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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 107: "Built for Now"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Johnroderick, Society & Culture, Thelongwinters, Philosophy, Merlinmann

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2014

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Jumpsuits, Jumpsuits, Jumpsuits.

The Problem: John is a lonely orphan doe.


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Hello. Hi John. I'm

0:25.0

I'm Erlan. How's it going? Pretty darn good. Not too early. P-Y-T pretty darn good. Do you do do? No it's not too early it's it's

0:40.9

it's medium early.

0:44.0

Has your schedule been upended today?

0:49.0

Part part of part of you know just in the time that we've been doing this podcast part of what has happened to me is that my life has been

0:56.8

transformed from one that had no schedule of any kind to one that has a moving target schedule that's happening all around me

1:07.0

coalescing in space it is it is crystallizing out of the solution.

1:15.0

But I am still like John Travolta, boy in a bubble. not really touching the atmosphere.

1:26.6

Is this making sense to you?

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Oh, all too much.

1:30.6

I've been in that bubble.

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I've put my hands up against it. Yeah. Yeah. I

1:35.0

touch me feel me. I have a very unsympathetic situation which is that I have you you know, when I had a job, even though it was a job where I might have to work on the weekends or something,

1:48.0

there was some sense of like, ah, I got to go to my job at 8 a.m.

1:52.0

And then, yeah, I get to go home at 5 or 6.

1:55.0

And I think this is more having to deal with family and getting older,

2:00.0

but also to deal with career stuff, is that like like I feel like I do almost nothing and yet I

2:06.6

have an infinite number of things to do and even when I do a lot like the other night

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