Episode 294: Sufficiently Advanced Friendship

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2016

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: How to pester people responsibly.

Dan's a little under the weather.
Maybe kids should be in balls. Who knows?
"Wrap a hot towel around your head."
Westworld. It's definitely a thing.
Follow-up…
TaskPaper 3.5 is awesome.
Yes. There are good board games. Sorry about that.
How Merlin made Candyland more interesting. But only a little.
Followup on smoke detectors. What a mess!
More advice on covering up dumb LED lights.
Merlin has an amazing rice cooker.
Harry Potter talk. Movies we like, etc.
Cool new Harry Potter prints.
MAIN TOPIC: How to pester people responsibly.
Trouble getting a response: what's the real problem here?
Merlin learned a lot from being an unsuccessful project manager.
If your results are at odds with your expectations? Something isn't working.
Dan talks about his new interest in informal journaling.
Writing is a 3D printer for your thoughts.

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0:00.0	Hello, good morning.
0:02.4	New Dan, how are you?
0:03.8	I'm doing all right.
0:04.8	How are you doing?
0:05.8	It's not like I'm in SRAN rap.
0:07.8	No, not like the one guy said no.
0:11.6	I think that was meant as useful criticism.
0:14.3	Yeah, I take it that way.
0:15.8	Constructed.
0:16.8	Sure you did.
0:17.8	Helpful.
0:18.8	Yeah.
0:19.8	Yeah.
0:20.8	It's a new genre.
0:24.2	It's a new medium.
0:25.9	It's a new technology, Dan.
0:27.8	Yeah, I see that.
0:29.4	We're all still finding our way.
0:31.4	Yeah.
0:32.4	So, are you a little under the weather?
0:34.7	Just a little bit.
0:35.7	I mean, I can't hold me back.
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