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HEADLINES, PART A Unveiling the long-term effects of regular prolonged screen exposure How to Take Better Breaks at Work, According to Research Technological changes in hybrid working benefits psychological safety in the workplace, experts have said Things in Life I Underestimated for Way Too Long How to Tame Those Gazillion Ideas HEADLINES, PART B New Microsoft Mac Admins community now available for IT pros using Microsoft products on Apple devices in the enterprise Amazon sending out emails highlighting its Send to Kindle from Microsoft Word feature Google Messages Magic Compose beta brings AI to your RCS chats but with some limitations Googles Magic Compose beta is here but it sends your messages to Google How to Use Google’s AI Search Experience Right Now You Can Finally Share Your Screen in WhatsApp on Android Logi Dock review: conference calls have never been so cute Google Keep reminders wont show on Calendar anymore the perfect productivity trifecta ruined Final Cut for iPad is a step in the right direction, but it highlights iPadOS limitations BodyGuardz launches Apex ceramic iPhone screen protector, claims ‘virtually unbreakable’ Lenovos big new tablet is beautiful and proves that ChromeOS is Googles better desktop OS New B&N Nook Glowlight 4 Plus appears in a product page at company retail store Honor Magic VS review: foldable perks foldable quirks New Tools of the Week Wavebox Novaplus A7 Pro Stylus Pen for iPad, Real Time Battery Display, 1.4mm Tip Exchangeable with Apple Pencil, Tilt Function, Palm Rejection, Magnetic Design. Precise Writing/Drawing FEATURED STORY OF THE WEEK What are Notion Projects? ANNOUNCEMENTS Google’s ChatGPT rival just launched in search. Here’s how to try it Apple, MLB announce July “Friday Night Baseball” schedule on Apple TV+ NOTES Meta Announces Quest 3 Ahead of Apple’s Rumored AR/VR Headset The Meta Quest 3 is a $499 mixed reality headset with full-color passthrough Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 171 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements Oppo MR headset announced just days before Reality Pro – but only for developers Little Ape e-note can be the best learning aid your child can have Raw Text Transcript | DRAFT Raw, unedited and machine-produced text transcript so there may be substantial errors, but you can search for specific points in the episode to jump to, or to reference back to at a later date and time, by keywords or key phrases. The time coding is mm:ss (e.g., 0:04 starts at 4 seconds into the cast’s audio). Read More Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:00Hello, personal productivity enthusiast and community Welcome to Anything But Idle, the productivity news podcast. Today’s show is brought to you by co-working space by personal productivity club. I’m Ray Sidney-Smith. I’m Augusto Pinaud. And we’re your hosts for Anything But Idle. This is episode 117 notion projects arise, help you organize your projects. And we’re recording this on June 5th 2023. Each week, of course, you know that Augusto and I read and review all of the various productivity news headlines of the week. And we bring those together here today in Anything But Idle. And so with that, okay, so let’s get into our headline for this week, with our first productivity headline of the week, Augusto Pinaud 0:42we’re beginning with an article talking about the unveiling of the long term effects of the long term exposure to screens. And that’s not been a secret, you know, you have eye discomfort, physical discomfort for poor position, you know, sleep issues. You know, there was the fourth and the fifth, the first tree I agree on, I’m aware of them. The fourth was cognitive challenges on reduced productivity. And the fifth was the psychological impact on the isolation. And I understand that I’m very, very grateful, because I am, I could do this and have the camera and that fit my social human connection, that that is a good luck. I don’t, you know, during the pandemic, as other people were suffering on the lack of physical contact and seeing other people, I was not I was fine looking people in the screens. So that I that that psychological impact, and I experienced it with my kids, you know, one of my kid, he was completely fine, okay, he was his father, his father, son, and he could leave in cameras and be happy. And if he will have been allowed to not go back to school, you will have a stay remote. My daughter, instead, she means that and she really got their facts from from that. But where I disagree with the article is the cognitive challenges and reduced productivity, sorry, leave surrounded by screens. And I consider myself reasonably productive. Not only that, I work as a consultant as a coach with people who are surrounded by screens. And I don’t think that part is necessarily true, I think Raymond Sidney-Smith 2:35it has to do with the way in which people set up their systems, like you’re working with people to help them manage their focus effectively. And I think that a lot of people who have multiple screens and multiple devices on which they’re working, they’re challenged because of the fact that they don’t have things correctly set up. And it’s, it’s being set up for their workflow, so that they can focus on the things that they need to at any given time, and also be triggered to change context at the right time. So what I take from this article regarding cognitive challenges and reduced productivity is that if you’re a manager, or if you yourself are self directed, you need to make sure that if you have a prolonged amount of screen exposure, that you just spend a lot of time with your devices, and you need to be able to set it up. I think of these on plots, you know, from from the book for clean, by Dan Charles, right. The idea here is that you have your you have your station setup, so that it is like a cockpit, right you are you are designed to be able to focus on the right measurements and the right dials and the right visual landscape at any given time. And when you do that, you’re then able to function in the cockpit, you’re capable of directing the plane where it needs to go. If you don’t, then you get a crash. And that’s going to kill a lot of people. So how about we not do that? Right? So that’s what I think is really the genesis kind of the gem of the article in that sense. But I agree with you, if you have things set up correctly, then it’s not the fact that you have prolonged exposure to the screens. It’s the fact that you don’t have things probably properly set up. All right, onward to our next article. Augusto Pinaud 4:12Image article is how to take better brakes for work, according to research. And it’s an article from the Harvard Business Review. And you know, every time I read about the brakes and stuff, and I mean, without going to the unreasonable, I think many times what people need is not necessarily the break, but the change. It is how do you adjust from going to perspective or focus a to activity B to activity c? So don’t get burned out? Can I ask you were mentioned in the cockpit you make me laugh because yes, my office looks like a cockpit I get it and when I work with clients is that is how are you going to change So that way, you don’t spend seven hours looking at the same screen, but you can change not only what you’re doing, how you’re doing, what are the different movement, the different positions that you can have. And when you do that, you know, you can then work into much more smaller breaks, because you don’t get to those points where, okay, now I need to take two hours so I can recover, because you are getting small breaks or small increments of recharging during the day. Raymond Sidney-Smith 5:33I have this vague sense that burnout wasn’t real for a while. And, and it’s not that burnout doesn’t exist, it’s so I do believe that burnout does exist now. But I have this sense that we have the ability to, you know, keep burnout at bay, very effectively, if we do the right kinds of mitigations. And these behavioral interventions are not, they’re not grand, right. It’s like, you know, self efficacy is a way to, you know, challenge burnout and to overcome burnout, obviously, taking reps true rest, Getting proper sleep, which is different than rest, right, rest is purposefully not doing something. And that’s not procrastination, either. Right is purposeful, you know, relaxation. The other side is sleep, you need proper sleep, that’s different than rest, but exerting energy giving, giving yourself time to do those things. Again, we talked about these philosophies on plastic, your visual clutter on
