Episode 273: Knives and Spoons

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

🗓️ 24 May 2016

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: True or false dilemmas?

This week, things kick off with a discussion of how to be helpful. Especially at your kid's school, but really just in general. This leads to a rumination on "roots" and what makes us feel like we're part of a community.

The main topic is about the future of machine learning, voice control, and all things "smart." What do we want, what can we imagine, and how do our own biases and habits constrain our sense of possibility?

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:01.0	Hello, Marilyn.
0:02.0	Hi, Dan.
0:03.0	How are you?
0:04.0	I'm doing good.
0:05.0	I just got back from the big graduation.
0:08.0	Oh, nice.
0:09.0	Would you get a degree?
0:11.0	No, it was my little girl.
0:12.6	She's graduated preschool.
0:15.3	The big ceremony she walked with her other students, classmates, graduated.
0:21.5	She's going to be going to kindergarten.
0:23.3	Oh, congratulations.
0:24.3	Yeah.
0:25.3	That's when the expectations really go up.
0:27.3	You're not going to treat you like a kid anymore.
0:29.3	Well, as they tell you every year, they go, you know, when you go to first grade, they're
0:32.2	not going to treat you like a kid.
0:35.9	Then finally, somewhere around your last year of college, they treat you a little less
0:38.6	like a kid.
0:39.6	Well, good for her.
0:40.6	That's fantastic.
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