Episode 221: Minimally Viable Interruption
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🗓️ 19 May 2015
⏱️ 98 minutes
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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 | Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah |
| 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 |
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| 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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