Episode 391: The September Issue
Back to Work
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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2018
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Discussed: upcoming Apple announcements; do people with bigger screens use more apps more often?; some follow-up on adaptive testing; and comics for kids.
Your hosts answer a listener question about knowing when it's time to quit something.
Links for this episode:
- Ungainly X-Mann Meetup #24 — Merlin Mann
MERLIN MANN (Back to Work, Roderick on the Line, Reconcilable Differences, Do By Friday, You Look Nice Today, et al.) invites you to drop by Two Cats Comics on the evening of Thursday, September 27th to hang out, talk about comics, and just say, “Hi.” It's free and it's fun.
- Project Jupyter | Home
The Jupyter Notebook is an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text. Uses include: data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modeling, data visualization, machine learning, and much more.
- Do By Friday
- Apple to Broaden Its iPhone Screens -- WSJ
- Bone (comics) - Wikipedia
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:02.0 | Hey, Merlin. How are you? |
| 0:03.5 | I'm very well, Dan. How are you? |
| 0:05.0 | Doing okay. |
| 0:06.0 | Can't complain. |
| 0:07.0 | Who would listen? |
| 0:08.0 | Who would listen anyway? That's right. Who? |
| 0:10.0 | Everybody's got problems. |
| 0:12.0 | Yeah, I know. |
| 0:13.0 | Buh. Buh. |
| 0:14.0 | So what's going on? |
| 0:16.0 | Uh, what is going on? |
| 0:19.0 | I've been scouring, you know, the corners of the globe |
| 0:22.0 | for finding things to talk about with you. |
| 0:24.0 | Yeah? |
| 0:25.0 | Yeah. I didn't find too much. |
| 0:27.0 | But we got some, we got some, we got some listener mail. |
| 0:29.0 | Yeah. We do have listener mail. |
| 0:31.0 | We do have that. |
| 0:32.0 | You found a way to get articles that were on the Wall Street Journal, |
| 0:34.0 | which I'm fascinated to do a lot. |
| 0:35.0 | I, you know, I didn't even know that. |
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