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Here's a strawpoll for which HI host is on which side:

https://www.strawpoll.me/16329931

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>!For me, Brady is on the left and Grey is on the right. I have no idea why.!<

>H.I._Seventy_Five.mp3

Goddamnit Grey. Now there's not even a number there!

Nothing is consistent, not even the encoding settings. The last episode was 256kbit/s, and this one is back to 128kbit/s. You should use the lame mp3 encoder, with settings such as this: lame -V4 file.wav

Norway passports look amazing. Also some of the reasons I am not going to settle in India is because of the red tape and bureaucracy. Being Indian I am ashamed of it though.

Pre-order your copy of The Curious Life of Krill today!

I don't understand this struggle about straws. Here, in India they banned plastic straws a while ago. So all the restaurants replaced them with these bio degradable straws made out of plant cellulose. They look, feel and work exactly like plastic straws. It's almost as if plastic straws were never banned. Here is a link to buy them if you want to try

https://www.amazon.com/Biodegradable-Compostable-Plant-Based-Eco-Friendly-Individually/dp/B078J4N5XF

On the USB C cable length thing. The limit of 0.5 meters applies to individual cables between powered devices so from the laptop to the EGPU is one span of 0.5m and then the signal gets rebroadcast on another span of 0.5m between the EGPU and display. You can actually daisy chain several devices this way and get full thunderbolt 3 the whole way as long as each span is under 0.5m and each device supports the speed. The total length is irrelevant. There are things called active cables that basically put a signal repeater every 0.5 m down the cable to get full speed without having to go optical.

Here is one that is 1 meter long with full 40gbs support for $50 https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Thunderbolt-Supporting-Compatible/dp/B01H5QF1GO

IDK if Grey will see this because of project cyclops but maybe someone else will find it useful.

Well, the get at least 2771 dollars per podcast episode, and that's without the sponsoring, so while it's far from being their main income, it's something.

Let me propose a compromise: DuckDuckGoog.

It uses (anonymized) Google as a default, but you still get all the Bangs. It has changed my life.

So its not a separate search engine, but it anonymizes Google and adds Bangs. Best of both worlds IMO.

Was glad to hear you both found success in your past themes : )

Myke - I found maintaining my weight to be equally as hard as losing it. Forcing myself to weight in everyday has been a really important feedback loop, much easier to have a bad day paired with a good day rather than have 30 bad days in a row followed by 30 good ones!

Grey - re:psychedelics, you might find this book an interesting read. Taking them is unprincipled to blanket recommend, but I highly encourage people to think about seeking them out (especially in the light of your disappointment with meditation)

I've seen the time management matrix (urgent/important) associated with Dwight Eisenhower, to the point that everywhere I've seen it calls it some variation on "The Eisenhower Matrix" (one example), but I have no idea if that's actually the case. Things like that are notoriously hard to pin down.

Get a stitch ripper. It takes 2 minutes to do it, I've done it to all my clothes to remove the logos.

You're not alone. I liked when they got rid of the "human" blobs from android 5 in android 7 (Notably police man and dancer) In android 7 all humanlike emoji are normal humans and just the expression emoji are blobs. It's the best emoji set of ever... (Link)

Just convert the last blobs left to regular humans, but without goddamn gradients and fucking up the animals!

Small afterthought: I'm testing out Trello as a way to collect suggestions for the other episodes, so try adding some and voting on others if you're interested.

Edited to add: Apparently Trello isn't the solution I thought it was, so I've set up a Google Moderator thread instead.

The "Clapping emoji" isn't really that, it's a waving hand emoji as in this, so maybe the instantprint twit isn't weird at all

Because Grey was wondering where the location data for the exact entrances for the subway might come from: Let me intruduce you to amazon mechanical turk, where you can pay people to do repetitive tedious stuff that you don't want to deal with.

The npr podcast 'planet money' did an episode about it half a year ago and this sound like exactly the task you could solve with a crowdlabour solution like the mechanical turk platform. It seems that a lot of stuff that you would think is or should be automated till now is actually still done by humans to earn some beermoney.

I am sure apple used not exactly this, but at least something very similar. Or they enslaved interns for a few days.

> These are things that we rely on and can't control.

Dear /u/imyke and /u/MindOfMetalAndWheels.

There is an option for you to solve this issue: use free (as in speech) software.

Sure, the quality may be lower, but you will always be in control.

You could setup your own Kanban board server (e.g. taiga.io, wekan), and you would never be afraid of trello going away.

Sure, you will spend time and money on server maintenance and configuration, but it will be yours. Forever.

Xenonauts is a stupidly named but far more faithful adaptation of the original XCOM than enemy unknown

http://www.xenonauts.com/ (on steam too)

Edit: sorry if I just ruined more of your productivity grey

Swipetimes. All day every day.

I used it exclusively when time tracking. It's an amazing application, IMO. I'd say it's quite possibly superior to Toggl in several respects. I'd definitely take it over Toggl, but I tracked almost entirely on the one device (there's no cloud tracking, IIRC)

Loved this episode! Going to have to read this book.

My theme this year (so far) is Year of Android while I try to learn to make Android apps (I made one that reached 550 downloads today!). I like this idea of just trying every day rather than the binary of success or failure each day. With learning programming, it's been hard for me to know what success and failure look like on a daily basis, so I liked Myke talking about how to phrase his daily revenue question. I'll have to come up with something similar for programming since my goal CANNOT be "make an app every day"...

Edit: The app is a scorekeeper for board games and such: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amandafarrell.www.scorekeeper Super simple, but it uses a SQLite database for data persistence, which I was excited about. :)

I thought something similar, but they clearly state the opposite on their acceptable ads page:

>No applicant will be favored or treated differently, and no one can buy their way onto the whitelist. Everyone has to comply with the criteria and everyone has to go through the same process before the ads qualify as "acceptable."

While this is by no means a guarantee of good behavior, at the very least you can be somewhat sure that if they did take bribes at least somebody that's noteworthy would have spoken out against this specifically.

If this has indeed happened, be so kind as to link me. I'd be interested to see that.

This company pays over a million dollars for being able to get into a phone remotely. Before the price was a million and there were payouts. They sell the exploits to intelligence agencies.

Cameras to watch

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This episode's Audible recommendation - remember to sign up at audible.com/hellointernet!

90 | The Expanse series | James S. Corey | Grey, 58:59

Past recommendations here: https://www.reddit.com/r/HelloInternet/comments/2dcym9/audible_recommendations/

This episode's Audible recommendation:

85 | <em>American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road</em> | Nick Bilton | Grey, 18:29

Remember, go to www.audible.com/hellointernet first!

Past Recommendations Here: https://www.reddit.com/r/HelloInternet/comments/2dcym9/audible_recommendations/

x = episode number

f(x) = 43*ln(x+1)

k(x) = n/x

(the units of n need to be [time]^2 , btw)

to maximize your time spent,

d/dx (k+f) = 0

dk/dx + df/dx = 0

43/(x+1) - n/x^2 = 0

43x^2 = n(x+1)

43x^2 - nx - n = 0

Solving the quadratic,

x = (n ± sqrt(n^2 + 172n))/86

using the positive result (since n^2 + 172n>n for all n>0 and x can't be negative)

x=(n+sqrt[n(n+172)])/86

where n is, of course, the amount of time it took you to prepare the first episode.

Now, the optimal preparation time is the preparation time it took you on the Xth episode

t = k(n+sqrt[n(n+172)])/86)

t = 86n/(n+sqrt[n(n+172)])

t = 86/(1+sqrt[1+172/n])

This obviously assumes you want to use the least amount of total time possible. If you want to change the ratio of podcast time to total time, you just change f --> f*r, k --> k(1-r)

you end up with this:

t = 86r/(1+sqrt[1+172r/n(1-r)])

r = podcast time/total time

Here, I made a graph.

(I think I made a mistake somewhere in my reasoning, but I can't figure out where, and the graph looks pretty ok)

Brady, so what do you think about your "how to cut cake" video going viral?

I've been facepalming hard nearly every time someone (like FOXNEWS... yeah Alex "numberphile" Bellos :D ) made an article about it.

Then there was view... er freebooting! Also people not aware that it was video mainly about math and not cooking advice, all raging in the comments sections bellow the articles.

Nevertheless, Steven Fry retweeted it so Congratulations :D
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edit: oh wow you've talked about it on podcast, and you answered everything.

btw: for stargazing you can use free opensource program Stellarium. I use it every time I want to find something on the night sky.

I second The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. I found it a bit difficult to just skim through and find the habits, but the stories/examples were interesting enough to keep me turning the pages.

I reckon u/imyke would like it, and Grey, too, but I doubt that.

I read So Good They Can't Ignore You because I broadly agreed with its hypothesis. But I found it very flimsy.

There was no real data to back him up. It's just a string of anecdotes. And anecdotes that seem to be twisted to fit his hypothesis.

For example, saying Steve Jobs gave up his love of the social sciences to make money in technology seems to be massively missing what Steve Jobs was about.

Focussing solely on anecdotes also means there's a distinct whiff of survivorship bias about it.

> However, Grey gave me another recommendation that quickly became one of my favorite and most recommended books: So Good They Can't Ignore You. The message is simple and very pragmatic: there isn't a shortcut to success. You need to work hard, practice and get really, really good at something valuable. That simple message focused my mind and motivated me heavily. I stopped looking for “hacks” and methods to do work; I focused on the work itself.

I'm glad you liked that book. Like GTD, I've heard from many people unfamiliar with 'business' books that it can be a little tedious to get through.

> The only other method I occasionally employ is the kitchen timer method. I don't like all the overly complex Pomodoro Technique fluff. I just keep it simple: setting timers for work and break time. I don't use this frequently. Just when I’m having a really tough time focusing.

Timers have been the most consistent productivity tool for my whole life. I've used them going to back high school.

While you get used to it (you have to know what you want, unlike google), you can easily search in google and other search engine directly from DDG, simply type !g after your research. https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

Thank you, Grey, for citing Mythical Man-Month in rebuttal to Brady's point about throwing more people at the Big Ben work. Thank you. I have no idea if Brady got the reference, but hopefully it'll spark some curiosity and he'll go off to read it or ask you more about it.

For those wondering, The Mythical Man-Month is a seminal work on software project management by Fred Brooks. It is known for a few quotes and concepts, the most notable is "adding people to a late software project makes it later ["more late", for those who aren't native speakers or may be confused]". The concept has broader applications outside of software, as Grey indicated.

Thanks again for pointing that out, Grey. Cheers.

I'm ripping this off of the wikipedia page for transistor sizes, but this article states some speculation that it wouldn't be physics that limits Moore's Law, but instead economics. Intel and AMD would no longer have a financial incentive to develop technology for consumer markets at the rate of Moore's Law if no scientific breakthrough happens which makes actually fabricating processors and components with single atom transistors inexpensive enough for them to reliably turn a profit. This would mean the stop of Moore's Law for most inexpensive consumer electronics which would definitely mean a slower progression of this "timeline" of automation.

Maybe it's alien hand syndrome:

&quot;For example, he noted that one hand tried to turn left when the other hand tried to turn right while driving a car.&quot;

"...patient 6 believed that her left arm was a baby called Joseph, and that its actions against other parts of her body (like pinching her nipples) were mischievous behaviours (biting while nursing.)"

Another paper:

On one occasion, the hand grabbed her by the throat and choked her, requiring great effort to pull it off. She described the hand as possessing “an evil spirit” and stated that it did not belong to her: “Those are two very different people, the arm and I.”

The Economics of Star Trek is pretty relevant (and interesting read) to what Grey's been talking about recently. Wonder if he came across it in his research for the video.

In recognition of the your conclusion that potentially 45% of all current jobs will be replaced by automata do you see this shaping up anything like the pre-post-scarcity featured in postings such as The Economics of Star Trek.

Also, how do you think the value of hand-made or locally made products given the since of innate human value generally applied to "original" items, like the original Mona Lisa as opposed to a scanned copy, as mentioned in Radiolab's "Things" podcast, which goes into the psychology of people and things a little bit.

Just wondering. Thanks.

The discussion of clickbait in Moretex helped me clarify something as a consumer of internet videos. I spend much more time than I'd like watching videos on YouTube and always find a way around the limits and timers I set up.

YouTube is obviously useful to me when I want to learn something in particular, see something useful, or be entertained for a little while. It becomes counterproductive when I get sucked in by recommendations and (admittedly very effective) thumbnails.

The discussion pushed me to finally delete the YouTube app from my phone and switch to NewPipe.

I disabled recommendations and loading thumbnails, so hopefully my YouTube watching will be more deliberate and it won't be as easy for me to be sucked down into the dark forest of consumption.

With regard to Andrew's question on jobs: Never take yourself off the market. Keep a passive interest in other opportunities at the very least, as Grey mentioned he did. Companies will promise all sorts of things will get better, but the transition involved in getting there is impossible without significant staffing and structural changes (similar to the reason for recidivism among people with a criminal past, environmental cues significantly affect how people act).

I read this book because of a recommendation from Grey: So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport. It's a fascinating book, and the nutshell lesson is this: the best way to get the life that you want (personal and professional) is to develop useful skills in any area that someone is willing to pay you to posses. I'm a young professional too. I entered a field that is both reletavely young and constantly changing (digital marketing). I didn't have a burning passion for it, but it was interesting and presented the opportunity to rapidly get good at something that pays the bills. Developing those useful skills means constantly keeping an eye out for opportunities to expand what you can offer an employer (or customer). That may be within your company or outside of it. What ultimately matters is that you take small steps in generally interesting directions that move you closer to how you want your life to be. For me, that's improving the quality of life for my family. It may be different for you. You don't have to have a five year plan that will never work anyway, you just need an understanding of what end goal is important to you (more time off, higher pay, traveling the world, being a public figure, serving those in need, etc).

Have you read Deep Work by Cal Newport? I think a lot of his ideas fall in line with how /u/MindOfMetalAndWheels thinks about working productively and might have some interesting insights for both you and /u/immyke

I personally find that a combonation of Todoist & Google Keep help me implement a GTD system.

In light of this discussion, I am wondering what you or others think about the concept of the Intentional Fallcy. I'm remembering that, while in school for music, my classmates and I were warned against putting too much stock in composer intent when analyzing music. Just because an artist intends to do a thing does not mean that thing is accomplished, any may in fact have unintended influences or fit within an unintended artistic framework, which I think is interesting in itself.

For Grey (or anyone else interested), there is a wonderful little command-line utility called Pandoc which is able to convert to and from many, many markup formats (markdown, HTML, LaTeX, Word, ePub, PDF, etc.) so it will handle just about any text conversion task you throw at it.

Also, for those who want to switch to a more text-based workflow, I highly recommend the site Plaintext Productivity, which describes how to set up your to-do lists, notes/drafts, file system, and backup / version control for plaintext on Windows (though most of it is easily implemented on other platforms as well).

"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

- James Nicoll

Maybe The Power of Habit as it actually talks about habits as a mechanism in your brain, and how you can create them. However, I haven't revisited it within the last three years, so it may not hold up to current-me's standards of what constitutes a good productivity book.

Sounded something very similar to c25k (couch to 5 k), which also has its own subreddit. There's also a free app on the play store, and probably on the app store as well.

Adblock plus has an acceptable ads policy which I think is a good step forward.

I think ads are necessary for content creators to be viable on the internet however if they keep overstepping the boundaries then users will get fed up and start to remedy the situation (see pop up blockers being a default feature of every browser)

With adblocks acceptable ads policy they basically act as a gatekeepers of those 10% of users using adblock, if you wants your ads to hit those customers you need to ensure your ads aren't horrendous.

To Apple, the countries that matter are the ones with high GDP*. Think US, Canada, Australia, Western Europe, Northern Europe, Japan. iPhone market share in those regions is quite high and is still growing. Also, to Apple it’s profit share that matters most, not market share, and in that regard they have been the market leader for years; only Samsung comes close.

Anyway, in the US, iPhone has 41% marketshare. In Japan, iPhone has 50% marketshare.

*) China being the exception, Apple is very interested in China’s growing middle class. And its efforts are paying off, revenues from China double every year.

The Lean Startup is a awesome book that talks about a good entrepreneurship process.
One of the main points is the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that Grey mentioned.
It's counterproductive to try starting with an amazing product, you're better off testing your idea to see what people really want.

http://www.cgpgrey.com/recommended-listening/

This is actually a decent list. Under the Banner of Heaven is one of my favorite books now, John Adams was amazing, On Writing was great even though I'm not a writer, and I'm currently listening to Debt. Wasn't a fan of the Machiavelli book, though.

Does the Star Trek Universe get as confusing/contradictory as Hitchhiker's or as confusing as picking up [Lost](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_(TV_series) halfway through the series after not watching it for a few months?

Ok, I know flags haven't come up in a while but I found this post about the state flags very interesting and since Grey won't read my e-mail I'll just post it here:

https://medium.com/branding-the-nations/the-good-the-meh-and-the-ugly-3efb49195591

Hopefully this doesn't get buried.

Well everyone, the odds have been set by Brady himself 50-50. Place your bets.

Will Brady download twitter back on to his phone by the end of summer (September 22nd)?

https://www.strawpoll.me/16000280/r

Affinity Designer, a vector drawing program, is looking to create a full featured version for iOS… soon~ish.

I feel like this would be such an awesome thing for doing Design/illustration on the iPad. I use the desktop version for my professional work (web design and illustration) currently. This will probably be a real game changer for me.

• https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/
• https://affinity.serif.com/forum/index.php?/topic/999-ipad-version-of-affinity-designer/

I'm re-listening to all the H.I.s and I got to ep. 15 where someone made a graph examining the length of each podcast. I was curious so I went ahead and added the 8 episodes that have aired since then. https://www.desmos.com/calculator/rxigwdrujp

I mean, I know you're joking, but most of the pattern recognition stuff has either been replaced already, or is being done by interns because the place they work at hasn't realized that computers can do that. I mean, there are computer programs for categorizing insects for fuck's sake. The databases most interns use just have a series of questions that need to be answered along the lines of this game. And there are more advanced categorization programs out there that rely on nothing more than pictures captured in a certain format to figure out the answers to the questions. So now you just put the bug on a white paper and take a picture. It even knows if you've discovered a new species, and it's better at it than humans are. Because even if it makes a mistake, it makes the same mistake all the time, and it can be corrected and retroactively applied to the entire database without leaving any misplaced remnants.

For a future episode I would like to hear how you deal with organising your ideas. From an earlier episode Grey talked about that if something pops into his head he makes a new note in the Notes notes app on his iPhone. Once in a while you go evaluate them and trow the useless ones away. My question is: what happens to the ideas that are considered to be worthy of further fought? Do you keep them in a different folder? Do they go into a different system/application? And how many items does this system contain?

I ask this because I have currently some difficulty deciding what my own system should be. As a result my "system" has become really fragmented. I try to figure out a system consisting of Evernote, a todo list application^[1] and a physical notebook. It's really hard to figure out what information should go where and in what order.

^[1] In the past I used Things a lot. It's a great application, but it's way too expensive for what it does and it doesn't work outside the Apple ecosystem.

I tried using Wunderlist for a while. It's costs nothing and works on everything. But it looks ugly and awkward to use. To me it feels like a knock-off of Things.

Informed by Greys stories I'm currently giving Omnifocus a try. I can see why someone could use for everything. I like how you can work with folders to nest as many items as you want. Yet I still have the feeling that I'm using Omnifocus as effectively as I could. Could Grey and/or Mike elaborate on how to get started with Omnifocus? Or alternatively: do you have any other project-based todo applications you could recommend?

The book sounds interesting, I’m putting it on my TBR. In kind of the same vein, I can recommend The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal (amazon, audible). She has some talks on youtube, too, but I haven’t watched those, so I can’t vouch for them. I assume they summarise the ideas of her course/book, though.

I only partially read through Getting Things Done. I share many of Brady’s complaints. Primarily, it’s that it feels too full of meaningless jargon. It also feels too complex and demanding as a method. Listening to Merlin Mann on Back to Work, I came to realize how easy it is to get caught up in the method and not really get work done (losing time managing email, cleaning your desk, finding the perfect notebook, etc). Put simply, GTD is too full of steps and technical details. It gets in the way of doing real work.

However, Grey gave me another recommendation that quickly became one of my favorite and most recommended books: So Good They Can't Ignore You. The message is simple and very pragmatic: there isn't a shortcut to success. You need to work hard, practice and get really, really good at something valuable. That simple message focused my mind and motivated me heavily. I stopped looking for “hacks” and methods to do work; I focused on the work itself.

The only other method I occasionally employ is the kitchen timer method. I don't like all the overly complex Pomodoro Technique fluff. I just keep it simple: setting timers for work and break time. I don't use this frequently. Just when I’m having a really tough time focusing.

About me (noting things I consciously accept as influencing my motivation, productivity and work circumstances): I am a young professional working in a relatively small and young digital marketing agency. I have a wife and toddler. About a year ago, I finally began escaping the clutches of a many years-long depression (as people who've experienced it would know, this deeply impacts your work and personal lives).

By the way, there's an app for android which lets you do it without turning phone upside down, just through normal phone speaker: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.omegacentauri.Earpiece

I made a android RSVP reader as a school project. Since I am 16 and not a real developer, it's pretty terrible, but it uses all the stock google components, so it shouldn't look too bad. You have to copy/paste the text you want to read(Instapaper-like web parsing is a bit over my head), which is very tedious, but otherwise I would(in my totally unbiased opinion) say that it's not totally shit. Feel free to get it here. (or don't, I'm not your boss)

I'd recommend you try Pocket Casts. It's frequently on the top of "Best Android Podcast clients" lists, and Grey's favorite, Overcast, even linked to them from within their app.

It's not a subscription, unlike Netflix, because you are not receiving content or services you wouldn't otherwise. And I'm using video as examples, but is any form of content. Music, Writings, Videos, etc.

People choose how they will charge their supporters... some do per month, others per creation (like CGPGrey).

You can sign up and donate one time and them cancel it. But it is recurring because this money is to support the creator on a regular basis. So for example, a writer can focus in writing their book, instead of having a full time job. If was simply one time donations would be pretty scary to leave a fix income for one you can't possibly know. With Patreon creators have an idea of how much they'll make per month.

Grey's Patreon is at $13,810.40 per video. So he can know how much he's gonna make when he finishes his videos before hand.

This is awesome, saw a CNET review the SRT Hellcat featuring this episode of Hello Internet hehe http://www.cnet.com/pictures/2015-dodge-challenger-srt-hellcat-pictures/28/ /u/MindOfMetalAndWheels /u/JeffDujon

The Midas Plague was the first thing that I actually thought about with your comment. It's an interesting concept of what life looks like where the means of production has become automated. It does not have the entire economy as unemployable; this is just something that was never fathomable before today, but it is an enjoyable read about "what if robbots can make everything" and the way that society changes under that.

This episode's Audible recommendation is:

87| <em>In a Sunburned Country</em> | Bill Bryson | Grey, 30:11

Here's the full list :) https://www.reddit.com/r/HelloInternet/comments/2dcym9/audible_recommendations/

For flight tracking, I've been using Kayak's Trips feature for a few years now and it is awesome for a few reasons:

• free
• simply forward your flight confirmation emails to and it builds a nice timeline of all your flights (split by trip which you can rename and merge if you want)
• it also works with hotel and car reservations, so you have a full timeline of your trip (arrive in IAD at 5pm in terminal A, pick up rental car in terminal B, check in Hilton…)
• you get alerts about on-time or delayed flights, gate changes and baggage pickup, as well as how long the security line will be
• once your trip is all planned, you can export it to your calendar and have all your details
• the iOS app is great, and…
• the watchOS complication shows you the most relevant information (terminal, gate, boarding time) at the right time so you can use your watch when you're wheeling your Away bag through a busy airport

A few downsides though:

• free, so there's a trap
• they do regularly ask to connect to your inbox and so far, there's no way to disable it permanently so I also feel a bit bullied by the app

But the ease of use (forward your stuff and everything just works) outweighs the annoying "connect your inbox!" message. My SO travels for work every week and loves it as well.

~~if you just want it for steam, you might consider the steam os, which literally just boots your machine into steam. There are tons of premades available online.~~

I rescind this comment.

Try Youtube Center or Magic Actions for Youtube.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/magic-actions-for-youtube/abjcfabbhafbcdfjoecdgepllmpfceif?hl=en

https://github.com/YePpHa/YouTubeCenter/wiki

I use gPodder to download the episodes combined with [insert your media player of choice here] to play them. I like gPodder because it's functional and streamlined. I can only think of a couple downsides, both of which may be entirely irrelevant to you:

1. The "clean-up" is not nearly as granular as I'd like; you can't really set individual clean-up schemes for each podcast.
2. You can't minimize it to the taskbar.

> * Would have preferred Linux, since I'm also using this laptop as a seedbox (they live in a country with no copyright enforcement, and no real prospects of copyright enforcement happening any time soon, and I live in a developed western country), and being able to just ssh into the thing/grab files with scp would have been so useful, but unfortunately it wasn't in the cards in this case.

I did it similar with Windows on parents computer.

Just 7-Zip the file(s) with a password and add it to HFS, so I can download it normally on my laptop.

If it's possible to do so on desktop, I'd be fine with ads displayed without the tracking. The problem is, as Marco said on ATP, that separating ads and tracking is really hard.

Privacy Badger lets you enable 3rd party content without sending cookies to the third party. But if you look at the Privacy Badger FAQ under "How does Privacy Badger work?" you'll see that people have come up with ways to fingerprint you even without cookies.

Mobile's a bit different story because of the ridiculous bandwidth waste.

I don't know if the current pushback will amount to anything, but the ideal scenario is that the online ad industry is forced into creating systems that respect privacy better and ad units that allow people to enjoy the content and the ads as well.

The topic of Youtube adverts reminded me of Jim Sterling. (Friends with Yahtzee Croshaw of Zero Punctuation fame). Who wrote for the escapist for quite a while but just recently became independent and is making all of his revenue from his patreon and as you can see is doing pretty well. He doesn't have any ads on his videos because of this which is nice and I thought it showed that entirely crowdfunded youtube is doable without millions and millions of subscribers.

Grey, After talking about SCRUM and you talking about being productive as a robot, it would be really nice if you share some of your research or opinions on the topic.

• Do you use time logging software
• What works for you
• Any books you would recommend(points for audio book)

If anyone else want to share a opinion it would also be greatly appreciated.

Yeah it's web based only at the moment, I've set it up as a "web app" on my android (ie it has its own homescreen icon that just opens the page) but both android and iOS apps are currently in the works according to the roadmap

For me I only really use it on my android for quickly adding new ideas/tasks or checking things off the to do list and I do all the sorting and organising when I'm at home or at work on a PC.

I've been using Nach for the past couple of months and it appears to be a pretty good replacement.

It's still under development so missing some key features but I find the default simplicity with the ability to fine tune things under the bonnet works really well for me.

People say that Todoist and remember the milk are also pretty popular replacements but I tried nach before I tried them and didn't feel the need to try anything else so don't know myself.

I was just looking for one myself and found this: https://nozbe.com/

Yet to fiddle around with it but at a quick glance it looks good and reliable. It has a PC client as well and it syncs instantly, it saves your tasks to Dropbox and Box, reads notes from Evernote, it has tons of integration options.

I was just writing a comment about workflowy, as : /u/MindOfMetalAndWheels asked for systems & tools.

I replaced many parts of my GTD system (the 'Inbox' and 'Ideas before they are Projects' parts) with WorkFlowy. It's super simple... Collapsible bulleted lists... it's basically just a huge map of my mind.

It has apps for many devices, including iOS, but is also just a web-app through a browser, so works with any device that has a browser.

Also: Happy cake day!

I think Grey would really enjoy Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu (Amazon) and its Sequel The Dark Forest.

...Brady described the "empty" sky as an abandoned city (see Vanilla Sky)...as the sequel's name says, you might also describe it as a Dark Forest where humanity is the only guy lighting a big fire and clumsely searching for more wood and stuff, not particulary caring who or what might be watching and evaluating options (for example: our technology advances exponentially, what would somebody ahead of us think of that if they can only advance linear?)

...the books are not without flaw but very original and interesting in their style.

I know you'll never switch to Android, but any time you talk/complain about workflow, I think of the automation app Tasker. It can do everything you've complained about that Workflow doesn't do, including interacting with other devices and computers. Myke already joined the PC master race, join the Android master race too!!!!

BTW, that powder in the piddle packs is the same sort of stuff that is in diapers. Anybody who has accidentally washed a disposable diaper has likely scooped large quantities of it.

You can buy it in bulk for cheap.

I guess you don't listen to multiple podcasts ?

It's cool to have a podcast app, at least you can make sure you're not missing anything.

I use this one.

If you want messages in your phone like iMessage have a look at the app pulse. It's made by the same guy as evolve sms and talon. It is a paid app and you have to use chrome in order to have it work on your computer but it is the best solution I have found so far to text from your computer.

I just remembered that CGP Grey has actually mentioned which podcast app he uses at least once in Hello Internet (it’s called Overcast), so I looked it up to see if it has an Android version and, quite as I expected, it doesn’t. He actually has a page where he recommends podcast apps, none of which has an android version. So frustrating.

Well, I never had any problems with Podcast Addict. It does have a lot going on on the screen, but I manage it just fine. I don’t want to recommend a bunch of different apps so that you can try them yourself because that defeats the purpose of recommending stuff in the first place, but I remind of AntennaPod as an app with a very simple interface. I have to warn you though that I only tested it for a few minutes before settling on Podcast Addict.

I use the official YouTube app. What else?

I never used Flex. I'm not sure it was out before I switched to Android (2 years ago). From what I can tell, it's not really applicable to Android. If you're just looking for app tweaks (and are rooted, which, on a N9, you should be), check out the Xposed framework. Basically Android's MobileSubstrate (if that's still a thing).

Ads are best blocked by AdAway. It's not in the Play store, but you can install F-Droid (an alternate app market) and get it through there, or just download the APK directly. AdAway basically just downloads a custom hosts file and replaces the device hosts file with the custom one, so ads are blocked universally. Much easier than AdBlock+'s proxy server solution.

There's an Android live wallpaper called Fracta Pro that will dynamically generate landscapes like that in the color scheme of your choice.

(Yes, I'm aware of the irony of suggesting an Android LWP in this forum.)

Do you feel like the podcasting community would be will to pay for subscriptions up front? Some podcasts do kickstarters for each season. I'm looking into starting a paywall solution but I don't know how receptive audiences would be.

Not really related to this episode in particular, but I wanted to see what your response to this argument on the automation of jobs is.

U/mindofmetalandwheels I found these hexagon plates

There's also a "Share as Gist" plugin in the Obsidian community plugins:

># "Share as Gist" Obsidian plugin
This plugin for Obsidian (https://obsidian.md) allows you to share your notes as GitHub Gists.
You can share your notes privately (i.e. only people with the link can see the note) or publicly (i.e. the note is visible on your profile).
Once you've create a gist, if you make changes to your note (for example responding to feedback), you can update your existing gist straight from Obsidian.

more info here: https://github.com/timrogers/obsidian-share-as-gist

flashlight recommendation: Fenix PD36R 1600 Lumen Type-C USB Rechargeable EDC Tactical Flashlight with Fenix Battery, LumenTac Battery Organizer, and Red Filter https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07V1ZBCX9/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_HRF5R5C05S0H31Q5KZ69?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1

i specifically got it to protect myself from snakes at night. it’s awesome. as in, it will inspire awe.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DLRK7Q5

About the size of a swiss army knife, takes a single AAA battery (so no specialty flashlight battery nonsense), significantly brighter than a good phone flashlight

I know it's unorthodox to do a test after collecting data, but for this strawpoll (https://www.strawpoll.me/16329931), there is a statistically significant difference at a=0.1. It has a p-value of 0.058 where the null hypothesis is that the proportion of people who think that Brady is on the right is equal to the proportion of people who think that Grey is on the right. Currently, it is 934 Brady on right to 854 Grey on right.

It used to be a really big factor, but it is not as strong. http://www.cnet.com/news/lcd-vs-e-ink-the-eyestrain-debate/

And the retina display makes LCD even more comfortable as it make everything more smoother (but CGP will use an old IPad mini, without retina).

I don't know if this is exactly the thing for Brady and Grey, but the talk of "Augmented Human Olympics" reminds me of the 1996 Black Jack movie. (For those of you who are normal people, Black Jack is a character created by Osamu Tezuka, creator of Astro Boy.) If you've watched House you're already sort of familiar with the concept, although Black Jack is distinctly more science fiction/anime type. He's the best surgeon in the world and accepts the weirdest medical cases in a very Sherlock Holmes sort of way. He often states he charges a lot of money, but more often than not he ends up doing charity work. He's got that very Philip Marlowe/Sam Spade quality of being a really stand up guy who doesn't want to be.

This movie specially is a sort of science fiction medical mystery. It deals Black Jack being hired to solve the case of "Super Humans", who a few years before the film's timeline came in and broke almost every olympic record in sight, but now these same cases of "Super Humans" are all dying in very strange ways. It deals with augmented humans in the Olympics while also dealing with medical and surgical mysteries and seems like a nice intersection of the HI fanbase's interests. Here is a link to the trailer for the film. It's likely a bit difficult to track down but I'm hoping this link will help people who are interested. It aired on the Sci-Fi network years back (when it was called the Sci-Fi network) so perhaps people recall it. For those who also are worried, there is a dub for it, and it's of, at least, listenable and enjoyable quality. (I rather like it personally.)

About spyware and cameras (personal experience). Here's the thing- Grey ( /u/mindofmetalandwheels ) is correct in thinking that it's nearly impossible to hack/spy on someone unless software is installed. And enter the Trojan/ malware viruses. Obviously those with an older system (Windows XP apparently is the next big target) or without an anti-malware software system are most at risk. Usually through email, or depending on the site you are on, an invitation to download something (sometimes a fake anti-malware that's actually a virus) will be sent to targets. Which from my experience, so many are females, including myself. When I was a teenager on my old laptop that I had for a couple years at least (and not that knowledgable about computers) I remember having a few instances of downloading viruses. A couple of times I came to my laptop's camera on without turning it on myself. That's when I started to tape up my camera. A different experience that really affected me though and has lead me to always tape up my camera until I can see the other person first was being Skype called. I had added someone who I thought was a friend- and who knows, it very well could have been someone I knew. The name was written in Korean and I had a few Korean friends, so I added them on Skype. One day when I had a friend over and I happened to have Skype on, I got a Skype call from that person- which was a guy with his camera focused on his body (could not see his face) and he was masturbating. Between receiving vaguely threatening emails, being harassed on Facebook by strangers, and knowing other girls receiving anonymous creepy phone calls/ pictures, it's really hard to trust technology. Here's an article that further explains how webcams can be hacked: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-easy-is-it-for-someone-to-hack-your-webcam/

You'd think the those with untold billions would have a private jet.

Also, Singapore Airlines basically has a 5 Star hotel room on one of their planes: https://medium.com/travel-adventure/what-its-like-to-fly-the-23-000-singapore-airlines-suites-class-17d9f3fee0d

I just thought to read the wikipedia article for the definition (ignoring all the issues for now), but they included the Public Domain category, which I'm not sure if that's meant to be under the "Stock" definition or an example of what's not. There's this article as well, but I can't find anything that has a clear distinct line on what divides Royalty-Free and CC footage and when to (not) use them.

I know I'm not applying to be an IP lawyer for this, but it's that kind of "When can I or can't I use legally-by-casual-association-to-copyleft-labels stuff" ambiguity that's tagged to this No Stock rule. I'd like to think they're using this as a maximum test to find people for the Illustrator side of things, but I'm not the hirers, I can't quite read their intents in any way without making assumptions. And I'm definitely not a lawyer, although I should (should) (^(-ish)) know enough to know when to and when not. (EDIT: going down this "maybe-maybe" spiral: they could be finding for people confident enough to get legally-appropriate-for-use images without input. See where this game of one-man chess is going?)

And I haven't touched Fair-Use yet. (although I've decided not to attempt to use those stuff, because I don't want to go near this flame for now, and with all the flagging going on in youtube...)

It's official. Humblebrag is now in the Oxford Dictionary With a concerted effort I reckon we could get Bradytyping on next year's list.

Weird, it's definitely a water pistol in most Android manufacturer's emoji sets. Looking at this page, my guess is you're either on an LG or the reddit app you're using has its own emoji set in place.

Re: laugh inflation There already is a super-ROFL emoji: https://www.google.it/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;url=https://emojipedia.org/rolling-on-the-floor-laughing/&amp;ved=2ahUKEwj-j6Xsg7XdAhWMCcAKHWyuBMQQFjANegQIAxAB&amp;usg=AOvVaw2z4WtJdjFXqmC-ilSwFzZw

Also, superupper cases is just bold text.

Also, the way I use the clap emoji every other word is to make my point jokingly on a not-too-serious Internet debate, like: Tennis 👏 Balls 👏 Are 👏 Yellow 👏

In re: DuckDuckGo, Casey Liss just made a really compelling blog post about why people should use it and some tricks to get around the search results being not great, like the !bang operator

I share your experience and I view it as paying a convenience fee for avoiding google.

Note though that by adding 'building' you'll get the black stump as first result.

More in general: by searching a bit different from what I'm used to on google, ddg works really well for most general searches. Mostly I need to add 1 keyword to find what I'm looking for.

I get most problems with ddg on either academic papers (google scholar) or localized content.