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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

4.72.3K 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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Transcript

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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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