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🗓️ 30 August 2024
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0:00.0 | Let me ask you this. |
0:02.0 | Kevin, let me ask you this. |
0:04.0 | I walked into the office today and I saw on your desk a keyboard and it said Alpha. |
0:10.0 | There's an Alpha keyboard on your desk. |
0:12.0 | What is this? Well, I'm such an Alpha man. There's an alpha keyboard on your desk. |
0:12.7 | What is this? |
0:13.6 | Well, I'm such an alpha male that they have to give me a special |
0:17.2 | keyboard because I mashed the keys so hard |
0:19.6 | than a normal keyboard would just shatter. |
0:21.8 | That doesn't sound right to me. |
0:23.2 | No, it's not. |
0:24.0 | Bamboozling me. |
0:25.5 | What is the alpha keyboard? |
0:28.1 | This is a product that I am testing. |
0:31.4 | It's called the Free Writewrite alpha and this is essentially an internet connected typewriter |
0:37.6 | because you know as you may experience being online can be quite distracting when you're trying to do research and writing. |
0:47.0 | And so there's this company, Freight, that makes these little sort of stripped down computers that basically only can be used to write things and then they can |
0:55.8 | like sort of store that in the cloud and so that can become your ordinary writing device. |
1:01.4 | So you feel like to get ahead you need to sort of go from a laptop to something that is like much worse than a laptop? |
1:08.2 | Yes, what if a laptop could only write? That is sort of the premise. Does it have a display? Yes, it has a little like is sort of the premise does it have a display yes it has a little |
1:13.8 | like like sort of gray it's it just gives you sort of a couple lines at a time |
1:18.9 | you can so you're writing your column you could only see one sentence at any given time. |
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