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Back to Work

Episode 126: Howard Chicken

Back to Work

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2013

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: How many Saturdays do you get?

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about time. Its scarcity, its passing, its tyranny, and its possibilities.

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0:00.0

Hang on, just one second. Third, fourth or fifth floor is fine. Six floor is unacceptable.

0:04.1

Seven floors is a backup. No backup number three. Okay. Away from the elevator. No feathers.

0:10.8

Hello. Oh, hi, Merlin. Good morning, dad. Good morning. Good morning. Good. Excuse me. Good

0:15.2

afternoon. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon. Hmm. I'm going to button this up. Yeah, let's

0:22.2

do it. It's nice to hear your voice. Not missing. Yeah, I miss you too. You look good today.

0:27.6

You look really good. I, you know, I did something unusual. What? I got a trim. Just just a trim.

0:33.8

What part of it? Hmm. Muzzle top. I, um, I went to Judy and Judy, Dame Judy Dench. I think

0:43.6

she's right. That's right. Dame Judy Dench. Yeah, that's my hair. It's, uh, it's I'm not going to lie to

0:49.6

you. It's possible. If you're going to get your haircut, it really should be by a name.

0:55.6

That's from South Pacific. I did not know that. Yes. Uh, so I went to Judy and, and using my usual

1:01.2

combination of hand gestures and speaking loudly, because apparently that's how I think I can

1:05.3

communicate better. Right. I said, just wait, wait, wait. Is the implication that she,

1:10.6

English is not her primary or first language? Let's put it, let's put it this way. Her English is

1:14.5

a hundred times better than my Cantonese. I think you say how's the English? You should say is

1:19.8

like how's your Spanish? You know, she does way better. I know how to say, uh, I know how to

1:25.3

not say a couple of things in Cantonese. I always get it wrong. I, I, it's happy New Year. I say

1:29.2

child young fat, which makes people happy. Right. That's not it. So is it, are you sure that it's

1:34.0

Cantonese or maybe is it Mandarin? You can tell the difference. You can tell if you're not

1:38.8

native. Yes. In my neighborhood, there's a lot of both people speaking both. A lot of both.

1:46.1

You would live. Yeah. I can't really say. You wouldn't even say to me like you, here's,

1:50.8

let me just tell a little story of when we were walking around in downtown San Francisco and I

1:55.7

guess it was the financial district. Is that correct? Yeah. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Why not? And we're

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