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Back to Work

Episode 100: Go Ahead, Caller.

Back to Work

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Business, Society & Culture, Barriers, Dan Benjamin, Careers, Communication, Merlin Mann, Creativity, Work, Productivity, Constraints, Technology

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2013

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Yes. The caller is there.

This week, in celebration of their hundredth episode, Dan and Merlin do the first call-in episode of Back to Work.

A bevy of the beloved jackals and nerds ask questions about GTD, creative autonomy, sleep and energy, interpersonal work communications, moving up at work, self-publishing, finding your rabbi, Marines, X-Men, and more.

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0:00.0

They seem a lot less like jackals when you're talking to them.

0:03.7

Are you excited?

0:05.2

Good morning, Dan.

0:05.8

Good morning, Merlin.

0:06.7

Yeah, I'm so super duper excited.

0:08.2

How's it going?

0:09.0

It's all right.

0:10.0

Yeah.

0:10.8

You know, you lose the, you lose the proscenium effect

0:12.6

when you got all that grab ass before the show.

0:15.0

Pers...

0:17.0

Can I Google that?

0:17.6

How do you spell that?

0:18.8

proscenium, PROS, C-E-N-I-U-O-U-P, R-I-S-P...

0:24.4

I don't know that word.

0:25.6

prosseco, the proscenium effect.

0:27.9

proscenium, proscenium, PROS, C-E-N-I-U-M.

0:33.1

I'm guessing it's Latin.

0:35.4

Oh, proscenium.

0:36.6

proscenium.

0:37.9

Yeah, different from perineum.

0:40.4

Is that that that's that little spot in your tank?

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