Automate Your Life Pt.1

The Better Show

Show Notes

• 2:50 — Why might you want to automate certain tasks in your life?
• 6:04 — The advantages of reducing friction in your life.
• 7:03 — Three questions to ask yourself to discover areas where automation might be advantageous for you.
• 8:50 — March shares the areas in his life that he has happily automated including bills, discovery of relevant news, and retirement savings.
• 9:59 — Why you might NOT want to pay attention to your investments.
• 13:22 — Ian shares a few things that he’s automated in his life but laments that this is one of the few areas where he is not an early adopter.
• 15:45 — “Just in time” shopping.
• 16:50 — Darren shares his philosophy on how he thinks about life automation and lists a number of services he and his wife, Mardee, have used to automate basic life tasks.
• 19:32 —The strangest thing that Darren has automated in his life and a reference to Episode 29 where he shares the story of what motivated him to do it.
• 21:57 — Five things everyone should automate.
• 25:55 — How Ian broke the central heating system in his new home.
• 33:28 —Five surprising things that you can benefit from automating including food delivery, shopping for deals, and feeding your cat.
• 35:54 —Darren gives a hearty endorsement of Sun Basket, the food delivery service that he and Mardee use regularly.
• 43:49 — How to keep track of cool stuff in space.
• 45:25 — How to use automation to get out of annoying or difficult conversations.
• 49:10 — The things that you DON’T want to automate.
• 52:38 — Things our listeners wish they could automate but that are difficult or impossible to automate.
• 53:50 — Ian, Darren, and March decide which things from this episode they are going to try out and report back on.

Mentions

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• 📱 App: Trello
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• 📦 Product: Dropbox
• 📦 Product: Google Photos
• 📰 Website: EatThisMuch.com
• 🥗 Meal Service: Blue Apron
• 🥗 Meal Service: Sun Basket
• 🥗 Meal Service: Home Chef
• 🔒 Secure password manager: Dashlane
• 🎙️ Podcast: The Better Show Episode 29 — Emergency Preparedness
• 🤖 Robo-investment service: Wealthfront
• 📺 video: Robot chefs (coming soon to Las Vegas!)
• 📦 Product: Google Duplex