Episode 396: Bean in the Sleeve

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about the FitBit Charge 3 and where it fits into their worlds—as well its place in the larger tracker and smart watch ecosystems.

Excursions also include: BroBot, weather stations, weather apps, some TV and movie talk, some space talk, plus children's failures to understand how time basically works.

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:01.0	Hey, Merlin.
0:02.3	Hi, Dan.
0:03.8	How are you?
0:04.8	I'm loving these Skype auto responses.
0:07.6	Oh, yeah.
0:08.6	I built a bot.
0:10.3	It's a support bot.
0:11.7	Yeah.
0:12.7	Brobot.
0:13.7	Brobot sends supportive inspirational messages to my male friends.
0:20.2	I like that.
0:21.2	Is that what I was communicating with here?
0:23.5	Yeah.
0:24.5	Brobot.
0:25.5	Yeah.
0:26.5	I did it in Perl.
0:27.5	And they'll say, out of boy, or now you're talking.
0:31.4	Yeah.
0:32.4	Am I right?
0:33.4	Yeah.
0:34.4	You know, it's just, it's a way, you know, it's just guys being guys on Skype.
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