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Automate Your Life Pt.2

Author
Ian Mikutel, March Rogers, Darren Austin
Published
Mon 18 Nov 2019
Episode Link
https://www.bettershow.io/

Show Notes

  • 1:27 — We got nominated for a “best health and fitness” podcast award!!
  • 5:20 — March recommends checking out Episode 56: Better Morning Routines.
  • 6:48 — What benefits can you reap from using services to automate things in your life?
  • 8:25 — Automating your laundry with LaundryHeap.com
  • 12:16 — How to automate your grocery shopping
  • 16:10 — Ian’s experience using TaxFyle.com to outsource his tax preparation.
  • 19:39 — A few of the lesser known outsourcing services that Darren and Mardee use including Dolly, Fiverr, and 99Designs.com.
  • 22:00 — How to decide which outsourcing services are the best value for your lifestyle.
  • 25:50 — Ian reflects on the benefits of having a roommate to “outsource” some activities around the house.
  • 27:01 —March almost confesses to making phone calls to random people. :-)
  • 32:00 — The two categories of automation / outsourcing services.
  • 34:19 — Are we already living in a dystopian future of automation?
  • 38:42 — Darren offers to do Ian’s taxes. (Not really.)
  • 40:00 — The precarious task of putting up Christmas lights.
  • 43:10 —The 3 weirdest things that have been outsourced using TaskRabbit.
  • 49:45 — The difference between Fiverr and TaskRabbit.
  • 51:38 — What is Mechanical Turk by Amazon?
  • 1:00:01 — The different options for food and grocery delivery.
  • 1:01:00 — The different personal shopping services and how they work.
  • 1:05:20 — A service called OffTheRecord.com that will contest your traffic tickets on your behalf.
  • 1:07:19 — Automating the setup of a company and payment system using Atlas by Stripe.
  • 1:07:59 — Services that automatically coach you on sales calls or for live presentations.
  • 1:10:01 — Services that help you automate your travel planning.
  • 1:13:05 — Services like Dolly that can help you find people to move large, heavy objects.
  • 1:15:05 — How you can get rid of three feet of snow using the Shovler app.

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