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Episode 330: Frowny Face for You

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Drawing effective water.

In this week's tight and bright episode, Dan and Merlin do dome followup on food bars and CBD oil, then discuss how to get better at letting people just enjoy what they like.

In this week's main topic, your hosts address how to think more productively (and more realistically) about what you need from a task management app.

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0:00.0

Oh good morning, Marilyn.

0:03.9

Good afternoon, Dan. How are you? How are you doing? I'm doing good. How are you?

0:07.1

Pretty good. Yeah. You doing good. Yes.

0:11.3

You know, it sounds so good, but don't know. You're right. I'm great.

0:15.7

Gee. I just ate. I got a, uh, I got an Rx bar right here.

0:21.4

Excellent. Yep. They're good. Yeah. A lot. We've had a lot of feedback about the Rx bar.

0:28.3

We get a lot of, a lot of feedback about many, many things.

0:31.7

And one of them was the people seem to like the Rx bar. Now here's what's confusing to me.

0:34.8

Hmm. Hmm. I'm just a scientist.

0:37.0

But it sounds like we're people having trouble ordering it from the site because it was out of stock or something.

0:42.8

There. I saw that one person was in Canada and they didn't should be Canada, but they gave them another retailer that did.

0:50.0

And then I saw some other people were upset that the, the, my favorite one, which is the Apple, the Apple Cinnamon one.

0:57.8

Yeah. Apparently that was out of stock. Maybe that's a, we tried to seek that out for my daughter.

1:02.5

It's a, it's a kid's bar. So good. Yeah. I haven't been able to put my hand to one yet.

1:07.3

But the, uh, the, the chocolate sea salt is pretty good. They're not paying for this.

1:11.8

I mean, they're kind of paying for this. They pay for it before. But, uh, yeah, and these are good.

1:16.1

These are good goats. I try to make myself eat one every morning. They're very substantial.

1:21.0

They feel you know, they know you, you know, you know, you know, you've eaten a bar when you're done.

1:25.5

You do. And it's true. I had feedback from one person that said, no wonder they're so good.

1:31.4

Look at the 12 grams of sugar or eight grams of sugar or whatever. And I said, listen, it's all natural ingredients.

1:37.8

You're talking about, you're talking about dates. You're talking about natural fruit. Yeah.

1:41.9

You know what? Go eat an apple. That's, uh, that's got a lot of, uh, sugar in it.

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