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Episode 395: My Sleeves are Dynamic

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Discussed: the tyranny of earliness, the benefits of timeliness, an interesting horology episode about Apple Watch, more watch talk, a blog recommendation, a quick look at Merlin's new FitBit, an update on home WiFi options, Merlin raps a little, Dan gets wired for Ethernet, what we'd like so see in an updated Mac Mini, some listener followup on Bear export and (deliberately) slow interfaces, considering oneself touch-ed, skeuomorphic sounds, and various Florida wildlife encounters.

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0:00.0

How low can you go death row? What are brother? No once again back is the incredible

0:05.4

Rom animal public enemy number one five O says freeze, but I got none

0:10.0

Then I tell them that I never really had a gun. It's the waxed terminator X-Bun. Why do I remember that thing from 25 years ago?

0:18.1

Hello, hi Marilyn. Good morning, Dan. How are you? How are you today?

0:23.3

I'm doing very well

0:26.2

It's a Tuesday in October and everything's good

0:31.4

Everything's good. How you oh good. I'm alright. It's the bit you know

0:34.6

I don't like I don't like have to fly out of the house of rush and go and do appointments and stuff like that. I don't like that

0:42.4

I it's it's um hate that so uncivilized

0:47.2

It's so uncivilized

0:49.0

It's bad enough that I get a you know get the kids to school to start it is bad enough and it's bad

0:53.8

I mean my kids I was we were talking about this on the walk to school the other day

0:57.6

My kids school starts a little before eight and I told you this before but I remember in high school my first

1:03.1

Bell was seven fifteen. Yeah, seriously

1:05.2

Well, you mentioned me 15 years old and having to get up in time to be at school at seven fifteen. No

1:09.7

Yeah, ours was seven twenty seven twenty was a start time. We should be more European than I just as a people

1:15.6

They know that have school they even go to school

1:18.2

Is that right did they all get up heirs to come in?

1:21.2

Let schools optional because they don't they don't value careers over there

1:25.1

If you ask if you go over there and you're like hey, I'm you know

1:27.8

I'm down with your name and they say I'm you know bill

1:30.0

But what do you do for living bill how dare you have insulted me because that's our you know

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