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Episode 225: A Different Kind of Happy

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2015

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: You can't have ALL the phone calls.

This week, Dan and Merlin battle Skype to talk about Dan't hissing floor, text editing on iOS, plus more followup on WWDC announcements.

Spotlight on a second look at last week's conversation about how we do and don't communicate.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

We going out to a Robin reporter, Merlin Man.

0:01.8

I'm here on the floor, the child is falling onto the town.

0:04.3

It's very moving for everyone.

0:06.6

Hello.

0:07.1

Oh, good morning, sir.

0:08.6

Hi.

0:09.1

How are you?

0:09.9

Fine.

0:10.8

Good.

0:11.6

I'm tired.

0:12.9

I would like to apologize to you and the audience for being unavailable to do the show last week.

0:19.6

Sorry about that.

0:20.6

It was.

0:21.8

What?

0:23.4

Whoever that was, I don't know that.

0:27.6

Yeah, I wish you're talking about that.

0:28.8

That's a problem, though, for whoever was happened to be there.

0:33.0

Yeah, it was, um, it was interesting.

0:36.9

Refreshed.

0:38.6

It was, um, it was interesting.

0:40.2

Yeah, it was not, not, not, not what I expected.

0:43.4

Yeah.

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