Episode 251: Manna Goy

Back to Work

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2015

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Maybe quit being so "busy."

This week, Dan and Merlin drop a lot of science on the miraculous taxonomies of Judaica. Mazel Tov!

For the big topic, Merlin launches into an animated jeremiad on words meaning things, with a focus on being terminally "busy" versus being willfully "time-constrained."

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:02.2	Good morning, sir.
0:03.2	How are you doing?
0:04.1	Hello, Dan.
0:04.8	How are you?
0:05.7	Pretty good.
0:06.6	All right.
0:07.6	Good week.
0:08.4	Big week.
0:09.6	Usually.
0:10.5	Mm.
0:11.5	I want to consider yourself fortunate.
0:14.1	You're here for the first official day of me
0:16.5	having what I think is the flu.
0:18.1	Mm.
0:19.5	Yay.
0:20.1	It's the most wonderful time.
0:24.9	That sucks.
0:25.7	Yeah.
0:26.5	Didn't you get your flu shot to prevent the cold and flu?
0:29.8	And you know what?
0:30.6	I did it.
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