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the tech and tools in my everyday
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carryer have improved my focus made me
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healthier mean I have a productive desk
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setup wherever I am and also mean I look
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and feel like I have my together
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plus towards the end of the video I'll
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be sharing some of the cheapest but most
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prized tools that I take literally
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everywhere so let's dive straight in and
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I'm going to start with the stuff that I
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keep in my pockets every single day
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first up of course it's got to be the
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iPhone 14 pro now despite having made
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the switch over to Windows for my laptop
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I am an apple faithful when it comes
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comes to phones the camera I think is
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the biggest thing I love about the
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iPhone 14 pro I had an 11 before this
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and I generally didn't find that the
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quality of the video was good enough to
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include in these videos versus my pretty
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amazing 4k camera now though I actually
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filmed a significant portion for example
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of the Harvard Day in the Life video on
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my iPhone 14 to be way more discreet and
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I don't think it was that noticeable
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when I switch between footage on my
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camera and footage on my phone and I
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always took thumbnails on my camera so
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that has been a huge game Cher for me
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when I'm taking a thumbnail in the
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office for example way more discreet
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doing it on my phone now I have a whole
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video on my iPhone 14 pro setup so you
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should go watch that but just a few
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highlights number one has been putting
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all of my apps into folders by category
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so that means for example when my mind's
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like oh kind of drifting off I'm going
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to go on Instagram I don't have to go
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into a social folder click on Instagram
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and it just creates that little bit
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extra friction in terms of my most used
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apps we're definitely talking Trello
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endel for getting into Focus mode when
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I'm at the office and there's background
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noise and also the done app for tracking
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my daily habits I'm then coupling the
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iPhone 14 pro and protecting it with a
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Paka mag ezed in the UK EZ in American
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three case super lightweight super
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durable I've been really impressed by
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these I've had this for well over a year
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now and still on the same case it has
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got a little bit of damage here from
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where I regularly drop my phone and also
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have the armorite screen protectors
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these come in packs of two or three up
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been through about five of them so far
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regularly drop my phone but again an
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absolute Lifesaver for when you do
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ultimately drop your phone and need
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something to shatter instead of your
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screen okay next item is the exra key
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case the thing I absolutely love about
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it is that it avoids your keys
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scratching your phone screen so I have
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my work phone and my iPhone 14 pro
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extremely annoying when your keys are
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loose in your pocket and you end up kind
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of taking your phone out and it scrapes
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against one of your keys and completely
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ruins your screen protector or your
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phone screen they are quite expensive
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but I think it is probably worth it if
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you want something nice and compact to
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keep your keys in and it keeps them nice
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and secure in there rather than rattling
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around when I'm running okay next up we
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have the airpods first generation and
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I've had these pretty much since the
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airpods pro first came out and I
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absolutely love these guys so first of
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all if you don't mind in earbuds I know
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some people don't like them these are
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absolutely worth it over the traditional
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airpods because especially if you're in
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London or a big city there is so much
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background noise like when we're on the
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tube and Beth and I both watch something
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on our phones and you can share audio to
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two pairs of airpods and she has the
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normal airpods and I have the inar pros
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and honestly I can hear everything
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that's going on because the noise
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cancellation is so good Beth can kind of
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barely hear a thing because it's so
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noisy on the tube so I really do think
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that the noise cancellation on these
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whether it's just out and about or
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you're in the office and other people
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are on calls and you want to block that
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out they're really discreet to have on
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put on Endo or put on some music and you
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can really get into the Zone plus just
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generally if you're watching Netflix or
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listening to music the audio quality is
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absolutely superb so 100% recommend the
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airpods pro and I would quite like to
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try out the second generation see if you
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can tell the difference but to be honest
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I'm quite happy with these and they are
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quite expensive so haven't yet upgraded
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okay so last thing that is always in my
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pocket is the extra aluminium card
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holder with this cool kind of flick up
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you press a button and your cards pop
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out the top and you can easily get one
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you put five cards in the card holder
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which nowadays with Apple pay is enough
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for me I have my driving license my work
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pass and then three cards in there and
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that is plenty super Sleek I love this
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astral color this is new I used to have
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the green one it got quite scratched up
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is the only thing I would say about this
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like if you have it in your pocket with
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your keys well if you now have an extra
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key holder less of an issue but I
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absolutely love this so light so easy to
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carry around all right so that was the
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contents of my pockets let's now move on
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to I take around in my backpack and I'm
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going to start off with hydration
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because we all know that actually you
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get a good night's sleep you then do
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some exercise and staying hydrated is
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probably the third fundamental pillar of
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productivity and my water bottle is the
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L Swig top water bottle in eucalyptus
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green so I've had quite a few different
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like reusable water bottles all of which
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inevitably seem to be leaky or they have
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one of the screw Toops you have to fully
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screw off in order to drink this though
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actually has a swig top so you can just
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quickly drink from it but doesn't leak
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which honestly you'd be amazed like how
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difficult it is to find a water bottle
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that does those two basic things I've
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also had bottles in the past that claim
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to keep things cold for 24 hours and
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then within 4 hours of being in the sun
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your drink is lukewarm so L are
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sponsoring this video but this is legit
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the best bottle I've ever owned I have
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the 23 o which is 680 ml version but
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there's also a 34 Oz or 1 lit version I
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like the compact size of this one and
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alongside the fact this actually keeps
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your drink cold for 24 hours I think my
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favorite thing about this is that it has
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the Sip top that you can just quickly
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flick open rather than having to unscrew
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every time in order to have a drink and
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then close and then confidently put it
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back in your bag knowing that it's not
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going to leak over all of your stuff the
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zp top bottle part of the water bottle
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is just really nicely shaped it feels
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very satisfying to zip from it also has
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this really wide opening at the top so
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you can easily fit ice in there rather
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than having that experience that we've
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all surely had of like having a water
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bottle that has like that big a top and
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your Ice is like just too big and you're
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kind of jamming it into the bottle and
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that happens with the lock it has this
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really nice premium quality handle that
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genuinely feels sturdy the whole thing
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feels well built and it's really
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lightweight so it doesn't add too much
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in terms of weight to your overall carry
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so yeah lar have some awesome Black
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in sipping staying hydrated and
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generally loving your new l
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so yeah the lck slips very nicely into
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my backpack then which is of course a
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menos backpack and now very excitingly
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it is the menos backpack ocean
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Edition so first off I want to say team
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gray I do still love you this has been
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my backpack every day for the last 3
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years since Beth and I first got the
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Prototype of the first menos backpack I
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still love my gray back backpack but
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given we have now launched this
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beautiful navy blue color I kind of need
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to promote that a little bit so I'm
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going to be wearing the Navy out and
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about for at least the foreseeable
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future but I reckon I'm probably going
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to use both so I have both colors and
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can use one for example for work on a
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daily basis and the other as my weekend
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travel bag so Beth and I created menos
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because we wanted to create a brand that
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was for people like us for ambitious
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professionals and entrepreneurs so the
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bag is itself made from 15 cycle plastic
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bottles has all the stuff you would
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expect from a commuter backpack it looks
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stunningly minimalist has a laptop
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sleeve charging port as well as a pretty
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unique
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180° opening design that means you can
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easily load it up with all of your
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things for a weekend away close it and
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you're on your way this avoids the need
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that you have with top loaders which is
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basically most commuter backpacks where
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you rummage through from the top trying
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to find what's at the bottom the menos
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you can open up the whole way around and
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easily find anything that's in there and
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really importantly for for us the menos
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is also for people who want to wear
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something that says I care about the
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planet so with every menos sold we
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collect 100 plastic bottles we also
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plant a tree and with the menos ocean
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Edition we now will be donating to the
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marine conservation society as well so
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yeah I'm also giving viewers of my
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channel because I love you guys an
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exclusive 10% discount code so you can
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get that through the link in the
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description and you can get your gray
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black or ocean Edition menos now and the
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backpacks are also available on Amazon
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Prime in the UK okay then next item to
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go in my backpack is this bad boy it is
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the Asus zenok 14x OLED and first thing
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you got to say is the screen quality on
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this is absolutely insane love it I also
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love having a touchscreen I think
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overall it is a touch heavier than
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previous laptops that I've had but I've
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been really really impressed with the
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overall build quality feel it is by far
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the nicest Windows laptop I've ever had
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and controversially I argue prefer this
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to my old MacBook I think actually this
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is more powerful more reliable and yeah
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I could be a full-time Windows convert
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still using my Mac for some stuff but
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actually this has become my day-to-day
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laptop of choice I think my one big
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Takeaway on this for anyone considering
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upgrading their laptop would be I think
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it's tempting to scrimp on power so to
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go for an 8 GB ram versus a 16 or a 32
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this version that I'm using has 32 GB of
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RAM and also has one terabyte of SSD
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storage I think those two things just
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mean that it is insanely powerful
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insanely fast I would 100% recommend
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investing just that little bit more to
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get that more power so wherever I go
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I'll always put my laptop in my menos
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and I also take a portable monitor so
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this is the Asus mb16 qhg screen quality
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is absolutely amazing I love that it has
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this built in kick stand other screens
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come with this cover which you can use a
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stand but that means you can't adjust
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the angle Le that you're viewing them
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from really goes nicely alongside my
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Asus laptop the only downside of this is
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that it is pretty expensive it just
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depends where your budget lies in terms
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of Premium to more budget options okay
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moving away from Tech and we now have
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the molden A5 filofax look it's old
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school people at the office even laugh
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at me like I had a partner who's like 50
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years old come and laugh at me about the
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fact I was still using an old school fif
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the other day but I personally just love
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having a week spread making physical
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to-do lists in that day by day moving
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things around in my to-do list if I
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don't do it one day moving it over to
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another day and manually getting to
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cross stuff off when it's done so yeah
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it is pretty old school but I love this
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thing my mom got it for me for my 21st
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birthday it also has my initials
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embossed on it here which is kind of
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cool it's a personal decision whether
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you like to use physical to-do lists or
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electronic ones but if you do like
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physical to-do list having them in a
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calendar format where you can plan each
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day time block at times I think is
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really helpful okay having said I love
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old school next up is the markable too
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and this I think really nicely combines
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kind of the old and physical note taking
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with the new in terms of making that
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process digital I've been using this for
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probably 6 months now it always goes
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with me in my menos so I really love the
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physicality of handwriting notes so if
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I'm thinking of an idea for a YouTube
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channel I'll often just sit and kind of
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doodle different ideas different title
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ideas and I think the remarkable is
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perfect for that and then syncs
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effortlessly across all my different
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devices I can easily make sure that
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things are well organized rather than
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having like page of random notes of law
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stuff and page of random notes of Menos
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and then YouTube channel it's all kind
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of nicely organized and in different
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folders and all with me in this one
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sleek and very lightweight tablet that
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said when I'm going to my actual day job
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as a corporate lawyer I also take with
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me a physical notebook my refillable
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pencil and fourway brro which I
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absolutely love I take these because I'm
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not allowed to use cloud-based
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technology that hasn't been approved by
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the firm in order to make notes so I
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have to make notes on the these when I'm
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at work as a corporate lawyer okay next
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item in my backpack is the Bose quiet
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Comfort 45 headphones now obviously I
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have my noise cancelling airpods but for
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when those are out of charge or if
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something is particularly loud and I
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really want to be immersed in the audio
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experience the Bose headphones are I got
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to say like better in terms of noise
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cancellation and overall sound quality I
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think than the airpods just inevitably
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because of their size and the fact that
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they completely muffle your ears yeah
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I've had these Bose headphones for 5
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years now I've had to replace the ear
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muffs on them twice from overuse the
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only reason I prefer the airpods on a
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day-today basis is that when I'm in the
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office having airpods in discreet looks
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like I'm kind of on a call when actually
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I'm trying to block out all of the noise
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around me having massive Bose noise
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cancelling headphones on is slightly
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less socialable and just I think looks a
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little bit Rudder when you're in an
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office environment okay now on to
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keyboard and mouse and my everyday carry
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keyboard is the MX keys from Logitech
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absolutely love this keyboard the
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ability to connect it to three different
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devices is just press a button and it
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switches between my Mac my laptop my
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work laptop is absolutely epic I love
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the typing action so have literally no
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intention of ever using another keyboard
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I said it is quite a big keyboard so if
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I'm just going for a weekend away but
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I'm worried that I might for example
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have to do some LW work I take this guy
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with me instead which is the Logitech
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k380 fortunately for me I picked this up
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when I was doing bad budget desk setup
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she decided she didn't like this because
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the round buttons I actually think
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they're quite cool and this is so light
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and easy to take with me if I'm
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traveling so yeah this is my new travel
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keyboard for whenever I'm going away
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think I might have to do some work and I
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take my laptop my portable monitor this
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and my portable mouse okay so fulltime
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Mouse MX Master 3 again huge fan of this
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spoken about it before I love the
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feeling in your hands I love the ability
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to scroll through thousands of lines so
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quickly which makes my job so much
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easier at work again the ability to
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connect it to three devices really
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effortlessly switch between them I also
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absolutely love this side button you
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have allows you to see all of your
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windows at once just at the touch of a
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button select a different window select
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a different item that you have open
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within your windows but I then also have
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the smaller and much cheaper Logitech MX
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anywhere 2s mouse that I take with me
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along with my k380 keyboard all right
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then final bits of tech that go into my
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everyday carry are my power Banks this
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guy the easy longer 26,800 milliamp 100
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W charger I think pretty solid bit of
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Kit I haven't tried out that many to be
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honest so I wouldn't necessarily
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particularly recommend this one but I
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would recommend having a bigger power
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bank that you take with you when you're
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traveling particularly because I think
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being able to charge your laptop when
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you might not be able to find a charger
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and an airport you can't be bother to go
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and sit over on the uncomfortable seats
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where the charging port is actually
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having this for about one charge of a
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laptop meaning your laptop can last for
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rather than 6 hours like 12 hours is
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really really valuable also obviously
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you can charge your phones from it and
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then also have this way smaller 10,000
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milliamp power bank that just stays in
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my menos in the charging port ready to
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charge my phone when I'm on the go must
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confess it was a free through work so I
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can't leave you a link in the
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description or even tell you where I got
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it from so I got it for free all right
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so last section of the video I'm just
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going to share some travel Essentials
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and the first one is the Alaska bear eye
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mask for those of you who are light
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sensitive like me this guy feels good
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really kind of silky soft pretty
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reasonable price my eye mask for the
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last like seven years absolutely love
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this guy okay but then for those of you
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you are kind of like me a little bit
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extra um we have the man to sleep I mask
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and this guy effectively has like Bose
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noise cancelling headphones style like
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cups but for your eyes legit I think if
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you are someone who struggles with light
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waking you up if I'm on a plane I always
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wear this or if for example I went
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camping I probably op for this over my
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Alaska bear I mask just because if the
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Alaska bear slips off I'm totally
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exposed to the light and that is
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definitely going to wake me up whereas
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this is kind of relatively more secure
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and blocks out more light but it is
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slightly less comfortable to wear and
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more expensive so yeah that's my
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two-part ey mask everyday carry and if
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that wasn't extra enough for you I also
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take these guys with me the 3M earplugs
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I think they're technically supposed to
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be used like if you're working in a high
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noise environment like shooting guns or
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doing like heavy tools I use them just
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to sleeping uh if I'm on planes block
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out like background noise you can kind
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of sleep on them way more comfortably
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than you can on airpods for example
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which is why I often opt for these a
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good option to have with you if you're
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traveling and you struggle to sleep when
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there's noise around you penultimate
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travel item this guy the Aeropress I
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take this with me pretty much wherever I
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go traveling because I'm a big coffee
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guy and it allows me to buy ground
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coffee wherever I am which you can
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usually find a decent quality of put it
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straight through it's really easy to use
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really easy to clean and produces
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fantastic quality nonbitter coffee I
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couldn't tell you how it works something
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to do with pressure but makes great
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coffee so would very much recommend and
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it's not super expensive it's also fully
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manual like it doesn't require any
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electric or battery so you can literally
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use it anywhere and finally when I'm
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traveling I obviously often take my
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camera with me and to do that I take
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this this is the earth camera insert uh
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this fits actually perfectly in my menos
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backpack and it's probably something we
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should invest in as a future product for
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the menos but for now this is a pretty
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great product it is pretty expensive for
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what it is I think but it does allow me
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when I'm traveling to have like my big
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suitcase for example my menos then
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doubles up effectively as a camera
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backpack rather than having to have a
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whole separate backpack for my camera so
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yeah those were mostly the items I take
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with me every day in my pockets and in
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my menos and then some extra items I
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take with me whenever I'm traveling
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anywhere please do let me know down in
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the comments what you thought of my
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everyday carry what your favorite
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everyday carry item is so that I can
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then steal it from you and include it in
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my next video next year no but seriously
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any recommendations to improve my
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everyday carry very much appreciated and
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I really would be grateful if you could
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give this video a like if you're still
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here and have enjoyed it I look forward
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to speaking again very very soon
