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Episode 184: Days of Bathrooms Past

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2014

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Is there anything else you want to tell me?

This week, Dan and Merlin discuss what bathrooms can teach us about learning, expertise, and empathy.

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0:00.0

And now the iPhone network mistaken for a poopy was deep upon the water for a full upon 30 seconds and upon removal it was dry as a bowl

0:09.4

Well hello, Merleman how are you? Oh, I'm very well, damn Benjamin. How are you? Kilt kill switches?

0:15.8

Co

0:16.6

Huh kill switches in California kill switches kill switches. I

0:21.5

Think I know why that happened why something

0:25.5

Nothing I'm aware of but that wouldn't be the first time. I think it's probably

0:30.4

Some kind of lobbying effort from whoever ends up having to pay for phones that get stolen

0:36.2

Well, it could be between law enforcement law enforcement obviously what we should say what we're talking about

0:41.2

Kill switches. Yeah, I mean, I don't know the technical details of it

0:44.7

But the idea is that I mean gosh in San Francisco

0:48.6

Far and away. It's probably true everywhere

0:50.5

But especially with public transit and a lot of people who walk like far and away

0:54.1

I think the largest class of things that gets stolen like constantly are mobile devices and you know

1:00.8

Muni has you know made a big effort to say hey look don't play with your device like you know if you're some dingus sitting

1:06.1

Near the door playing mind sweeper. Don't be surprised somebody grabs and runs out

1:10.4

That's my words not there. Right. It's not your paraphrasing

1:15.7

Can I tell my favorite sign on muni?

1:18.3

Go ahead call there's a sign. Thank you. A first-time transitor. There's a sign that right by a little door

1:24.6

The little cockpit with a driver's sits and there's a sign on the door of every bus train

1:29.8

Trolley you name it and it's one of my favorite signs in the world and it says in all caps

1:35.1

Information gladly given but safety requires avoiding unnecessary conversation

1:41.4

And as you can imagine a lot of people have made sure it's of that

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