meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Back to Work

Episode 405: Can You Feed Coke to Rocks?

Back to Work

5by5

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2018

⏱️ 83 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Discussed: the harsh mistress of holidays, Hanukah presents, Cash's cool gift, the joys of good UX, some excellent very good recommendations, an exciting Science experiment involving hamburgers, kids are terrible at writing things down, things that changed Merlin's game, and some excellent follow-up on how we recognize number patterns.

Happy Holidays, you jackals.

Links for this episode:

Brought to you by:

  • One Month (Head to OneMonth.com/backtowork for 10% off any coding course).

  • Honeybook (So get started at HoneyBook.com today, and use promo code BACKTOWORK for 50% off your first year).

  • Palm (Go to palm.com to learn more, and run to your nearest Verizon store to check out Palm for yourself).

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Hello.

0:02.0

Hey, good morning.

0:03.2

Good morning, Dan.

0:04.0

How are you?

0:04.9

Doing good. How are you doing?

0:06.1

Oh, I'm good.

0:07.6

Yeah.

0:08.4

Yeah, you know, Christmas is a harsh mistress.

0:12.6

She's harsh.

0:13.4

Yes.

0:14.5

She doesn't care about all the other stuff

0:16.3

that's going on.

0:17.1

She's still going to be Christmas.

0:18.4

Yeah, there's nothing you can do about it.

0:20.1

She cannot be canceled.

0:21.0

She cannot be rescheduled.

0:22.8

No.

0:23.7

She shall not.

0:25.3

Right.

0:26.2

That's right.

0:27.0

That's what they say.

0:28.4

Yeah, no, it's good.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from 5by5, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of 5by5 and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.