Episode 270: According to the Cabinet

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2016

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Opinion at Scale.

This week kicks off with a confession that Dan and Merlin are increasingly less interested in coverage of Apple's finances and the related Kremlinology and blind guessing about the company. Merlin announces the unlikely product he'd love for Apple to create (and why it'll probably never happen).

Also, lots of followup on apps and services for fitness and personal tracking.

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0:00.0	Hello. Hello. Good afternoon. How are you? I'm not a bad. How are you? Good.
0:10.2	Good thing we started listening to all my podcasts at double speed.
0:13.8	We should just slow everything down.
0:16.8	It's been a big week. Do you remember that great scene in Bugs Bunny where he got the ether?
0:31.3	He's Frankenstein's lab one with the big red monster I think and everything's in slow motion in there.
0:38.6	Oh, you remember that sequence? Is this the big red heart fuzzy heart guy with tennis?
0:44.2	Yeah, I loved him. He was inscrutable. Why what was that guy's deal?
0:49.4	Bugs Bunny ether. There's old Tumblr about it apparently.
0:55.4	Is that right? That's what it's there for. Put it notes. Put it in notes.
1:01.2	I'm adding it now. Oh yeah. Yeah. He's the scientist that has like the really big head
1:08.0	and the pickaxe and the unibrow. Does that ring any bells? I totally forgot.
1:12.8	The scientist pickaxe. You know. Yeah, this is what the show could be about today.
1:22.0	This is what video. Unibrow. Yeah, well put it notes.
1:26.4	Put it on the list. Good afternoon, Dan. How are you?
1:32.5	I'm very well. I spent the last week preparing. We're going to do two and a half hours
1:36.4	on apples quarterly results. What they mean. What they don't mean. What they might mean.
1:46.4	What they mean. Tim Cook was on with with Jim Kramer. Jim Kramer. Oh, that's the guy with the
1:53.5	sleeves. The yelling guy with the sleeves. The yelling guy with the sleeves.
1:55.9	Leaves. Oh, that guy. How's the track record? How's the track record? 100% never wrong.
2:05.1	Never he's never been the Wikipedia finance. Well, they have a lot of people have been transcribing
2:13.8	what they said. And you know, the shocking thing for me from watching and also reading that
2:19.7	interview is that Tim Cook disagrees with Wall Street about Apple. Then what's going on with Apple?
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