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Mac Power Users

505: Chris Bailey and the Noah's Ark of Dongles

Mac Power Users

Relay

Tech, Technology, David, User, Stephen Hackett, Sparks, How To, Help, Power, Workflow, Ios, Mac, Set Up

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2019

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Stephen and David are joined by Chris Bailey, an author and presenter with an undying love for TextEdit and getting focused work done with the Mac and iPad.

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Mac Power Users, episode 505,

0:03.0

Chris Bailey and the Noah's Ark of Dongles.

0:06.0

Hello everyone, this is David Sparks joined by my pal and yours Mr Stephen Hackett.

0:18.0

How you doing Stephen?

0:19.0

I'm good David how are you?

0:20.0

I was looking at you now we are north of $300,000 raised for St Jude and you played such a big

0:28.9

role in that.

0:29.9

Thank you man.

0:30.9

Oh, no, thanks to everyone who was involved.

0:34.6

September was, it was a real highlight of my career.

0:38.4

So I mean that seriously, to be able to take the energy behind Relay and funnel it to something good was really awesome.

0:45.0

Yeah and today we're joined by a guest, a friend of mine, Chris Bailey, welcome to the Mac Power

0:50.5

users.

0:51.5

Thank you. It's cool to be here. Now Chris was a guest on

0:55.5

focused. I think you were the first guest we had after we rebranded focused and

0:59.8

and Chris and I are friends we tend to have Nandos together. That's our that's our date thing.

1:07.0

It's delicious. Yeah. And it's a good date activity for anyone.

1:11.0

Yeah, well Chris wrote this amazing book called The Productivity Project and so years ago, well not that many years ago, but a while ago, he decided to try every productivity idea out on himself and he wrote a book about it.

1:27.0

You know, like he worked one week, 20 hours a week,

1:29.2

he worked another week, 80 hours a week, he took, he did math on it, brought brought science to bear it's a really great book

1:34.6

in fact I I liked it for my wife because she was interested in this stuff but she

1:38.7

didn't really start and because Chris covered so much in that book I got started but then when I went to lunch with

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