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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 461: "The New Alignment"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Self-help, Merlinmann, Thelongwinters, Johnroderick, Roderick, Winters, Long, The, Philosophy, Society & Culture, John, Merlin, Mann

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

He got Twitter Brain.

The Problem: John seeks out cops to talk to.

(Recorded on Monday, May 2, 2022.)

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0:00.0

Hello, hi, John. Hey, Merlin. How's it going?

0:10.4

Thank you for your patience. Oh, of course. Oh, I know how it is when you start taking

0:18.0

your computer apart. Oh, John. John, sometimes I don't know, you know? Yeah, I do. You wake

0:27.5

up on a Monday. I hadn't slept very well. I had two different dreams about two different

0:31.5

boarding schools, not a good night. Didn't sleep. Well, oh, no, no, no. It's no good when

0:37.3

the Paris Airport and the Las Vegas dream get together, one and two powers activate,

0:42.0

shape of an anxiety ladder. Then I woke up and I did it out. And sometimes I feel like

0:50.2

a digital farmer. You know, like I've got like a family farm. I take care of it. Some

0:55.4

days I wake up and I'm a very busy digital farmer. And my fence went down on my breeder

0:59.8

couch. I'm looking off. And I don't know what's going on. Is this all a sims reference?

1:04.4

What's happened? What is a digital farmer? I built a Minecraft on my breeder cow. Okay.

1:08.8

Sure. Sure. Sure. Uh-huh. First, first you got to hit a tree with the stick. See, and

1:13.3

then you can make a crafting bench. No, I had a lot of things. And you know, on this

1:17.5

John, look at my fingers right now. They're all kind of gnarled and gravening. Yeah.

1:23.0

That's because everything's connected. Okay. I'm actually like everything's connected.

1:27.6

I don't have a house full of internet of things. So I can say for sure that some things

1:34.5

aren't connected. Okay. Well, this involves, given my usual, uh,

1:40.8

comportment as a digital farmer, I hope I'm not scaling valor for anybody by saying

1:44.6

that. There are real digital farmers out there that are like, how do I do that? I bet there's

1:48.4

people in China with like 45 Android phones in front of them. Oh, sure.

1:53.1

It's kind of digital farming, but like this involves relatively few things from the internet.

1:59.5

And it's mostly just, you know, anyway, I'm sorry I had to fix things and on top of it

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