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Episode 282: Boring and Yet Wonderful

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2016

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Orinoco Flow

This week, Dan and Merlin continue their series on updates, focusing on the difference between the days before and after ubiquitous wifi.

Also, lots of fun odds and sods on Scrivener and surviving summer with kids.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:01.0

Hey, Merlin.

0:02.0

Good morning, Dan.

0:03.0

Good afternoon.

0:04.0

Good afternoon.

0:05.0

How are you?

0:06.0

I'm good.

0:07.0

How are you?

0:08.0

Oh, pretty good.

0:10.0

Yeah.

0:11.0

What's going on?

0:12.0

I'm wearing a tie-dye shirt.

0:13.0

Oh, yeah?

0:14.0

I'm a daughter made a formula camp.

0:16.0

Oh, cool.

0:17.0

She asked me what my favorite colors for a tie-dye shirt would be and she produced it.

0:21.0

Well, that's nice.

0:22.0

Like, how do they do a traditional tie-dye thing or what?

0:26.0

Like, how do they make it?

0:27.0

Oh, yeah.

0:28.0

It's a traditional shaker style.

0:30.0

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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