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Episode 333: Your Whiteboards Will Not Survive Reality

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2017

⏱️ 80 minutes

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TOPIC: Help! My bosses are doing a really dumb thing!

This week, Dan and Merlin help a listener and his youngster get started with Spider-Man. Also, hey, support your Local Comic Shop!

Listener Molly asks how to help prevent a terrible, damaging change from happening inside her company.

Dan talks about War for the Planet of the Apes, and Merlin knows when to exit on a good bit.

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, Maryland. How are you?

0:03.6

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

0:08.3

Doing pretty good.

0:09.3

Good. Yeah.

0:12.0

Closing some tabs.

0:14.0

Yeah.

0:16.5

Have a good morning. Pretty good. Pretty busy.

0:20.0

Be busy. That's what you do. If you're busy, that's good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

0:25.1

I had a pretty good day. Yeah. What's up with you? What's going on? Oh, I slept pretty well. That's good.

0:30.0

And what did I do today? You know, lots of summer's crazy.

0:36.5

This kind of is somewhat related to our calendar discussion last time.

0:40.6

Summer's nuts because it's sort of like how I feel about stop signs where it's like if there's one

0:46.2

idiot in the world, one dingling who always runs stop signs, statistically, we'll all be okay.

0:53.0

Right? If there was just one guy that did it. Yeah, we're like bikes running through stop signs or whatever.

0:58.5

There's only one person in the world who did that. We'd probably be fine. Yeah.

1:02.1

You know, when there's, you know, let's say in a town, now you get like you have 20 people that do that.

1:08.0

Like that's getting dangerous. If you get to a place where like half the people in your town just blow

1:13.0

through stop signs, people are going to die. Yeah. And it's not going to be, may not necessarily be the

1:18.8

people who are doing the running. Yeah. With me. That's such a time because like everybody's got a

1:24.9

slightly weird schedule whether that's because of childcare, whether it's because of travel.

1:29.8

You know, one person, you know, there's a podcast ecosystem. If you like, people do shows with other

1:35.4

people. You do a show with me. I do a show. John Sir, John Sir, Keezer does a show with Marker and Keezer,

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