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Episode 326: The Ronald McDonald of Feeds

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2017

⏱️ 97 minutes

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TOPIC: "The results have been increbidle."

This week, Dan and Merlin opine about various Apple feelings and wondering where the heck things are going. Merlin is sanguine.

Merlin is mad at KFC, and Dan reminds us how great 1974 was for movies.

Finally, your hosts respond to listener feedback.

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0:00.0

Hello, hello. Hi, are you? I'm pretty good. Pretty, pretty good. It's um, break time. Break

0:12.4

time, time to rest, time to take a nap. Hardly. Uh, there's, you know, schools of all that kind

0:18.3

of summer break. Hmm. You're not doing a year round school. I don't think so. If so, we're

0:25.3

going to get a letter. Yeah, you would know, I think. Yeah. Yeah. I think we, I think we'd notice,

0:30.7

keep dropping her off and taking her up eight hours later. Yeah. What did you do this again?

0:37.5

School, honey. How are you doing? Pretty good. Almost almost summer break here. Got a few,

0:43.7

two more days, I think. Mm-hmm. You think, I think so. You don't know for sure. Hmm. Hmm. You don't

0:50.6

really follow it. The only way to keep you from the important meetings. I mean, I wake up every

0:54.6

morning and I'm, I'm ready to take them to school, whether they have to go or not. That's how I play.

0:59.6

That's good way to do it. Always ready. Dan at the switch. That's right. Hmm. I have very nearly

1:08.2

just next to nothing for today. So this can be, we can free ball today. First, I'm concerned.

1:13.4

All right. We could talk about whatever you want to talk about. What is exciting? What's happening?

1:20.0

WDCs coming up. Let's see. What else is new? Somebody wrote in and wants us to send him all of the

1:32.0

emails that we've gotten from people who want to be on the show. Yes. I'm not going to be doing that.

1:37.6

We're not going to do that. No. No. That's, ooh. What can you imagine that? No. No, I can't imagine that.

1:45.8

Sure. Anything else. I mean, you know, it seems like, first of all, it seems like the implication is

1:52.0

that we've saved all of these. I mean, they're all in Gmail for me. I don't know where to. You

1:58.0

delete like hard delete your email. You know, that's it. We could make this the whole show topic is how

2:03.6

how to manage email because it seems like there's a different choice depending on where the account

2:11.3

lives. So if I'm, first of all, I do not use the Gmail user interface on the web. I only use

2:19.4

the Mail app on the Mac and the standard Mail client on iOS. I run stock, Merlin. I run stock.

2:27.1

Yikes. What a world of pain. That's fine. Works for me. You are okay with the Mail app on iOS as it

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