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Episode 263: The Working Definition of Love

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2016

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: No one cares about your demo anymore.

This week Dan & Merlin talk about realizing when life isn't all about you and getting better at learning how to say "thank you."

Also, lots of great practical (and philosophical) suggestions for getting started with or back into comics.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Looks like the gift card arrived. I was watching the tracking number. It looks like that arrived fine

0:04.4

So I I don't know if that got lost or it's a thing where you've just your your phone doesn't work now

0:09.8

Or if that's anything you're dealing with but there's anything else like can do to just let me know

0:15.0

Hello, hello. How are you today? I'm very very well good. It's morning in San Francisco

0:24.0

Are you getting how you're drinking enough water me? I think so have you heard something?

0:29.3

Well, I just you know it's something I think about I

0:33.3

Think of the many many things you can worry about for me water's not one of them. Okay, you're so you're you're all good there. I had a friend

0:41.6

visit yesterday came to the office and

0:45.0

I think he was appalled by the evidence of how much water I drink

0:49.6

Little he actually took the phone car set up along the wall

0:52.8

No jars, but no my friend Max was here and he took a photo of

0:57.2

The dozens and dozens of crushed 12 packs of seltzer water. Oh

1:01.9

Yeah, he thought that was funny. I mean it is funny. It is funny. Yeah, and I cleaned off my desk yesterday

1:07.9

And I would now I got five empties on here and I got one of the chamber

1:12.2

Look at a ghost and empty

1:16.3

Got a ball. Yeah, it's a bomb

1:19.0

It's a seltzer bomb

1:21.0

Give her the main lining it now give her those friends in college that like to clean your bomb because they could collect the resin

1:26.9

It's sort of weird. Yeah, I can't thank you. There's people who like cleaning a bomb bonk cleaners

1:34.2

Never liked that word no, it's a weird one bomb

1:39.2

Bobble bag

1:42.3

It's a nice morning

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