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In this episode we give you an overview of our current and essential tools, from hardware to software, that we use to “organize our shiat” as Andreas specified in his question.
Here’s the tl;dl for you stressed out folks:
Most important rule: Have as little as necessary.
Software we’re currently using
- Project and Task Management with Asana
- Google calendar with multiple time-zones support to simplify scheduling
- 1Password for password security and handling millions of logins (works on desktop as well as mobile devices)
- A Timer (as included in most smartphones or the good old egg timer)
- Backups with TimeMachine (Mac), cloud storage from Dropbox to Amazon servers
- Evernote for accessing my snail mail from whereever online
- Chat and Video Calls with Skype, HipChat and Google Hangouts
Hardware we’re carrying around
- Nico’s coffee set (see picture below), including the AeroPress with a re-usable metal filter, a coffee bean grinder, a scale, a thermometer (not in the image), a milk frother.
- Laptops, in our case Apple Macbook Pro 15″ and Air 11″
- an unlocked smartphone
- wifi hotspot device, like this one
- Jambox bluetooth speakers for fairly good portable sound amplification
The “nature of understanding”
- The difference between understanding things and being able to explain them.
- Intuition vs. rational reasoning.
- Being aware that you can’t understand everything with your (limited and sequential) conscious mind.
Nico mentions the wonderful piano music of his teacher Chris Beier, “Aeolian Green – piano worksVIII” (You can find this on iTunes as well as Spotify).
Chris mentions the book “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking” by Malcom Gladwell.
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