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Back to Work

Episode 102: Hunter Ready to Write

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

🗓️ 15 January 2013

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Creative Costumes vs. Pushing Out Product

This week Dan and Merlin talk about how the legends and mythologies around creative people and beautiful losers can become such a destructive MacGuffin for us aspiring civilians.

Getting gakked out on Hunter S. Thompson's cocaine and buying Sylvia Plath's oven are unlikely to take you anyplace useful, interesting, or…creative.

Also: "BRIANMICHAELBENDIS!"

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0:00.0

four 15 cocaine, four 30 cocaine, four 54 cocaine, five oh five cocaine.

0:06.0

Yes, I'm wearing a Deadpool shirt, but we're not talking about comics.

0:11.3

No comic today is no comics, no comics day.

0:13.8

No, we're definitely going to talk about comics.

0:15.1

That's just I'm hoping that I'll become like a kind of a new line.

0:19.2

And then this our last show after all.

0:21.1

Yeah, you know what?

0:21.8

I, uh, I can't be honest with you.

0:24.4

I was, uh, please.

0:25.8

I was at pretty much not all night, but for at least a couple minutes,

0:28.7

just thinking about our last show and what it was going to be like.

0:31.6

I was working on the clip reel.

0:33.6

I was in my final cut express, you know, is that

0:37.3

are you going to finally admit to doping on the last, the last show?

0:43.9

I'll tell you it's sort of not live.

0:45.5

I'll tell you what I, what I told, what I told my lady.

0:48.3

Right.

0:48.9

Your special lady or your lady friend?

0:50.6

My very special lady friend.

0:51.9

I told her this last night.

0:54.8

Dan, as you know, I'm trying to evolve as a person.

0:58.0

You know that, right?

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