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Episode 229: Shrimp in the Desert

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2015

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: The perils and joys of just getting started.

This week's episode is chockablock with awesomeness, from the sublime to the ridiculous. It ends on a very inspiring note. But, en route:

  • Mexican guys love Morrissey
  • Shabbos goys cause fire to be created
  • An eruv is an ad hoc house described by string
  • Merlin has Aloha for Judaism
  • Teaching History is hard
  • America owes some apologies
  • Endorsing "Ordinary People Change the World" books
  • Endorsing Mr. Robot and Humans
  • Thanks for great Holacracy feedback (more later)
  • Feedback on Merlin's lightning cable corrosion
  • Dan's Concern: Acura recall
  • What's up with "over the shoulder syndrome?"
  • Is it dangerous to talk on a phone in the car?
  • Is it dangerous to approbate?
  • HUGE followup on "perfect is the enemy of the good"
  • Just make a mark on a page.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning.

0:02.8

How are you?

0:03.8

Pretty good.

0:04.8

Oh my gosh.

0:05.8

Every day I'm hustling.

0:06.8

Every day that's a song.

0:08.8

Actually you know what the song for today should be.

0:11.2

What's that?

0:12.2

The classic from Sisters of Mercy.

0:14.4

Hey now, hey now now.

0:18.2

Sing this corrosion.

0:20.4

I don't know that one.

0:22.8

What?

0:23.8

I don't know that one.

0:24.8

You're telling me you weren't out dancing in the new wave clubs in the late 80s?

0:28.9

Not as much as I should be.

0:30.7

I'll sing it again.

0:31.7

Hey now, hey now, now.

0:34.7

Sing this corrosion.

0:38.0

I was speaking to somebody in their very early tw-in fact, I think they were 20 years old

0:42.2

and they were unfamiliar with Marcy, so I'm sending them back to listen to-back to work

0:45.8

from-from episode one on.

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