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Episode 388: Defcon Water

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2018

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Discussed: courting a vegetarian; The Information Problem; FU on Dan's new slide remote and keyboard; also, belts; travel pre-screening options; a recommended article on hypocognition; Dan saw IT; thoughts on Twiki and Erin Grey; and Dan's recent home problem.

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:02.0

Hey, Merlin, how are you?

0:03.3

I'm great, Dan. How are you?

0:04.7

Doing just fine.

0:06.3

Good afternoon.

0:08.0

Good afternoon to you.

0:09.4

Well, for me, good moorling.

0:11.0

Is it still, yeah, it's still moorling for you.

0:12.7

It's always moorling here.

0:13.7

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:14.8

It's good.

0:15.7

This is the strangest part of the day.

0:16.8

Well, the second strangest part of the day.

0:19.4

What's the first strangest part of the day?

0:24.1

I think 3.30 might be the strangest part of the day.

0:31.0

Which, why?

0:32.0

In my workflow.

0:33.0

Why?

0:34.0

Well, I don't know.

0:35.0

I mean, I haven't really thought about it.

0:36.0

But it feels like it's neither fish nor foul.

0:38.0

It's kind of a, it's a strange in between time.

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