Episode 385: A Picture of a Clown
Back to Work
5by5
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2018
⏱️ 78 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Discussed: current monospaced font preferences, experimenting with text sizing, getting on the sucker list, old McDonalds had some styrofoam, new tech that would kill old stories, kids bewilderment with old tech, the bonkersness of Face/Off, wonderful listener gifts for Cash, a book about anxiety Merlin likes.
Dan and Merlin also answer listener questions about mise en place and doubting one's future after college.
Links for this episode:
- The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety: Alan W. Watts: 8601300190136: Amazon.com: Books
- Mise en place - Wikipedia
Mise en place: setting the stage for thought and action
- Stopping the Noise in Your Head : the New Way to Overcome Anxiety and Worry: Reid Wilson: 9780757319068: Amazon.com: Books
- 5by5 | Back to Work #222: Full-Stack Obsessive
Merlin and Dan use The Aviator as a jumping-off point to talk about OCD as it relates to perfectionism, creativity, and drive in the workplace. They discuss rituals and their consequences, the importance of mise en place, and eliminating disruptive processes.
- 5by5 | Back to Work #236: Finished for Now
This week, Dan and Merlin talk about the perilous wonders of practice of all kinds.
- Mise en place - Wikipedia
Mise en place is a French culinary phrase which means "putting in place" or "everything in its place." It refers to the set up required before cooking, and is often used in professional kitchens to refer to organizing and arranging the ingredients (e.g., cuts of meat, relishes, sauces, par-cooked items, spices, freshly chopped vegetables, and other components) that a cook will require for the menu items that are expected to be prepared during a shift.[
- Introduction | IBM Plex
- All the President's Men (film) - Wikipedia
- Face/Off - Wikipedia
- Inconsolata
- What is eero Labs? – eero Help Center
- eero Plus | eero
- What is Family Profiles? – eero Help Center
- Texas Instruments TI-99/4A - Wikipedia
Brought to you by:
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Major audit major audit major disaster general disorder private bathroom |
| 0:05.8 | Hello, hey Merlin. Hi Dan. How's it going pretty good. How are you? Oh real good? Yeah, real good happy Tuesday. Yeah |
| 0:13.7 | Too much typing I'm linking |
| 0:16.8 | I'm preparing what finer using in text mate. Oh |
| 0:20.5 | Oh |
| 0:21.5 | Well, let's see a Muslim |
| 0:24.5 | I'm using Muslim in Vialt and I'm using good question IBM Plex mono 15. Oh |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah, he's still on that that one is a good one |
| 0:33.4 | Yeah, it looks good. Staying good power like this show |
| 0:37.1 | Yeah |
| 0:38.3 | Staying power, you know if you're gonna pick one across all of them |
| 0:41.8 | Men lose a good one because that's almost everywhere. Yeah |
| 0:45.1 | I don't like when I I don't like when I only have courier |
| 0:48.9 | Courier is okay, but it really does just kind of look like a typewriter and it doesn't have the benefits of |
| 0:55.9 | Modern monospace fonts |
| 0:58.4 | You know, yeah, I totally agree |
| 1:00.8 | The I mean, I'm not a developer or programmer coder anything, but I do like being able to distinguish a zero |
| 1:08.2 | from an oh |
| 1:10.2 | From an L. Yeah, did you see that thing? |
| 1:14.0 | Going around |
| 1:16.4 | About how you can use I guess I've kind of known about this |
| 1:20.2 | I didn't know how extensive this was that you can recreate most English words using non-English glyphs |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from 5by5, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of 5by5 and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.