73: Clear the Cortex Decks

Cortex

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Hurley, Technology, Time, Work, Getting, Productivity, Myke, Cgp, Things, Done, Grey

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🗓️ 4 September 2018

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Myke is perplexed with corporate branding, Grey has learned more than he wanted about USB-C, and they both answer #ASKCORTEX questions on how to get the career you want, how to start being productive, and to find out who could live longest in the woods.

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0:00.0	Ever
0:01.2	ever note changed their icon and plunged me into two weeks of
0:05.1	dissatisfactionly rearranging my home screen icons.
0:08.9	They went from green and white to white and green, right?
0:12.2	They like inverted it or something yeah
0:14.1	they went for this popular aesthetic that I think is garbage okay which is the white
0:18.4	icon with the color thing in the center I think that looks terrible but that's what they
0:22.4	went for thanks Thanks Ever Notes.
0:24.6	Let me ask you a question, right? Because I had this in up my notes for a different reason, actually.
0:29.7	Okay. Do you know that they changed the icon? The actual icon is different?
0:33.0	What do you mean the elephant is different? The elephant is new apparently.
0:37.0	Is it? I didn't notice.
0:39.0	It's a new elephant. It is ever so slightly more rounded.
0:43.0	There was this big article in Fast Company
0:46.0	about Evernote's new branding.
0:48.0	And it kind of, it brought to me two things that frustrates me about large Silicon Valley companies.
0:56.0	Point number one is why did they think that anybody cares about their branding?
1:01.7	Like Evernote had an app update, right, in which the notes were saying
1:06.8	like, all of you noticed anything different. Like their whole release notes for their
1:10.1	app update was focused around the fact that they have a new icon and some new coloring
1:14.2	inside of the application.
1:15.6	Like I don't think there was any new specific features that came along with this rebranding,
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