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Accidental Tech Podcast

149: Everyone’s on Vacation

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2015

⏱️ 114 minutes

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0:00.0

Is your shopping done?

0:02.3

I think.

0:03.7

But I haven't wrapped everything yet.

0:05.4

And so that always leaves me wondering, like, maybe I forgot something or somebody, or I didn't get enough for somebody or something.

0:13.7

So it's always a baseline level of stress, because I'm always very worried about not having gotten somebody, something or enough.

0:20.1

That's why you have a spreadsheet to track these sorts of things.

0:23.8

That would be wise if I was thinking that far ahead.

0:27.5

Yes, I agree that that's the kind of thing I should do.

0:30.3

I assume John has just a series of parole scripts to figure out what to buy people.

0:35.1

No, I don't do anything.

0:36.9

I was thinking maybe you would have just a large number of windows.

0:39.7

I think that would be more you.

0:41.9

Like maybe like one window that has like 15,000 tabs right in it that was just like one

0:46.7

tab for every person you've ever known for each gift that you might someday maybe want to get

0:50.1

them plus the ones you did get them, plus the ones you got them in the past for comparison

0:52.7

and reference.

0:53.6

Actually, that does make a lot of sense. You need a burn down chart for a number of

0:57.4

gifts you have to buy other people. What is a burn down chart? I was about to say there's no way

1:01.7

Marco knows what that is. No. I assume this is another like business thing. Yeah. Well, it's a software

1:07.2

development thing, but also a business thing. What happens in a burn down chart?

1:10.9

I mean, it sounds really fun.

1:12.1

I'm guessing it isn't.

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