two traditional episodes back to back. This is an established tradition though.

We're quite traditional here at cortex. Yeah, yeah around prime cortex

is when we get the most traditional and that is now.

We're in cortexmus prime season.

The best part of the year.

The most productive time of the year, that's how the song would go.

No, that's not how the song would go at all because it's the best time of the year I

I don't think cortex is the most productive time of the year

don't try to tie me into that mic. All right. Well anyway, it is time to talk about our yearly themes for 2019.

What are yearly themes, Mike? How would you describe this to listeners?

This was the thing that was established a few years ago now, where you mentioned that you were trying

to focus, I believe the year of less was the first yearly theme.

Yes, it was when you had decided that you wanted to kind of pull back from some commitments

and just try and get things all taken care of a little bit more.

And we were talking about that a bunch,

and I really liked the thinking around a yearly theme, like some kind of overarching idea that can guide my decisions for a year

based upon how I feel and so I then decided that I wanted to implement a year of less in 2017.

So I decided that that was something that I wanted to do and you enjoyed the year of last so much

that you wanted to keep that going so we both set themes in 2017 to run the whole

year and then we set themes again for 2018 and now here we are to set our 2019 themes.

Right, right.

Okay, that makes sense.

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