Episode 334: The Little White One

Back to Work

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2017

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Mapping Your Focus and Motivation

This week, Dan talks about a cool new addition to his Fireside.fm service, and Merlin interviews him about how he likes to choose, plan, and evolve the features of an app.

Two questions this week, both from Listener Jonathan.

First, your hosts address the era of Peak TV, including how they choose their TV services and how they recommend narrowing in on finding the best stuff to watch (and when).

Next, the evergreen topic of calendars and todos returns. How do you decide what goes where? And how do combine focus and motivation to derive a functional map of your time terrain?

Dan considers acquiring a house mammal.

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0:00.0	Hello. Hey, Marlon. Hi, how are you doing? Good. How's you? It's good. How's good?
0:08.0	Had a breakfast sandwich. You had to kind of fast. Like you'd like, wolfed it. Well, I had
0:13.0	to do a lot to do it to busy day. And so I had to woof it. And this is a very interesting
0:19.6	breakfast sandwich, like as a thought technology, because I get these, I used to get them
0:24.4	more often. Now I get them twice a month, probably. So I got it. I came in, I recorded
0:30.1	three advertisement spots. Okay. And I had to redo one of them. I should do. So, you
0:37.6	know, 10, 15 minutes, something like that. And no matter how long I let this thing cool
0:43.1	off, I still get mouth meat every time. Mouth what? Mouth meat. Like where you brother
0:48.7	with your mouth and you get like a little shingle hanging down. You've never heard the
0:51.9	term mouth meat. I have not. You sure? No, I'm positive. You're saying it irritated the
0:57.5	roof of your mouth. Okay. You're gaslighting me. No, I'm really not. I'm really not. I've
1:02.0	never heard of this. Dan, back when you ate human food, did you ever have pizza that was
1:06.2	way too hot and it burned the roof of your mouth? Definitely. Okay. And then it makes a little
1:09.9	shingle that hangs down and it goes like this. And it really hurts since Bernie. That's
1:14.7	mouth meat. Because now your mouth is meat. Oh, terrible. Bad bad image. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
1:19.9	But, you know, I persevere. Oh, are you dealing with this problem like right now? Oh,
1:28.9	no, it's good. Most of them just make it smack you noises because I just finished it. It's
1:32.0	a, I, you know what it is? It's bad on me. It's too aggressive as a breakfast sandwich.
1:37.3	I have to unhook my jaw like some kind of great South American snake in order to get it
1:42.6	in. It's not in Chebata and it's got, you got tons of scrambled eggs. You got cheddar
1:48.6	cheese. Mm-hmm. You got hash browns. You got corn, beef hash. And I, I have the man
1:54.1	a little ham to that. Sure. I mean, they've got go crazy. Mentally think about that sandwich.
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