Episode 397: My Manager is Water

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2018

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Discussed: nailing it, the optimistic valence of Tuesdays, difficulties finding replacement parts on Amazon, headphone preferences, Alexa's service outage and new whisper mode, Austin's big water crisis and what it says about epistemology, reason, and society, plus 20 years of The Big Lebowski.

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0:00.0	Hello. Hi, Marilyn. How are you? I'm great, Dan. How's your morning? Oh, busy, busy, busy.
0:06.3	Oh, busy, busy, busy. Yeah. What's up? What's up up there? Oh, it's another I just nailed it
0:12.0	again today. Just nailing it day after day. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I landed a Apollo right on time
0:16.8	today. Did you see the movie? Is that? Is that it? No. No, no, no, no. I just, you know,
0:24.4	yeah, it's a good day. Tuesday's an optimistic day. Okay. Yeah. Tuesday does not have
0:30.8	the same valence the other day. Some people say Tuesday doesn't have a feeling. I'm not going to
0:34.4	say that. That depends on your life. I'm not here to judge your life. But I am saying the Tuesday's
0:38.7	an optimistic day. Monday, Monday has a lot of valence, right? Look at Garfield, right? You look
0:44.5	at the Boombtown rats. There's a lot of valence to a Monday, to a Friday, Wednesday's hump day.
0:49.9	So you got Thursday, Thursday. But you know, what do you say? Two for Tuesday? No, two
0:53.8	days an optimistic day. You can get a lot of accomplished on a Tuesday. It doesn't have to be stressful.
0:57.5	Okay. No, I'm not judging. But no, it's a good day. Okay. I landed around time, took my kid to school.
1:04.9	What else did I do? I clean the house a little bit. I'm getting a lot done. And then I poured my coffee
1:09.6	over it right on time. Like I'm killing it. It sounds like you are. I mean, it really does sound good.
1:15.2	Dan, I'm 51. I'll take any victory I can get. This is not getting better. No, this is getting better.
1:20.9	Donting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like I said, to Roderick on the show, we're pretty good run lately with
1:26.3	Roderick. And I said to him yesterday, any day when you wake up and you don't feel worse is a good day.
1:32.5	I'm sure you just pray for those days. You know, I'm, I've got a question for you. Yes, you there.
1:38.7	So I use for my headphones. I've used the industry standard headphones, the Sony MDR 7506 professional
1:46.2	large diaphragm headphones. I've always used these since I learned what was going on. And
1:51.1	these are not necessarily the kind of headphones you'd get to like listen to your favorite songs on.
1:56.3	The reference headphones for very good for editing work. And you'll you'll find them used in every
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