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Tyson Mutrux 00:00:13 Welcome back to the Guild live show. I'm Tyson Matrix, and today we've got a really fun one. We're going to be talking about not all thrive in some environments. We're going to be talking about, some things going on with E gates, which is going to be an interesting one. how you're probably dulling your brain. Hopefully not all of you are, but most of you, I guarantee that you are talking about doom scrolling. Okay, a little bit. And something about click answers. So click with a Q, not a K, and we'll get to that in a moment. Alright, after our first segment, we're going to be talking about how not all Thrive. And this is about an article about. It's from Fast Company. Not everyone will thrive in an innovative culture. And that's okay. It's by Greg Suttle. And the reason why I wanted to bring this up is because I want a lot of you to stop trying to be googly.

Tyson Mutrux 00:01:20 You don't. You're don't be Google. I want you to focus on building the right culture for your case. Mix your clientele and your team, not some generic, innovative culture. Okay. because it doesn't fit for everybody. It's just not the thing. there is no fixed creative personality. This is from the article. leaders, they create conditions where some people and ideas thrive and others don't. Right. And that's fine. Fit. It beats fantasy because we have this fantasy. Sometimes we have this this idea of what the culture should look like, And it's not always what we think it is, right? It's it's really more about fit what fits right. So, so they talk about Xerox a little bit and it's, it's how a great model can be a trap. where, they, they flourished by creating sort of a different environment, were different misfits. they, they, they really sort of, thrived on that sort of environment. And, you also kind of think about where, there was there was a guy named Gary Starkweather where he really I mean, he was just sort of an out there kind of a guy did, was came with some crazy ideas, end up building the laser printer.

Tyson Mutrux 00:02:52 so really wonderful, wonderful for that environment. But then others, they actually they didn't fit in with that environment. And they they left. Those people left and they actually wouldn't build Pixar. Right. So you're these people that are still amazing, still great, don't fit that environment. And they left and and built Pixar. so even and the whole idea is, is that even high performers can be misfits in the wrong environment. Now, you can make the argument that if they had stayed at, in that environment, which they weren't really they weren't, flourishing in that environment, they were doing pretty poorly. although they were they were rock stars and everything else. they weren't really doing well in the whole Xerox, world. but like I said, maybe if they'd stuck around, maybe the company would have survived because they could have, gotten their ideas through. But, that's not the point. That's the point of this, is that. With that environment. At the time, Xerox was still a great company.

Tyson Mutrux 00:04:00 things have changed quite a bit, as you probably know. Just. But I think that's more of the world in general as opposed to that company. And so your leader, your job as the leader is to is to really choose a culture, that's fit for the purpose that you're trying to fulfill. And, and you're doing that because you're, you know, it's going to attract some talent and repel other talent. Right. So the idea is you create this culture that it's going to attract some people, it's going to repel other people. And that's a that's a massive feature of creating the right environment and not really a bug. Okay. so even if you have a really quirky environment, some people might view that as a bug. No, that could actually be a feature that you're going to attract certain people and repel other people. So, let's get on to the next Story. So this is a this is a fun one. This is one where, Blair and TSA. They are going to launch some biometric gates at three major airports.

Tyson Mutrux 00:05:07 This is kind of an interesting one, where they're piloting this biometric gate that automatically match your face to ID plus boarding pass and right you straight to physical screening. so they're going to initially do it at Atlanta. Seattle. and then I think in D.C. is where. And that's going to be so. Yeah. So you have to opt in for clear plus members and then TSA keeps operational control. There's no tax payer funding for the clear units. Interesting. Very interesting idea. so it's going to be later this month. So it's already live in Atlanta. Apparently they're going to be rolling it out in D.C. and then in Seattle later on this month. So later in August, because I'm guessing. I mean, unless they mean September, but it says this month, so I'm guessing it'll be I mean, it's already August 20th. We we will see. so how it works is that you get these real time biometric verification at the gate, and that's going to replace the TSA podium check in where you many of you, you know, you go in, you know, you show them your ID or your passport or you show them your boarding pass, whatever they ask for at that airport, because I've noticed it is different.

Tyson Mutrux 00:06:26 And then, that, that then after you get past to that point, you're directed to the metal detectors and all that. So TSA still triggers access and does the vetting, the price, you know, clear currently clear plus currently is about $209 a year. and it's often discounted via credit cards. Just so you know, that's from Wall Street Journal. scales. That's clear tested gates earlier this year at apparently Oakland, OKC and GSP. I don't know what GSP is before the big airport rollout. Oh, so the three pilot airports are the point to a nationwide expansion to prep for the World Cup slash America. 250 travel spikes. That's interesting. So TSA emphasizes opt in biometrics and TSA control of gates. That's one of those things where you have to opt in. It's not something that's going to be automatic. You have to actually opt in. so it's one of those things where, there are there I think there are a lot of concerns that people have with this one when it comes to privacy and civil liberties and everything else.

Tyson Mutrux 00:07:38 But I think that's why it's a it's an opt in. It's it's an option for people that are very busy. Like we are like, for those of you that travel, this could be a really good way of streamlining things. I personally don't have a lot of issues with airports. I think that the they're typically pretty quick, especially if you have pre-check. I've got pre-check and usually it saves me time. Sometimes the pre-check line is longer, but that's usually whenever the lines aren't very long in general. So but there you go. That's that is an interesting one that, you should check out. I know that's something I'm probably gonna, check into. All right. The next one. this is an interesting, this is I it's a little scrolling, a little, a little Freudian slip there, a little scary scrolling, scroll scrolling and scary. Five ways we make ourselves less intelligent each day. This is from Psychology Today. and the reason why I wanted to bring this one up is because if you think about like what our jobs are as lawyers in general, but then as law firm owners, like our strategic edge is our thinking capacity.

Tyson Mutrux 00:08:55 It really is. If you really just kind of boil it down, that's what it is. And so. The there's five common habits that are really sanding down that ability to, to have that thinking capacity that you need. And so here, here's where the what the five are. And, they'll give you something you can do to help your team out. But so fixed mindset. treating ability as innate. So that is it's, having that I guess less of a closed mindset or a less of an open mindset. So you have more of a closed, fixed mindset. and then so Were you? A lot of times you see this as you're looking at other people say, oh, they're just they're just a natural talent. I just don't have that skill set, which is B.S. for the most part. Right. It, it a lot of times you can learn the skills that you need. Instead you want to adopt the. And this is I'm giving you the really the quick and dirty version of this article.

Tyson Mutrux 00:10:07 they talk about adopting a or a growth of framing, right where and this is going to measurably shift your performance where, you have more of that growth mindset. And that's why I talk about this a lot, where I've been on multiple podcasts fairly recently, where I talk about how I've got the whole Rising Tides viewpoint, right, where there's plenty of cases for everyone. I want to be able to build everyone else out. there's plenty of cases for everyone. there's plenty of room for growth for everyone. And I and I do firmly believe that that's something I firmly believe. And I think that it's significantly benefited me over my career, and the ones where I see a lot of people struggle is, is they do have that more. Okay. I just don't have that ability mindset. you know, there's only so many cases to go around. Those people over there doing really, really well. It's killing my business. That's just not the way. That's just not the reality. That's just those are constraints that you're putting on yourself.

Tyson Mutrux 00:11:07 All right. Let's get to the second one. Sleep restriction. So, reaction time attention working memory drop. Whenever you are not sleepy enough, you want to protect sleep like it's a deadline or a court date. Marco Brown, he he talks about how, you know, sleeping. Well, I think, as we said, every hour, your sleep is worth, you know, 10 or $15,000. I think it's I think it's the way he put it. Puts it. I probably said that wrong, but he puts a lot of emphasis on sleep. I I'm just full. Just being brutally honest. I'm not great at this. This is something where Jeremy Danielson called me out on it. Because we can see each other's hoop data. Because if you have a hoop and you're in the guild with this guild, whoop whoop guild group so he can see my data, I can see his data and his, he was even showing his son my data because, I've been working on getting better at this.

Tyson Mutrux 00:12:07 This is something. luckily, with whoop, I can track my data and see, what I'm doing wrong. But I am working on getting better, and I am getting better at that. But it is something that I do know. It is not good. Not good for retention. it's not good for, like I said, reaction time, working memory, those are all really bad. So, that's what's another thing. So that's number two. Number three is alcohol. I don't have an issue with this one. I rarely drink any alcohol. So even moderate alcohol consumption over time, it's associated with structural brain changes. And the reason why I like that. It's from Psychology Today. So this is it's a it's about, you know, the brain. That's what I like about it. So it's from trusted sources. So this is something that's really tough. So what they recommend is that you you reduce or you even track intake, just tracking intake can force you to, to reduce it. Even if you don't want to just say, okay, I'm gonna start drinking less.

Tyson Mutrux 00:13:04 If you start tracking, it will help. A good friend of mine, I will not mention who it is. started doing that and they had recommended an app. I cannot remember the name of the app, but, they. Before they had a drink, they were supposed to read something in an app, a part of an app. And I thought that was really kind of an interesting thing. If I will reach out to that person and ask them if I can share the app, and I'll try to put it in the show notes. But that was that was an interesting way of approaching alcohol. Number four is no structure, so you have no structure to your day. If you looked at my calendar, you'd think you'd give you a seizure. But I think that that helps me quite a bit. Procrastination correlates with executive function impairment. so if you're having executive function impairment, which also could mean maybe an issue with ADHD, but that's another topic for another day. We've had episodes about that, so you can check those out if you want to, but you want to use deadlines and open loops to resume quickly.

Tyson Mutrux 00:14:06 Okay? So boom, you loop back into it, bloom back into it, loop back into it. you want to have that structure. You want to put as much structure around your day as possible. And number five bad inputs session environments. So moods and cognition drift toward your information diet okay. So think about what you're putting into your brain okay. So you know what comes in if what is it. What? I don't I don't know the actual phrase, but it basically, if you put it in, put bad stuff in bad stuff, it's going to come out right. That's just how it works. So good stuff comes in, good stuff's going to come out. So, just as if think about it, if you were eating, what what sort of foods are you eating? Same thing with your brain. What is your brain consuming? You want to be consuming healthy, healthy things and not toxic things. So these these are the things that are dulling your brain. That is here's sort of a team, thing you can do to help with your team where, maybe you do you everyone tracks their sleep for a month, and you everyone needs to focus on an average of seven hours of sleep minimum.

Tyson Mutrux 00:15:14 Okay. Make sure you track that. And then you focus on. And this is dependent on how much you will drink. So maybe two week nights alcohol free or maybe, you know for out or nights alcohol free. Everyone commits to that. then you you do the third part of this, maybe you have a couple of, up to 90 minute deep work blocks a day where everyone's just grinding away, getting work done, focused work. And then through the fourth part of this is maybe you can mute. So that means like, you know, just turn off three low value channels of information that's coming in towards you. So maybe that's a social media, one of those maybe a social media. Another one might be like a person, and maybe another one might be a television channel that you've been watching so much. So any any if you can recognize three of those low value inputs, you can just mute those, turn those off. And then, the fifth part of this is doing a weekly once a week, just a content cleanup where you go through and you figure out what content are you consuming, and you get rid of anything that you don't think should be in your life anymore.

Tyson Mutrux 00:16:33 So that was an interesting little thing you can do with your team to to challenge them and everyone improve a little bit. It's good. All right. Let's get on to our next story today. we're getting into its doom scrolling. So this is, somewhat similar to what, we were I was just talking about, but it's that's why I put them back to back, because they are somewhat similar. But this is from Men's Health UK. And I think this is a this is a really interesting one. And they, they make the case that doom scrolling that it hijacks the dopamine and attention. And then what they do is they offer three steps to break the cycle. If you've been doom scrolling, I know that I have every once in a while guilty of this whenever I'm bored. That's that's something that I need to keep myself busier. But, so it's very good. so here's what the. what they talk about is the chronic exposure to negative feeds, leads to stress, sleep disruption, and there's also a bunch of attention costs.

Tyson Mutrux 00:17:43 Harvard has documented the mental and physical ripple effects and practical ways to cut back. So, way the way you can here's the three steps that you can use to help reduce this. so it is so you time box your news. So you have two daily windows. and then you can also use screen time on your phone if you're or Digital Wellbeing. also another app limits. You can actually use those limits on your phones but you use just two daily windows. Okay. So your time boxing so where you can actually consume and then you want to use friction and curation. So you're going to remove apps from your home screen that's creating that friction. You want to switch to grayscale, which I thought was kind of an interesting thing, and then unfollow rage accounts. So that's the curation part of it. Okay. I think the the switching to grayscale is a pretty extreme, but who knows. I'm guessing it'll help, but you're the you're creating that friction by removing. And that is very, similar to some of the things that a world with that email talks about is creating that friction.

Tyson Mutrux 00:19:01 Because that's the problem with with chat is that there is no friction. You can just fire off a message in no time. You want to create some friction. So but friction curation. So remove the apps grayscale and then unfollow the rage accounts, which I think will help quite a bit because, I did that and I regularly do that, and sometimes I find myself re following people that I probably shouldn't. But, that's why you got to go back and clean again. Clean again. Clean. I just did that yesterday where I added a YouTube channel, two weeks ago, and then I just removed them yesterday. Just something, something he got to do. And then the third part is replaced with dose actions. So walk outside, brief workout, call a friend, to reset the brain chemistry. So you do something just it's a, you know, just sort of a reset, right? You do a, or a pattern interrupt. This is what I like to talk about quite a bit with my team is I talked about pattern interrupts.

Tyson Mutrux 00:19:58 I may have mentioned this on the podcast, but we had an employee that was kind of, you know, struggling a little bit. And I just said, hey, I asked about what her what, her morning schedule is. I said, okay, I'll just tomorrow stop by Starbucks. Right. You don't normally do that. Stop by Starbucks as I'll pay for it. I send her a Starbucks gift card. I said stop, stop by Starbucks. And, let's just let's just change the morning routine. Let's just do something. Let's just do something different than what you're normally doing. So, when it comes to the, this part of it. when it comes to the article, you know, they're, they're suggesting, you know, healthy type of thing. So walk outside, brief workout, call a friend. But you want to you just want to reset that brain chemistry. So, here we go. Oh, there's something else that's, they talk about the, the the misconception that knowing more makes you safer.

Tyson Mutrux 00:20:52 And that's not really true. the extra intake creates anxiety. And without adding any utility, which I think I thought was really interesting. So there you go. that's for men's health. So check that out. And we're gonna get to the last story when it comes to, click. So click answers. And I thought those were really interesting. So I mentioned comments. So perplexities comments. I've mentioned a couple of times now on the show. It is really interesting. I've been using it more and more. I find myself where I'm very close to ditching Chrome and switching fully over to comment. It is. It is pricey. It's not. You have to pay. You have to pay for the pro plan for perplexity or whatever the top tier. I don't I don't know the exact exact plan is, but what's really interesting is I had this idea as I've been using it more and more the and by the way, I guess I'm going to go back to the whole Chrome thing for just a second.

Tyson Mutrux 00:22:00 The reason why I've not yet switched fully is actually the show and the podcast, because not I'm not sure all all of the apps that we use when it comes to recording they I'm not sure that they work in perplexity. It's comet. if it if they do, then I probably will make the switch. If not, then I won't be able to until the until the all the different apps they catch up. So that's that's the main reason why I have not made that switch. But so what I was doing and the reason why it's this is this topic is called Clique Answers is that, the way comment works is that on the right side, there's a little window, a little chat window, and it will what what makes it different from like, just like any other chat window. There's a lot of them where, you know, you can ask your questions and stuff is that comet can actually take over the screen of that tab that you're working in and do the work for you. And I've had it I've showed this on, I think it was last week's show when it comes to a spreadsheet, but I, I normally will answer, respond to my messages during office hours.

Tyson Mutrux 00:23:12 and click on the click app, Zoho click app because that's the equivalent to slack, Zoho equivalent to slack. And what I did was I was like, you know what I'm going to log in to the browser version and I'm going to see if it will respond to the messages. So I wanted to I didn't want it to do it automatically, because I was a little concerned about what the responses might be. So I first said I had to gather all of the different, comments that are tagged me or direct messages that I had received because that's how we deal with it and click is that if it's someone that tags you or, if it's a direct message to you, then that's that's how I know to go and look at well, it did that and it had it create responses. So it did that and create a responses. And it did a really, really good job of I didn't make any changes to, to any of them. I only had it respond to two because I wanted to see how it would do, but it so it created the responses and I said, okay, now post the responses and it did it.

Tyson Mutrux 00:24:20 It did it flawlessly. It did it amazingly. Which really, really is opened my mind to what? Like even more things that we can do with it. And I think I was being a little close minded as to, you know, we're talking about the first story being or, maybe the third story about being close minded when it comes to things, but I think it was being really close minded when it comes to comment. And you can do so many things with it. That's what it's so powerful. And what's cool is you can take it and you can you can have it running in multiple different tabs. I had so I was talking about this yesterday during the Q&A, I was actually talking to Jeremy Danielson. We have a guild Q&A and so I have three screens. I'm looking at three screens right now. I'm actually at my normal work desk whenever I'm recording, typically I'm usually at the studio at home, or I'm at the studio that's over here up to my right that you all can't see.

Tyson Mutrux 00:25:18 But we're. We're doing a little reconfiguration with that. And because I just wanted to the background's too far away. So we're changing all that. But I've got the three screens in front of me, and then I have the ones I'm looking at right now. There's two. I actually have two windows open on that. That's usually how I typically work. So on my left I've got two screens and then right in front of me I've got two two windows open. And at one time I mean, yesterday morning I was crushing everything because I was just going through and I was getting so much work done because I was getting things set and just coming back to it. Right. It was doing these manual tasks for me that were fairly time consuming tasks. And coming back, I was coming back, checking on it. Okay, boom, now do this. Now do that. And it was really eye opening as to what all the work I could do with it. Yesterday, it was so cool. And then it did the thing with click and it was like it really kind of open up the floodgates for me on the things I'm going to be doing with it.

Tyson Mutrux 00:26:12 So really cool. I thought I might, I would share that with you all. something for you all to test out because it's, It ain't. Oh, my gosh, I got so much worked out yesterday. It was it was really incredible. So. But that is all I have. I actually, I guess I'll stop. go back for a second. Like, think about this. Like, have it edit your briefs and stuff. Like, actually, like you draft a brief or something, and let's say you do it in Google Docs. You're just say, hey, go through and look for even if you just instead of you just generally having an edit, say, okay, look for any punctuation errors or something like that. boom, it'll go through and it will identify those two for you. And then you say, okay, fix them and it'll fix them for you. Really incredible stuff. So, I would share with you all I think is really cool, but, excellent.

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