Modern Wisdom - #018 - Life Hacks 104

Episode Date: June 18, 2018

Jonny is away so me and Yusef from PropaneFitness.com go head to head with another episode detailing our favourite apps, websites, resources and tools for a productive and efficient life. This is by far the most jam packed Life Hacks episode we've done, and below you will find links to everything we reference, including as many referral & discount codes as we could find! Enjoy. Links: Splitwise - https://www.splitwise.com Whatsapp Web - https://web.whatsapp.com Alfred For Mac - https://www.alfredapp.com/ Booking.com - https://booking.com/s/38_6/ade6c3a3 (£15 reward when signing up with this link) IINA - https://lhc70000.github.io/iina/ Quidco - https://www.quidco.com/raf/5682034/ (extra rewards with this link) Bulb Energy - www.bulb.me/chrisw2582 (extra rewards with this link) YouPak - https://www.youpak.com Anjunadeep - https://www.anjunadeep.com MuscleFood - https://www.musclefood.com (use mwisdom10 for 2.5kg of free Chicken breasts when you buy 2.5kg) Medium - https://www.medium.com Yumi Melatonin Gummies - https://www.yuminutrition.com Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello there. This week we have another life hacks episode. Johnny is still a way so it's just me and you so head-to-head with some of our best shortcuts to give you a productive life and this is absolutely jam-packed. So we've got our favorite YouTube apps, music to work to our favorite cashback apps, how you can split the energy bill between your friends and your house easily, our favourite new article site that allows us to have curated content

bespokely given to us every single day for free, how to use WhatsApp on your laptop, how to get hold of Melatonin gummies in the UK now, the best way that we book hotels, how you can get the cheapest meat ordered online and delivered to your door. Some productivity hacks, a two minute working rule, which has changed the way that I look at my daily schedule

and an awful lot more. The list really is, it's endless. And just as well, because we're going to keep these coming at you. Also, if there are any discount codes or referral codes that we know that you will be able to benefit from, they will be in the show notes below. Please use the links because it will mean that use if is a little bit less skin as a medical student and it means that you'll end up earning some discount or some cash back or whatever it might be. I know I say this every week as well but I really do appreciate all of the

messages that appear to be ramping up all the time and how heartfelt they are really, really does touch me. It's very empowering to feel like I'm improving other people's lives and I'd do this if no one was listening but the fact that it's having a good effect on a lot of you is It's very meaningful. So thank you very much. But for now, let's get into it. Lifehacks 104 You got some lifehacks? Yes, so we keep them in diary. Yeah, I have. Have you?

Okay, easiest way to do it, because I... When I have to think about them on Q, it's impossible. Or come up with the shape ones. Yeah, actually this is... When I log them in advance, it's awesome. So hi again, life hacks one of four this time, uh, Johnny is not here. One, one, four, he is, um, in somewhere hot sweating and complaining that we're being 105 kilos is too large. So we're in fault, Johnny, you're 105 kilos. It's his choice to move to the 120s, wasn't it? As a powerlifter. So, so life hacks 104, who's gonna go first? You wanna go first? Sure, right. So, one that I've realized that I've been using

seamlessly, as you said, it's the ones that are the most background, they're probably the most useful for you, but the least ones you'd be like, oh yeah, I do that thing. Integrated themselves are seamlessly in your life, it's like talking about breathing, I'm talking about eating. Exactly, so what is water to a fish? So split wise is one that, so this is a tool, it's free, there is a paid version, but the paid version is so high powered that you just don't need it. So there's too much optimization. Yeah, exactly. So if you live in a flat share, and one of you handles the bills,

this is phenomenal. So it's got like a machine learning element to it and everything, but what it is, each person gets an account, you join a group which is your flat, and then you input expenses. So you can set recurring expenses that are like, like, Council tax.

Council tax here. And you can input individual ones. It then creates a running tally of how much each person is owed. And so, and it'll offset based on what other people have bought. So if you paid the council tax and then your flatmate goes and buy some toilet roll, inputs into split buyers and it'll balance it again. This is just like your wet dream. Incredible. And then once a month it sends you all an email saying who is owed what? Wow. And as you type in electricity or whatever, you know,

British gas or whatever, it'll then detect, it'll, based on the worst type, it'll create a little icon like light bulb, categorize it under electricity and utilities. That's just stiffy and juicing for you. Incredible. That sounds really, really good. I remember when I was at uni, we left with, I'm pretty certain there's still like three or four CCJs out for like some of the people in my flat because they'd left without that pay in there. Yeah, it isn't, it's an absolute arson. I wish that there was a better app for working out who was what at the end of a meal

because we go out for food all the time. And it's an absolute nightmare. And I'm sat there with one person. It's just Apple-Pay stuff as you go along. If like, what? So I just have to come over and start this here and then it's you and- Well, like an iPad menu where you just say,

I want that, that, and and that and it just charges you. Yeah, that would rather. I'd rather. Right. My one. Oh, what am I going to start with? Right, OK. So WhatsApp web, not everyone knows that there is a desktop browser-based partner to WhatsApp.

You did removing it. I know. Yeah, you just opening it with Alfred. Yeah, so basically if you go to web.wattap.com and then scan the QR code with your phone, when your phone's on WhatsApp, you get all of the functions of WhatsApp. You only have to scan code once.

Yeah, it's logged in. And yeah, you get all of your chats, all your broadcast lists, all your groups. You can upload files and lists, all your groups. You can upload files and photos directly from your desktop. It's web, it's browser-based, so if you go to, if you're away from your normal computer and you want to use it, then you can just log in and it's such a game changer. When we're talking about strategies to try and reduce our phone usage and get away from

the human and the loop, idiosyncratic use of your phone. This is one of the best ways because you use your laptop for distinctly different purposes and use your phone for. It's very easy to go on to WhatsApp to deal with something which you can quote unquote have as productive and then tumble into Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, so on and so forth. Whereas on your laptop, personally for me, I find that my time is a lot more, it's a lot more directed, it's definitely a lot more mindful. So yeah, it means phone can be down, face down, and obviously if you've got MacBook, as we said, Lifehack's one-on-one, the first one that you said was Apple products, if you've got iMessage linked up between your MacBook and your iPhone,

you've got your two main platforms. It's like a giant phone. You've got your phone on your laptop. Yeah, exactly, which is unbelievable. So I'm part of team Fat Thumbs as well, and I just can't, like I'm using an iPhone SE, which is the same size as a five. Yeah.

And texting is just a nightmare every time. I really appore texting on my phone, but only do it when I have to. So what's that web, at least it means that you can write out a more considered response because you're not dealing with the R sound of trying to text and think like I'm just going to say. And actually, I've got myself in trouble by sending short messages or trying to be too concise because I can't be bothered to type it on. I know this is like, some people would be like, oh, first of all, a problem like, yeah, I know.

But I'd rather batch process what's up, type it properly on a computer. Not after the old-term screen. On the side of that, control, command, and space on a MacBook. That brings up the emoji menu. Now this is good at trigger use because he has an even more short cutie way of getting them up, but for me and models like myself and most of you who are listening. Oh god, this is a hot way. I realize how lame I am. So it's a great

shortcut. The only reason I've set up an alpha and a quicker version is because it takes about one to 1.5 seconds to load. It does take a little bit of time, that's just too long for you. But yeah, if you have your Mac broke up and you press control command, I'm going to make sure this is actually correct or I'm going to be giving people. Yeah, control command and space. It's quicker on yours, actually. Maybe I've just got a slow mark. And yeah, it brings up the full emoji keyboard. So if you're writing states is or WhatsApp web, I message stuff like that.

Again, it's indexed. So as you start typing water melanin, it'll come up. Yeah, I used to have all of my commonly used ones in a note on notes and then go onto the note to copy them out. And then I found the control command in space and I was like, I don't even need to be there? Right, let them on. What do you want to do next? What's your next

one? My next one is, by the way, just before we go on to this, speaking of split wise, and paying your friends, Apple Pay Cash is coming out soon, which is going to be a way that you can just high message your friends money. Okay. So again with the paying the bill and stuff. It'll probably be all integrated into something like that and you just send a text and send the money across. So we could maybe even with meals and things, it could even be up to the kids. One person pays the bill. And everyone just texts in the money. Yeah, so. Or give them cash. Yeah. So moving on. Moving on.

We talked about Alfred and the emoji search. So you can either do control command space, or if you use Alfred and you've listened to one of the other life hacks where we mention it every time, because it's incredible, is a shortcut that, so for me, if I'm just typing an emoji, open alpha is so command space, e, and then just type the word, so e, lemon, that will come up with the emoji. Now, another discovery I made on alpha read yesterday is the Google search, so you can now do a built-in Google search function. So let's say I want to type, I want to find my Ramadan article on prepping fitness. It gives you an inline response. Okay. We stand there. So that's lovely. Yeah, that is cool. So then if I want to copy the link,

I just do that and then paste the link to people. So basically just everyone should download Alfred. I don't think we've actually gone top to bottom on what Alfred is. Can you very, very, very basically explain what it is at a core level? So if you've used a Mac and you've opened Spotlight, which is the Universal Search bar, that comes up with, it's a currency converter, a calculator, file search, any of those things. Alfred is like that, but it's a bit more super-powered. It's like that on steroids. Like on steroids? And the speed at the same time. Yeah, exactly. And so it's faster on steroids and this work flows as well.

So you can it builds in certain keys or shortcuts or whatever that'll do a bunch of things. So you can like select a file and then Alfred will move it to the folder that you want it to. Or you can open a website in about two key presses or whatever. So it's a very powerful shortcut. It's great. Like you can call people with open bookmarks. I found the other day there's a plug in that you can get through where it'll tweet from Alfred.

So I can just be on here now. And in fact, I'm going to do this for a second. It looks the same as Spotlight. So I can command in space, I can type in the word tweet, which goes send tweet. And then all I need to do is type I am tweeting from Alfred. Press return to page. And it'll send a tweet out.

And then it'll give me a little notification. But you can say we're recording Lifehacks104 tune in. But no, it's just a name. Yeah, I am tweeting from Alfred. Well, I mean, it's definitely accurate. It's what happened. Exactly. So the reason that this Google search thing is so useful, It's just a name. Yeah, I am tweeting for a minute. It's definitely accurate. It's what happened. Exactly. So the reason that this Google search thing is so useful,

at least for me, and I'm sure that you guys listening, like if you ever have to constantly bring up links or whatever for work and paste someone a link. Now that you can just type it in there, you know that it's going to be the first thing on Google, because the specific keywords, and you just paste it to the list. The main thing.

So this is another one of the things to do with life hacks. You are so far you're so deep in Alfred. You are up to the hips in him. I have an hour long webinar on Alfred that you can the problem is you've missed off some of the best stuff because it's too basic. So the the most used things for me on Alfred are the fact that it gives you a clipboard history. So if you can imagine that when you copy something on a normal MacBook, you only can command and V, you can only paste the most recent thing that you've done. Whereas Alfred gives you a clipboard of, I think it's the most recent

100, you can change the number as well. Yeah, okay. So it gives you a history of pretty much everything. And it's in rich text format, so it doesn't strip the format. The copy is a formatting through and all the rest of it. You get images, whatever, and if you want to strip the formatting, you hold down shift, and then it does that. Yeah, it's about as slick of a workflow tool as you can get, but it's across everything. So whether you use your website, your computer

for designing websites, whether you're a writer, even if you just use your MacBook for doing articles at university work, whatever it might be, there's something in this that I think will improve. It is akin to speeding the track pad. Makes me so happy to hear the cause. I recommended Alfred to Chris and it's 20 quid or something. Yeah. And obviously there's a sense of like, oh shit, like someone else to buy this. Yeah. If he doesn't get his value for money out of it, it's going to be on my head. Which is the single most painful thought that you can have.

Well, someone else has spent money at your request. And it's not. It's not been a value to them. So yeah, that's, Alfred definitely, there's another part of Alfred which is a game changer, which is the snippets. So, if, like me, I do a lot of social media and a lot of the social media posts that I write have elements in them which are the same. Alfred will allow you the same as what's called text replacement on iPhone. Basically, you can write a short selection of characters, which will expand out into either a full word, a website. Can you give us some examples? So, for me, I use a lot of the time I use get on guest list text, space, stash, space, and

then a phone number. Now that phone number is different for each event that we use. So for me to go back and have to copy this out of my notes was really arduous previously, whereas now I've got VV1 for Voodoo, AA1 for a low-ha, MM1 for both the Manchester Knights. And what that means that I don't need to go back in, it's just automatically pulled across. Now what I've also got is much longer replies and responses. So I've got my... I have a standard canned responses that you would... Yeah, so if I get, if someone asks about, they want to send some products out or something like that, then I've got a canned response in there with line breaks, formatting my address, my phone number, my telephone, all of the bits that the people need,

and it's just done. The expediency is incredible. Yeah, it's pretty terrifying. So have a look at Alfred, I don't think you can download a trial version. You can get the free version, but it's not fully functional. Oh, okay. But to be honest, once you've played with the free version,

you'd be like, okay, it's 20 pounds. It's 20 pounds. The thing is. So the functions you've described there even just the text expander and clipboard manager Worth 20 could better that so there are Dedicated clipboard manager apps and dedicated text expander apps that I've tried and I've hold it to yeah, and Alfred is still better even like for each of them individually even though it's not a dedicated app for it So just absolutely get it just buy Alfred for example Yeah, so it's Chris said you can start typing your phone number or your address or whatever and expand I have kind regards Usif the problem is

Sometimes I forget that I have it on so I'll type kind regards to guards Yeah, and it'll jump on the back. Yeah. Right. So text replacement on iPhone is actually one of mine. So what this is is the exact same thing as the text expander that we've spoken about on Alfred, but it's on your phone. So if you think especially on your phone, a lot of the time, what are the things that you need to type in? So your phone number, your email address addresses. If you go, this is on iPhone, I'm not sure what the equivalent would be for Android settings, general keyboard text replacement. And then if you go, it's got the entire, I've got it in my mind, pal,

this year. Top right, press the plus button. The phrase that you put in at the top is what you wanted to say and then the shortcut is optional and that allows you to expand it out. So for me, I've got EML, expands out to my email, my nun expands out to my phone number and it means one of the main things is you're never ever going to get it wrong. If you've got it right, that one time, you're never going to type or your email address or your phone number again because you've outsourced getting it correct to a previous point when you knew it was correct. Exactly, so unless you got it wrong then. Yeah, well in that case you're really fucked, and you've been fucked for a long time. So you can also have some fun with it, like we did with Ben, where you change app or the

or in to, I really like it when you put your thumb in my bum. Thanks very much. And then, and then whenever they send a message to friend or whatever. It's just complete gibberish. Yeah. Yeah. Right. What have we got next? Okay, so shall I just quickly run through the potential features of Alfred?

Just in case you're listening and you want. I think we've sold Alfred on this one and we'll come back to Advanced Alfred. Okay, because you are right. I didn't expand on the... We'll go Advanced Alfred on another one. Fine, I mean, as I say, I've got a one hour webinar on Alfred, you can listen to. Yeah, get in touch. So next, for me, is Chewbex. Yeah.

Now, this is one that you actually got me on to. You know, I think we are the chosen few at this point. Oh, they're not allowed to download it anymore. Oh god. You know what, we can leave, I think. Consend it. Yeah, I can. So, if you have the on your iPhone, you can make sure you back it up on your Mac and then anyone on request, you can send them the file. Is that what it works? Yeah, so, but it just means that they can't get it from the app store anymore.

Ah, well, Chewbeck's was is slash was a alternative for YouTube, which allowed you to play YouTube videos in the background while you do other tasks on your phone. So, which my phone just doesn't allow, which is so annoying. Yeah, it's crazy. I suppose it makes sense from YouTube's side, but yeah, it would allow you to use YouTubers audio only, the same way as a podcast app might do or whatever it might be.

So I'm gonna... Instead of doing the amount of audio on YouTube, like the amount of lectures and stuff. There used to be a way where you could open it in a browser and then close the browser, swipe up from the bottom and press play and that would work, but I don't think that does anymore. Right, okay, so I'm gonna, I'm to have to check on Chebex and see if anyone's got an alternative to it,

I'm going to presume it gets shut down because it's breaching YouTube's terms of service, which include not playing, why not. Exactly, it's a YouTube term, but if you have a rooted Android phone or a jail broken iPhone, then you could do it as well. Is that even a thing anymore? It's not as popular because more and more features are coming to you. Do you remember when you had to download an app on your iPhone to have a flashlight?

Or you'd like put the video mode on and swipe, did you ever have an iPhone when that was the case? Yeah. There wasn't a native flashlight from the bottom, from the dock at the bottom. Forgot about that, crazy. So, okay, next one for me, Quidco. So this is again, we're on financial terms today

aren't we, you can tell it's new texture. Quidco is a cashback site online and I couldn't believe that probably the most frugal person who I know, which is you, didn't know about it and And then increasingly, the more people that I speak to, they also don't know about it. So I'm maybe thinking it's not quite as renowned as... I set up an account in, I think 2009, 2010, from my flatmates advice and then just never used it. And I've realized that actually, yeah,

I missed out on so much potential. Probably costed £1, pounds over the last like five years Yeah, so basically basically Quid Co is a site a cashback site You can go through it to get to purchase pretty much anything online my protein muscle food BT Sky a lot of utilities first energy all that sort of EDF. They're all on there jet2.com There's pretty much everything from groceries to utilities electronics consumables all that sort of stuff and Yeah, you get varying degrees of cash back amount now the the big money is to be heard when you sign up to

Stuff that's a monthly direct debit so things like switching your energy over switching your What you're looking at there? You know 110 pounds if you switch to first-year. First-year utilities. Yeah, like I'd managed to batch together, I think about 150 pounds, to go over the sky plus with like a new, new member joining thing. And it meant that my first six months with the sky was free, my next six months was 50% off. Great. So yeah, it was, it's. Great. So yeah, it's pretty impressive.

But yeah, it's the easiest thing in the world. I'm just going to use Alfred to create a calendar event so that I can remind myself to do that for Virgin Broadband. There you go. I mean, it's just, the optimization is just through the room for the moment, isn't it? So yeah, Qidco, Qidco's definitely one that everyone should be using. You're spending the money anyway, so you may as well try and save it.

Are you still alfreading or do you want me to go again? Uh, okay. I'm gonna go again. Cool. So I've only recently started using this site and I can't remember who introduced me to it. I think I might have just found it online, but it's called Medium.

And I've got Johnny and Yusuf onto it as well. Medium is essentially a hosting site for articles that kind of the same way that Reddit is a meta blog. This would be a meta, I guess, news, like article site. So you got to think, yeah, if you type in on Google, if you want to find out about biohacking, let's say, and you type in biohacking for sleep,

Google will rank your results based on relevance, but not actually based on quality, whereas medium is one platform, which has a whole bunch of articles hosted on quality, whereas medium is one platform which has a whole bunch of articles hosted on there. Annoyingly Google Rags it based on relevance to you as well. Yeah so your previous search terms which just means you got stuck in this echo chamber and you don't actually get to... That's a big thing isn't it right? There's a whole bunch of studies that have been done where they'll have one person will type in like war in Iraq and or just Iraq and then one person will get a lot of war out because the other person will get like want to travel to Iraq. Oh really? Yeah, like based on

what their history is being because you get this curated news feed. So yeah, medium instead of it being based on relevance, medium bases it on other users' ratings. So there's kind of an upvote and a downvote. The same way it's similar to the way that Reddit works, I suppose. And yeah, the content that's on there, for me personally, is fantastic. I haven't spent as much time on a site in ages. There's a lovely partner app for iPhone. It remembers your reading place.

It'll deliver you similar articles to ones that you've upvoted pretty recently and that you've been reading, it'll give you an estimated read time at the top as well, which I absolutely love. Yeah, I think. I think the typography as well. Yeah, it's just really, really clear, very well put together and some of the articles that are on there are fantastic. A lot about optimization, a lot of stuff to do with news. It's a bit Silicon Valley-ish, but I suppose any emerging platform

like this is going to be. But there's literally everything on there. And I think you, as a more intellectual than something like Reddit as well. Oh yeah, 100%. It's quite serious to a degree, but I found out the other day, so I was reading about what the scientific basis is for why Snapchat filters make girls look more attractive. Oh, okay. Really, really interesting. I don't know, I guess it clears skin blemishes, so it achieves the same objective as makeup

does. That does, it's like, um, larger eyes can vey honesty, youthfulness, which is male to female trait. Interestingly, female to male, males need to have smaller eyes because it's maturity and masculinity. Cheeks blushed lips blushed happens also on the Snapchat filters, which is indicator of readiness for sex. And then it started talking about what will happen apparently over time in a society that values particular characteristics is you get. And I'm going to butcher this. I think it's recursive, fishery, that recursive, fishery, and progress, or something like that. What happens is characteristics which are attractive

become exaggerated over time to the point at which they become caricatured. So you've got to imagine if everyone in the world likes women who have big boobs, naturally through sexual selection, women with big boobs will procreate more, which ends up running for 500 years. You've just got these heads of tits with legs, walking around, so you get this almost like you overshoot on the other side and it's playing off the being a little bit ahead of the curve. It's the maximized number of paper clips thing isn't it? So and this was this was all on medium just some guy who wrote about marketing on on there. So what's up next for you? Very interesting. So mine is a Pyrex ball.

Large Pyrex ball cost me about £1.50 back in 2008. I've had it for 10 years. This is the only thing you eat out. So the only thing I have to eat out of, and I invited my girlfriend around for the first time to have a share of meal with me, and I realised actually we're both going to have to eat out of this pirate book. This is not dysfunctional as a human being. So, we've got other plates and things now, but like that is just because it's so easily

cleanable, it's indestructible. Yeah. Micro-wave it. It's big enough to cook large, like bulk food in. You can do cakes and literally anything. It can be a mixing bowl. So really, if you're going to, so I saw an article by a guy who has 21 possessions. Okay.

And that's it. And I imagine he'll have like a spork and a pyrex bowl. And that'll be his kitchenware. And then he'll have like a pair of boots. And so if you wanna go full minimal, pyrex bowls, I mean two pyrex bowls would be. Even better. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's actually twice as good. So, I mean two power expose would be. Even better. Yeah. Yeah. That's actually twice as good.

So, I mean, just again, the washing up time, any of these things, there's no intricacy about it. It's just done. Yeah. I like that a lot. That's cool. Right. Okay, so up next, for me, is something that we've been, I've done for absolutely ages, which is bypassing going to the hairdressers and getting my hair cut either in the office or at home. So pretty much every single hairdresser that you go to will also work privately. So all that you need to do, go into a salon, move to a new

city or in a current location where you've been going for a little while, speak to the stylist that you usually deal with, ask the method to do home visits, more like privately, more times than not, they will do, and then get them around to your house or get them to your office. You don't have to leave where you are. Yeah, you need to clean up afterwards, that's a negative, but on the plus side, it'll be usually between 50 and 60% of the cost an awful lot less in your billions. I would have thought they would charge you for a call out. No, no, no. Bloody hell, okay. And did they just do all the guys in the office? Yeah, so we have one person who will come round and there's been periods where she's done back-to-back like four guys, four of the guys in the office,

and you just grin at back-to-back four guys, you know. Yeah, she'll come round and that's it, and you're there working away on your phone, you don't need to leave work, and on the same as that is home-visit car washes. So rather than having to drive to go to the local hand car wash or the shell garage to get your car machine washed, you shouldn't be getting your car machine washed by the way, and this is what the guy who does our valeting said because the brushes break through the resin

on the top of the paint cover for your car. So if you actually look at your car, the side of your car, if you've been getting it done with the machine wash in the sun shine, you'll see that these tiny little lines that bounce off the sunlight, and what that's due to is the fact that these brushes are too harsh, and they actually chop away the red away. That's interesting.

Yeah, so if you're in the office or if you're at home, some people like the idea of washing their car, that's cool, I can see it as a therapeutic activity, the same way some people actually enjoy hoovering the house. But for me, it's not so we've got a guy who comes around. Yeah, we've got a guy who comes round. And I think typically for a hand car wash, you'd be talking about maybe five pounds or inside and out, like for a mini-valid, you'd be talking about 10. So he'll come round and do, I think, insides maybe seven and inside and out 15. But the quality is significantly higher. Can you give me this guy's, yeah.

I'll give you after. I'll give you a little help. Because there's a place in war's end that does the best hand job in town, according to the sign. According to their sign, and you can see that they've realized their mistake and they've had to, like, rub away the word job.

And, that was the best hand and they written wash like on the side. And wash. But like it's faint. You can still see the faint job. It's the faint job. Faint job. They've really, so yeah, find someone who'll do home visits for you, for you carry your house, for you carry your hair. Because I can't, I'm not thinking straight today at all. car of your hair because of car name. I'm not thinking straight today at all. It's more efficient, it's going to save you time on the haircut. Well, 100% save you money and on the car valid, maybe you're going to be similar, but you're definitely going to get a better level of

service. I mean, what do you value your time at? Because driving to town, especially if your headdress is in town, you've got drive to town, got park up, pay for parking. G out the car, go that, do you know what I mean? It's just, and the other thing as well is that you don't have to take any time out of your day to do this, because most of the times when the fully sold on this night headrest is a free. The only reason I resisted it is because I thought it would cost more.

I thought it would be like 30 quid, just to call out. No, no, no, no. Oh, it's you because you've got to think like the guys when they're working in salons. Got to pay overheads. Yeah, they're paying whatever it is in equivalent of a rental fee or sometimes they have like a minimum that they pay and then over X number of customers per week or month or whatever that's when they start to be able to take their commissions. So if they can, if you can cut out the middleman, which is essentially the unit, and the other thing is as well, like I always thought, oh, well,

I don't have to, they're kicked at my house to get my hair cut properly. It's like spotless, gray water, which they'll bring, clickers, which they'll bring, put like do it on hard with floor or put a mat down or something like that, bundle it up in your way. Just in the garden? In the garden, you would get over the course of a year, you'd get a very hairy garden though. I see.

Especially you. Yeah, true. I shaved my entire body from the neck down the other day. How did that go? So I thought it because I'm going away to a hot country scene, so I thought I'd better get a cool down. See some of my legs. I run your arms there.

Yeah, I mean arms like. What about legs? Yeah, I've done legs. Did legs, but not arms. Yeah, so. Okay. But I've realized it just makes you more sweaty. Yeah. I didn't realize the the wet away, right? Yeah. So I think I won't be doing that again. So was it a lengthy task? No, didn't take like two, five minutes. A bit your, just a very rare arrow to be able to say that. Yeah, I mean, luckily I'm not going to hairy back. So my brother has. So I-

He's perverted all of the back hair. Yeah, he got all of the arrow. He also got the swole gene, which I find really annoying. Yeah, he's like, he didn't lift. Yeah, barely. Yeah, but it looks like he does. Yeah, very exciting. So my life hack is better touch tool. Yeah, barely. Yeah, but it looks like he does. Yeah, very exciting.

So my life hack is better touch tool. We didn't discuss this on the first one, did we? No, no. So on a Windows computer, this feature is actually something that I've seen so many Apple users just jizz over because they thought that it was never going to come to Mac, which is on a Windows computer, you drag a window to the left or to the right and it divides the

window or it snaps it to that side. Yeah, this has been around for quite a while on Windows. On Windows, right? Yeah, I don't know how you describe it, but when you drag it to the top and it makes the window half the same. It's like a window, a window optimizing, a shaping tool. Yeah, so shapes it to one side or the other side or whatever. Better touch tool allows you to do that.

It also gives you a lot more customizability over things like hot corners, so which corner you put the track pad in on the mark. You can create key sequences and things. So I've got one that's like, if I've got a tab open, I can move it to another space by holding down command and pressing double tapping right or left. There's also things for yeah, maximizing windows left and right with keyboard shortcuts, compressing all the pictures in a PowerPoint. So you've got a PowerPoint open, you want to make the file size smaller. So if you're

a student and you're downloading loads of PowerPoints, and they're all like 10, 15 megabytes each, very soon, that's going to fill up your computer. So better touch tool, give you a way to set up a workflow so that you can just, it goes through all the pictures, compresses them, makes them smaller, saves the file down, drops the file size of your PowerPoint presentation, launching certain apps. So I launch ever noted by like Command Shift J. It's a shortcut tool, isn't it? It's the other side to Alfredo suppose to a degree.

Kind of, yeah. And you can make this app specific too. And if you have a new mark, you can it integrates with your touch bar so you can completely customize all the shortcuts and touch bar and that kind of thing. Okay. I am in it bids on it. I'm not trying to, I'm trying to, so this is a girl who I know also has the Melatonin gummies, which is what I was going to speak about now. Hello. But I can't remember the name of the company. It'll be in the description below. So melatonin, in fact, I'll put this on. Which is going to use the Alfred search G.S.

You're me, that's it, you're me. No, so you can't get, you cannot buy melatonin on Amazon. In the UK, you can buy products branded as melatonin, but actually it's 5HTP or it's something else. Yeah, you can't get it in the UK and if you try to buy it in the UK it'll say that you can't. Yeah, so you've just got ad to wish this there. We'll see all buying options. So that's not. This is Amazon America. Yeah. Well, there you go. And it won't ship to the UK either. So can you briefly explain what melatonin is? So melatonin is the sleep neurotransmitter. It's just So melatonin is the sleep neurotransmitter. It's just the metabolite of serotonin. So serotonin metabolizes into melatonin,

which is just what's released naturally when you go to sleep. Now, you can supplement with it, which will promote your natural production of melatonin and help you to sleep better. And in the studies, it looks like melatonin reduces your sleep requirement by about an hour hour in some, according to some data. So it's nice to use as a way to reset your sleep cycle. If you've either been traveling or you've had a late one and you need to kind of reset things a little bit, it's not something that I would take every day, but it's useful to have as a backup

cleaner, nuclear warhead. So Matthew Walker from Where We Sleep, he talks about melatonin use and says that his soul advice for it, or his primary advice for it should I say, is for resetting sleeping patterns. And that would be particularly useful if you are someone who does shift work, someone who has varied working hours like myself,

or someone who travels a lot and is potentially moving through different time zones. So, I use these melatonin gummies. I've got no idea. Don't ask me how. It's called Yumi, which is the company that does them. Link will be in the show notes below. I have no idea how they're retelling them in the UK, because as far as I'm aware, melatonin isn't available. You can't even get melatonin. I don't think on prescription. It's just not available in the UK. You can get it on prescription,

but you have to be very good at severe insomnia because I went and spoke to my doctor about this. I'm not sure even doctors would prescribe it to someone who's not autistic or have a child develop mental problem. Really? I think as an adult, I don't know if they would give you my latonin. I think they'd probably give you

zyplocone or some kind of sleeping pill. Okay. But yeah, which is potentially, is that a less holistic, less natural approach? Less natural and it's been implicated in all cause mortality, which is interesting. So all cause mortality. So like you will, you will die of any cause. You, more likely to die of any cause if you take more than three sleeping

pills a year. Oh my god. That's terrifying. So like, whatever, just what a stupid statistic. Well anyway, so yeah, I've got no idea how this company's retelling them, but I spoke to them, I dropped them an email and I asked them to explain why it is that the gummies work more effectively. Now I'll do a, I'm going to be talking about sleeping in an upcoming podcast, so I'll go through that a little bit more detail then. But yeah, Melatonin for resetting sleeping patterns, especially if you're doing shiftwork, if you're traveling a lot, it's a real game changer for me. I struggle to get to sleep. There's a lot of times I'll get in from work that's six in the morning and I look at my clock and I'll think, right, I'm finishing work now and in 24 hours, I'm going to want to be getting up. So I need to go

to sleep, wake up, go to sleep and wake up in the space of 24 hours in order to be able to reset my sleeping partner appropriately. And the only way that I can do that is by using melatonin because my circadian rhythm is just so off. Yeah, it's so thrown out. And the dangers of shift work, people who do shift work, they die, I think on average, 10 to 15 cents sooner. It's pretty bad, isn't it? The high rate of diabetes, high rate of heart disease, high rates of cancer, much higher rates of Alzheimer's. So yeah, try and treat sleepers sacredly as you can and assist yourself with melatonin. It's been a real assistance for me. Yeah, Martin is good. I've got some as well. I am important, son. It's legal to own everything,

but it's not controlled. Substances, it's strange why in the UK they don't have it. So I got some brought over from Canada that I've been using some sublingual ones that dissolve under the tone and then moved on to the melatonin gum. Exactly. One of the problems is that because they're kind of like just chewy sweets, they taste really good. So the temptation to overshoot is massive. I want to just put myself into a coma with 20 grams of melatonin gum. Well, that's it. And the optimum dose of melatonin is 1 milligram. So there is like if you have too little or too much, it has less of an effect than what's

a strange. It is odd. Some drugs work like that. Luckily, I've got the lozenges as well and split them into quarters. Yeah. And they're 5 milligram lozenges. So splitting them into 1.25 milligrams, that's fine. Yeah. Does the job for me. Next. Next is my current electricity supplier called bulb. No, I was with N power who, N power, if you're listening, you are terrible. Like I look at them up on trust Pilot, 0.4 out of 10 rating. Oh my God. So what? They're just, they've just been consistent. Surely they could just get some of the mates

to go on and get them a 10 star like. I think there's just such an overwhelming majority of people that are just like zero zero. So they're really awful. And I switched to bulb. I went on the thing and I was like, okay, switch to bulb. It's like, hey, put in your address.

Here's what your quote will be. And it's consistently the cheapest tariff possible. And they only have one tariff. And power have about 150 tariffs based on life. It's so weird. It's designed to obfuscate it and confuse you. Is that one, okay? It's like, a genuine, fake green evergreen.

Whereas bulb is the cheapest and the only half one, it's just like flat, low cheap. And it's because everything that they do is from renewable sources. As a result, they get a huge amount of angel investors and come from the fund to kick-fights. They're just piling into it. Yeah, so basically that happened.

I filled in the form, which was like a page. It was like four fields to fill in. And I pressed OK and it was like, there you go, you've switched to bulb. I was like, so I called them up and I was like, hi. Um, in fact, I gave them a call on the number on the website. And it just went, hello, this is George speaking. Thanks for calling bulb. How can I help you? You're like, where's the 45?

Multiple option things for me to... Yeah, straight through to a heap of... I'm a bit taken about... It wasn't ready, I was prepared for 10 minutes of all of selecting... If selecting circular options, and I was like, I've just filled in the form. Is that it? I was like, yeah? Like, what? So now you're my energy supplier, and it's like, yeah, we like to make things easy.

Like, okay. Fucking hell, man. Great. So from doing that, I got 50 quid. Yeah. Did you quit, Coyote? No, you didn't quit, Coyote. Didn't quit, Coyote, I should have.

Yeah. But you can also, if you refer any friend, yeah. They get 50 quid as well. Awesome. So if you don't mind, Chris. Well, I'll switch it. I'll switch it to some point soon. I'm not doing that. Oh, well, I was gonna say, if you don't mind Chris, I'll switch it to some point two.

I'm not doing it. Oh well, I was going to say you don't mind me mentioning my referral code. I'll put it in the show links below. Fine. Bob.co.uk forward slash refer forward slash usf y usf and you get a fifth, we both get 50 quid. That's awesome. It is great.

So I've made 250 quid from Bob. Which is amazing. That's like it. Is it in bulb credit or is it in real money? It's in bulb credit. Okay. But that's real money. You're gonna spend it in that case.

Yeah. And the app is excellent. It's already simple. Like look at how simple the interface is on the website. Oh yeah, that's true. And you can select those are the addresses that I've got on bulb. So yeah, that's cool.

Just switch. But hang on, have you referred like your mom and you can refer anyone? Yeah, I don't have to be. I on, have you referred like your mum and... Yeah, you can refer anyone. Yeah, I don't have to be. I'm just trying to think about how far you've... Oh, you've referred to my system. Yeah, yeah. On a similar vein to that, booking.com.

Unbelievable, yeah. I don't know who else. Hotels.com, I suppose, or late rooms are all right, but booking.com for me is late rooms are all right, but Booking.com for me is by far and away the best place to book hotels. Have you used Trivago? Trivago, I haven't. I haven't either.

Have you not seen the adverts for it? Yeah, I see the adverts for it as well. Booking.com is the best interface, large selection of hotels, always got good ratings from users. So the same reason that I like to use Amazon is because there's a high degree of user feedback on all of the products and the same thing goes for booking.com. So there's an awful lot of previous customers that leave feedback about where you're going to go and stay and this mediates the search priority that you get. So you get ones that might be a three star, but like nine out of ten, or one that's a four star, but five out of ten and the four star will be ranked further down and

it does, it does stuff based on the number of options and all the rest. Is the star determined by objective measures? Yeah, so the actual star is the... I mean, it's the number of bathrooms or whatever. Yeah, whatever criteria it is that hotels are gauged on, but then there's a user rating which isn't and you can sort by user. So it's not like it's a 9 out of 10 for a 3 star? No, although customers will have used that in their review because the three-star presumably

will be cheaper. You're not about dancing for an Englishman, isn't it? Yeah, that kind of thing. No, I understand. So, yeah, booking.com. And then, if you pound it enough, I think it's if you've spent about 500 pounds on it, you get something called genius level discount, which is 10% off all valid stays forever. Yeah.

So once you've spent 500 quid on booking.com, I think I don't know what the criteria is, but basically when I was in Thailand, I was using booking.com for everything. And partway through my stay, they said, congratulations, you're now eligible for genius discount. you've now, you're now eligible for Genius Discount. And basically, there's some hotels that do sign up to it and some hotels which don't. But recently, I've just booked my hotels for LA where I'm going in a couple of weeks. And best Western, LA is so expensive.

Best Western for nine nights should have been 18 or like 1760 and I go for like 15, 30 or something like that. Wow, so great. Yeah, it's awesome. I've used Booking.com as well. And you can get what reminded me of it was the fact that you can get 15 cents, sorry, 15 pounds, refer a friend. You both get 15 pounds. Nice. It's just the sheer number of places that are on there, as you said, in the amount of data and choice and rooms and things. Yeah, very good. Yeah, what's next? So I'm trying to alternate between online and offline. Okay. Because I feel like so many of my nests silly little apps. Yeah. So this

is called Ena, I-I-N-A. Okay. It is a wrapper, a user interface rapper for a something called N player, I think, which is a Mac multimedia video audio player. The reason I like it is, again, keyboard shortcuts, very simple, very lightweight. It's like a really small file size, opens instantly. It saves the place where you are at. So if you're watching a long lecture or something and you close the window, if you open it again in a month's time, it'll just restore back to where you were at.

I know a lot of people use VLC. Yeah, that's why I've got. I've switched over from VLC to this just because it's just so much better. You can change the speed and the volume and everything and skip forward and back five seconds or 30 seconds with the arrow keys. It's all just so instant and it just feels like you're just plugged into the media rather than have to. It's weird, isn't it? Especially on a MacBook, it quick times

just so fucking clunky and shit. And they seem to have this deal with quick time that they've had for like, however many years. Which is for my Apple, I think. Is it? Yeah, I think so. Oh, okay. Do you remember when Windows used to do real player?

That was a prick. That was shit. But yeah, media play classic, if you so. Oh, okay. Do you remember when Windows used to do real player? Yeah. That was it. Pretty good. That was shit. But yeah, MediaPlay Classic, if you're on Windows, is what you need. That's the, or you can get VLC also. But MediaPlay Classic is about as lightweight as you can get. And you can do stuff like you're talking about there, which is where you, you can actually overshoot the audio volume.

So you can do like a preamp. So you can actually have volume, audio volume at 150%. Obviously% obviously it'll degrade the quality but it'll make it loud all quiet. Yeah it's just something, sounds like noise. Right let's get two more each and we will finish up. So I'm going to do a bit of a plug here not for anyone who's affiliated with me but just something that I love called Anduna Deep. So Anduna Beats is above and beyond record label. They also have a podcast, which is called Group Therapy. And Anduna Deep. Group Therapy.

Group Therapy. Group Therapy. Group Therapy. Group Therapy. Group Therapy. Group Therapy. Group Therapy. Group Therapy. Group Therapy Deep is the deep label portion of that. So if you can imagine what, for anyone I'm trying to explain what

like deep, progressive house music is to people who don't understand, it's slow melodic non-dropy trance for one of a better term. It's very, very ethereal, gentle, flowing music. It's simultaneously non-intrusive, but also it's not just music. It's like you can have it on while you're working and it's not going to disrupt your work. Well, that's exactly what it's here for. So, Anjuna Deep for working is what I use. So, Anjuna Deep podcast is 210 episodes, something like that now. and most of them.

There's more than enough to. Oh yeah, there's loads. And they release one every single week and they're all awesome. And from the start intro, which is also very gentle, after a minute, there is pretty much usually no vocals until the end, except for a few songs that tend to have that in and vocal samples. And for working, it just provides this lovely soundscape that doesn't intrude on what you're doing, very serene, very gentle, nice and melodic. Some of the guys in the office like to work to sort of more popular

music or more sort of clubby stuff, hip-hop and stuff like that, but for me personally, I found it's really distracting. My mind gets carried away by the words that come in from the music. And for me, Anjunadeep is just the perfect soundscape to work to. So, search on whatever your podcast app is, have a look at Anjunadeep and give it a crack when you're working. It's also another thing. If you like me working in an office that can be loud and you need to not have distractions audible distractions in order to focus. One of the advantages of this kind of music is that because it moves across a number of frequencies and there's a lot of synths going on, it doesn't actually have that much dead space in. You can imagine if you were listening to hip hop or drum and bass, not drum and bass, sorry,

hip hop or other music, like trap music, I suppose, where you'd have these breaks and silences in the music, that you actually end up hearing the sound coming from other people. So it glazes over any of the noises? Exactly. If you've got earphones in, it's almost like white noise, but really, really lovely white noise. So apparently people find random, so it random so silence but with random noise, unpredictable noise, stressful compared to yeah I say like apparently humans find out

as a what I'm saying. Yeah, I've seen that yeah the study saying that compared to right so offline rice cooker. I need to order isn't pretty good. I've never done rice cooker now. I need to order the life hacks to do the ones that we've discussed already. As we start to do more and more of these, rice cooker, you can pick one up for 30 quid, new 10 pounds on Facebook Marketplace, which is another life hack.

I don't know if it is a hack. It's not, it causes me more like cancer, isn't it? It's definitely a failed life hack for me. But yeah, so rice cooker just makes perfect rice every time. Like, how easy is it to mess up? Wait, this is not a rhetorical question. It is very easy to mess up rice in a pan. I've never thought this.

Darren's wife's sister, Hannah, cannot cook rice. Like, can't do it. I really see how I want to cook rice. Over shoot or forget it. But she can bake cakes as well. Like, you're Arab? Yeah, I mean, like, she's literally in your blood. Well, so I mean, I've got the hang of it now,

of making rice in the pan, but then it's like, it's just unnecessarily difficult compared to rice cooking. Put the rice in the thing, cover it with a bit of water and press on and then you just leave. And then if you, let's say you go to the gym, like if you were cooking rice on the pan, you wouldn't be able to go to the gym. Whereas this, you press on, it detects how much water is in the thing by weight, and then it stops cooking when it's the perfect, the when it's at the optimal. I like my rice slightly well done.

Can you can I edit? Yeah, you can. So, um, depend, there's different, there's eight settings on it. And you can, oh, man, eight different types of rice. And this is what, like if this is what the Chinese use, it's gotta be, if it's good for them, it's definitely good for us. Right. On the, um, topic of food, muscle food.

We haven't done muscle food yet. They're good. Yeah, they are. So, muscle food are a bulk meat supplier. They, a UK-based company. I'd be very surprised. They are for me as ubiquitous as my protein now, but they basically allow you to buy large volumes of meat and other things as well now, like prepack vegetables, potatoes and stuff like that. A lot of stuff.

So it's not, yeah. Not but there's an all sorts of stuff. But for me, the main thing that I use it for is for ordering chicken breast. The bodybuilder's grocery, isn't it? Basically, yeah. The meat is also really nice quality. It's not just like the shit. Supermarket chicken breasts will often you fry it and then it'll shrink by half the size or something. Yeah. All of the meat there is what you see is what you get. They do an excellent pastrami, thick, thick sliced, really tender, like as if it's just been cured off the, well, it's been cured, me it's been cured off the cow, but it just is so fresh and lovely, quite expensive though. So yeah a little bit, but there's enough variety on there that you can have different options.

So for me, getting five kilos of chicken breasts, I think it's so cheap, like it's far far cheaper than going to Tesco, it arrives at your house. The only issue that you've got is the fact that you're going to get meat delivered in a package. And if you're not in at the time, it'll get left somewhere because they won't take it away. If they take it away, it'll perish. So it's like it'll get left at the front door, it'll get left at the office door. And they don't leave a special place. Yeah. And

the problem is if you're not there, like if your availability isn't tied in with the delivery schedule, you're either left not being able to order because you don't want it to waste or potentially risking wasting it, isn't ideal. They put it in a cool bag, don't they, though? They do. Yeah, so it lasts for, I think, it lasts for about 48 hours in that, or they claim that it lasts for 48 hours. It's got a lot of cool ice packs and stuff that goes on. So if you're not going to be home over a 48 hour period, then you shouldn't be ordering large amounts of meat. Yeah.

So, yeah, there is a code that Muscle Food is very kindly given me that anyone who's listening can use. For transparency, I'm not making anyone off this it's just the same I use the same deal that they gave me when I need to water when I need to order chicken but I'll pop that in the show notes there as well it's M wisdom 10 at checkout and you'll get some free chicken. M wisdom 10. M wisdom 10 you're gonna do that now.

So yeah one more. Okay. One more. I bought a, not a roll-on, like a balm deodorant. The other day on Amazon. So previously I used spray deodorants. Yeah, I'm not a big fan of aerosols or, and I wouldn't use a aerosol antiperspirant either

because there's a lot of other disruptions. This is a big thing in America, right? Yeah, I mean, I'm not super paranoid about them. I wouldn't use this. It's like magnesium content and stuff, isn't it? Like aluminum. Aluminium content. Yeah, there's a few other things that I just think,

like given the choice, even if it's not that bad, like I realize it, because I think going full tinfoil hat on this stuff, like you're pissing in the wind because there's so much environmental exposure to see no Eastergins and that kind of thing that you're not going to be able to shut it all out. Yeah, but I feel like if I'm going to be spraying something in like lymphatic drainage points daily, then probably makes sense to go for something that's not going to be adding to it. So I'll find it, it's called man cave eucalyptus deodorant balm thing to stick. I've only used it for a month so far, but it's barely touched the size in terms of how much I've used. Seven pounds, but I feel but it's barely touched the size in terms of how much I've used. Seven pounds, but I feel like it's going to last five or six months, at least. Really? And it smells lovely.

So is it quite effective? I was going to say, is it... It's like an all-natural thing. Yeah, what's the difference between that and what you spray on yourself? So this is... It's alcohol-free and it's made from a bunch of like plant, plant bombs and that kind of thing. Okay. And it also just smells really nice. Like that's that's primarily the reason why I got it because I thought it was after you

mentioned in the previous life hacks about burning eucalyptus oil and I was like, oh, I'd be lovely to have some kind of toiletry thing that you could lift us. So I had a look online, I was like, okay, that looks fine. Like, if it wasn't for the smell, honestly, I wouldn't have bought a natural alternative thingy, because I don't care enough about it to, but it just kind of tilted the balance of the thought, well, it smells great and it's good alternative. Yeah. Do it for it. That's pretty cool. I guess if you're not home. And as far as like deodorizing,

what's the effectiveness? Very good. Is it? Like I'd say better than sprays. Really? Yeah. That's crazy. I'm no expert on this stuff, but no.

Right, okay. Let me see. I guess I have to one more. Right. So final one that I'm gonna use is a tactic called working from zero. Now, I think I'm right in saying that this is David Allen's getting things done, right? I think that's where it comes from.

If not, it's a productivity tool which allows you to try and clear as much mental clutter as you can. So you'll have all seen someone's phone where you go to type something, oh, mate, just put your phone number in there or whatever, and you look, and it's got like 45,000 unread emails. Oh, man.

Yeah. You need to. My girlfriend has 13,000 unread, and it's on her home screen all the time. Yeah, yeah. And it's just this red number, and it's like, okay, yeah, you need my girlfriend has 13,000 on red one and it's on her home screen all the time. Yeah, just this red number and it's like, okay, so how do you know when you've got a new email? Do you reset your baseline of zero to that 13,152? Like that, that's okay, it's worth 13,153, I must have gotten an email. I've got a check here.

So working from zero is an approach to productivity, which is that all notifications and all on reds are taken out at all times. And I think for me, it's a really, really nice way to keep my phone screen clear. Obviously, I can clear my phone screen by not having notifications on, but that defeats the purpose of the usefulness of notifications. So for me, if I've got an email that comes through, I deal with it as quickly as possible. And if I can't deal with it as quickly as possible, I'll read the email. Sorry, I won't read the email. Clear

off the red and then set a reminder to go back to the email because what you don't want to do. So we discussed Mail butler in the last one where you can do that, it snooze it for example. So your inbox only has things that are to be actioned. Yeah, immediate. It's just a nice way to work. Marking things is unread, is it useful tool, but up to a point if you have a step free slope, is it? Yeah, if you've got stuff that's been unread for like three, four days, you're like, I just need to deal with it. Like, and it's there in the back of your mind causing anxiety. So the only emails that I have in my inbox that remain, so open my inbox, it's either

things that I haven't looked at yet and I need to go and process, which is done in batch every week, or the things that remain there would be like a flight itinerary for an upcoming or like a train ticket or something that needs to be in there. Even with that, you can put it in there, take it out with that, put it in to have a note, clear off the note. So really there's no excuse to have emails in your inbox, especially not 13,000. No, but yeah, that just terrifies me, like the level of anxiety that we cause would be frightened.

Because people say, oh, I'm numb to it, but it's designed, as we discussed in the technology, what technology doing to us podcast, with a hacker in your pocket. The little red notification circle is designed to, it's red for a reason. It's a alarm color and it's designed and it's on your home screen to make you like always be. Oh, that's all time. So there's gonna be this background, humor, stress from having 13,000 emails.

Yeah. It also makes you feel like a waste man when you've just got, yeah. It's just an ugly looking home screen, isn't it? There's so many guys who've got like 53 unread eye messages. Oh my god. They've got unread eye messages. That's just like the most prior-

That's just people that you've ignored. Like because the thing is you can't even mark them as unread. You haven't even opened them. So with eye message, I guess, rather than like the ballake of opening a message, oh, I'll deal with it later. I'll set a reminder easier to just open it and deal with it. Do the- So in that case, that ties in with the two-minute rule, which is from David Allen's

getting things done, for any task takes less than two minutes. I think he can extend that to probably like three. If any task takes less than three minutes, just do it. Do it now. Do it immediately. Don't shed you little in because it'll take longer to shed you little. You should go back, oh, what I'm right, what's the, especially, so this is the thing I was saying about, don't read the email, just put the reminder in. Because if you read the email, contextualize it, then put the reminder in the email. You've already done half of the work. And you've got the background, not his name. I understand what it is. Yeah, so just, just get it done. Get the work out the way. It's going to take three minutes.

So I think something important to add to that is you said managing your notifications, making sure that it's working from zero, is also to only have the permission for apps to give you notifications that have some materiality in your life. So don't allow notifications from an app that you're never going to be able to do anything with, don't allow it in invocations from like, asda, or whatever it is, because unless it's something you need to do, it shouldn't be interrupting your face. For instance, I've got notifications off for headspace, but I've got banners on and they send like two or three mindful moments to that day, which is nice. It's like, what was, you can't control the sea, but you can learn to surf the wave.

Like, great, that's nice. That's a nice little thing for me to see partway through the day, but it doesn't leave anything as red on the home screen, even though headspace is on my home screen. I suppose in a way as well, it's kind of value-iding. It's not 10% off, but I would just click here. The same thing goes for group chats here,

or any notifications that aren't generated by people directly aimed at you. This is going back over old ground on Hacker and your Pocket Podcast, which everyone should list off. But yeah, like group chats, you can afford to knock the notifications off because you will check your phone in any case. To be honest, I'm pretty militant about just leaving

group chats, as soon as anyone has me to a group chat, I'm having a bit. It's like if someone wants to talk to me, they can send me a message. Directly. Right. Are we done? Do you have another one? Yeah, final one. Final one. You pack. Okay. This is great. One for that. So how often have someone sent you a YouTube link or whatever

and you click on it and it's like, not available in your country or like. Yeah, it's a bit actually. So replace the word tube with pack pay PAK okay in the URL leave everything else the same and it'll mirror it'll find the mirror that works and no way yeah it's amazing that's what you need to do that's crazy so it's like a VPN service or something. Yeah, someone's just made a direct copy of YouTube and it must feed in life. Mm-hmm. Just you pack. And there's all, I think there's also buttons added to the bottom of like download video and stuff.

Oh, right. So it's just the most like, Spurious. Calvert fit YouTube. Yeah, I don't know how it's allowed, but it's all right. But if that's allowed and Cheebec's gone? I'm bad for the people that can't have Cheebecs in their life. I know. I'm sorry guys. It's a real game changer. I mean, we could bring Cheebec's back one person at a time. We could, but it would be, yeah, yeah. Inbuses, I'm not sure. Anyway, we will be back very soon. Life Fails 101 will be coming. We started

it, but we still need to finish it. I think you've got more life fails than you do life hacks. So many of both. We're going to need to just sit and bash through the more, I think. Who else have you got coming up? So I've got Dr. you, Professor you and Lawrence, who is the author of the Healthy Writer, which is a book on workstation optimization. I've also got Leon Scott, who is the main model for chain enable and her her

nice, big Instagram following. You would think from the outside looking at a professional footballer as well, you'd think pretty much nothing between the years, but this guy is mad into his mindfulness, crazy, crazy deep in his mindfulness training, does a lot of compassion stuff, really, really interested speed tips. I'm going to sit down with him, obviously on video he's going to look lovely as well. So of course, I'm excited about these, especially healthy writer. Yeah, I think you and Lawrence is going to be really interesting guys, just come off Ben Greenfield's podcast actually. I had a binge of your other episodes recently. I think you and Lawrence is going to be really interesting, guys. Just come off Ben Greenfield's podcast, actually. I had a binge of your other episodes recently.

Yeah. The Quint Henrik was excellent. If anyone's listening and hasn't heard that, it clears up any misconceptions about mobility, flexibility, self-mirefacial release, any of the kind of self-maintenance stuff. Yeah. Also, I would be keen, because I know people message you a lot more than they message us. You're really up some while. Also, I would like to keen because I know people message you a lot more than they message us. You're really up some line.

But if you can let us know about the life hacks, what problems you are trying to solve in your life or what field, because there's so many of these that it would be good to know generally what the kind of. But the likelihood is if someone else has encountered the problem that we've probably got a solution for it as well, it's just that, again, can't see the wood for the trees due to this manic obsession with optimizing. Yeah. And we'll have bypassed it the same as Alfred.

Exactly that. Like because of our manic obsessionality with this stuff, we've probably come across it and done something for it. It's already been fixed. Yeah. Yeah, so drop me a message or give me a DM and we'll go for that. Until next time, it's Johnny Absent. Here in spirit.

Here in spirit and in love, but not here in real life. K-Bide. and in love, but not in real life. Okay, bye, Dan.