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Episode 103: Lotta Little Knives

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2013

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Modern Media Management: iTunes Match

This week Dan and Merlin begin a 3-part series on Modern Media Management: handling your iTunes Library, iOS Devices, and iTunes Match without making yourself crazy.

In this episode, they cover setting up and using iTunes Match, being safe and paranoid, what to do after you get the iTunes ping, some smart playlists that will help you exclude kwanzaa music, find stuff you don't want to listen to, and maintain your sanity.

Next episode they'll discuss wrangling metadata and smart playlists. Then in the last episode of the series, they'll cover managing the libraries on your devices and some grab bag stuff.

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0:00.0

That's funny, Dan. Little knives.

0:04.0

You okay? Yeah, just moving some things around.

0:06.3

That's your mints. No, that was the USB aluminum keyboard.

0:11.6

Aluminum, as you say, my desk is so crowded right now.

0:15.0

Pictures, any pictures, any new pictures?

0:16.9

I've got, oh, sure, you want a picture?

0:18.6

I've got four gene grays, two keyboards.

0:21.6

So to stream two coffees, some medicine and iPhone.

0:25.2

I remember I got to this out and I got that nice notebook

0:27.9

square space sent me. I'm thinking about trying to learn to

0:32.1

draw again. And so I might use that as my sketchbook where I

0:37.1

learn how to draw. What have you? But it's hard.

0:40.2

I'm never good at drawing. I'm never good at drawing.

0:42.5

I'm never good at, I'm never good at so many things.

0:45.6

I'm really, what are the opposite of a polymath?

0:48.1

I guess a poly-English. What does that mean?

0:53.6

What's that? Which poly? Oh, I don't know.

0:56.7

What are the opposite of a polymath? A monomath?

0:59.4

What does that mean? What does a polymath mean? Yeah.

1:03.2

Kidding me. It's my understanding that a polymath, go hit your

1:06.5

search and I know your search. No, I'm really not.

1:08.6

I'm nowhere near. That's happening all you many, but all what about

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