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Episode 257: Homemade Science Mayonnaise

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

🗓️ 2 February 2016

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Information, Context, and Courage.

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about the reaction to last week's episode about work and identity and respond to follow-up questions from listeners.

Also, Merlin buys a faucet.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, good morning, sir. Hi, Dan. How are you doing? Well, how are you? Oh good? Yeah,

0:07.7

get new cans and it sounds really loud. Oh, I'm sorry. No, you sound no, no, no, it sounds good.

0:12.8

Sounds good. I think sir, thanks very well. What kind of cans did you get?

0:19.1

Hang on. I think they're by ours, ours technical. Okay, those are good. I can find out. So I see

0:32.8

the problem is I got my lights off. I like to have a nice quiet atmosphere. Yeah, I turned off my lights.

0:36.9

And so I can't look at my headphones and talking at the same time. No, I know. These were recommended by

0:43.7

Marco. And so Max, Timkin bottom and then Max recommended them. So I bought them because I'm a

0:49.5

stooge like that. Right. They're by ours technical. What were you using?

0:58.2

People love this kind of talk. Sennheiser HD 280 pro 64 Omega. Sennheiser. Yeah, these are great,

1:08.0

man. They sound amazing. I got the ours technical, the ATH M50 XDG limited edition.

1:17.2

Professional studio monitor headphones and they sound really good. It's like having speakers on

1:20.6

your ears. Right. It's like the you can hear everything right there. I kind of can hear stuff. But

1:25.9

yeah, I don't know if I like it, but it's so far so good. I also got a new new new faucet comment

1:30.9

for the bathroom. Nice. Let's see. Got my wife a toothbrush. I got an Yvonne Craig back girl figure.

1:38.3

Just looking through my recent purchases. Oh, I got a nose hair trimmer. Really the sweet nose hair trimmer.

1:42.1

Do very do. Got a panasonic ER430K. It's got a built in built in vacuum system.

1:48.6

Oh, that's not bad. I got some really nice fingernail clippers. You might have been the one who

1:53.5

told me about this. The sea guy edge stainless steel fingernail clipper. Yes, that's the one I told

1:58.3

you about. I did tell you about that one. Oh my god. That's like the Macintosh of clippers.

2:03.0

Oh, no, it's good. It's good. I got good. You'll never you'll never go back from that.

2:08.1

Well, you know, it's like it's like those Harry's handles gets the nice heavy handle in your hand.

2:13.0

I got a Lego ray. Yeah. What else did I got lately?

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