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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You know, one thing I hate, there's many things I hate.
One of the things I hate about tech is complicated tech shittery.
What do I mean by that?
Tech is supposed to be there to help you out and supposed to be able to enrich your life.
Now, 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, it doesn't work.
You can't get it to work.
It takes forever.
And sometimes all of a sudden it will start working on its own.
And that's what I call tech shittery.
It's just annoyances that don't need to be there.
One of them is in my office, studio, whatever, I have these lights.
Now with the lights you have to, there's no on button.
You have to turn it on via an app on the Mac or on your phone.
Now 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.
So I have to wait, I have to reset it.
It's just the pain in the butt.
I have an idea in my head.
I want to press record.
I need the lights. and you have to faff around with this bullshit light, and it's irritating.
Again, tech shittery.
What are examples have I got?
My lights, the lights I have in the house, they're called Hugh, they're from Phillips, work fantastically when they work.
All these things work great when they work.
When they don't, the Hugh lights, for instance, they decide they don't want to turn off when you turn off.
And again, you need an app.
Yes, you could go to the light switch and turn it on and off.
But that's a pain in the butt because you have to get up.
When you even forget the getting up.
When you turn it on and off, it goes full blast.
And you still need the app to turn it down.
Tech shittery.
It's just fucking annoying.
What else do I have?
There's so many examples.
Oh, my son of speakers.
I have a sonar system.
They're all around the house.
They're awesome. sometimes it just decides this speaker doesn't want to work today.
I'm on holiday, one of the speakers, and it could be any one of them.
Mind you, the sub works all the time, but one of these satellites, they just stop working.
I don't want to work.
Is it a Wi-Fi issue?
No, because my Wi-Fi works.
I haven't, it just works.
But again, that also causes a problem.
I have video cameras around the house.
Sometimes one of them decides it just doesn't want to work.
This tech shittery annoys the bejesies out of me.
And I'm sure it does with you as well.
When it comes to tech on your Mac, on your phone, whatever, the systems that you're using, they sometimes go down.
Tech shittery.
It's annoying.
We all have to deal with it.
How do we deal with it?
Well, the way I deal with it is calm down.
Reset it.
It's annoying.
When it comes to services not working, yeah, well, I try to choose services that are offline and I can carry on working.
My CRM is offline.
Most of the, well, all the Apple apps are offline.
There are only a handful of apps that are not critical to my work that are online.
So if they stop working or if the internet stops working, or I'm in a place where there's no internet connection, obviously you can't work.
So that tech shittery, you need things to work.
You need these things that are connected to all work for you to be able to work.
So having offline apps, having tech that you can literally just turn on and off.
Like cars nowadays.
This is another one.
Cars nowadays are all computers.
If the computer doesn't work, you're screwed.
You've got to go back to BMW, Mercedes, whatever, Tesla to get it working.
Actually, I've got a story about that for another video later on.
But tech shittery is a thing.
So limiting your tech shittery, limiting that crap that you have to deal with will make you do a lot more work and make you way more productive because you're not getting frustrated with that.
Again, I call it tech friction as well.
So you can actually get on with your work.
It's not a Friday Fury episode.
I maybe you should do one soon.
Anyway, have a great day.
Keep it simple.
Get rid of the tech shittery and I'll see you in the next one.
Okay, chow.
Bye.
