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Episode 221: Minimally Viable Interruption

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2015

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Time, Stones, and Giving Yourself a Break

Just…give yourself permission to not feel like a dick today. Especially if you think you don't deserve it.

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0:00.0

Hello. Oh, hi. Hi, Dan. How are you? How are you? How's everything up there? Everything is great up here. How's everything down there? Yeah, I mean, sure. Why not? But you're in the hill country. You're the one is up there. That's nice.

0:15.5

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0:45.5

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think there is re Rais This lead property that gets into this place. It's my knees and now that he's tuned for the danger or the

1:02.2

nightacial valleyworkers'比如 days. Yeah. Yeah. especies are and my knees got balanced. They're

1:05.5

like piers that do as well and stuff like that. Yeah. Hmm. It's a gold. It's a big

1:10.0

sandwiches, but they open at nine.

1:11.9

Whoa.

1:12.9

It's not weird.

1:14.3

Because that's not really the time you think of

1:16.1

as being a breakfast time.

1:17.9

Well, I don't understand places that are,

1:21.4

you know, there's certain kinds of places

1:22.8

you could think of as like a coffee shop or a cafe

1:24.8

or a, you know, a coffee place.

1:27.1

And like to me, like, those that should be open at

1:29.2

five, thirty or six.

1:30.2

Gotta be.

1:31.4

Because people go to work and stuff.

1:32.6

You know, opening up at nine, that's crazy.

1:34.5

And we don't even have that many slackers in the neighborhood.

1:36.4

So I'm not sure who goes in there.

1:38.4

I don't know.

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