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Episode 15: Marionette of my own Design

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2011

⏱️ 60 minutes

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0:00.0

Well, now let me just explain one thing. He's a ax. He's not Romans and Romans. He's not ax. A

0:05.0

got big love is not what gets from. Oh. Oh. Now, uh, Saint Augustine in the city on

0:14.2

heel. So, oh, now David Hume. What do you want to talk about today? Uh, well, he sent me

0:24.5

an email with, with some ideas. And I, I was all for those ideas, but I've forgotten.

0:29.4

I think I sent you, I think I sent you a text message, a, a, a, a, a, a thing via

0:35.0

a Gmail, which always thinks that I'm there. And then it confuses you because you think

0:37.9

I'm there. And I'm actually not. Well, you're, you're always marked as available in my

0:41.9

buddy list. Yeah. I don't tell my wife that even at, even at, you know, six, five in the

0:47.2

morning, Eastern time, you're available all the time. I can't control this thing. It's

0:51.6

like a weathervane. I just got to hope the wind stops. You know what I'm saying? That

0:55.6

rooster got a crow. I'm with you. I think we could do every episode about fear as far as

1:01.2

I'm concerned. Yeah. I think some, I mean, do you, when I was a kid, it's not fashionable

1:05.6

to like Norman Rockwell, but when I was a kid, we had this really, really cool like coffee

1:08.5

tablebook of Norman Rockwell paintings. I think the guy's an amazing illustrator. It's

1:13.0

easy to like take him to task for being this like silly, sentimental guy, but the guy technically

1:17.1

is, is flawless. He did a wonderful series based on them. Um, I think it was FDR talked

1:24.3

about the four. What does he already call it? The four, you know, like basically the fears,

1:29.9

like there's the fear of hungry, the fear of, you know, I almost did we could do a series

1:33.6

like his paintings. We could do a series on the different fears. I mean, even though

1:38.3

in my head, they're kind of all related. I'm with you. What are, what are the different

1:41.7

fears? Let's see. Uh, there's the ontological fear, the teleological fear. There's the

1:48.1

um, uh, fear from design. I think I'm making a day card joke. And now I may hate myself

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