After a hiatus of nearly two years, I’m so excited to welcome you back to Your Daily Lists, which is not, in fact,

Your Daily Lex.

So I was sitting down trying to figure out what to record for my guest appearance on Your Daily Lex, and I thought, as I did last time, that this is the perfect opportunity to start slandering the god-awful Philadelphia Eagles, which I would never do, and remind everyone that the New York Giants are, in fact, the best football team in the Northeast, which they are.

But instead, I thought I would actually be kind and say to you and to Lex, how does Lex do all of this?

So if you are not familiar with who I am, again, my name is Casey Liss, and I have a couple of podcasts, and I also have a handful of apps in the App Store, but only one of which I really pay attention to.

This is the opportune time for a plug, so I will say you should check out my primary app, which is Call Sheet, which is like IMDB if it was written by somebody with taste.

Anyway, I was looking at lexfriedman.com, that’s Friedman with an E, mind you, and I was looking at all the things that Lex does, and I was aware of most of them, but a handful were news to me.

I was reminded, which I did know, but I was reminded about the unbelievably good name for Lex’s little menu bar app to control his air conditioning called AC Slater, and I’m still frustrated by how good that name is.

But I’m looking at all the different things Lex does, and I can’t help but wonder how?

Leaving aside the fact that, yes, AI is a thing, and leaving aside the fact that I genuinely don’t know what AI has done for Lex recently and what it hasn’t.

I think some of his more recent things, like GNOME, are largely AI built, but even still, who cares?

The amount of product that Lex puts out is astonishing, and I’m not even just talking about Your Daily Lex, which I don’t know what I would talk about every single day if it really was Your Daily Casey or Your Daily Lex, but the amount of stuff Lex does, and then on top of that, has all these ridiculous word puzzles that he has to keep like a month ahead on, this sounds miserable to me.

I nominally have two jobs, podcasting and app development, and I am passable at both.

And somehow Lex has something like 15 different entries on his creative work and side projects section of his website?

It’s preposterous.

This leaves aside his ostensible actual job, which is Lex Friedman Consulting.

So Lex, I don’t know how you do all this, and I’m kind of jealous and mostly just shocked, and I want to know your secrets.

Now, as an aside, I was listening to my prior episode of Your Daily Lex, and it was after we had gone on a European trip, and it reminded me of a tip that I had been given when we went overseas a couple years ago, and that is, if you have one of those multi-USB-C chargers, one of these ones, not like what you would use for a laptop, but I’m saying more of a permanent installation sort of scenario where there’s like four or five or six or ten different USB ports on this one device.

If you have one of those, and it happens to have one of the, I should have looked this up before I sat down, I’m sorry, but one of the almost figure-eight looking connectors that goes from the USB-C device to the wall.

Well, a friend of mine, Alex, pointed out to me, you know, you can get a connector that has the figure-eight thing on the one side, but has one of the god-awful UK connectors on the other side, or, you know, one of the EU connectors on the other side, or what have you.

And so what he did, because Alex is from the UK, he was kind enough to send me one of these connectors.

So I have the little figure-eight looking thing on one side, you’d know it if you saw it, again, I’m doing a terrible job describing it, but then you have one of the gigantic UK plugs on the other side.

And you can do this for whatever country you’re going to, as long as your USB-C device is capable of taking, what is it, 220 or 240 volt input.

And this worked incredibly well, because instead of having four different box dongly things that has these connectors, we had this one charging station that basically everything charged off of, and it worked out great.

So Lex, I genuinely am not sure when you’re traveling, and you’re probably already overseas at this point, so this tip is useless for you.

But for everyone else, check this out, and if Lex has any show notes for this, I’ll try to put a couple links in the show notes, but you should check out this new thought technology for me, because it really did make our European vacation that much better.

So Lex, hope your trip is going slash went well, and for all of you, thank you for listening to episode two of Your Daily List.

Lex.