This Week with Taylor & Gordon

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By: Taylor and Gordon Drayson

Taylor and Gordon talking about what they get up to during the week. They discuss new and interesting software that they have found, as well as the problems they faced and how they solved them.

Season 5 - Episode 195
#195
02/07/2025

Trouble waking up with an alarm…

Habit of turning the alarm off with your voice without realising

Alarmy App – challenges to solve before the alarm will turn off

Scan a barcode, take 20 steps, submit a photo, memorise the pattern of dots etc.

Another alert a few minutes later – making sure you are actually up

Finding things to be productive when awake

Heading to Blackpool for a magic convention

Largest industry convention in the world

Keep up with trends

If you get a few...


Season 5 - Episode 194
#194
01/31/2025

Deepseek has been causing waves – https://www.deepseek.com/

Self Assessment Tax Submission

Digital Tax – talked about for many years, not implemented yet

Pro’s and Con’s to the new system

Making sure you get your accounts in early

You need time to save for the payment, so submitting it early is in your best interest

Submitting in August-October

Save 25% of all income in a Tax Bill account

Two things in life are certain – Taxes and Death

Every other year is submitt...


Season 5 - Episode 193
#193
01/24/2025

Splitting up projects into manageable tasks – quite time consuming to do

Action Hub – a web app designed to do this automatically

Paste specs and notes and return in JSON format the various tasks which are then added to Motion via the API

Ability to set time and bulk edit as required before exporting to the project manager

Using tool – https://bolt.new/

Uses AI to build a native web app with the UI you specify which can then be moved to your own hosting

Work with React, NextJS...


Season 5 - Episode 192
#192
01/17/2025

Busy week with Pantomime. Robin Hood – https://www.sdclub.org.uk

Filming the pantomime

Two cameras – fixed wide shot and a close up

Technical issues on the first night of recording

Two groups of children on alternate nights so the footage was very important

Master and then second video with other groups performances

Setting it up and then passing over to an operator

Do everything you can and manage when things go wrong after that

Oura Ring feedback after a couple of weeks

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Season 5 - Episode 191
#191
01/10/2025

New Season – Season 6 started last week

New colour – Yellow, for this season.

All graphics for the podcasts, vidcasts and website have been updated with the new colour

Manage Your Focus – creating tasks that need to be done

Getting work, writing a project list, create the tasks and then do them

Context switching – and cutting it down as much as possible

Book – How To Be a Productivity Ninja – https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Productivity-Ninja-2019-UPDATED/dp/1785784617/

Wear one β€œhat” at a time – working in sprints

Breaking big tas...


Season 5 - Episode 190
#190
01/03/2025

Happy New Year

New Season, New Colour

Formula 1 Exhibition and Guys and Dolls

Oura Ring – https://ouraring.com/

Track heart rate, Activity, Sleep and more

Tracking while watch is charging

API available for personal website content

75 Day Challenge update

New Years Resolutions !!

Finish personal projects that have been started

More reading this year

Making time…

Other Podcast – Face The Podcast – editing and releasing

Elevate status to that of an expert – and use this for market...


Season 5 - Episode 189
#189
12/23/2024

Our seasonal video to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas

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Season 5 - Episode 188
#188
12/16/2024

This Week With – Season 5, going on Season 6

Reflection on last 5 years

Why we started This Week With

Keeping a record of what has happened

Transcription and languages

If you get anything from our episodes, let us know

New Highlight Colour – leave a comment with your suggestions

Thank you to Taylor for collaborating

Taylor’s Week

Squash Tournament winner x2

Upgraded from Co-Working to Fixed Desk due to a new cafe being built

Secure room so keyboard, mouse and mo...


Season 5 - Episode 187
#187
12/08/2024

Subscriptions

Meal Prep to eat healthier

Sent to you once a week on a Sunday

Using subscriptions to save you time or do a job you don’t enjoy

Car cleaned once a month

Audit subscriptions every now and then – check you still need or want them

December is quieter this year than it was a few years ago

School bookings have moved to end of school year

Big company parties aren’t really happening as much these days

A show on a w...


Season 5 - Episode 186
#186
12/01/2024

Winter has definately arrived

Christmas Cards – branded for The Creative Tinker – sending them to clients

Keep the company in the minds of the clients

Quite expensive to do – but a nice thing to do

Cost of postage is huge at the moment

Sending them through a service to make it easier to do

Top clients got lumpy mail a while back

75 Day Challenge update

Sad news – one of my bunny rabbits passed away this week

Decided to get two bunnies a long tim...