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Episode 293: The Frame for Our Relationship

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2016

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: The Minimum Viable Waste of Time.

Some awesome odds and sods, a great new Markdown editor for OS X, and a main topic on dealing with those aggressive email follow-up people.

  • Dan's Concern™ regarding his annoying smoke detectors
  • Why things seem to get worse and more diverse
  • Evaluate the credulity of Amazon reviews with Fakespot
  • Scary edge cases for Samsung Note fires
  • Cary's great DNS switching trick
  • Merlin is loving Typora, a clever and powerful new desktop Markdown editor
  • Pandoc does many file conversion things
  • Homebrew makes Mac package management a doddle
  • Brett Terpstra's Markdown Service Tools are essential
  • TableFlip is a cool app for making and editing Markdown tables
  • Fountain and Slugline are awesome for Markdown-like screenplay writing
  • Also, hey. Editorial for iOS can totally handle Fountain files. Turns out!
  • Merlin and Dan are still really liking iOS 10
  • It's definitely worth the time to prune your iOS notifications
  • Main Topic: How should we deal with all those "just circling back" people?
  • iPhone spam call blocker Hiya seems to be working now

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0:00.0

You know, I've registered with the Federal Trade Commission to not receive this type of communication.

0:07.8

Please, please decline future mis-sives and ensure that I am added to your comprehensive list.

0:13.7

Hello.

0:15.5

Good morning.

0:16.5

Good afternoon, Dan.

0:17.5

How are you?

0:18.5

I'm doing good.

0:19.5

I recognize your avatar in Skype.

0:22.6

No.

0:23.6

And I remember him as a... he sang.

0:27.3

He was a singer of some kind.

0:29.6

Mm-hmm.

0:30.6

Keep going.

0:31.6

Um, thinking, was this... is there a partridge family connection?

0:35.7

I feel like...

0:36.7

Mm-hmm.

0:39.0

Not primarily.

0:40.5

Okay.

0:41.5

It feels like that time period.

0:43.5

You would know him as a singer.

0:44.9

You would know him as an actor.

0:47.2

Can you locate what era you know him from?

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