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Episode 379: Permanent Hole

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about some of their favorite announcements at the big computer show.

They also deep dive into how to handle the Benjamin family's need for a new phone.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:02.0

Hey, Merlin.

0:03.0

Hi, Dan. How are you?

0:04.0

I'm pretty good. How are you doing?

0:06.0

I'm doing pretty good.

0:08.0

Doodah. Doodah.

0:10.0

Uh-huh.

0:12.0

Put iOS 12 on an old phone.

0:14.0

Oh, doodah day.

0:16.0

Yeah, we usually like to record your live

0:20.0

report from the floor, but that being that WDC's in

0:24.0

San Jose now.

0:26.0

Yeah.

0:27.0

It's a little bit tougher for you to go, so you haven't,

0:29.0

you haven't been doing your live reports.

0:31.0

Yeah, I'm usually on the show floor.

0:33.0

No, it's down there. I have a computer show.

0:35.0

It's down in San Jose.

0:36.0

Yeah.

0:37.0

Big computer show.

0:39.0

Big party. Gonna break all the windows.

0:41.0

Mm-hmm.

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