50.880<br \/>\nbe paying more attention to it but well<\/p>\n<p>0:16:46.920,0:16:54.450<br \/>\none of these things again yeah I use<\/p>\n<p>0:16:50.880,0:16:56.730<br \/>\nstanding desks fairly frequently this<\/p>\n<p>0:16:54.450,0:16:59.640<br \/>\nparticular client I met they have in<\/p>\n<p>0:16:56.730,0:17:02.190<br \/>\nmany places scrum areas for their teams<\/p>\n<p>0:16:59.640,0:17:04.829<br \/>\nto meet for stand-up sessions about 10<\/p>\n<p>0:17:02.190,0:17:07.170<br \/>\nto 15 minutes each and those desks that<\/p>\n<p>0:17:04.829,0:17:09.000<br \/>\nthey meet at are actually motorized so<\/p>\n<p>0:17:07.170,0:17:11.550<br \/>\nthey can change the height of the desk<\/p>\n<p>0:17:09.000,0:17:14.760<br \/>\nvery nice very expensive but very nice<\/p>\n<p>0:17:11.550,0:17:17.670<br \/>\nat home I&#8217;ve used standing desks for<\/p>\n<p>0:17:14.760,0:17:19.140<br \/>\ndoing presentations often my standing<\/p>\n<p>0:17:17.670,0:17:20.970<br \/>\ndesks have been nothing more than a<\/p>\n<p>0:17:19.140,0:17:22.650<br \/>\ncouple of cardboard boxes my laptop<\/p>\n<p>0:17:20.970,0:17:26.100<br \/>\nsitting on top of them what whatever<\/p>\n<p>0:17:22.650,0:17:27.209<br \/>\ncomes into play as for chairs chairs can<\/p>\n<p>0:17:26.100,0:17:28.500<br \/>\nbe a big deal<\/p>\n<p>0:17:27.209,0:17:30.690<br \/>\nI mean that&#8217;s we should never<\/p>\n<p>0:17:28.500,0:17:34.140<br \/>\nunderestimate the the value of a good<\/p>\n<p>0:17:30.690,0:17:35.940<br \/>\nchair first I&#8217;ve tried that I remember<\/p>\n<p>0:17:34.140,0:17:37.620<br \/>\ntrying that kind of kneeling chair that<\/p>\n<p>0:17:35.940,0:17:40.410<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re talking about back in the day and<\/p>\n<p>0:17:37.620,0:17:42.030<br \/>\nI did it until I fell out of it and at<\/p>\n<p>0:17:40.410,0:17:44.790<br \/>\nthat point I&#8217;m like I need something a<\/p>\n<p>0:17:42.030,0:17:47.350<br \/>\nlittle different for me I&#8217;ve seen got<\/p>\n<p>0:17:44.790,0:17:50.140<br \/>\nfriends who use the<\/p>\n<p>0:17:47.350,0:17:51.220<br \/>\nor exercise balls instead of sitting in<\/p>\n<p>0:17:50.140,0:17:53.260<br \/>\na chair they actually sit on the<\/p>\n<p>0:17:51.220,0:17:56.080<br \/>\nexercise ball and that&#8217;s their way of<\/p>\n<p>0:17:53.260,0:17:58.360<br \/>\nbeing able to keep some sort of core<\/p>\n<p>0:17:56.080,0:18:01.929<br \/>\nstrength and mobility into it<\/p>\n<p>0:17:58.360,0:18:04.660<br \/>\nbut it really comes down to if you&#8217;re<\/p>\n<p>0:18:01.929,0:18:06.700<br \/>\norgan are correct and I am I am by no<\/p>\n<p>0:18:04.660,0:18:09.070<br \/>\nmeans an ergonomic expert this is just a<\/p>\n<p>0:18:06.700,0:18:11.679<br \/>\nsupposition but if your organ Onix are<\/p>\n<p>0:18:09.070,0:18:14.200<br \/>\ncorrect you should not notice them if<\/p>\n<p>0:18:11.679,0:18:15.490<br \/>\nyou are noticing that something&#8217;s not<\/p>\n<p>0:18:14.200,0:18:17.740<br \/>\nright there&#8217;s pain or something then<\/p>\n<p>0:18:15.490,0:18:19.270<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s clearly something not right and<\/p>\n<p>0:18:17.740,0:18:21.370<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s going to take away from your<\/p>\n<p>0:18:19.270,0:18:24.610<br \/>\nproductivity so the point where your<\/p>\n<p>0:18:21.370,0:18:27.400<br \/>\nenvironment almost becomes invisible or<\/p>\n<p>0:18:24.610,0:18:29.710<br \/>\nneutral to your experience is a good<\/p>\n<p>0:18:27.400,0:18:32.169<br \/>\nstarting place it&#8217;s a good target to go<\/p>\n<p>0:18:29.710,0:18:34.090<br \/>\nafter my challenge is always the amount<\/p>\n<p>0:18:32.169,0:18:35.590<br \/>\nof gear that I&#8217;m interacting with and<\/p>\n<p>0:18:34.090,0:18:38.799<br \/>\nthat and the number of devices around<\/p>\n<p>0:18:35.590,0:18:41.409<br \/>\nand just generalized clutter keeping<\/p>\n<p>0:18:38.799,0:18:44.740<br \/>\nthat under control that almost becomes a<\/p>\n<p>0:18:41.409,0:18:48.429<br \/>\njob in and of itself it is it is in a<\/p>\n<p>0:18:44.740,0:18:51.700<br \/>\ncertain way it is a job in itself and<\/p>\n<p>0:18:48.429,0:18:53.799<br \/>\nthe line between all these things all<\/p>\n<p>0:18:51.700,0:18:55.750<br \/>\nthese quick things are worth it and<\/p>\n<p>0:18:53.799,0:18:58.659<br \/>\nthey&#8217;re a waste of time and a<\/p>\n<p>0:18:55.750,0:19:03.640<br \/>\ndistraction and in detrimental to your<\/p>\n<p>0:18:58.659,0:19:07.440<br \/>\nproductivity is really thin but for me I<\/p>\n<p>0:19:03.640,0:19:10.419<br \/>\nbegin with this stand-up desk for<\/p>\n<p>0:19:07.440,0:19:13.539<br \/>\nbecause I has a suffering from back pain<\/p>\n<p>0:19:10.419,0:19:16.150<br \/>\nand the back pain was distracting me<\/p>\n<p>0:19:13.539,0:19:19.539<br \/>\nfrom in productive and it&#8217;s hard to<\/p>\n<p>0:19:16.150,0:19:23.950<br \/>\nfocus and concentrate when when you are<\/p>\n<p>0:19:19.539,0:19:26.799<br \/>\nin pain the the problem I had at the<\/p>\n<p>0:19:23.950,0:19:30.159<br \/>\nbeginning was I was traveling so much<\/p>\n<p>0:19:26.799,0:19:32.770<br \/>\nthat require me to really get creative<\/p>\n<p>0:19:30.159,0:19:34.960<br \/>\nwhen I wanted to set up a stand-up desk<\/p>\n<p>0:19:32.770,0:19:36.730<br \/>\nbecause I may have been on an<\/p>\n<p>0:19:34.960,0:19:39.340<br \/>\nenvironment today in a different<\/p>\n<p>0:19:36.730,0:19:42.429<br \/>\nenvironment tomorrow today it&#8217;s a much<\/p>\n<p>0:19:39.340,0:19:45.700<br \/>\nmuch simpler task I mean my come office<\/p>\n<p>0:19:42.429,0:19:48.220<br \/>\nhas one my office has one and then I<\/p>\n<p>0:19:45.700,0:19:51.309<br \/>\nhave as I said a treatment trick so if<\/p>\n<p>0:19:48.220,0:19:53.159<br \/>\nI&#8217;m traveling by car I can just put that<\/p>\n<p>0:19:51.309,0:19:56.440<br \/>\none in my car and then I have this one<\/p>\n<p>0:19:53.159,0:20:00.340<br \/>\neverywhere but but let me bring the the<\/p>\n<p>0:19:56.440,0:20:00.730<br \/>\nquestion of the clutter and the math in<\/p>\n<p>0:20:00.340,0:20:03.340<br \/>\nthe<\/p>\n<p>0:20:00.730,0:20:06.040<br \/>\noffices on and I have seen everything<\/p>\n<p>0:20:03.340,0:20:09.340<br \/>\nfrom the people who cannot sit in a desk<\/p>\n<p>0:20:06.040,0:20:11.650<br \/>\nif that desk is not pristine to the<\/p>\n<p>0:20:09.340,0:20:15.730<br \/>\npeople who you know you almost need a<\/p>\n<p>0:20:11.650,0:20:18.280<br \/>\nmap to find their desk and on both cases<\/p>\n<p>0:20:15.730,0:20:21.370<br \/>\nI have seen high levels of productivity<\/p>\n<p>0:20:18.280,0:20:25.299<br \/>\nso did you guys have a difference for<\/p>\n<p>0:20:21.370,0:20:28.390<br \/>\nyou guys or for any data that can you<\/p>\n<p>0:20:25.299,0:20:31.660<br \/>\nknow reassure the messy people that the<\/p>\n<p>0:20:28.390,0:20:34.330<br \/>\nmessage is car good or or anything on<\/p>\n<p>0:20:31.660,0:20:38.830<br \/>\nthat on that topic I will say having a<\/p>\n<p>0:20:34.330,0:20:40.570<br \/>\nlittle anecdotal experience and it you<\/p>\n<p>0:20:38.830,0:20:44.260<br \/>\nknow what my wife had a word with me the<\/p>\n<p>0:20:40.570,0:20:46.929<br \/>\nother day about my my messy desk and you<\/p>\n<p>0:20:44.260,0:20:51.610<br \/>\nknow was strange to me was that I didn&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>0:20:46.929,0:20:54.640<br \/>\nthink it was messy it doesn&#8217;t it didn&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>0:20:51.610,0:20:58.480<br \/>\nlive for me like it was not functioning<\/p>\n<p>0:20:54.640,0:21:01.179<br \/>\nit feels functional I have enough room<\/p>\n<p>0:20:58.480,0:21:04.210<br \/>\naround me I can it&#8217;s not there&#8217;s nothing<\/p>\n<p>0:21:01.179,0:21:08.290<br \/>\nin my environment that feels like it&#8217;s a<\/p>\n<p>0:21:04.210,0:21:11.350<br \/>\nbarrier to getting worked on so I that<\/p>\n<p>0:21:08.290,0:21:14.650<br \/>\nwhat what&#8217;s going on there is that she<\/p>\n<p>0:21:11.350,0:21:19.179<br \/>\nis just it she has a different level of<\/p>\n<p>0:21:14.650,0:21:21.760<br \/>\nsensitivity around the amount of clutter<\/p>\n<p>0:21:19.179,0:21:24.400<br \/>\nshe can work with so she she looks at my<\/p>\n<p>0:21:21.760,0:21:27.070<br \/>\nclutter and says I could never do that I<\/p>\n<p>0:21:24.400,0:21:27.820<br \/>\nlook at it and I think it&#8217;s it&#8217;s it&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>0:21:27.070,0:21:29.140<br \/>\njust fine<\/p>\n<p>0:21:27.820,0:21:31.540<br \/>\nso I suspect that there is something<\/p>\n<p>0:21:29.140,0:21:34.720<br \/>\nsomething going on in which the<\/p>\n<p>0:21:31.540,0:21:37.030<br \/>\nindividual preference is more important<\/p>\n<p>0:21:34.720,0:21:40.240<br \/>\nthan just any kind of objective measure<\/p>\n<p>0:21:37.030,0:21:43.809<br \/>\nof how much how many objects there are<\/p>\n<p>0:21:40.240,0:21:48.010<br \/>\nin clean view and I have not found any<\/p>\n<p>0:21:43.809,0:21:50.020<br \/>\nscience on on that with respect to<\/p>\n<p>0:21:48.010,0:21:51.730<br \/>\nindividual preferences but there are<\/p>\n<p>0:21:50.020,0:21:54.130<br \/>\nother there are other studies that show<\/p>\n<p>0:21:51.730,0:21:56.770<br \/>\nthat distracting devices like<\/p>\n<p>0:21:54.130,0:21:59.770<br \/>\nsmartphones that unless you put them in<\/p>\n<p>0:21:56.770,0:22:01.179<br \/>\nanother room then they are distracting<\/p>\n<p>0:21:59.770,0:22:03.490<br \/>\neven if you turn them off just their<\/p>\n<p>0:22:01.179,0:22:05.049<br \/>\nmere presence causes a distraction so<\/p>\n<p>0:22:03.490,0:22:07.059<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s a question there also well<\/p>\n<p>0:22:05.049,0:22:09.880<br \/>\nwhat&#8217;s in the environment and if your<\/p>\n<p>0:22:07.059,0:22:12.010<br \/>\nphone is is sitting beside your folder<\/p>\n<p>0:22:09.880,0:22:14.240<br \/>\nsorry beside your laptop the research<\/p>\n<p>0:22:12.010,0:22:17.360<br \/>\nsays that your phone will<\/p>\n<p>0:22:14.240,0:22:20.270<br \/>\ntract you even if it&#8217;s off so I think<\/p>\n<p>0:22:17.360,0:22:22.340<br \/>\nit&#8217;s not just a matter of what sin of<\/p>\n<p>0:22:20.270,0:22:24.170<br \/>\nhow much stuff is in the environment you<\/p>\n<p>0:22:22.340,0:22:26.690<br \/>\nknow obviously a smartphone is a way<\/p>\n<p>0:22:24.170,0:22:30.290<br \/>\nmore powerful distractor than just a<\/p>\n<p>0:22:26.690,0:22:31.429<br \/>\nbunch of papers yeah I couldn&#8217;t agree<\/p>\n<p>0:22:30.290,0:22:33.350<br \/>\nmore with that and it&#8217;s interesting<\/p>\n<p>0:22:31.429,0:22:35.929<br \/>\nbecause it compounds when you start to<\/p>\n<p>0:22:33.350,0:22:39.020<br \/>\nlook at things like smartwatches which<\/p>\n<p>0:22:35.929,0:22:41.150<br \/>\nare moving the notifications closer to<\/p>\n<p>0:22:39.020,0:22:43.280<br \/>\nyou even if you put your device out of<\/p>\n<p>0:22:41.150,0:22:45.260<br \/>\nthe way you look at interrupts or very<\/p>\n<p>0:22:43.280,0:22:47.150<br \/>\ninterrupt-driven societies and<\/p>\n<p>0:22:45.260,0:22:49.429<br \/>\nespecially in the professional<\/p>\n<p>0:22:47.150,0:22:52.880<br \/>\nenvironments everything&#8217;s a response to<\/p>\n<p>0:22:49.429,0:22:54.950<br \/>\na request and being able to control that<\/p>\n<p>0:22:52.880,0:22:57.200<br \/>\nfor periods of time and giving ourselves<\/p>\n<p>0:22:54.950,0:23:00.350<br \/>\npermission I mean when I talk about<\/p>\n<p>0:22:57.200,0:23:03.500<br \/>\nclutter I have to mentally quantify it<\/p>\n<p>0:23:00.350,0:23:05.390<br \/>\ninto physical clutter and digital<\/p>\n<p>0:23:03.500,0:23:07.040<br \/>\nclutter because digital clutter can be<\/p>\n<p>0:23:05.390,0:23:08.990<br \/>\njust as distracting if not more so<\/p>\n<p>0:23:07.040,0:23:10.490<br \/>\nbecause you spend time looking at it<\/p>\n<p>0:23:08.990,0:23:12.320<br \/>\nmoving things around moving this here<\/p>\n<p>0:23:10.490,0:23:15.200<br \/>\nmoving that there but no real progress<\/p>\n<p>0:23:12.320,0:23:16.940<br \/>\nhappens so you have to say how am I<\/p>\n<p>0:23:15.200,0:23:19.370<br \/>\ngoing to mitigate all of this and still<\/p>\n<p>0:23:16.940,0:23:21.190<br \/>\ncontinue to be productive it&#8217;s difficult<\/p>\n<p>0:23:19.370,0:23:25.550<br \/>\nand we have to give ourselves permission<\/p>\n<p>0:23:21.190,0:23:28.610<br \/>\nto make time to handle that if you think<\/p>\n<p>0:23:25.550,0:23:31.280<br \/>\nabout if this were a manufacturing<\/p>\n<p>0:23:28.610,0:23:33.290<br \/>\nenvironment there&#8217;s time allocated to go<\/p>\n<p>0:23:31.280,0:23:34.820<br \/>\nthrough and clean up the workspace and<\/p>\n<p>0:23:33.290,0:23:36.530<br \/>\nmake sure if the tools are put away in<\/p>\n<p>0:23:34.820,0:23:39.280<br \/>\nthe right spots and make sure tools are<\/p>\n<p>0:23:36.530,0:23:42.080<br \/>\nclean are cleaned and tuned and repaired<\/p>\n<p>0:23:39.280,0:23:43.610<br \/>\nthey dedicate time because they know the<\/p>\n<p>0:23:42.080,0:23:47.210<br \/>\nefficiency of the work that they&#8217;re<\/p>\n<p>0:23:43.610,0:23:50.480<br \/>\ndoing is dependent on that and when when<\/p>\n<p>0:23:47.210,0:23:52.550<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re an information worker you have to<\/p>\n<p>0:23:50.480,0:23:55.429<br \/>\ngive yourself permission to do the same<\/p>\n<p>0:23:52.550,0:23:58.220<br \/>\nthings to tune your tools to clean your<\/p>\n<p>0:23:55.429,0:24:00.020<br \/>\nworkspace to make sure it is set up in<\/p>\n<p>0:23:58.220,0:24:02.150<br \/>\nthe way that you can be most efficient<\/p>\n<p>0:24:00.020,0:24:05.510<br \/>\nand that other people can work with you<\/p>\n<p>0:24:02.150,0:24:09.020<br \/>\nand Dad it&#8217;s an important thing to to<\/p>\n<p>0:24:05.510,0:24:13.429<br \/>\nset to work with you and you know as I<\/p>\n<p>0:24:09.020,0:24:15.980<br \/>\nsaid I am you know I like my clean and I<\/p>\n<p>0:24:13.429,0:24:17.450<br \/>\nneed something that you know it may not<\/p>\n<p>0:24:15.980,0:24:19.309<br \/>\nbe the last thing I do before I leave<\/p>\n<p>0:24:17.450,0:24:20.270<br \/>\nbut it&#8217;s the first thing I do before I<\/p>\n<p>0:24:19.309,0:24:22.940<br \/>\ncan even work<\/p>\n<p>0:24:20.270,0:24:25.490<br \/>\nit&#8217;s I need to reorganize that desk so I<\/p>\n<p>0:24:22.940,0:24:27.500<br \/>\ncan be effective and I can work on it<\/p>\n<p>0:24:25.490,0:24:30.770<br \/>\nand but that is what work<\/p>\n<p>0:24:27.500,0:24:33.620<br \/>\nfor me and that is really important any<\/p>\n<p>0:24:30.770,0:24:37.010<br \/>\nof these discussions what worked for me<\/p>\n<p>0:24:33.620,0:24:40.220<br \/>\nmay not ever ever work for Francis and<\/p>\n<p>0:24:37.010,0:24:43.100<br \/>\never work was art and vice versa it&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>0:24:40.220,0:24:45.980<br \/>\nimportant that you keep that uniqueness<\/p>\n<p>0:24:43.100,0:24:48.560<br \/>\nto your environment and even if they<\/p>\n<p>0:24:45.980,0:24:51.680<br \/>\nlook you know as quirks they are<\/p>\n<p>0:24:48.560,0:24:54.500<br \/>\nimportant if they allow you to get into<\/p>\n<p>0:24:51.680,0:24:56.510<br \/>\nthe zone and allows you to be really<\/p>\n<p>0:24:54.500,0:25:00.170<br \/>\nproductive I think there is another<\/p>\n<p>0:24:56.510,0:25:02.150<br \/>\nangle here however as you guys were<\/p>\n<p>0:25:00.170,0:25:05.600<br \/>\ntalking I was remembering there is some<\/p>\n<p>0:25:02.150,0:25:09.380<br \/>\nresearch around reminders so if your<\/p>\n<p>0:25:05.600,0:25:11.990<br \/>\ndesk is cluttered because it has<\/p>\n<p>0:25:09.380,0:25:13.610<br \/>\nreminders I think that that there&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>0:25:11.990,0:25:16.970<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s enough research to see that that<\/p>\n<p>0:25:13.610,0:25:20.570<br \/>\nthat is ineffective if you&#8217;re trying to<\/p>\n<p>0:25:16.970,0:25:24.020<br \/>\nuse lots of physical reminders and they<\/p>\n<p>0:25:20.570,0:25:26.030<br \/>\nhappen to be in your physical or on your<\/p>\n<p>0:25:24.020,0:25:28.370<br \/>\nphysical workspace I think the research<\/p>\n<p>0:25:26.030,0:25:31.490<br \/>\nwould see that that doesn&#8217;t work if you<\/p>\n<p>0:25:28.370,0:25:34.370<br \/>\nhave lots of them one or two maybe but<\/p>\n<p>0:25:31.490,0:25:38.240<br \/>\nabove a certain number the Zeigarnik<\/p>\n<p>0:25:34.370,0:25:39.950<br \/>\neffect which is the the pinging that<\/p>\n<p>0:25:38.240,0:25:41.300<br \/>\nyour subconscious mind does of your<\/p>\n<p>0:25:39.950,0:25:43.700<br \/>\nconscious mind when you have an<\/p>\n<p>0:25:41.300,0:25:46.970<br \/>\nunfinished task thus agonic effect would<\/p>\n<p>0:25:43.700,0:25:50.660<br \/>\nwould become too loud or too strong and<\/p>\n<p>0:25:46.970,0:25:54.170<br \/>\nand therefore interrupt your attention<\/p>\n<p>0:25:50.660,0:25:56.180<br \/>\nso I think if in terms of I think what<\/p>\n<p>0:25:54.170,0:25:57.980<br \/>\nis one at least one clear finding from<\/p>\n<p>0:25:56.180,0:25:59.960<br \/>\nthe research which says that the number<\/p>\n<p>0:25:57.980,0:26:01.880<br \/>\nof physical reminders you can use is<\/p>\n<p>0:25:59.960,0:26:03.530<br \/>\nlimited even though a physical reminder<\/p>\n<p>0:26:01.880,0:26:05.990<br \/>\nmay work really really well<\/p>\n<p>0:26:03.530,0:26:07.690<br \/>\nit&#8217;s the you you&#8217;re actually limited in<\/p>\n<p>0:26:05.990,0:26:10.040<br \/>\nthe number that you can use effectively<\/p>\n<p>0:26:07.690,0:26:12.080<br \/>\nand that&#8217;s really an interesting thing<\/p>\n<p>0:26:10.040,0:26:14.510<br \/>\nwhen you think about and this is kind of<\/p>\n<p>0:26:12.080,0:26:16.190<br \/>\ngetting off of the workspace but if we<\/p>\n<p>0:26:14.510,0:26:19.550<br \/>\nthink about every place being a<\/p>\n<p>0:26:16.190,0:26:22.610<br \/>\nworkspace the idea of being reminder<\/p>\n<p>0:26:19.550,0:26:24.680<br \/>\ndriven we look at tools task managers<\/p>\n<p>0:26:22.610,0:26:26.810<br \/>\nand that sort and that&#8217;s a deciding<\/p>\n<p>0:26:24.680,0:26:29.480<br \/>\nfactor for a lot of people is myself<\/p>\n<p>0:26:26.810,0:26:32.030<br \/>\nincluded how good is this tool going to<\/p>\n<p>0:26:29.480,0:26:34.700<br \/>\nbe to remind me of the things that I<\/p>\n<p>0:26:32.030,0:26:35.929<br \/>\nneed to do well if you follow the<\/p>\n<p>0:26:34.700,0:26:38.810<br \/>\nconversation that we&#8217;ve done so far<\/p>\n<p>0:26:35.929,0:26:41.270<br \/>\nmaybe we have to flip our analysis of<\/p>\n<p>0:26:38.810,0:26:43.580<br \/>\nthat around and say am i introduced<\/p>\n<p>0:26:41.270,0:26:46.340<br \/>\na tool into my system that&#8217;s going to<\/p>\n<p>0:26:43.580,0:26:48.410<br \/>\ncreate so much reminder clutter that<\/p>\n<p>0:26:46.340,0:26:50.960<br \/>\nit&#8217;s going to actually pull my<\/p>\n<p>0:26:48.410,0:26:52.970<br \/>\nproductivity down because it&#8217;s just<\/p>\n<p>0:26:50.960,0:26:56.020<br \/>\ngoing to be pushing things into my way<\/p>\n<p>0:26:52.970,0:26:58.280<br \/>\nrather than allowing me to get I focused<\/p>\n<p>0:26:56.020,0:27:00.140<br \/>\ncontinuous flow going it&#8217;s an<\/p>\n<p>0:26:58.280,0:27:02.260<br \/>\ninteresting thought I hadn&#8217;t considered<\/p>\n<p>0:27:00.140,0:27:05.830<br \/>\nit and from this perspective before<\/p>\n<p>0:27:02.260,0:27:09.080<br \/>\nmaybe we&#8217;re reminding ourselves too much<\/p>\n<p>0:27:05.830,0:27:11.840<br \/>\nabout things that are too small and we<\/p>\n<p>0:27:09.080,0:27:14.480<br \/>\nneed to look at our systems and say how<\/p>\n<p>0:27:11.840,0:27:16.520<br \/>\ndo i balance this I think about the<\/p>\n<p>0:27:14.480,0:27:19.160<br \/>\npeople who use a calendar based system<\/p>\n<p>0:27:16.520,0:27:21.050<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s a limit to how many granular<\/p>\n<p>0:27:19.160,0:27:23.660<br \/>\nitems you can put in a calendar based<\/p>\n<p>0:27:21.050,0:27:26.480<br \/>\nsystem and if you look at classic<\/p>\n<p>0:27:23.660,0:27:29.030<br \/>\nproject management methodology typically<\/p>\n<p>0:27:26.480,0:27:32.240<br \/>\nthe smallest task you&#8217;ll you&#8217;ll break<\/p>\n<p>0:27:29.030,0:27:35.120<br \/>\nout is maybe two days maybe a day maybe<\/p>\n<p>0:27:32.240,0:27:37.340<br \/>\nan hour there&#8217;s a there&#8217;s a point where<\/p>\n<p>0:27:35.120,0:27:39.620<br \/>\nit doesn&#8217;t benefit you to get much<\/p>\n<p>0:27:37.340,0:27:42.020<br \/>\nsmaller because there&#8217;s too many prompts<\/p>\n<p>0:27:39.620,0:27:43.910<br \/>\nto get things done so we&#8217;re creating<\/p>\n<p>0:27:42.020,0:27:46.370<br \/>\nthat digital clutter I talked about<\/p>\n<p>0:27:43.910,0:27:48.380<br \/>\nearlier with the intent of it trying to<\/p>\n<p>0:27:46.370,0:27:49.610<br \/>\nhelp us out we have I guess we have to<\/p>\n<p>0:27:48.380,0:27:52.460<br \/>\ntake a look at it a little bit more<\/p>\n<p>0:27:49.610,0:27:54.110<br \/>\ncarefully and say what&#8217;s the the<\/p>\n<p>0:27:52.460,0:27:56.230<br \/>\ndownside of what we&#8217;re about to<\/p>\n<p>0:27:54.110,0:27:58.430<br \/>\nimplement for our overall productivity<\/p>\n<p>0:27:56.230,0:28:01.040<br \/>\nif it&#8217;s helping to address one<\/p>\n<p>0:27:58.430,0:28:03.730<br \/>\nparticular aspect of it I agree with<\/p>\n<p>0:28:01.040,0:28:07.880<br \/>\nthat that&#8217;s a that&#8217;s a really good point<\/p>\n<p>0:28:03.730,0:28:10.340<br \/>\nand it the typical the average person<\/p>\n<p>0:28:07.880,0:28:14.420<br \/>\ndoesn&#8217;t exercise a lot of control over<\/p>\n<p>0:28:10.340,0:28:16.340<br \/>\ntheir their notification their<\/p>\n<p>0:28:14.420,0:28:19.760<br \/>\nenvironmental notifications let&#8217;s call<\/p>\n<p>0:28:16.340,0:28:22.940<br \/>\nit that I did a little bit of research<\/p>\n<p>0:28:19.760,0:28:25.730<br \/>\non this about a year ago first I do a<\/p>\n<p>0:28:22.940,0:28:28.700<br \/>\nlot more but but sort of moved on to<\/p>\n<p>0:28:25.730,0:28:31.070<br \/>\nother things unfortunately but but one<\/p>\n<p>0:28:28.700,0:28:33.440<br \/>\nthing I found is that it&#8217;s I couldn&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>0:28:31.070,0:28:36.410<br \/>\nfind an app for example for my Android<\/p>\n<p>0:28:33.440,0:28:38.720<br \/>\nphone that could control all of my<\/p>\n<p>0:28:36.410,0:28:41.180<br \/>\nnotifications across all of my devices<\/p>\n<p>0:28:38.720,0:28:44.090<br \/>\nso what I wanted was something that<\/p>\n<p>0:28:41.180,0:28:46.130<br \/>\ncould control my at least my thought my<\/p>\n<p>0:28:44.090,0:28:48.560<br \/>\ntablet on my phone and I wanted to<\/p>\n<p>0:28:46.130,0:28:51.650<br \/>\nbasically turn them all off and then<\/p>\n<p>0:28:48.560,0:28:54.500<br \/>\nturn them on in a selected kind of way<\/p>\n<p>0:28:51.650,0:28:55.230<br \/>\nso for example the phone rang if my cell<\/p>\n<p>0:28:54.500,0:28:57.240<br \/>\nphone rang<\/p>\n<p>0:28:55.230,0:28:59.039<br \/>\nand I&#8217;d actually been having signal<\/p>\n<p>0:28:57.240,0:29:02.460<br \/>\nproblems my phone is not being ringing<\/p>\n<p>0:28:59.039,0:29:05.100<br \/>\nbut I want I would want it to ring on my<\/p>\n<p>0:29:02.460,0:29:07.019<br \/>\ntablet my laptop on my phone this is for<\/p>\n<p>0:29:05.100,0:29:09.299<br \/>\na regular phone call cuz I&#8217;d want it to<\/p>\n<p>0:29:07.019,0:29:11.789<br \/>\nbe that&#8217;s a high the highest kind of<\/p>\n<p>0:29:09.299,0:29:13.769<br \/>\ninterruption that I could receive and if<\/p>\n<p>0:29:11.789,0:29:15.690<br \/>\nI dismissed it I want I want to dismiss<\/p>\n<p>0:29:13.769,0:29:18.409<br \/>\nit on off so consider that to be the<\/p>\n<p>0:29:15.690,0:29:20.220<br \/>\nmost interruptive or they&#8217;d the<\/p>\n<p>0:29:18.409,0:29:23.159<br \/>\nnotification that I would allow to<\/p>\n<p>0:29:20.220,0:29:25.289<br \/>\ninterrupt me on the most circumstances<\/p>\n<p>0:29:23.159,0:29:28.260<br \/>\nbut the lower the level of a phone call<\/p>\n<p>0:29:25.289,0:29:29.820<br \/>\nring there is all the others some that<\/p>\n<p>0:29:28.260,0:29:33.240<br \/>\nthat exist including the ones aren&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>0:29:29.820,0:29:38.070<br \/>\nmentioned like a task that&#8217;s coming up a<\/p>\n<p>0:29:33.240,0:29:42.210<br \/>\ncalendar item reminder to send an email<\/p>\n<p>0:29:38.070,0:29:43.950<br \/>\nto someone notification that an app has<\/p>\n<p>0:29:42.210,0:29:45.779<br \/>\nbeen updated has no idea why I keep<\/p>\n<p>0:29:43.950,0:29:51.000<br \/>\ngetting those but this will keep showing<\/p>\n<p>0:29:45.779,0:29:53.840<br \/>\nup on my on my phone a signal that that<\/p>\n<p>0:29:51.000,0:29:58.230<br \/>\nmy computer has too many too many<\/p>\n<p>0:29:53.840,0:30:01.889<br \/>\nprograms open and it&#8217;s affecting my CPU<\/p>\n<p>0:29:58.230,0:30:04.019<br \/>\nspeed someone sending me a semi urgent<\/p>\n<p>0:30:01.889,0:30:06.450<br \/>\nmessage that I need to attend to maybe<\/p>\n<p>0:30:04.019,0:30:08.010<br \/>\nby text eight attend to it by the end of<\/p>\n<p>0:30:06.450,0:30:09.600<br \/>\nthe day so it&#8217;s not immediately urgent<\/p>\n<p>0:30:08.010,0:30:11.760<br \/>\nlike a phone call but I need to get to<\/p>\n<p>0:30:09.600,0:30:14.039<br \/>\nit by a particular time so it&#8217;s safe to<\/p>\n<p>0:30:11.760,0:30:16.710<br \/>\nignore for no but I&#8217;d need to see in the<\/p>\n<p>0:30:14.039,0:30:18.929<br \/>\npast what what what we had was a<\/p>\n<p>0:30:16.710,0:30:21.299<br \/>\nadministrative assistant who could take<\/p>\n<p>0:30:18.929,0:30:22.350<br \/>\ncare of all of these notifications in<\/p>\n<p>0:30:21.299,0:30:24.720<br \/>\nother words they could protect our<\/p>\n<p>0:30:22.350,0:30:26.870<br \/>\nenvironment and help us to be effective<\/p>\n<p>0:30:24.720,0:30:30.029<br \/>\nand then they would filter all the<\/p>\n<p>0:30:26.870,0:30:34.260<br \/>\ninterruptions and notifications and feed<\/p>\n<p>0:30:30.029,0:30:36.330<br \/>\nthem to us sort of after the point of<\/p>\n<p>0:30:34.260,0:30:39.440<br \/>\ntriage and bring them to our attention<\/p>\n<p>0:30:36.330,0:30:43.350<br \/>\nwith the right level of timing and<\/p>\n<p>0:30:39.440,0:30:45.210<br \/>\nvolume and they did a really good job<\/p>\n<p>0:30:43.350,0:30:48.179<br \/>\nthey could keep us being extremely<\/p>\n<p>0:30:45.210,0:30:50.159<br \/>\nproductive however we don&#8217;t most of us<\/p>\n<p>0:30:48.179,0:30:54.630<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t have that instead we have this<\/p>\n<p>0:30:50.159,0:30:56.730<br \/>\nugly mishmash of apps and I think oddly<\/p>\n<p>0:30:54.630,0:30:59.340<br \/>\nmish-mosh is way more of an<\/p>\n<p>0:30:56.730,0:31:02.750<br \/>\nenvironmental factor for me anyway then<\/p>\n<p>0:30:59.340,0:31:06.289<br \/>\nI have a clot or physical clutter or or<\/p>\n<p>0:31:02.750,0:31:09.059<br \/>\nsone sound problems or problems with<\/p>\n<p>0:31:06.289,0:31:10.649<br \/>\nwith interrupting zones<\/p>\n<p>0:31:09.059,0:31:14.759<br \/>\nand I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s a there&#8217;s any<\/p>\n<p>0:31:10.649,0:31:16.350<br \/>\nhope inside I don&#8217;t see that anyone and<\/p>\n<p>0:31:14.759,0:31:18.299<br \/>\nI keep monitoring so I look to see who<\/p>\n<p>0:31:16.350,0:31:20.970<br \/>\nis developing the latest apps on product<\/p>\n<p>0:31:18.299,0:31:22.909<br \/>\nhunt I don&#8217;t see anyone thinking in<\/p>\n<p>0:31:20.970,0:31:25.710<br \/>\nthese terms say how can we give someone<\/p>\n<p>0:31:22.909,0:31:28.220<br \/>\ncomplete control over all notifications<\/p>\n<p>0:31:25.710,0:31:30.299<br \/>\nall platforms all at the same time<\/p>\n<p>0:31:28.220,0:31:32.279<br \/>\nsynchronize them completely and<\/p>\n<p>0:31:30.299,0:31:34.049<br \/>\nessentially mimic what a great<\/p>\n<p>0:31:32.279,0:31:35.220<br \/>\nadministrator assistant used to do I<\/p>\n<p>0:31:34.049,0:31:37.529<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t see anyone heading in that<\/p>\n<p>0:31:35.220,0:31:39.509<br \/>\ndirection yet maybe you guys do that I&#8217;d<\/p>\n<p>0:31:37.529,0:31:40.740<br \/>\nlove to hear now I have to agree with<\/p>\n<p>0:31:39.509,0:31:43.230<br \/>\nyou in that when looking at what<\/p>\n<p>0:31:40.740,0:31:44.519<br \/>\nandroids doing with Android<\/p>\n<p>0:31:43.230,0:31:46.320<br \/>\noh they&#8217;re improving the new<\/p>\n<p>0:31:44.519,0:31:48.629<br \/>\nnotifications functions in there but<\/p>\n<p>0:31:46.320,0:31:52.769<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re right it doesn&#8217;t change that flow<\/p>\n<p>0:31:48.629,0:31:56.220<br \/>\nfunnel I&#8217;ve actually fallen back on my<\/p>\n<p>0:31:52.769,0:31:59.279<br \/>\nSmartWatch I use a Samsung gear fit too<\/p>\n<p>0:31:56.220,0:32:01.700<br \/>\nas kind of the funnel because what it<\/p>\n<p>0:31:59.279,0:32:05.429<br \/>\nallows me to do is to say what<\/p>\n<p>0:32:01.700,0:32:07.980<br \/>\nnotifications will come to the fit and<\/p>\n<p>0:32:05.429,0:32:09.450<br \/>\nwhat won&#8217;t so I can literally go through<\/p>\n<p>0:32:07.980,0:32:10.679<br \/>\nand say look I don&#8217;t want any of these<\/p>\n<p>0:32:09.450,0:32:13.139<br \/>\nanymore I don&#8217;t want any of these<\/p>\n<p>0:32:10.679,0:32:14.639<br \/>\nanymore but they stay on my phone so I<\/p>\n<p>0:32:13.139,0:32:19.590<br \/>\ncan get to them later on what I need to<\/p>\n<p>0:32:14.639,0:32:21.690<br \/>\nso I&#8217;m creating tiers of immediacy when<\/p>\n<p>0:32:19.590,0:32:24.990<br \/>\nit comes to the notification but are<\/p>\n<p>0:32:21.690,0:32:26.789<br \/>\nthere too many absolutely there isn&#8217;t a<\/p>\n<p>0:32:24.990,0:32:28.470<br \/>\nday that goes by that I don&#8217;t go into a<\/p>\n<p>0:32:26.789,0:32:30.720<br \/>\nsystem going man I wish I had seen that<\/p>\n<p>0:32:28.470,0:32:33.779<br \/>\nnotification three days ago but there&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>0:32:30.720,0:32:36.389<br \/>\njust so many I missed it so we have to<\/p>\n<p>0:32:33.779,0:32:38.249<br \/>\nkind of balance that piece of it is<\/p>\n<p>0:32:36.389,0:32:40.409<br \/>\nthere anybody trying to unify it not<\/p>\n<p>0:32:38.249,0:32:41.999<br \/>\nthat I&#8217;ve seen everybody thinks they<\/p>\n<p>0:32:40.409,0:32:44.399<br \/>\nhave the best way to do it and the best<\/p>\n<p>0:32:41.999,0:32:47.100<br \/>\nway to handle it I would love to see<\/p>\n<p>0:32:44.399,0:32:49.590<br \/>\nsome systems some of the automation<\/p>\n<p>0:32:47.100,0:32:51.749<br \/>\nsystems maybe like an IFTTT or something<\/p>\n<p>0:32:49.590,0:32:54.360<br \/>\nlike that start to handle that in a way<\/p>\n<p>0:32:51.749,0:32:56.519<br \/>\nto provide almost that digital virtual<\/p>\n<p>0:32:54.360,0:33:02.570<br \/>\nassistant but I think we&#8217;re still a ways<\/p>\n<p>0:32:56.519,0:33:06.659<br \/>\noff from that you know I I had an old<\/p>\n<p>0:33:02.570,0:33:09.600<br \/>\npebble that sadly the battery is almost<\/p>\n<p>0:33:06.659,0:33:13.230<br \/>\ndead so so it will be replaced on the<\/p>\n<p>0:33:09.600,0:33:16.169<br \/>\nfall with an Apple watch but when I had<\/p>\n<p>0:33:13.230,0:33:19.830<br \/>\nit I was using a similar system to what<\/p>\n<p>0:33:16.169,0:33:22.559<br \/>\nart is saying except that it wasn&#8217;t on<\/p>\n<p>0:33:19.830,0:33:26.749<br \/>\nmy phone it was on my<\/p>\n<p>0:33:22.559,0:33:30.120<br \/>\nI pass so my iPad gets most of the<\/p>\n<p>0:33:26.749,0:33:33.509<br \/>\nnotifications and the phone I actually<\/p>\n<p>0:33:30.120,0:33:36.149<br \/>\nhave two of them so I have an iPad Mini<\/p>\n<p>0:33:33.509,0:33:39.809<br \/>\nthat gets most of the notifications I<\/p>\n<p>0:33:36.149,0:33:42.120<br \/>\nhave an iPad pro who is really skimp in<\/p>\n<p>0:33:39.809,0:33:44.240<br \/>\nnotifications because is where I want to<\/p>\n<p>0:33:42.120,0:33:48.960<br \/>\nfocus I don&#8217;t want to be distracted and<\/p>\n<p>0:33:44.240,0:33:52.559<br \/>\non my phone in order to distract me on<\/p>\n<p>0:33:48.960,0:33:56.039<br \/>\nmy phone do almost me to earn that right<\/p>\n<p>0:33:52.559,0:33:59.159<br \/>\nso I have most of the notifications on<\/p>\n<p>0:33:56.039,0:34:03.419<br \/>\nthe phone deactivated even my default<\/p>\n<p>0:33:59.159,0:34:06.600<br \/>\nsound is no sound it vibrates but it do<\/p>\n<p>0:34:03.419,0:34:08.819<br \/>\nnot give sound and the reason is if I&#8217;m<\/p>\n<p>0:34:06.600,0:34:11.970<br \/>\nconcentrated the vibration doesn&#8217;t break<\/p>\n<p>0:34:08.819,0:34:14.460<br \/>\nmy concentration so if you want to be on<\/p>\n<p>0:34:11.970,0:34:17.909<br \/>\nmy phone and actually make noise you<\/p>\n<p>0:34:14.460,0:34:21.119<br \/>\nneed to earn that right and you can lose<\/p>\n<p>0:34:17.909,0:34:24.300<br \/>\nit too because that you know if you it<\/p>\n<p>0:34:21.119,0:34:26.970<br \/>\nallows me to keep focus work for a much<\/p>\n<p>0:34:24.300,0:34:29.190<br \/>\nmuch longer time you know when I was<\/p>\n<p>0:34:26.970,0:34:31.800<br \/>\nlooking into this little bit of wriggle<\/p>\n<p>0:34:29.190,0:34:34.740<br \/>\na year ago I wrote an article in which I<\/p>\n<p>0:34:31.800,0:34:36.839<br \/>\nI advise the reader to turn off all the<\/p>\n<p>0:34:34.740,0:34:40.020<br \/>\nnotifications apart from maybe their<\/p>\n<p>0:34:36.839,0:34:42.300<br \/>\nphone and then do a combination of what<\/p>\n<p>0:34:40.020,0:34:44.669<br \/>\nyou guys suggested which is to turn them<\/p>\n<p>0:34:42.300,0:34:48.780<br \/>\nback on one by one in other words have<\/p>\n<p>0:34:44.669,0:34:53.099<br \/>\nthem earn the right to to be a part of<\/p>\n<p>0:34:48.780,0:34:55.409<br \/>\nyour ecosystem of notifications and as<\/p>\n<p>0:34:53.099,0:34:56.310<br \/>\nyou if you missed one and realize you<\/p>\n<p>0:34:55.409,0:34:59.490<br \/>\ncouldn&#8217;t do without it<\/p>\n<p>0:34:56.310,0:35:01.230<br \/>\nokay turn that one on if one caused the<\/p>\n<p>0:34:59.490,0:35:03.450<br \/>\nproblem because it was off turn that one<\/p>\n<p>0:35:01.230,0:35:05.579<br \/>\non if there&#8217;s a new app that was<\/p>\n<p>0:35:03.450,0:35:07.380<br \/>\nproperly could behave properly if you<\/p>\n<p>0:35:05.579,0:35:09.930<br \/>\nyou hope try that one<\/p>\n<p>0:35:07.380,0:35:11.550<br \/>\nsee if it worked but you know I felt<\/p>\n<p>0:35:09.930,0:35:14.760<br \/>\nlike the advice I was giving was really<\/p>\n<p>0:35:11.550,0:35:17.579<br \/>\ncrude it was really it was so basic I&#8217;d<\/p>\n<p>0:35:14.760,0:35:19.470<br \/>\nnever read it before like that but it<\/p>\n<p>0:35:17.579,0:35:22.619<br \/>\nseemed like that was the only way to<\/p>\n<p>0:35:19.470,0:35:24.390<br \/>\nstay is saying that if if if I don&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>0:35:22.619,0:35:26.430<br \/>\nhave some level of control over these<\/p>\n<p>0:35:24.390,0:35:28.619<br \/>\napps and they don&#8217;t properly earn the<\/p>\n<p>0:35:26.430,0:35:31.980<br \/>\nright which includes giving me control<\/p>\n<p>0:35:28.619,0:35:34.140<br \/>\nover the notification to some degree and<\/p>\n<p>0:35:31.980,0:35:35.910<br \/>\nalso giving me sparrin see because this<\/p>\n<p>0:35:34.140,0:35:37.140<br \/>\nlots of times I download an app<\/p>\n<p>0:35:35.910,0:35:45.480<br \/>\nand all of a sudden it starts to<\/p>\n<p>0:35:37.140,0:35:47.220<br \/>\nmisbehave I figure out then an ongoing<\/p>\n<p>0:35:45.480,0:35:49.740<br \/>\nproblem as I suited my phone ringing<\/p>\n<p>0:35:47.220,0:35:52.890<br \/>\nsomehow some app has grabbed a whole<\/p>\n<p>0:35:49.740,0:35:54.630<br \/>\npulled of my my ringtone and turns it<\/p>\n<p>0:35:52.890,0:35:57.660<br \/>\noff every night I kind of figure out<\/p>\n<p>0:35:54.630,0:36:00.030<br \/>\nwhich app it is which feature right I<\/p>\n<p>0:35:57.660,0:36:02.250<br \/>\nhave been looking at so so they don&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>0:36:00.030,0:36:03.720<br \/>\nbehave properly so no more do they not<\/p>\n<p>0:36:02.250,0:36:05.700<br \/>\nearn the right but they actually make<\/p>\n<p>0:36:03.720,0:36:08.160<br \/>\nthings worse and then you&#8217;re not quite<\/p>\n<p>0:36:05.700,0:36:11.579<br \/>\nsure which one is it that&#8217;s causing this<\/p>\n<p>0:36:08.160,0:36:13.980<br \/>\nproblem so as users we&#8217;re sort of we<\/p>\n<p>0:36:11.579,0:36:16.349<br \/>\nwere sort of way in the sort of the<\/p>\n<p>0:36:13.980,0:36:17.819<br \/>\nbeginning phase of getting control over<\/p>\n<p>0:36:16.349,0:36:20.190<br \/>\nour environment with a perspective is<\/p>\n<p>0:36:17.819,0:36:21.900<br \/>\nreally important devices I think it&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>0:36:20.190,0:36:23.700<br \/>\ninteresting as we talk through this and<\/p>\n<p>0:36:21.900,0:36:26.010<br \/>\nwe and basically we&#8217;re talking about<\/p>\n<p>0:36:23.700,0:36:27.750<br \/>\nthings like digital bankruptcy and when<\/p>\n<p>0:36:26.010,0:36:29.789<br \/>\npeople are dealing with inboxes Eero the<\/p>\n<p>0:36:27.750,0:36:31.890<br \/>\nsame concepts come into play but if you<\/p>\n<p>0:36:29.789,0:36:34.020<br \/>\nif you back it up a little bit the same<\/p>\n<p>0:36:31.890,0:36:35.849<br \/>\nthing as applying on the physical spaces<\/p>\n<p>0:36:34.020,0:36:37.710<br \/>\nit is the digital space because there&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>0:36:35.849,0:36:40.500<br \/>\na point when you have so much clutter<\/p>\n<p>0:36:37.710,0:36:42.450<br \/>\nit&#8217;s like look just all of it goes you<\/p>\n<p>0:36:40.500,0:36:44.460<br \/>\nknow just put your arm on the desk slide<\/p>\n<p>0:36:42.450,0:36:46.410<br \/>\nit across clear the desk off and then<\/p>\n<p>0:36:44.460,0:36:48.779<br \/>\nstart picking up stuff off the floor and<\/p>\n<p>0:36:46.410,0:36:51.599<br \/>\ndetermine what has earned the right to<\/p>\n<p>0:36:48.779,0:36:53.039<br \/>\ngo back on the desk we&#8217;re doing the same<\/p>\n<p>0:36:51.599,0:36:55.079<br \/>\nthing we&#8217;re just doing it in the digital<\/p>\n<p>0:36:53.039,0:36:57.690<br \/>\nspace and it&#8217;s just giving ourselves<\/p>\n<p>0:36:55.079,0:36:59.700<br \/>\nthat permission again to say okay you<\/p>\n<p>0:36:57.690,0:37:01.859<br \/>\nhave no there&#8217;s nothing here that has<\/p>\n<p>0:36:59.700,0:37:04.200<br \/>\nany more importance than anything else<\/p>\n<p>0:37:01.859,0:37:06.000<br \/>\nat this point you are all going to start<\/p>\n<p>0:37:04.200,0:37:07.650<br \/>\nfrom zero and we are going to start<\/p>\n<p>0:37:06.000,0:37:10.890<br \/>\ngoing from that point forward and say<\/p>\n<p>0:37:07.650,0:37:13.049<br \/>\nokay mr. facebook notification I don&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>0:37:10.890,0:37:14.900<br \/>\nneed you all the time I&#8217;m going to turn<\/p>\n<p>0:37:13.049,0:37:17.640<br \/>\nyou off and I&#8217;ll check that occasional<\/p>\n<p>0:37:14.900,0:37:18.569<br \/>\nhowever you know my telegram<\/p>\n<p>0:37:17.640,0:37:20.039<br \/>\nnotifications<\/p>\n<p>0:37:18.569,0:37:22.920<br \/>\nI need those so you&#8217;re gonna get a<\/p>\n<p>0:37:20.039,0:37:25.500<br \/>\nhigher priority it&#8217;s important time<\/p>\n<p>0:37:22.920,0:37:28.700<br \/>\nspent and unfortunately we do have a<\/p>\n<p>0:37:25.500,0:37:31.680<br \/>\ntendency to deprioritize that effort in<\/p>\n<p>0:37:28.700,0:37:33.930<br \/>\ncontrast to other work that quote has to<\/p>\n<p>0:37:31.680,0:37:35.490<br \/>\nbe done well if we don&#8217;t take time to do<\/p>\n<p>0:37:33.930,0:37:37.920<br \/>\nthe stuff to make ourselves more<\/p>\n<p>0:37:35.490,0:37:40.589<br \/>\nefficient the other work is not going to<\/p>\n<p>0:37:37.920,0:37:42.270<br \/>\nhappen at any better rate so I think you<\/p>\n<p>0:37:40.589,0:37:45.569<br \/>\nguys are absolutely right as we look at<\/p>\n<p>0:37:42.270,0:37:48.119<br \/>\nthis can we take the time can we set a<\/p>\n<p>0:37:45.569,0:37:49.710<br \/>\ntime is this something that do you think<\/p>\n<p>0:37:48.119,0:37:52.350<br \/>\nwe should be doing this<\/p>\n<p>0:37:49.710,0:37:54.480<br \/>\non a daily basis a weekly basis a<\/p>\n<p>0:37:52.350,0:37:56.970<br \/>\nmonthly basis how frequently do you guys<\/p>\n<p>0:37:54.480,0:38:00.390<br \/>\nthink we should kind of purge and reset<\/p>\n<p>0:37:56.970,0:38:01.980<br \/>\nour systems I think ultimately hopefully<\/p>\n<p>0:38:00.390,0:38:04.110<br \/>\nat some point in our lifetime someone<\/p>\n<p>0:38:01.980,0:38:05.940<br \/>\nwill make it easy for us to do it it&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>0:38:04.110,0:38:08.520<br \/>\njust that it&#8217;s hard to do it today it&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>0:38:05.940,0:38:11.760<br \/>\njust really time-consuming and laborious<\/p>\n<p>0:38:08.520,0:38:14.220<br \/>\nand tedious and mysterious and bad ways<\/p>\n<p>0:38:11.760,0:38:16.650<br \/>\nand I think there&#8217;s an opportunity for<\/p>\n<p>0:38:14.220,0:38:19.440<br \/>\nsomeone to come up with a sort of a<\/p>\n<p>0:38:16.650,0:38:21.060<br \/>\ncontroller kind of software that makes<\/p>\n<p>0:38:19.440,0:38:23.340<br \/>\nit easy for us to do that but I think<\/p>\n<p>0:38:21.060,0:38:26.610<br \/>\nit&#8217;s a initially there&#8217;s an investment<\/p>\n<p>0:38:23.340,0:38:28.500<br \/>\ntoday the investment is sort of you&#8217;ve<\/p>\n<p>0:38:26.610,0:38:30.510<br \/>\ngot to make it continuously and you&#8217;ve<\/p>\n<p>0:38:28.500,0:38:32.100<br \/>\ngot to invest a good amount of time to<\/p>\n<p>0:38:30.510,0:38:34.140<br \/>\ndo it because it&#8217;s all manual but I<\/p>\n<p>0:38:32.100,0:38:36.030<br \/>\nthink in the future someone will find a<\/p>\n<p>0:38:34.140,0:38:38.160<br \/>\nway to help make it easier for us and<\/p>\n<p>0:38:36.030,0:38:39.660<br \/>\nthen the frequency would it would be an<\/p>\n<p>0:38:38.160,0:38:41.250<br \/>\nexception I think it&#8217;s an exception<\/p>\n<p>0:38:39.660,0:38:44.100<br \/>\nbasis that it&#8217;s a sort of a secondly<\/p>\n<p>0:38:41.250,0:38:47.580<br \/>\nthat kind of situation in the future but<\/p>\n<p>0:38:44.100,0:38:49.800<br \/>\ntoday it&#8217;s manual and if you&#8217;re not<\/p>\n<p>0:38:47.580,0:38:52.200<br \/>\ncareful you know in a week&#8217;s time you&#8217;ll<\/p>\n<p>0:38:49.800,0:38:54.480<br \/>\nhave some app just driving you crazy or<\/p>\n<p>0:38:52.200,0:38:56.100<br \/>\nlike in my case ticking over important<\/p>\n<p>0:38:54.480,0:38:56.790<br \/>\nfunctions and you can&#8217;t figure out where<\/p>\n<p>0:38:56.100,0:38:58.380<br \/>\nit&#8217;s coming from<\/p>\n<p>0:38:56.790,0:39:02.010<br \/>\nit&#8217;s like well we&#8217;re in a bad spot here<\/p>\n<p>0:38:58.380,0:39:04.680<br \/>\nsave us a booster I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m<\/p>\n<p>0:39:02.010,0:39:07.380<br \/>\ngoing to save us but I&#8217;d say that will<\/p>\n<p>0:39:04.680,0:39:09.480<br \/>\ndepend on what we&#8217;re talking so if we go<\/p>\n<p>0:39:07.380,0:39:13.260<br \/>\nand keep talking about her the work<\/p>\n<p>0:39:09.480,0:39:16.740<br \/>\nspace I will say around half once a year<\/p>\n<p>0:39:13.260,0:39:19.200<br \/>\nI learned you know I years ago I begin<\/p>\n<p>0:39:16.740,0:39:22.410<br \/>\nreading a my friend Michael Solinsky<\/p>\n<p>0:39:19.200,0:39:25.050<br \/>\nredoing his office once a year and once<\/p>\n<p>0:39:22.410,0:39:28.050<br \/>\na year he basically got all this office<\/p>\n<p>0:39:25.050,0:39:30.390<br \/>\nout of the space and then think about<\/p>\n<p>0:39:28.050,0:39:32.700<br \/>\neverything that is going to come back so<\/p>\n<p>0:39:30.390,0:39:35.250<br \/>\nin a way anything that is going to come<\/p>\n<p>0:39:32.700,0:39:38.100<br \/>\nback into that environment need to earn<\/p>\n<p>0:39:35.250,0:39:40.290<br \/>\nthat space into this environment and<\/p>\n<p>0:39:38.100,0:39:41.850<br \/>\nwhen I read in that when everything<\/p>\n<p>0:39:40.290,0:39:46.380<br \/>\nwritten down I said wow that seems like<\/p>\n<p>0:39:41.850,0:39:48.870<br \/>\na lot of work so happened that on one of<\/p>\n<p>0:39:46.380,0:39:52.800<br \/>\nthe years he did it I had to move my<\/p>\n<p>0:39:48.870,0:39:55.080<br \/>\nhome office so I decided instead of move<\/p>\n<p>0:39:52.800,0:39:57.720<br \/>\nas I have moved in the past<\/p>\n<p>0:39:55.080,0:40:00.330<br \/>\nso aka everything and figure out how to<\/p>\n<p>0:39:57.720,0:40:03.540<br \/>\nfit it in there I decide to use the<\/p>\n<p>0:40:00.330,0:40:06.390<br \/>\nopportunity to revise any<\/p>\n<p>0:40:03.540,0:40:08.490<br \/>\nthat was coming back and see if anything<\/p>\n<p>0:40:06.390,0:40:11.580<br \/>\nthat was coming back had really a space<\/p>\n<p>0:40:08.490,0:40:14.010<br \/>\ncould earn a space or me to get out of<\/p>\n<p>0:40:11.580,0:40:17.400<br \/>\nthe space and the experience was<\/p>\n<p>0:40:14.010,0:40:19.710<br \/>\nfantastic I got rid of a bunch of junk<\/p>\n<p>0:40:17.400,0:40:22.440<br \/>\nout of my home office that it was there<\/p>\n<p>0:40:19.710,0:40:24.960<br \/>\nsome of a reminder some because hey well<\/p>\n<p>0:40:22.440,0:40:27.660<br \/>\nyou know I had it in the past and some<\/p>\n<p>0:40:24.960,0:40:31.320<br \/>\nthat was simply using a space on the<\/p>\n<p>0:40:27.660,0:40:34.260<br \/>\nhome office so after that I said okay<\/p>\n<p>0:40:31.320,0:40:36.990<br \/>\nthis was a really useful exercise and I<\/p>\n<p>0:40:34.260,0:40:40.230<br \/>\ncreate on my calendar an appointment for<\/p>\n<p>0:40:36.990,0:40:43.230<br \/>\na year after and I redid the exercise<\/p>\n<p>0:40:40.230,0:40:47.040<br \/>\nand it was again fantastic and since<\/p>\n<p>0:40:43.230,0:40:49.560<br \/>\nevery time September hits around I took<\/p>\n<p>0:40:47.040,0:40:52.530<br \/>\neverything down from network cables<\/p>\n<p>0:40:49.560,0:40:56.340<br \/>\neverything and revised everything that<\/p>\n<p>0:40:52.530,0:41:01.110<br \/>\ncomes into my physical home office as<\/p>\n<p>0:40:56.340,0:41:04.140<br \/>\nwell as my office in my space in the<\/p>\n<p>0:41:01.110,0:41:06.690<br \/>\noffice or my office in the office and it<\/p>\n<p>0:41:04.140,0:41:08.850<br \/>\nis a fantastic experience because you<\/p>\n<p>0:41:06.690,0:41:11.070<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t notice those little things you<\/p>\n<p>0:41:08.850,0:41:14.790<br \/>\nstart putting on shelves on the desk<\/p>\n<p>0:41:11.070,0:41:17.070<br \/>\nunder on the corner that really have no<\/p>\n<p>0:41:14.790,0:41:20.430<br \/>\nspace there and the only thing that<\/p>\n<p>0:41:17.070,0:41:22.170<br \/>\nproduced is white noise or or black<\/p>\n<p>0:41:20.430,0:41:26.240<br \/>\nnoise because it&#8217;s not really a pleasant<\/p>\n<p>0:41:22.170,0:41:30.150<br \/>\none regarding my digital life so my<\/p>\n<p>0:41:26.240,0:41:33.030<br \/>\niPhone and my tablets and the computer I<\/p>\n<p>0:41:30.150,0:41:37.860<br \/>\nshould do it more often but I do it also<\/p>\n<p>0:41:33.030,0:41:40.230<br \/>\nonce a year and then I make a backup of<\/p>\n<p>0:41:37.860,0:41:43.560<br \/>\nthe iPod so if you know something<\/p>\n<p>0:41:40.230,0:41:47.040<br \/>\nhappened I can restore quickly and then<\/p>\n<p>0:41:43.560,0:41:50.970<br \/>\nremove everything restore installed on<\/p>\n<p>0:41:47.040,0:41:53.430<br \/>\nus and then go one by one just it&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>0:41:50.970,0:41:57.210<br \/>\ntime-consuming no question about it but<\/p>\n<p>0:41:53.430,0:42:01.010<br \/>\nmost of the time I&#8217;m able to reduce the<\/p>\n<p>0:41:57.210,0:42:04.080<br \/>\namount of junk that my devices have<\/p>\n<p>0:42:01.010,0:42:06.930<br \/>\nsignificantly because the reality is is<\/p>\n<p>0:42:04.080,0:42:09.690<br \/>\nso easy to install something these days<\/p>\n<p>0:42:06.930,0:42:11.850<br \/>\nit&#8217;s in many cases even so cheap that<\/p>\n<p>0:42:09.690,0:42:14.040<br \/>\nyou say okay fine I will pay and install<\/p>\n<p>0:42:11.850,0:42:16.910<br \/>\nit and then you use it two times never<\/p>\n<p>0:42:14.040,0:42:19.280<br \/>\nuse it again but is there is<\/p>\n<p>0:42:16.910,0:42:23.090<br \/>\ncycles is making noise is using this<\/p>\n<p>0:42:19.280,0:42:26.270<br \/>\npage and in a way it&#8217;s doing a negative<\/p>\n<p>0:42:23.090,0:42:28.850<br \/>\neffect instead of a positive one so if<\/p>\n<p>0:42:26.270,0:42:31.480<br \/>\nyou don&#8217;t want to do the full cleaning<\/p>\n<p>0:42:28.850,0:42:34.370<br \/>\nand you don&#8217;t want to start the device<\/p>\n<p>0:42:31.480,0:42:37.160<br \/>\nfrom scratch every time the other thing<\/p>\n<p>0:42:34.370,0:42:40.670<br \/>\nyou can do is use that you can do easily<\/p>\n<p>0:42:37.160,0:42:43.610<br \/>\non iOS as well as Android is use<\/p>\n<p>0:42:40.670,0:42:45.680<br \/>\ndifferent pages so use a page for the<\/p>\n<p>0:42:43.610,0:42:49.580<br \/>\napplications that you use the most and<\/p>\n<p>0:42:45.680,0:42:52.760<br \/>\nmake the applications earn that position<\/p>\n<p>0:42:49.580,0:42:55.310<br \/>\non that prime real estate of that first<\/p>\n<p>0:42:52.760,0:42:58.430<br \/>\npage and then start moving things and<\/p>\n<p>0:42:55.310,0:43:01.130<br \/>\nhiding them to the point that then it&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>0:42:58.430,0:43:03.680<br \/>\nalmost more work to find them that just<\/p>\n<p>0:43:01.130,0:43:05.750<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t use them and you will then<\/p>\n<p>0:43:03.680,0:43:07.640<br \/>\nnaturally go to the point well if this<\/p>\n<p>0:43:05.750,0:43:10.250<br \/>\nthing is already on the third page<\/p>\n<p>0:43:07.640,0:43:12.380<br \/>\nfreely it can be deleted I don&#8217;t use it<\/p>\n<p>0:43:10.250,0:43:15.290<br \/>\nwho knows when was the last time I use<\/p>\n<p>0:43:12.380,0:43:18.980<br \/>\nit so those are the two things I do to<\/p>\n<p>0:43:15.290,0:43:22.130<br \/>\nclean my physical space and my digital<\/p>\n<p>0:43:18.980,0:43:24.680<br \/>\none that&#8217;s that process is a great way<\/p>\n<p>0:43:22.130,0:43:26.540<br \/>\nto handle it I love doing that I don&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>0:43:24.680,0:43:29.030<br \/>\ndo it often enough on my phone because I<\/p>\n<p>0:43:26.540,0:43:31.970<br \/>\nhave a tendency to accumulate apps on my<\/p>\n<p>0:43:29.030,0:43:34.490<br \/>\nphone like many of us do so I have to<\/p>\n<p>0:43:31.970,0:43:36.530<br \/>\nperiodically go through and say wait<\/p>\n<p>0:43:34.490,0:43:38.570<br \/>\nwhat was that app again and if I ask<\/p>\n<p>0:43:36.530,0:43:40.370<br \/>\nthat question I apparently have not used<\/p>\n<p>0:43:38.570,0:43:41.090<br \/>\nit recently and probably can take it off<\/p>\n<p>0:43:40.370,0:43:43.190<br \/>\nmy phone<\/p>\n<p>0:43:41.090,0:43:44.540<br \/>\nbut there&#8217;s if you look at a lot of the<\/p>\n<p>0:43:43.190,0:43:47.480<br \/>\nblogs there&#8217;s a great blog called<\/p>\n<p>0:43:44.540,0:43:50.210<br \/>\nunclutter er that has these types of<\/p>\n<p>0:43:47.480,0:43:54.140<br \/>\ntips and tricks that can be adapted to<\/p>\n<p>0:43:50.210,0:43:57.410<br \/>\napply to our own workspaces and the only<\/p>\n<p>0:43:54.140,0:44:00.040<br \/>\ncaution I provide is to watch the rabbit<\/p>\n<p>0:43:57.410,0:44:03.530<br \/>\nhole because it can almost become<\/p>\n<p>0:44:00.040,0:44:06.770<br \/>\ndetrimental to spend so much time trying<\/p>\n<p>0:44:03.530,0:44:08.870<br \/>\nto mentally and physically unclutter<\/p>\n<p>0:44:06.770,0:44:11.440<br \/>\nwhat we&#8217;re doing to to try and reach<\/p>\n<p>0:44:08.870,0:44:14.720<br \/>\nthat mythical peak productivity<\/p>\n<p>0:44:11.440,0:44:16.820<br \/>\nenvironment we still we still have to<\/p>\n<p>0:44:14.720,0:44:18.680<br \/>\nfollow that the classic 8020 measure<\/p>\n<p>0:44:16.820,0:44:20.990<br \/>\nfind the things that are going to make<\/p>\n<p>0:44:18.680,0:44:23.870<br \/>\nthe biggest impact implement those and<\/p>\n<p>0:44:20.990,0:44:26.000<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t sweat the small stuff get back to<\/p>\n<p>0:44:23.870,0:44:29.270<br \/>\nwork and get things done and then work<\/p>\n<p>0:44:26.000,0:44:30.690<br \/>\ninto smaller and smaller details as the<\/p>\n<p>0:44:29.270,0:44:32.609<br \/>\nbigger things have taken hold<\/p>\n<p>0:44:30.690,0:44:34.260<br \/>\nbut there is a point where you just need<\/p>\n<p>0:44:32.609,0:44:39.180<br \/>\nto stop trying to make it better and<\/p>\n<p>0:44:34.260,0:44:42.420<br \/>\njust get some work done I agree and and<\/p>\n<p>0:44:39.180,0:44:44.849<br \/>\nit it&#8217;s funny because we started off the<\/p>\n<p>0:44:42.420,0:44:47.690<br \/>\nconversation and some of the outline to<\/p>\n<p>0:44:44.849,0:44:49.829<br \/>\nthe physical clutter or at least<\/p>\n<p>0:44:47.690,0:44:52.230<br \/>\nnon-digital and we&#8217;ve sort of moved<\/p>\n<p>0:44:49.829,0:44:56.099<br \/>\nnoted talking about digital digital<\/p>\n<p>0:44:52.230,0:44:59.430<br \/>\nclutter or digital environment and III<\/p>\n<p>0:44:56.099,0:45:02.369<br \/>\nthink that the focus on keeping your<\/p>\n<p>0:44:59.430,0:45:05.069<br \/>\ndigital environment pristine or workable<\/p>\n<p>0:45:02.369,0:45:06.839<br \/>\nor productive is a brand new topic for<\/p>\n<p>0:45:05.069,0:45:08.700<br \/>\nus to be looking at in terms of this was<\/p>\n<p>0:45:06.839,0:45:10.500<br \/>\nas human beings because before the<\/p>\n<p>0:45:08.700,0:45:12.780<br \/>\ndigital age there were there were no<\/p>\n<p>0:45:10.500,0:45:14.819<br \/>\ndigital objects for us to have to worry<\/p>\n<p>0:45:12.780,0:45:16.200<br \/>\nabout but no they&#8217;ve become a huge part<\/p>\n<p>0:45:14.819,0:45:18.630<br \/>\nof our life I want to create a whole<\/p>\n<p>0:45:16.200,0:45:20.579<br \/>\ndifferent show on just just managing<\/p>\n<p>0:45:18.630,0:45:23.550<br \/>\ndigital clutter because this there&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>0:45:20.579,0:45:27.000<br \/>\nseems to be a whole bunch of levels in<\/p>\n<p>0:45:23.550,0:45:29.430<br \/>\nterms of how we can even think about<\/p>\n<p>0:45:27.000,0:45:32.960<br \/>\ndigital it&#8217;s not just about clutter it&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>0:45:29.430,0:45:37.650<br \/>\nabout digital processes digital apps<\/p>\n<p>0:45:32.960,0:45:39.839<br \/>\ndigital data resources that we need we<\/p>\n<p>0:45:37.650,0:45:42.060<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t yet have a structured way to think<\/p>\n<p>0:45:39.839,0:45:45.210<br \/>\nabout the digital objects in our life<\/p>\n<p>0:45:42.060,0:45:47.940<br \/>\nand I&#8217;m thinking we need one badly well<\/p>\n<p>0:45:45.210,0:45:50.550<br \/>\nyour wish may be granted and and we may<\/p>\n<p>0:45:47.940,0:45:53.339<br \/>\nhave that show pretty soon any tip you<\/p>\n<p>0:45:50.550,0:45:55.410<br \/>\ncan leave to or listeners any closing<\/p>\n<p>0:45:53.339,0:45:57.119<br \/>\ncomments on you guys have I would<\/p>\n<p>0:45:55.410,0:46:01.619<br \/>\nreiterate what I mentioned before which<\/p>\n<p>0:45:57.119,0:46:03.359<br \/>\nis just the idea of we&#8217;re all actually<\/p>\n<p>0:46:01.619,0:46:05.220<br \/>\nrepeated in different ways which is the<\/p>\n<p>0:46:03.359,0:46:07.530<br \/>\nturn off everything and then bring<\/p>\n<p>0:46:05.220,0:46:10.170<br \/>\neverything back in one by one until you<\/p>\n<p>0:46:07.530,0:46:12.660<br \/>\nfeel comfortable it&#8217;s painful I had to<\/p>\n<p>0:46:10.170,0:46:15.480<br \/>\ndo in my smartphone and my laptop in the<\/p>\n<p>0:46:12.660,0:46:17.940<br \/>\nlast year but the result I&#8217;m so happy<\/p>\n<p>0:46:15.480,0:46:19.440<br \/>\nwith the result it just just up before<\/p>\n<p>0:46:17.940,0:46:21.960<br \/>\ndoing it just seemed like it was gonna<\/p>\n<p>0:46:19.440,0:46:23.670<br \/>\nkill me but after the fact it&#8217;s the best<\/p>\n<p>0:46:21.960,0:46:26.280<br \/>\nfeeling in the world to have done it<\/p>\n<p>0:46:23.670,0:46:29.339<br \/>\nthere for me it&#8217;s really just the<\/p>\n<p>0:46:26.280,0:46:31.800<br \/>\nreminder that the work you do to make<\/p>\n<p>0:46:29.339,0:46:35.040<br \/>\nyourself more efficient at the other<\/p>\n<p>0:46:31.800,0:46:37.079<br \/>\nwork you do is as just as important so<\/p>\n<p>0:46:35.040,0:46:40.560<br \/>\ngiving yourself that permission to take<\/p>\n<p>0:46:37.079,0:46:42.030<br \/>\ntime to sharpen the saw to use the old<\/p>\n<p>0:46:40.560,0:46:44.730<br \/>\naxiom<\/p>\n<p>0:46:42.030,0:46:47.730<br \/>\nis something we have to want to be at<\/p>\n<p>0:46:44.730,0:46:51.150<br \/>\nour peak 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even<\/p>\n<p>0:47:25.290,0:47:31.350<br \/>\nneed to move out of my office<\/p>\n<p>0:47:27.660,0:47:33.660<br \/>\nand the reality is that we are getting<\/p>\n<p>0:47:31.350,0:47:36.540<br \/>\nmore and more clutter and a much faster<\/p>\n<p>0:47:33.660,0:47:39.540<br \/>\nspeed that required that we also get<\/p>\n<p>0:47:36.540,0:47:42.630<br \/>\nbetter at processing that I had to get<\/p>\n<p>0:47:39.540,0:47:45.390<br \/>\nrid of it so it&#8217;s where it comes<\/p>\n<p>0:47:42.630,0:47:48.030<br \/>\nimportant that you evaluate that<\/p>\n<p>0:47:45.390,0:47:50.900<br \/>\nenvironment that you figured out how to<\/p>\n<p>0:47:48.030,0:47:55.260<br \/>\nkeep it in the pristine place and<\/p>\n<p>0:47:50.900,0:47:58.800<br \/>\ndiscover what you need to do to be able<\/p>\n<p>0:47:55.260,0:48:02.100<br \/>\nto have a really productive one if not<\/p>\n<p>0:47:58.800,0:48:04.260<br \/>\nhey move find a different one you know<\/p>\n<p>0:48:02.100,0:48:06.300<br \/>\nyou get a place where you receive hold<\/p>\n<p>0:48:04.260,0:48:07.920<br \/>\nit you will you work with the clutter<\/p>\n<p>0:48:06.300,0:48:10.500<br \/>\nand then get a place where you can<\/p>\n<p>0:48:07.920,0:48:12.870<br \/>\nreally be productive is that&#8217;s possible<\/p>\n<p>0:48:10.500,0:48:15.630<br \/>\nfor you so did you just say that I can<\/p>\n<p>0:48:12.870,0:48:19.130<br \/>\ntell my wife that my cluttered office is<\/p>\n<p>0:48:15.630,0:48:24.330<br \/>\nJeff Bezos is fault not mine hey that&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>0:48:19.130,0:48:25.770<br \/>\nyour wife I just want to be clear just<\/p>\n<p>0:48:24.330,0:48:27.540<br \/>\nwhat be clear that there is you know<\/p>\n<p>0:48:25.770,0:48:30.960<br \/>\nprofessional reinforcement of this<\/p>\n<p>0:48:27.540,0:48:34.430<br \/>\nparticular mindset so she&#8217;s not gonna<\/p>\n<p>0:48:30.960,0:48:34.430<br \/>\nbuy it but it&#8217;s worth a shot<\/p>\n<p>0:48:35.120,0:48:43.320<br \/>\nI my wife doesn&#8217;t buy either but 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