Episode 35: Why My Pants Were On Fire

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2011

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

How to handle job interviews.

Merlin and Dan can't solve the problem of interviews being dumb, but Merlin will tell you what is wrong with you, how long you'll have to wait for your resume to get you a job, how Larry Wall interviews for a Perl job, and whether or not the answer is always Yes, like they were just telling Stephen (yes, Hawking).

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0:00.0	I got to get the plants running, you got to want all this, you got to want all that,
0:07.5	you got to put on your special arborist hat, you're sure!
0:10.5	Oh, my baby likes to water my plants.
0:13.7	Hello?
0:14.7	Hey, Merlin.
0:15.7	How are you this week?
0:16.7	I'm doing very well, Dan.
0:17.7	How are you?
0:18.7	I'm fine.
0:19.7	I'm sorry.
0:20.7	I was flossing.
0:21.7	Like flossing?
0:22.7	Like the slang term flossing?
0:24.7	Yeah.
0:25.7	You mean like the way Jay-Z uses it?
0:29.5	Yeah.
0:30.5	Yeah.
0:31.5	Like the street that I'm basically showing, you know, showing something off.
0:34.5	That's right.
0:35.5	Like the street that I'm crossing, like the salad I'm tossing, I'm just cold flossing.
0:40.2	That's right.
0:41.2	No, not in that sense.
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