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Episode 314: Which Fellini You Want to Be

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2017

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: "Remember this film is supposed to be a comedy."

This week: Dan struggles with his progressive lenses, but he really liked the movie, Logan. Merlin's daughter has made four piles, and he finally accepts that he really should be watching more movies for his "work." Then, there's follow-up on that crazy S3 typo and some pretty poor Oscars® OPSEC.

Then we're on to answering listener feedback via two futurist hats and a parenting hat:

  • Listener Andrew, on self-driving cars and the mainstreaming of ponderous tech punditry.
  • Listener Jason, on whether a future of voice computing will become a sociopathic blight.
  • Listener Mark, on where the heck to find reasonable resources on better parenting.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I hear you whispering, I was whispering to secret command.

0:05.0

Okay, how are you?

0:07.0

Are you unleashing the power of voice?

0:10.0

What's up?

0:14.0

Nothing?

0:16.0

Just partying?

0:17.0

Yeah.

0:18.0

Just partying to four, seven, throwing down in this hisel.

0:22.0

Yeah.

0:23.0

Yes.

0:24.0

My hisel is full of throwdown.

0:26.0

You can check.

0:28.0

No, I want to.

0:29.0

I will.

0:30.0

Yes.

0:31.0

Yes.

0:32.0

Lots of hisel in my throwdown.

0:33.0

Hmm.

0:34.0

Hmm.

0:35.0

They were out of the Safeway Refreshay brand, Seltzerwater.

0:43.0

Oh, no.

0:44.0

So I got some Canada dry, original sparkling, Seltzerwater.

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