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Episode 268: Tumblo Drylo

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2016

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Putting an Overt Stake in the Ground.

This week, Dan and Merlin end up talking about the surprising stuff a Fitbit can do for you. Dan even buys one.

Also, some discussion of pope hats, NASCAR, (the amazing) Screens 4, and that failing restaurant by Dan's office that kinda looks like Terminus.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

At parachute, we give a sheet.

0:06.1

Hello.

0:06.8

Hello, Merlin.

0:07.9

Hi, Dan. How are you doing?

0:09.5

Well, how's everything up there?

0:10.8

We up there.

0:11.4

Everything.

0:11.8

Wait, wait, wait, good, good, good, good.

0:14.0

It's unseasonably warm.

0:16.3

Is it what's it like up there?

0:17.8

Warm, warm and sunny.

0:22.2

Nice.

0:23.2

Yeah, no, it's nice.

0:24.2

It's nice.

0:24.6

It's a nice change.

0:25.6

I like when the weather changes.

0:27.7

Like when it rains, like when it stops raining.

0:30.6

Anything different is good.

0:33.4

I'm the one of my, am I the, the, the Heraclitus of weather.

0:37.6

Yeah, you're the tall one.

0:39.4

Yeah, I'd be a terrible rap name.

0:42.8

Anyway, things are good.

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