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Episode 205: Obsolete, circa 1993

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2015

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Summary

With Merlin on sabbatical, Dan is joined by John Roderick to discuss his recent visit to Africa, the military, corporate friends, strategic thinking, the Internet, digital books and albums, echoes, playmobil figures, measuring your arms, the tribal world, selling coats on the internet, and more.

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0:00.0

Hello, Dan.

0:02.8

How's everything going?

0:04.3

Good.

0:05.3

How are you going?

0:06.3

Good.

0:07.3

I'm going good.

0:08.3

Can we go live with this thing?

0:09.3

Is this it?

0:10.3

Yeah, this is it.

0:11.3

This is the show.

0:12.3

This is the show.

0:13.3

This is how we, how we start the show usually.

0:14.3

I've never listened to the show.

0:15.3

So I, I'm not really familiar with how it goes.

0:16.7

No, no, we start off.

0:17.7

I call, I call him.

0:19.5

I say, hey, how's it going way, way up there in San Francisco?

0:23.0

And we do, we do a show.

0:24.6

You guys just do a show starting with that.

0:26.5

Yeah, that's how we usually start.

0:27.8

And we have this thing now where we say, we say,

0:29.8

good, well, you know, usually it's the morning when we are recording the show.

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