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Life Hacks 104

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 - Listen to all episodes online. Search "Modern Wisdom" on any Podcast App or click here: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/modern-wisdom/id1347973549 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XrOqvxlqQI6bmdYHuIVnr?si=iUpczE97SJqe1kNdYBipnw Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/modern-wisdom - I want to hear from you!! Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Email: modernwisdompodcast@gmail.com

Chris WilliamsonhostYusef (PropaneFitness)guest
Jun 18, 20181h 6mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 0:00 – 15:00

    (wind blowing) Hi again. …

    1. CW

      (wind blowing) Hi again.

    2. Y(

      (clears throat)

    3. CW

      Life hacks 104 this time. Uh, Johnny is not here.

    4. Y(

      1-0-4.

    5. CW

      1-0-4. He is, um, in somewhere hot, sweating-

    6. Y(

      (laughs)

    7. CW

      ... and is complaining that we're being 105 kilos is too large.

    8. Y(

      It's your own fault, Johnny. You're 105 kilos, you know-

    9. CW

      Uh, it was his choice to move to the 120s, wasn't it?

    10. Y(

      ... to be hotter. (laughs)

    11. CW

      As a powerlifter. Um, so, yeah, that is ... Oh, hang on. Ah, nearly forgot.

    12. Y(

      Oh.

    13. CW

      Nearly left, nearly left the phone on non-airplane mode.

    14. Y(

      Oh, my God.

    15. CW

      Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Come on, airplane mode. There we go. You know that the one time, (sniffs) the one time that the phone's on airplane mode, someone will ring me.

    16. Y(

      It's standard, yeah.

    17. CW

      Um, so life hacks 104. Who's gonna go first? Do you wanna go first?

    18. Y(

      Sure.

    19. CW

      Right.

    20. Y(

      So, one that I've realized that I've been using seamlessly, uh, as you said, it's the ones that are the most background that are probably the most useful for you.

    21. CW

      Mm. Yeah.

    22. Y(

      But they're the least ones, they're, they're not the ones you'd be like, "Ah, yeah, I do that thing."

    23. CW

      They've integrated themselves so seamlessly in your life that it's like talking about breathing or talking about eating or-

    24. Y(

      Exactly. So, what is water to a fish?

    25. CW

      Yeah.

    26. Y(

      So, Splitwise-

    27. CW

      Okay.

    28. Y(

      ... is one that, uh ... So this is a tool. It's free. There is a paid version, but it, so the paid version's so high-powered that you just don't-

    29. CW

      Ugh.

    30. Y(

      ... need it. (laughs) So-

  2. 15:00 – 30:00

    Exactly. So unless you've…

    1. CW

      MY NUM 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 typo 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.

    2. Y(

      Exactly. So unless you've got it wrong then-

    3. CW

      Yeah. Well, in which case you're really fucked (laughing) and you've been fucked for a long time.

    4. Y(

      So you can also have some fun with it, like we did with Ben, where you change a or the or in to, "I really like it when you put your thumb in my bum."

    5. CW

      (laughs)

    6. Y(

      "Thanks very much." And then, (laughs) and then whenever they'll send a message to a friend or whatever-

    7. CW

      It's just complete gibberish.

    8. Y(

      Yeah.

    9. CW

      Yeah. Right. What have we got next? Okay, so-

    10. Y(

      Shall I just quickly run through the potential features of Alfred, just in case you're listening and you aren't, um, not sold.

    11. CW

      I think, I think we've sold Alfred on this one and we'll come back to advanced Alfred.

    12. Y(

      Okay. 'Cause you are right. I didn't, uh, I didn't expound on the-

    13. CW

      We'll go advanced Alfred on another one.

    14. Y(

      Fine. I mean, we ... As I say, I've got a one-hour webinar on Alfred that you can listen to, so.

    15. CW

      Yeah. Get in touch. Um, so next for me is Tubex.

    16. Y(

      Yes.

    17. CW

      Now, this is one that you actually got me onto.

    18. Y(

      You know, I think we are the chosen few at this point because Tubex

    19. CW

      So this is, again, we're on financial terms today, aren't we? You can tell it's a new tax year. Um, Quidco is a cashback site online and I couldn't believe that probably the most frugal person who I know, which is you-

    20. Y(

      (laughs)

    21. CW

      ... didn't know about it, and then increasingly, the more people that I speak to, they also don't know about it.

    22. Y(

      Mm.

    23. CW

      So I may be thinking it's not quite as renowned as-

    24. Y(

      So I, I, I set up an account in, I think, 2009, 2010 from my flatmate's advice and then just never used it.

    25. CW

      Yeah.

    26. Y(

      And I've realized that actually yeah, I missed out on so much potential.

    27. CW

      Probably close to £1,000 over the last like five years.

    28. Y(

      (laughs) So exciting.

    29. CW

      Yeah, so basically, basically Quidco is a site, a cashback site. Um, you can go through it to get, uh, to purchase pretty much anything online. Myprotein, Muscle Food, BT, uh, Sky, a lot of utilities, First Energy, all that sort of stuff, EDF, they're all on there.

    30. Y(

      Mm-hmm.

  3. 30:00 – 45:00

    Just in the garden.…

    1. CW

      hair cut properly." It's like ...... a bottle of spray water, which they'll bring, clippers which they'll bring. Put, like, do it on a hardwood f-floor or put a mat down or something like that. Bundle it up and you're away.

    2. Y(

      Just in the garden.

    3. CW

      In the garden, you would, uh, over the course of a year, you'd get a very hairy garden though, wouldn't you?

    4. Y(

      I see.

    5. CW

      Especially you.

    6. Y(

      (laughs) Yeah, true.

    7. CW

      (laughs)

    8. Y(

      I shaved my entire body from the neck down the other day.

    9. CW

      How did that go?

    10. Y(

      So I thought it, 'cause I'm, I'm going away to a hot country soon, so I thought-

    11. CW

      Hmm.

    12. Y(

      ... I better, better cool down, shave my legs as well.

    13. CW

      You can see some hair on your arms, though.

    14. Y(

      Oh, yeah. I mean, arms, like-

    15. CW

      What about legs?

    16. Y(

      Yeah, I've done legs.

    17. CW

      Did legs? Did legs but not arms?

    18. Y(

      Yeah. So-

    19. CW

      Okay.

    20. Y(

      But I've realized it just makes you more sweaty.

    21. CW

      Yeah.

    22. Y(

      I didn't realize the, uh, the purpose-

    23. CW

      It wicks the sweat away, right?

    24. Y(

      Yeah. So I think I won't be doing that again.

    25. CW

      Hmm.

    26. Y(

      So-

    27. CW

      Was it a lengthy task?

    28. Y(

      No, didn't take long. It took f-five minutes.

    29. CW

      I bet you're-

    30. Y(

      Just-

  4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

    Yeah. …

    1. Y(

      I feel like so many of mine are s- silly little apps.

    2. CW

      Yeah.

    3. Y(

      So this is called Iina, I-I-N-A.

    4. CW

      Okay.

    5. Y(

      It is a wrapper, a user interface wrapper for a, um, something called MPlayer, I think, which is a, a Mac aud- uh, Mac multimedia video audio player.

    6. CW

      Okay.

    7. Y(

      The reason I like it is, again, keyboard shortcuts, very simple, very lightweight. It's like really small file size, opens instantly. Um, it saves the place where you were at. So you open... If you're watching a long lecture or something-

    8. CW

      Mm-hmm.

    9. Y(

      ... 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 before.

    10. CW

      Okay.

    11. Y(

      Um, I know a lot of people use VLC.

    12. CW

      Yeah, that's what I've got.

    13. Y(

      I've switched over from VLC to this just because it's, it's just so much better. You can change the speed and the, the volume and everything and skip forward and back five seconds or 30 seconds with the arrow keys.

    14. CW

      Mm-hmm.

    15. Y(

      It's all just so instant and it just feels like you're just plugged into the, the media rather than having to (techno music plays)

    16. CW

      It's weird, isn't it? On a Mac, especially on a MacBook that QuickTime is just so fucking clunky and shit.

    17. Y(

      Oh. It's... And it has, it... And they seem to have this deal with QuickTime that they've had for like however many years.

    18. CW

      Well, it's owned by Apple, I think.

    19. Y(

      Is it?

    20. CW

      Yeah, I think so.

    21. Y(

      Ah, okay. Do you remember when Windows used to do RealPlayer?

    22. CW

      Yeah.

    23. Y(

      That was a prick.

    24. CW

      Yeah. That was shit. But yeah, Media Player Classic if you're on Windows is what you need. That's the... Or you can get VLC also. Um, but Media Player Classic is about as lightweight as you can get. And you can do stuff like you're, you're talking about there.

    25. Y(

      Mm-hmm.

    26. CW

      Which is where you, uh, you can actually overshoot the audio volume. So you can do like a pre-amp, so you can actually have volume, audio volume at 150%. Obviously it'll degrade the quality, but it'll make it louder or quieter.

    27. Y(

      (laughs)

    28. CW

      Yeah, it just sounds like, sounds like noise. Uh, right. Let's get two more each and we will finish up. Um, so I'm gonna do a bit of a plug here, not for anyone who's affiliated with me, but just something that I love called Anjuna Deep. Um, so Anjuna Beats is Above & Beyond's record label. They also have a podcast, which is called Group Therapy and Anjuna Deep-

    29. Y(

      Group Therapy with Above & Beyond.

    30. CW

      (laughs) That's it. Exactly it. Really good.

  5. 1:00:00 – 1:06:52

    Yeah. …

    1. Y(

      it's designed, as we discussed in the technology ... What Is Technology Doing To Us? podcast, with a hacker in your pocket, the little read notification circle is designed to ... it's, it's read for a reason.

    2. CW

      Yeah.

    3. Y(

      It's the alarm color.

    4. CW

      Yeah.

    5. Y(

      And it's designed, and it's on your home screen to make you, like, always go, "Oh."

    6. CW

      At all times.

    7. Y(

      So there's gonna be this background hum of stress from having 13,000 emails.

    8. CW

      Yeah.

    9. Y(

      It also makes you feel like a wasteman when you've just got-

    10. CW

      Yeah. It's just an ugly looking home screen, isn't it?

    11. Y(

      Mm-hmm.

    12. CW

      I saw the guys have got, like, 53 unread iMessages. I'm like, "Why have you got unread iMessages?" That's just-

    13. Y(

      That's not the most priority-

    14. CW

      That's just people that you've ignored.

    15. Y(

      (laughs)

    16. CW

      Like, 'cause the thing is you can't even mark them as unread. You haven't even opened them.

    17. Y(

      So, with iMessage, I guess rather than, like the, the ball ache 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, isn't it? So in that case-

    18. CW

      Deal with it. Well, that's, that ties in with the two-minute rule, which is from David Allen's Getting Things Done. If any task takes less than two minutes. I think you can extend that to probably like three.

    19. Y(

      Mm-hmm.

    20. CW

      Um, if any task takes less than three minutes, just do it.

    21. Y(

      Do it now. Don't-

    22. CW

      Do it immediately.

    23. Y(

      Don't schedule it in 'cause it'll take longer to schedule it in.

    24. CW

      Schedule it, then go back, "Oh, well, hang on, 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, you've already done half of the work.

    25. Y(

      And you've got the background noise in your head.

    26. CW

      I understand what it is, yeah.

    27. Y(

      "Oh, I've gotta do that thing."

    28. CW

      So just, just get it done.

    29. Y(

      Mm-hmm.

    30. CW

      Get the, get the work out the way. It's gonna take three minutes.

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