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Automate Your Life Pt.1

Author
March Rogers, Ian Mikutel, Darren Austin
Published
Wed 06 Nov 2019
Episode Link
https://www.bettershow.io/

Show Notes

  • 2:50 — Why might you want to automate certain tasks in your life?
  • 6:04 — The advantages of reducing friction in your life.
  • 7:03 — Three questions to ask yourself to discover areas where automation might be advantageous for you.
  • 8:50 — March shares the areas in his life that he has happily automated including bills, discovery of relevant news, and retirement savings.
  • 9:59 — Why you might NOT want to pay attention to your investments.
  • 13:22 — Ian shares a few things that he’s automated in his life but laments that this is one of the few areas where he is not an early adopter.
  • 15:45 — “Just in time” shopping.
  • 16:50 — Darren shares his philosophy on how he thinks about life automation and lists a number of services he and his wife, Mardee, have used to automate basic life tasks.
  • 19:32 —The strangest thing that Darren has automated in his life and a reference to Episode 29 where he shares the story of what motivated him to do it.
  • 21:57 — Five things everyone should automate.
  • 25:55 — How Ian broke the central heating system in his new home.
  • 33:28 —Five surprising things that you can benefit from automating including food delivery, shopping for deals, and feeding your cat.
  • 35:54 —Darren gives a hearty endorsement of Sun Basket, the food delivery service that he and Mardee use regularly.
  • 43:49 — How to keep track of cool stuff in space.
  • 45:25 — How to use automation to get out of annoying or difficult conversations.
  • 49:10 — The things that you DON’T want to automate.
  • 52:38 — Things our listeners wish they could automate but that are difficult or impossible to automate.
  • 53:50 — Ian, Darren, and March decide which things from this episode they are going to try out and report back on.

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