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Justin and Jason discuss the novel coronavirus, how Justin is adapting to his new mountain lifestyle, Jason’s crazy, high-risk portfolio, the latest on Math Academy, the challenge and importance of writing simple code, Justin’s continuous glucose monitor, Grimes and her evil AI pun, Justin’s strategy for creating three things that help each other, and his idea for a productivity app.
Hey Guys,
I was super excited to see that there was a new Techzing postcast out. Really enjoyed the episode.
Jason, you should check out Todoist (https://todoist.com/). It does most of what you mentioned wanting in a todo app. The main thing on your list it doesn’t do is notes.
It has a bunch of handy integrations so its super easy to quickly create a task from a website, email or if you’re running the app you can just hit command+shift+A and it pops up with a one line text box to create a task. You can group tasks by project (entered by using #project-name) or tag (@tag-name). Priority can be set as 1-4 with “!!” and it recognises human readable deadlines e.g. “4pm Friday” and even more complicated stuff like 2 days before the end of month. It also does recurring tasks so you can “every second Friday”.
Justin, I think I get the concept of you’re going for with the software giving you different tasks to suite the current mood / state of mind. I like the idea but I’m definitely not sure how to go about it. I have so many different things I want to work on that when I finally get some breathing space it can be really hard not to just procrastinate simply because there are too many options to choose from. I’ll be interested to see what you come up with.
Cheers,
Caleb
Glad to see a new episode out! I’m happy to hear that Math Academy is progressing! Justin, what were the earphones that you mentioned?
@Caleb Vear – Thanks fo giving the competition a plug 😉 But yeah, I tried todoist and a lot of other apps just never found one that felt good to me.
@William Ratcliff – Beyerdynamic DT 770 M – Even with low volume they block all the outside noise out AND they don’t have any annoying noise cancelling tech – that I find makes you feel like your head is in a toilet.
@Justin, I don’t think James said that advice of “either do one thing or do TWELVE things that have synergies” on this show. He’s said it a few times on his own podcast in the early years, though.
Thinking more about others who follow that 2nd approach, it seems that a lot are either affiliate advertisers with huge personal brands (including James himself) or investors who are splitting their time between several companies and maybe blogging or podcasting.
@Jason, really looking forward to seeing the for profit Math Academy launch! It seems like the only alternatives now are either things like Brilliant.org or else things like OCW, which are rigorous but with a very high bar for personal discipline and organization.
I’ve thought a lot about what breaking the trillion dollar + higher ed bubble would look like in the beginning steps and a program that leads people to successfully completing a subject GRE is exactly what seems most likely. Nobody cares about Coursera certificates, but a GRE is harder to blow off.
Justin – I think we’re to-do philosophy buddies.
The flaw in most lists is that, as they get huge and intimidating, you tend to either not want to look at them, or not add to them.
What I have allows me to see the things I am (or should be) working on NOW – just a few items. But I can also capture every todo idea that enters my brain, and not have it clutter that view.
I can also hide things that are stuck because I’m waiting on a date or for someone to do a part of it.
It’s just prioritising (Now, Soon, Later, Someday) and filtering, but what I have is pretty clean.
Happy to explain or demo. Just spreadsheet based right now.
@George – Yes! Let’s screen share, I’ll show you mine if you show me yours. Reaching out by email.