Reminds me of a presentation class I took where they filmed us giving a presentation and made us watch it. And I knew that I had been prepared, was confident and knew my stuff, and … I looked SO fucking nervous because I was twisting my hands all over the place and standing super awkwardly, neither of which I knew about. It had to completely deflate any presentation I was doing. Seeing or hearing yourself really stinks sometimes but really helps. Also, I am victim to the “like” as well. But - and anyone who knows me knows I still struggle with this - sometimes silence is way more powerful than filling a gap with an “uh” or a “like” … and by sometimes, I mean almost always.
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I’m a “swayer”/“slow dancer”. I tend to rock back and forth on the balls of my feet.
@MerchCzar for flying with babies, feed them during the ascent and descent. Helped ours with the ear popping issues…
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It’s funny hearing the first kid sanitizer experience from @MerchCzar
We were diligent about the sanitization with kid #1 and kid #2 I think we sanitized them like twice and just soap and water was good enough.
Dr. Browns bottles were definitely our pick for both kids though.
Someone mentioned reel mowers.
I had one of these several years ago and loved it. I do not recall paying three bills for it though.
If you’ve got a small yard, this thing is great.
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@MerchCzar and @Cody 's discussion on emails got me thinking.
I am a High School VP, so work in public service. Most families are great to deal with, but there has been a significant rise on emails and why are you not getting back to me…had one Dad recently email me at 9 AM, phoned him back around 4 PM, where his first reply was “I wanted to hear from you this morning”…and it was nothing that needed immediate attention.
The other coming up with some is the Read Reply receipt…I always hit No. I think working in public service, some have the attitude of I pay your salary, you work for me. Our District actually has an AP that indicates a 72 hour expectation for replying in communications.
I am bad for checking my phone at night, and then get work on the brain and can affect sleep. So after listening to the Pod, I just put my work phone face down on the shelf, and I won’t be flipping it over unless it is a time where I can or want to reply. Definitely something I want to work on, along with the endless scrolling through IG after supper…get a book and be productive is my goal.
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Enjoyed the latest Booth episode.
On the notification management front: I’ve had a lot of success with Apple’s Focus options. I’ve configured several profiles including ones for Work and No Work that switch up my home screen app pages, and manage which app and people notifications get through. @Cody that may help you lock in without having to turn your phone completely off and risk missing an important call from HQ.
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Focus modes can be great, but it can be easy to forget you’re in one.
I like to combine Focus modes with some Shortcuts to automatically switch based on location and time and not have to keep track of which mode I’m in.
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Yeah the geofence option is great. I have my work one set up for that so it automatically turns on and off based on my office location. The other thing I’ve done to make it very obvious I’m in a certain Focus mode is set up the background wallpaper to be very different. It also helps that my Work home screen set up is very very different from my typical config.
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I was struck by something @MerchCzar said during the most recent booth podcast about people on Reddit/ the refuge/ Twitter assuming that there’s no way anyone works more than 40 hours a week. I’ve come to realize if you have a “cool fun job” that you enjoy doing people automatically assume you don’t work very hard and it’s not draining on your energy. I had one of those “cool fun jobs” for about 2.5 years and from the outside people thought everything was awesome. I worked at a cool place, lived in a cool town, and enjoyed my job. What no one ever heard about or cared about was the fact that I was working about 60 hours a week and only getting paid for 35. I had a boss that thought because I enjoyed the job he didn’t have to pay me to do parts of it and it completely burned me out. A long way of saying people will treat you differently when you genuinely enjoy what you do but from the inside it’s still work and it still takes time and energy away from other things.
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On a related note, I guess we’re in an open blog relationship with @MerchCzar ?? End of the day I want my guy to be happy but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little threatened by how much time Reddit has been spending with him recently. I guess I need to do a better job remembering that he comes home to The Refuge at night
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I wouldn’t worry about my time spent in that Reddit ceasepool. Refuge will always be home! Shame on me for mentioning the platform by name and giving those schwaldos the satisfaction. As of this morning, I have deleted the app from my phone.
@duffing_in_detroit I think you summed up what irks me about the Reddit commentary though. After a long week like PGA Championship, it’s hard not to take it personal when someone writes 500 words about how I/we don’t work hard.
I LOVE my job, so this isn’t me looking for sympathy about how hard it is. I just take offense to people acting like it’s easy or only takes 20 hours a week. For some reason that pisses me off exponentially more than someone saying our content sucks.
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I confess to spending some time there too. According to that board, Randy doesn’t work AT ALL and despises golf in all forms, KVV may in fact be the anti-Christ and I’m sure there are daggers in the other guys but I no longer try and fight those battles. As always, Reddit is often the lowest of us.
Great Booth with Cody by the way. My daughter just turned 16, so the flashbacks to new parenting was kind of amazing. It reminded me of the middle of the night bottle feeding where my kid was taking forever and crying and I finally realized I’d put the old bottle top/nipple on which was barely letting enough milk out. That was a ROUGH evening. Fight the good fight, sir
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@MerchCzar I took a five-month old to Paris (many years ago) and aside from the first night, which did suck, had a fantastic time exploring the city while my wife attended a conference.
To Cody’s point about babies not knowing how to clear their ears, you need to feed them a little bit on take-off and again on descent. The sucking sensation with the bottle will make them clear their ears (similar to why some people chew gum for take-off and landing).
There’s an assumption with content creators that the only time they’re working is when they’re on camera. People don’t realize the amount of things behind the scenes that have to be setup before the record button is ever hit along with the work that comes once recording stops.
That doesn’t even scratch the surface of all the other stuff NLU does that we never see or hear about.
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I work in government and healthcare. If an email isn’t responded to within a few hours, that’s a red flag that somethings up. Even if the reply is just “I’m looking into it”, something is demanded.
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One recommendation I can give from listening to @MerchCzar and @Cody talking about personal emails vs. newsletters and consuming content is Feedbin. Offload all of your consumable emails to Feedbin to clear your personal inbox has helped here tremendously.
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Was cool hearing DJ’s review of the Sphere.
A couple of thoughts I had that I’ve been wanting to put down somewhere.
1.) The visuals are amazing - but, and I don’t see many people mention this… that shit be lookin’ like it’s bufferin’ when you’re on the floor. Lots of blurs, areas that look like they’re still “rendering” - pixels out of place, etc.
2.) Amazing sound, but… why so quiet? This is something I’ve noticed about Dad and Co. since I saw them on their first tour. Just really, really low volume coming from the stage.
3.) Fun show.
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Also, the knock on Goose is definitely that they are frauds and softies. Props to DJ for pointing that out.
And to Neil’s “lots of people like to sit in with them” comment - they schedule and pay for that. That’s why Big Boi, Father John Misty, etc. - were all sitting in with them like crazy for a period.