Hi, I'm Ed Zittron, host of the Better offline Podcast.

I've been both a tech writer and a tech executive for 15 years,

and I've seen this industry grow from a bunch of dorks building things in their

garage into a multi trillion dollar behemoth that has monetized every corner of our lives.

Better offline is a podcast where I'll lead you through the good, the bad and the stupid of the tech industry.

And tell you exactly how venture capitalists and technocrat billionaires intend to influence

your digital lives. Listen to better offline on the IHOP radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you get your

podcast.

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast. Today's tip is to

figure out what happened in your life on this day in the past.

Revisiting this specific past is a great opportunity to recall memories

and reflect on your life.

Longtime listeners know that I have been tracking my time for a great many years now.

I will be celebrating nine years of continuous time tracking this April.

Yes, that means that if you want to know what I was doing at 1030 a.m.

on February 16th, 2017, I could in fact tell you.

Now, I don't normally go hunting back for random memories

from random times.

But for the past two years years I have been doing something else to

reflect on specific days. I finished my weekly time log on Monday mornings and

since I name my logs after the Monday, like February 5, February 12, February 19,

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