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Episode 365: Volume Eight

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2018

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about weather as a thing and giving up on Cash's dumb iPad problem. This leads to discussion about the risks, opportunities, and frustrations of having lots of data in different places (probably).

The main topic this week is an exploration of TickTick. Neat app.

They also almost talk about Black Panther.

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0:00.0

Oh, hey, Merlin, how are you?

0:03.0

Good afternoon, Dan.

0:04.0

How are you?

0:05.0

I'm very well.

0:06.0

How are you?

0:07.0

Pretty good.

0:08.0

Pretty good.

0:09.0

After all these years, I still don't really know how to talk.

0:11.0

No, which part of it's hard.

0:12.9

Well, you know, you do that thing.

0:15.8

Sometimes a person does that thing where you give kind of a root response that is not

0:20.7

apropos of what the other person is asking.

0:22.9

Oh, yeah.

0:23.9

You know?

0:24.9

Yes.

0:25.9

Yo-to.

0:26.9

Um.

0:27.9

But it's good.

0:28.9

It's Tuesday.

0:29.9

It's a crisp, delicious day here.

0:32.6

It's like an apple or a day.

0:34.8

Yeah.

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