Making things simpler is the ultimate goal

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Summary

We’ve always tried to make life simpler, from horse and cart to planes. But we often only switch off and remove friction on weekends. That same simplicity should happen throughout the week, especially with tech. Turn off notifications and get rid of friction to make your whole week easier.

Raw

We often do things to make life easier and simpler. So in general, humans have always done that. So think of horse and cart and then car. Think of ships and then planes. And that’s no different to our own personal lives.

So the ultimate goal is to make things more luxurious, basically. More things simpler, easier and so on.

As we go into the weekend, the things that you will probably do to make your weekend better is to switch off your work phone and don’t look at email. Now, it’s not always possible because some people need to work the weekends, blah, blah, well, I get that.

But the whole point is, generally, that we don’t work over the weekend. So as we go into the weekend, we kind of wind down and stop checking your emails and stop checking your phones and turning off notifications.

But shouldn’t that happen always to make your life easier and simpler? So if the ultimate goal is to make your life simpler, life meaning work life and your general life. So why don’t we do this throughout the week?

Now we work eight hours a day. I don’t. A lot of people don’t. But generally it’s an eight hour day. Half of that eight hour day is completely wasted on friction, whether it’s tech friction, whether it’s friction with clients, just friction in general.

So if the ultimate goal is to make things simpler, the goal, in a way, is to try to get rid of as much friction as you can. And you can start off with, well, I’m going to say tech, obviously, because I’m a tech channel. But there’s so many things that you can do to ultimately make things easier for yourself and make it simpler for yourself.

So as you go into this weekend, obviously, turn off your phone, stop looking at checking your emails. But when you get back into work on the Monday, see if you can get rid of that friction that you have specifically with your tech to make your life simpler throughout the week as well. And don’t just hoard that idea for the weekend. Try to get that into the week as well.

Turn off notifications is the first one. Turn off all your notifications apart from phone and SMS. They’re the only ones I have on my phone, basically.

Anyway, enjoy your weekend, and I’ll see you the next one. Ciao.