Hello and welcome to another selection box from an Irish Manor Abroad podcast. Our chosen charity partner is as always jigsaw.e. an incredible Irish charity doing amazing things for youth mental health in Ireland right now. However hard you're finding lockdown, you can be guaranteed that the young people around you and in your life are finding

it harder. We all remember how difficult it was to be a young person. Throw a pandemic and some

social media in on top of that and you realise that jigsaw.0.e are actually saving lives on the

daily through this pandemic. Why not pop over there now and see what they're up to and see if there's

anything there that can help you or the young people in your life or maybe if you've a couple

extra quid you can help them. Well the selection box is our new project, a new, I guess it's

a Patreon exclusive because patrons get the full version of the show. They get the books, they get the TV, the music and the tech reviews and recommendations.

But it's really a show that isn't about reviewing things.

This show is about selecting and recommending and kind of purveying the content that's out there and the overwhelm the oral feeling around

what to watch, what to read and what to listen to and trusting people like Ethna Shortol to tell us,

this is good, this is worthy of your time. So Aetma's here with me now. Ethna, how are you?

I'm good, thank you. Yes. I hope I live up to that.

Yeah. Thank you. I'd imagine that you don't have much time for reading yourself. I mean,

this is the one that people are like, oh, I don't have time for that yet. They'll gaze at a screen forever.

Yeah. I think that myself, and I like I do read a good bit, but still, you know, when you get your weekly reports on your phone for like how much time you spend on your phone and you see the time that's on social media or something that couldn't possibly be work related.

And you're like, if I add that up for a week, like that's a book read, you know.

But I think like I, there's like, i pretend there's a force field around our stairs

and i the phone can't get up them so the phone never comes to the bedroom and i do most of my

reading in bed in like an hour a couple of hours before i go to bed well actually now that you

bring it up i'll be talking to unaming kavana later in the show about productivity and technology and how we can actually use it to our benefit. She talks about the Pomodoro method and some very simple, like straightforward. They aren't even tech related techniques to get your work over the line and to avoid that distraction. The force field at the bottom of the

stairs is a new one. How is you're in the middle. If anybody's been following along,

Edmonds is in the middle of writing a new book and I believe you're redrafting at the moment.

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