246: Workflows with Eddie Smith

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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2015

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Eddie Smith drops by to talk about life as an Actuary and the tools he uses to help students prepare for Actuary exams. Including culling through thousands of pages of reference material using DevonThink, creating equation-rich study guides with LaTeX and brining it all together with keynote to create video tutorials. At the end of the show we also sidetrack into a discussion of the new MacBooks and Apple watch. Thanks to MPU listener Jigar Talati for assistance with the shownotes this week!

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0:00.0	MacPower users episode 246,
0:02.6	Workflows with Eddie Smith. Welcome back to another episode of the Mac Power Users
0:17.2	Podcast. I'm Katie Floyd alongside with David Sparks.
0:19.6	Say David.
0:20.6	Hello Katie Floyd, how are you today?
0:22.4	I'm doing well David. How are today? I'm doing well David how are you good I'm so
0:24.8	excited we finally got the Mac power uses episode everybody's been waiting to
0:28.8	listen to I I know I've been waiting to listen to it and I could when you recommended this this workflow
0:35.8	guest I said what are you talking about of course we've talked to Eddie before but I went
0:40.6	back and I looked and apparently we've never had Eddie Smith.
0:44.6	We've had him on the show before I believe, but we've never done a workflow show with Eddie before.
0:49.3	So welcome to the show for your flow debut Eddie Smith.
0:53.0	Thanks guys, it's great to be here.
0:55.0	Yeah, I think it's I think the last time was the the Markdown
0:58.0	book if I'm not mistaken and I think David's probably released at least a hundred
1:02.0	field guides since then so it's been a while
1:03.9	Yeah and Eddie you haven't released a single field guide that since then you slacker I know I know well you know it makes it clear that David did all the work on that one, so.
1:13.0	Eddie, but look, forget the Markdown thing.
1:16.4	I want to talk about, tell people what you do for a living.
1:19.7	Well, I am an actuary, and it, you know, even before I was a more non-traditional
1:27.2	actuary, that was always a hard thing to say because if I was lucky I would just get
1:31.8	kind of a weird look and then I would quickly change the subject and talk about something more interesting
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