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Episode 308: When Does the Fork Go on the Sat?

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2017

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Act like you're somebody that you like.

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about the evolution of voice recognition and touch interfaces and reminisce on the early days of making the turtle move.

Dan brings in the topic of how fears of both failure and success lead to missed opportunities. Your hosts talk about how to track down the nagging bad feelings about these regrets and troubleshoot what we can learn from them.

Merlin talks about recently returning to “Morning Pages,” what he’s learning from doing it, as well as some tips to help you get started with doing your own daily brain dump.

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0:00.0

Hello?

0:02.0

Hello, Merlin. How are you?

0:04.0

I'm good, man. How are you?

0:05.0

I'm good. Thank you for abiding my late tardiness today.

0:08.0

I appreciate it.

0:09.0

No one needs to know that.

0:10.0

I know. No one knows.

0:12.0

Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, it's, uh, it's okay.

0:15.0

Ha!

0:16.0

But here I am.

0:17.0

How are you? Yeah. How are you doing?

0:18.0

I'm pretty good.

0:20.0

Good, good. I am closing windows.

0:23.0

I'm clicking.

0:25.0

And, uh, I'm here.

0:27.0

I may miss, may miss off coffee.

0:29.0

Oh, good. And, uh, I got my bell.

0:31.0

It's, uh, Intel, uh, Hensia, uh, whatever the Intel Hensia espresso is.

0:37.0

Intel Hensia.

0:39.0

Mm-hmm.

0:40.0

Mm-hmm.

0:41.0

Had a nice, uh, had a nice bloom.

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