Welcome indeed to Episode 15 of my podcast. The view from the crow's nest half a month, through the podcast. I'm doing well. I'm gonna kick this habit up today's podcast is just a reflection on something I was thinking today. And that actually came in two different ways, which is the idea of never be worried. To change your opinion on something based on new information. So, so many of us, you know we form an opinion on something, and especially if we publicly declare that opinion or we tell other people about something, and then we feel somehow maybe it's subconscious maybe it's conscious, we feel that we need to stick to that because otherwise we, I don't know, we will be going back on our word or somehow otherwise we'll be seen as lesser than we were, you know, quick to change our minds or what have you. And I would like to suggest the opposite, not changing your opinion based on new facts or new ideas that have come to light is basically being stuck in the past it's meaning that you can't innovate, you can't improve on something, because you're going to be stuck in the old ways the old ways of thinking and it's a really restrictive mindset to be in, and it's something that's going to give yourself limitations that you really don't need, there's enough out there to battle with, you know, as we're as we're overcoming our challenges and we're solving problems that we don't really want to solve them internally inside their own heads. So the couple of examples of that. I was speaking to somebody today, and not three days ago maybe four days ago I'd been extolling the virtues of the brave brave. The brave browser, which you've probably never even heard of. But everybody's heard of Chrome is the browser the most popular browser on the internet or Safari from Apple, and a lot of people have heard of the Microsoft browsers and Firefox. And there's a browser that I started using about nine months ago called brave, and I think it's I think it's built by the guys behind Firefox Mozilla, but I'm not entirely sure, or at least the team behind that not necessarily the actual company. Anyhow, one of the key things of this browser brave is that it's faster it's faster than all the other browsers out there and so I tested it and if you don't know there's a thing called switching costs you may have come across them before maybe not, and switching costs, basically refers to the, the hassle of having to move from one supplier to another supplier or from one product to another product. And for some things the switching costs are really easy and quick and for others. They're really high. And oftentimes, a vendor who's selling you a product or a service, they might rely on the fact that the switching costs away from that product or service, make it such a pain to even consider moving to a competitor that you just don't bother. So, a browser can be really I mean, it's all, it's all relative costs but can be fairly high switching cost because one browser has got all your passwords in all your saved browsing history all the websites you go to all the cookies etc etc. So if you switch to another it can slow things down quite considerably. So I've been using the brave browser, and as I say, one of the things is is very fast. A second thing is is very secure. And the third thing is you get paid. When you see advertising on it as opposed to the other way around and I like all of these ideas they're great. So a few days ago I was telling somebody are brilliant I've been using it for nine months it's great, it's great. I think literally the very next day I turned on my computer, and I had had a Windows Update. And as part of that Windows Update. It had automatically installed the latest version of the Microsoft browser edge, and I never use Microsoft browsers Internet Explorer or anything like that they're terrible. And I was just about to get rid of it, and then I actually got caught by their claim that it's like the fastest browser out there, you know, a
