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Episode 366: Five Sides of the Street

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2018

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

This week, your hosts talk about using Windows, technology modalities, making sane decisions as a developer, reality TV, 20th anniversary of The Dude, Merlin's new fondness for Spotify, analyzing takes on the HomePod, options for high-quality in smart speakers, dealing with recurring financial (and psychological) eels, competitive heat in the smart home ecosystem, Canadians, and the name of Scotland Yard. They also answer a listener question about feeling overwhelmed by content options.

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0:00.0

I like checking out charts because charts rule charts are a handy dandy scientific tool

0:05.7

They have you information so you can decide charts up you visualized you get the picture so do I

0:13.7

Hello, hey Merlin. Hi, Dan. How are you good? How are you? I'm fine. I was close to your window

0:19.9

Close and wait. Oh, she's no don't close and

0:23.4

I'm doing my tongue quiet to the roast soft windows

0:26.5

Soft window. Did you use Microsoft windows? Yes

0:31.8

For about hmm you're in a half that's it like your whole that's your whole career with Microsoft. Yeah

0:38.6

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I tease it forever for like at home. I always had a Mac

0:44.3

But it's so many places I worked it was always

0:47.3

Windows Windows I know I told the story a million times, but it was when I was

0:50.6

doing very lightweight web development. I was mainly doing web design, but like cold fusion

0:57.6

This was your cold fusion period. Yeah, everybody did cold fusion

1:01.3

So if I had this idea for a product a project and I had some I thought kind of fun ideas for how to design it and they're like

1:09.3

Yeah, you but you got to make it. I was like

1:12.7

I don't know about that you guys are nerds

1:15.2

I'm a cool guy with tiny glasses who likes alverica

1:17.2

I don't I don't roll in that. I don't want to know. Well making no cold fusion

1:24.7

And so my boss gave me a very very very old like 386 like packed it up and sent it to my house for I was working and yeah, he used that

1:33.2

Yeah, and my main thing I remember about it was that

1:36.9

We just actually talked about this a little bit on

1:38.9

Router can align this week. I remember that I used it to stream

1:42.4

I want to say rhapsody whatever Rob reads streaming service was back in the day

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