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Episode 220: Canadian Gentle

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2015

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Hopeless and Impossible.

This week, Dan and Merlin, delve deeper into the impossibly hopeless nature of email.

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0:00.0

Hello. Oh good morning sir. How are you? Good morning. How are you today? I am doing quite well.

0:06.0

Oh, chairs getting noisy. What's happening to it? What's with? Oh, that's just really old. Is it the creaky one? Yeah. Is it the air on one you lifted from the, uh,

0:16.0

from that one place where it worked? Yeah, it's a cool bunch of stuff. Got office supplies, coffee filters. I never ever have to buy coffee filters again.

0:24.0

It's the us. I call it severance. That's the, uh, the New York term for it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. That's the New York

0:33.1

severance plan. Right. So it's going on way up there. Woo. It's a big day. It's a, it's a, it's a warm, cool,

0:42.6

humid, dry morning in San Francisco. Nice. It gets cold. It gets really cold. They're so cold. It's penetrating.

0:51.5

It does. You got to do layers. Oh, I'm first of all, yes. And I totally agree. Uh, and the thing is,

0:59.9

it's very moisture a lot of the time. And though, so even just a little bit of wind, like the wind's kind of

1:04.1

been whipping up lately. And, uh, and it's very penetrating. It's a pen. I have three layers on. I have,

1:09.6

I just realized I have three different branded items on right now. What did you got? Polo,

1:15.1

eyes on polo, uh, polo by Laugh, Ruffler and by polo. No, no, I've got a, uh, really cool

1:22.1

colossus t-shirt as my bottom layer. I've got a, uh, a Deadpool thermal sweatshirt over that.

1:28.6

And then I got my, uh, Rottergundline hoodie over that. Oh, nice. Which I've been wearing every

1:33.2

day since February and people are noticing. I think by now they would have to. It's really big and

1:38.4

it's really warm. This is, this is, this is something you'll start thinking about as your blood

1:42.8

thins, America. It's chilled to the bone. I wear the t-shirt a lot, but I have yet to have

1:50.3

anyone like visibly respond to it other than sort of looking at it. Squeaky. Yeah. I was

1:56.6

the reason for that. What? Well, you know, there aren't that many people that listen to the show,

2:01.4

but most of them are celebrities. So they're probably just playing a cool. All right. And if you

2:05.9

see somebody in it, first of all, they're probably going to be a celebrity and please don't say anything.

2:10.0

Just just given the, uh, given the, uh, handshake. The little, the little nod. We can't really

2:14.8

talk about it, obviously. Oh, oh, oh, huge revelation for you. Follow up. Are we ready for follow-up?

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