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Episode 292: Rat King of Crush

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2016

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: A Surfeit of Merlin Mannsplaining.

This week, Dan and Merlin produce an undisputed instaclassic odds and sods episode.

  • When technology makes you feel crazy.
  • Are retweets endorsements?
  • Universal New Yorker captions.
  • Cursed Images is amazing.
  • Vatican Cameos!
  • A totally smooth way to stop talking about someone when they walk into the room.
  • iOS 10 call-blocking apps. Do they even?
  • How to send an 'E mail' - Database - 1984 - YouTube
  • BIG ACTUALLY-USEFUL SEGMENT: Two super-interesting matrices.
  • How to plan your day.
  • What Percentage Alcohol? WHAT PERCENTAGE?
  • We still miss Phil Hartman.
  • A recommended RSS option.
  • Apple caters to Dan's News needs.
  • Dim your LEDs!
  • "Alexa, who is the Mother of Dragons?"
  • Fast gloss on Plex's very interesting new Cloud Sync offering.
  • This is one for the books.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh

0:03.2

Hello good morning. Whoa early one for you. Is the busy busy?

0:09.8

I am trying to get lots of things out the door. Yeah, you shipping it your shipping it

0:16.6

What couldn't you ship? Oh?

0:19.6

My goodness. Oh my goodness everything everything's happening down. Yeah, what is it tell me?

0:25.4

My upload is done. Okay. I'm quitting. I'm clicking. I'm closing Google docs. You get Sarah up running. Oh gosh no

0:33.9

No, I think it's I might have automatically downloaded. Yeah, I think it downloaded onto all of my max because now it's telling me that

0:41.3

It's there and I should upgrade huh you got a feeling on that

0:46.7

For me, you know, I'm in that I'm in that position where I don't feel like it's the right time yet

0:52.8

It's not the right time

0:54.6

Yeah, because I've you know, we just I mean we can do talk about this another time

1:00.2

But fireside is out there and people are in the in it hundreds of people using it

1:04.6

And I feel like with the rate that I that they're finding a little bug here a little tweak there thing here

1:10.0

I can't I can't take time away from that to

1:13.4

Set up a new operating system and hope that my development environment all works perfectly within it because it never does

1:21.0

And then that could that could be in anywhere from an hour to days to get everything working

1:26.2

I just can't but I want to I want to play around with it

1:29.8

What do you want? I mean like I only the main thing I want I want to be able to walk up to it with the Apple watch that

1:36.4

I don't have anymore because I gave it to my mom and unlock it

1:39.6

That's it once I can do that and that statement I came until if you're kidding I am kidding

1:43.5

Okay, there's not really there's not really much I want from it at all actually

1:49.2

Yeah, I mean it's

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