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Episode 382: Bad Tech Dad

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

4.7 β€’ 2.3K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 3 July 2018

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Dan's ex-cold, some media recommendations, strobe light problems, Dan's new phone, bad eyeglasses, your fault versus your problem, plus listener feedback about estimating hours and costs.

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:01.0

Hello, Merlin.

0:02.0

How are you?

0:03.0

I'm very well, Dan.

0:04.0

How are you?

0:05.0

Doing fine.

0:06.0

All right.

0:07.0

What's buttoned up?

0:08.0

All right.

0:09.0

How you feeling?

0:10.0

I'm all better.

0:11.0

All better.

0:12.0

All better.

0:13.0

That was all better on Wednesday at about 2 p.m.

0:18.0

Wow.

0:19.0

That's a fast turnaround.

0:21.0

Yeah.

0:22.0

I don't know if it was the, you know, just the nature of the cold that I had or my superior

0:27.3

healing skills or the things that I was, the things that I was taking for it, all the,

0:34.3

you know, like herbal stuff and other things who knows.

0:39.3

But I felt, I felt better.

0:42.3

Very, very rapidly.

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