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Episode 33: The Hypocrite You Can Live With

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2011

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin have a totally natural emotional reaction to the unreasonable demands they place on themselves after reading The Spongebob Report. Maybe they wouldn't have offended non-ex-Marines if they had just taken some time and consulted their Manager of Expectations.

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0:00.0

Good week.

0:03.0

Oh, big week.

0:04.2

Huge week.

0:05.0

Big week here.

0:06.0

Okay, here's the thing.

0:07.6

Before I'm gonna call it the pre-faith era.

0:09.7

It's the, the anti-faith, anti-withan-e,

0:13.6

not like your uncle's wife.

0:15.3

No offense.

0:16.1

Anti.

0:17.0

Sorry, or as you say, data.

0:18.6

And so you got that one twice.

0:21.2

Yeah, he did twice.

0:22.0

It was planning as a bit of thing now.

0:24.0

Also, I never heard you explain a bit before.

0:25.7

That was funny too.

0:26.6

I had to.

0:27.4

I had to because I was getting,

0:29.2

faith was on the receiving end of a lot of condolences,

0:33.1

a lot of apologies on behalf of me

0:35.4

and other things like that.

0:38.0

Talking about, oh, let's, let's, let's run back to this.

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