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Episode 210: Fighting with Garbage Can Lids

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2015

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Less of an Island.

This week Dan and Merlin talk about time, negotiations, and what we want (and don't want) from our email apps.

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:02.0

Oh, hello, Merlin.

0:03.0

How's everything going way up there?

0:06.0

Everything is great.

0:09.0

Awesome.

0:11.0

I had a breakfast sandwich and three coffees.

0:14.0

Oh, wow, three.

0:15.0

Yeah, I've had to record podcasts today.

0:17.0

What have you been recording?

0:19.0

Or just your prepping for the show or what?

0:22.0

Sure.

0:23.0

Yeah.

0:24.0

No, no.

0:25.0

I had to do a rattle on the line and you know, talked a lot about sauces and gravies.

0:29.0

So it's been a good morning.

0:31.0

That's good.

0:32.0

Yes, see, this is a weird day for us to record.

0:34.0

Thanks for moving it for me.

0:35.0

Oh, you could me.

0:36.0

Podcasts are a movable feast and they are.

0:38.0

You just put them wherever you want and then you're just leaving there.

0:40.0

No, I love that.

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