Getting frustrated with tech is annoying and infuriating, so when a company thinks of making a product, they never think about the shittery they’re creating when it has a problem or issue.
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00:00You know one thing I hate, there's many things I hate, one of the things I hate about tech is complicated tech shittery.
00:12What do I mean by that?
00:15Tech is supposed to be there to help you out and supposed to be able to enrich your life.
00:22Now granted some of these examples I'm going to talk about do kind of help the situation, but the complicated part is that they've made it so complicated that when it goes wrong, it goes wrong.
00:38It doesn't work.
00:39You can't get it to work.
00:41It takes forever and sometimes all of a sudden it will start working on its own.
00:47And that's what I call tech shittery.
00:49It's just annoyances that don't need to be there.
00:55One of them is in my office studio.
00:59Whatever I have these lights now with the lights you have to there's no on button.
01:05You have to turn it on via an app on the Mac or on your phone.
01:10Now sometimes and I don't know why it's the right one just suddenly decides not to connect so I can't turn it on.
01:18So I have to wait.
01:19I have to reset it.
01:20It's just the pain in the butt.
01:22I have an idea in my head.
01:23I want to press record.
01:24I got I need the lights and you have to faff around with this bullshit light and it's irritating again tech shittery.
01:34What other examples have I got?
01:36My lights the lights I have in the house.
01:38They're called hue.
01:40They're from Phillips work fantastically when they work.
01:43All these things work great when they work when they don't the hue lights for instance,
01:49they decide they don't want to turn off when you turn off.
01:54And again, you need an app.
01:55Yes, you could go to the light switch and turn it on and off.
01:58But that's a pain in the butt because you have to get up when you even forget getting up when you turn it on and off.
02:05It goes full blast and you still need the app to turn it down.
02:10Tech shittery.
02:12It's just fucking annoying.
02:16What else do I have?
02:17There's so many examples.
02:18Oh my son of speakers speakers.
02:21I have a son of system.
02:22They're all around the house.
02:23They're awesome.
02:24Sometimes it just decides this speaker doesn't want to work today.
02:28I'm on holiday one of the speakers and it could be any one of them mind you the sub works all the time.
02:34But one of these satellite that just stopped working.
02:37I don't want to work.
02:38Is it a Wi-Fi issue?
02:39No, because my Wi-Fi works.
02:42I haven't it's it just works.
02:45But again, that also causes a problem.
02:47I have video cameras around the house.
02:51Sometimes one of them decides it just doesn't want to work.
02:55This tech shittery annoys the bejesus out of me and I'm sure it does with you as well.
03:01When it comes to tech on your Mac on your phone, whatever the systems that you're using.
03:06They sometimes go down tech shittery.
03:09It's annoying.
03:10We all have to deal with it.
03:12How do we deal with it?
03:14Well, the way I deal with it is calm down reset it.
03:19It's annoying when it comes to services not working.
03:23Yeah.
03:24Well, I try to choose services that are offline and I can carry on working.
03:29My CRM is offline.
03:31Most of the well, all the Apple apps are offline.
03:34There are only a handful of apps that are not critical to my work that are online.
03:42So if they stop working or if the internet stops working, I'm in a place where there's no internet connection or she can't work.
03:50So that tech shittery you need things to work.
03:53You need these things that are connected to all work for you to be able to work.
04:00So having offline apps, having tech that you can literally just turn on and off like cars nowadays.
04:08This is another one.
04:09Cars nowadays are all computers.
04:11If they computer doesn't work, you're screwed.
04:14You got to go back to BMW, Mercedes, whatever Tesla to get it working.
04:20Actually, I've got a story about that for another video later on.
04:26But tech shittery is a thing.
04:28So limiting your tech shittery limiting that crap that you have to deal with will make you do a lot more work and make him way more productive because you're not getting frustrated with that.
04:43Again, I call it tech friction as well.
04:45So you can actually get on with your work.
04:48It's not a Friday Fury episode.
04:51I maybe should do one soon.
04:53Anyway, have a great day.
04:56Keep it simple.
04:57Get rid of the tech shittery and I'll see you in the next one.
05:00Okay, ciao.
05:01Bye.