I had a brilliant manager in a government department. Her work was always done and done well. On occasion she would ask for me to look at or for something in her work email account - she had over (way over) 2000 unread emails in her inbox. As someone who keeps their email account really tidy this amazed me..but everything was still done sooooo yeah that’s brutal triage via ignoring on an epic scale (in my mind anyway).
It’s two years since this aired so I thought I’d let you know that at least in my industry there is a huge push for back to the office. Especially from the big companies.
I love Obsidian/ Roam so much!! I have a few master pages of topics that I'm interested in long term, which i link to whenever there is something vaguely related. So i can just dump notes relevant to some long term interests however I want (like random scribbles), and then find them again in relation to the master page. And once in a while when I feel like I know more now I restructure my master page into some structures that make sense or break up into smaller topics. For example, I have master pages on algorithms divided by specific algorithms/ data structures, and i link notes from different books/ videos/ leetcode questions on each.
definitely agree with it being between random notes and some structure, for me its like a low effort input dump with enough connections that i can find them again if I want. And i clean up major pages/ connections as I learn more (and let others I lose interest in just die out)
in the company I work for my manager works completely remotely for longer then I have worked there (over 2 years) and he is over 350 miles away. I have seen him in person 2-3 times in that time and its been working well.
Myke, get Alarmy. It lets you set an alarm you cant snooze, cant turn off, and even cant turn off your phone or uninstall the app. I have my off condition be to take a photo of a picture I have downstairs. Requires me to get out of bed, turn lights on in order to shut my alarm up.
If you're not careful, Grey, you are going to be in charge of Apple. They will bring you in to make it a more "Holistic" company, and you will make so many "I'm just your buddy telling you fun stuff to do with your Apple product" commercials. And you will be happy. I am not sure if that is a bad thing, but it seems sinister somehow.
I remember on Star Trek they had stacks of datapads, one for each document. It would make sense for first-order-retrievability. I would love it if someone made a thin, light, tablet that can be easily stacked and you could make a very stable 5 or 6 high tower of open documents. Maybe a sliding switch on the side to let you lock the screen so it doesn't accept touchscreen inputs, then you can hand it around without worrying about someone changing the screen. Maybe it could still accept swipes to move around the document but it wouldn't be allowed to leave or edit the current document. Like this: cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2011/07/star-trek-padd-replica-01.jpg Less rounded, stackable, stable, and a nice border that allows you to grab it without having to touch the screen. I think just disabling screen touches would work better. Something like a modified eReader would work, a cheap stackable "open document" mini tablet. Hmmmmm. They could be bluetooth only and dock to a cellphone. You could have a dozen or so all attached to one phone and when you lock it people would need your thummbprint to unlock them. You could just hand one to someone and they take it home, and they could look over that open document, even an entire book, but not be able to change documents or access your phone. Well, even if it was unlocked, if they were outside the bluetooth range of your phone they couldn't access anything on your phone. This is so amazing, I want them to be so cheap you could buy a 10 pack for $200. They don't need amazing processors, just enough to display text or pictures. They even have color eInk displays now, but something tells me the black and white ones would sell more because of how cheap they are. You could literally leave the house with 1 mini-tablet with a handful of documents on it, and not have to worry about cramming it in a pocket because the touchscreen is disabled. Dockument. Love it. Want it. Star Trek has never been so close...
I don't understand the stance "Criticizing my work or ideas is not criticizing me as a person." You created the work or idea. If someone says "Your work/idea is bad", that is equivalent to "You did bad work / came up with a bad idea." If that's not a criticism of you as a person, I don't know what is! It's one thing to say one shouldn't take it personally - and I would tend to agree - but saying that it's "not criticizing you as a person" borders on disingenuous.
Grey's connection of notes picture is so pretty. I love it.
Wow, so many Grey content these days! A video, two streams and Cortex. Nice!
Is it next month already?
I was just asking myself the same thing
yep, march 30th is totally april 1st. wonder if they'll make a special edition for that.
That my first time receiving the email for this show. I'm happy
I had a brilliant manager in a government department. Her work was always done and done well. On occasion she would ask for me to look at or for something in her work email account - she had over (way over) 2000 unread emails in her inbox. As someone who keeps their email account really tidy this amazed me..but everything was still done sooooo yeah that’s brutal triage via ignoring on an epic scale (in my mind anyway).
Writing in pink and purple ink, sounds like the beginning of Myke's love of pens and colors.
One alarm is none alarms.
oh look it’s my favorite youtubers podcast, and it’s more active than his channel.....
Didn't expect cortex to call me out. I feel exactly like Grey and Myke as a student
So it's Grey's zettelkasten? Or personal wiki?
It’s two years since this aired so I thought I’d let you know that at least in my industry there is a huge push for back to the office. Especially from the big companies.
I love Obsidian/ Roam so much!! I have a few master pages of topics that I'm interested in long term, which i link to whenever there is something vaguely related.
So i can just dump notes relevant to some long term interests however I want (like random scribbles), and then find them again in relation to the master page. And once in a while when I feel like I know more now I restructure my master page into some structures that make sense or break up into smaller topics.
For example, I have master pages on algorithms divided by specific algorithms/ data structures, and i link notes from different books/ videos/ leetcode questions on each.
definitely agree with it being between random notes and some structure, for me its like a low effort input dump with enough connections that i can find them again if I want. And i clean up major pages/ connections as I learn more (and let others I lose interest in just die out)
in the company I work for my manager works completely remotely for longer then I have worked there (over 2 years) and he is over 350 miles away. I have seen him in person 2-3 times in that time and its been working well.
strategic slacker?!?!?!
I feel targeted
Is Obsidian like Clippy?
Grey is my cutie bae
Myke, get Alarmy. It lets you set an alarm you cant snooze, cant turn off, and even cant turn off your phone or uninstall the app. I have my off condition be to take a photo of a picture I have downstairs. Requires me to get out of bed, turn lights on in order to shut my alarm up.
You'll have to throw the phone away if the picture ever gets stolen lol
No 113 animation?
Why 40 minutes?
If you're not careful, Grey, you are going to be in charge of Apple. They will bring you in to make it a more "Holistic" company, and you will make so many "I'm just your buddy telling you fun stuff to do with your Apple product" commercials. And you will be happy. I am not sure if that is a bad thing, but it seems sinister somehow.
I remember on Star Trek they had stacks of datapads, one for each document. It would make sense for first-order-retrievability. I would love it if someone made a thin, light, tablet that can be easily stacked and you could make a very stable 5 or 6 high tower of open documents. Maybe a sliding switch on the side to let you lock the screen so it doesn't accept touchscreen inputs, then you can hand it around without worrying about someone changing the screen. Maybe it could still accept swipes to move around the document but it wouldn't be allowed to leave or edit the current document.
Like this:
cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2011/07/star-trek-padd-replica-01.jpg
Less rounded, stackable, stable, and a nice border that allows you to grab it without having to touch the screen. I think just disabling screen touches would work better. Something like a modified eReader would work, a cheap stackable "open document" mini tablet. Hmmmmm. They could be bluetooth only and dock to a cellphone. You could have a dozen or so all attached to one phone and when you lock it people would need your thummbprint to unlock them. You could just hand one to someone and they take it home, and they could look over that open document, even an entire book, but not be able to change documents or access your phone. Well, even if it was unlocked, if they were outside the bluetooth range of your phone they couldn't access anything on your phone. This is so amazing, I want them to be so cheap you could buy a 10 pack for $200. They don't need amazing processors, just enough to display text or pictures. They even have color eInk displays now, but something tells me the black and white ones would sell more because of how cheap they are. You could literally leave the house with 1 mini-tablet with a handful of documents on it, and not have to worry about cramming it in a pocket because the touchscreen is disabled. Dockument. Love it. Want it. Star Trek has never been so close...
I don't understand the stance "Criticizing my work or ideas is not criticizing me as a person." You created the work or idea. If someone says "Your work/idea is bad", that is equivalent to "You did bad work / came up with a bad idea." If that's not a criticism of you as a person, I don't know what is! It's one thing to say one shouldn't take it personally - and I would tend to agree - but saying that it's "not criticizing you as a person" borders on disingenuous.
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