Overlooking simplicity

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Summary

I spent hours freaking out because my iPhone was hot and the internet was dead slow, thinking it was the battery or the phone. Turns out I ran out of data because an app was syncing iCloud all night. I overlooked the simplest thing. Don’t overlook simplicity, look at the simple solution first, and keep it simple.

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It’s kind of annoying that I didn’t make the video yesterday. And I overlooked simplicity. Let me explain.

So you know when you have a tool and you have a tool bag, you know the tool is in there. Your gut feeling tells you that the tool is in there. But you look absolutely everywhere but that one place. So you turn over the house. You spend hours looking for it. You still haven’t looked in that. tool bag. You sit down, you have a drink, you have a cigar, cigarette, whatever, you chill. And after a few hours, you go and I’ll go and have a look at that toolbox and you find it in the toolbox. It’s in the toolbox.

So you’ve kind of complicated the whole simple process, i.e. going to the toolbox first to finding that problem, you know, finding the hammer, whatever it is. But you wanted to do all this other complicated stuff for some reason. And we’ve all done it. We have all done it and I’ve done it many times personally and professionally, especially professionally, because working in tech, you kind of have to diagnose things. So you’re, sometimes you think, okay, let me check the most complicated thing first before, oh, it’s actually that simple, that’s all it is.

And that was what happened yesterday. So yesterday, I couldn’t get online. Yeah, I work remotely. I was freaking out. And I think, that caused more of the issue than anything else. But my iPhone was getting really, really hot. The internet was there, but it was insanely slow. I put it in the fridge. I’m at my friend’s place. Put it in the fridge, cool it down, restarted it, did everything, and it just wouldn’t do anything. It just wouldn’t let me have proper internet. It was insanely slow. It was like 1G, for instance.

After three hours, I was like, this makes no sense. So I looked at it again, and it took me yet another hour or so to figure out it was actually the most simple thing. It wasn’t a battery issue because I was phoning around to see where I can get a battery. It wasn’t the phone being dead. I was phoning around everywhere where I can try to get another phone. And what I was thinking was, well, I’ll get to that. And guess what it was? If I told you, you probably won’t work with me.

But anyway, it was me running out of my data. And the reason I ran out of my data is because I have an app on my computer that tells that switches off the iCloud syncing because it takes a lot of data. And that must have been on all night. So it was uploading, doing stuff that it shouldn’t have been run out of data. And that’s why it was getting really hot because it was doing all of this transfer. So it was actually the simplest thing. And I overlooked it.

So don’t overlook simplicity because even with your tools, getting that simple tool will do a lot more than getting all that complicated stuff that just won’t actually help you. It happens to me. It happens to everyone. But yeah, I want to get a dumb phone. I found a Nokia that’s a dumb phone that has Wi-Fi hotspot. And I wanted a dumb phone because then I can keep it as a secondary phone rather than buying another. expensive iPhone.

Keep it simple. Look at the simplicity of the things around you rather than complicating things and looking at the complex things around you or the complex solution that you need for running your business. Keep it simple.

I see you tomorrow. No, tomorrow is I’m forgetting what day is. I see you on Monday. Take care. Bye. Jesus.