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Episode 424: A Roach Riding a Rat

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

DISCUSSED: the restorative tonic of a good night's sleep; a return to sleep as video game; it's okay to tweet your hosts about hoagies and Publix; concerns about butt cancer; Dan recommends a Netflix series; Merlin endorses Overcast clips; the difficulty of balancing user requests with reality; Merlin commends the deliberate simplicity of his daughter's spork; Merlin recommends a podcast; and, finally, your hosts respond to a listener's email about the therapeutic benefits of "controlling a small area."

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:01.0

Hello, Marilyn. How are you?

0:03.7

I'm fine, Dan. How are you?

0:05.2

I'm very ready for today.

0:07.0

I'm very ready for the day. I'm ready to do this.

0:10.2

What makes you so ready for today if I could ask?

0:13.0

You know, I think I slapped a couple minutes longer than usual, which is to say I was not,

0:19.1

I'm in less of a sleep deficit than usual. So I think that helps.

0:23.8

Oh, that helps so much.

0:25.6

Yeah.

0:26.6

It's the X factor.

0:27.6

Totally.

0:28.6

And it's the dumbest thing. It's my fault. I just, I stay up later than I should. It's,

0:34.2

it's just stupid. It's just me being stupid.

0:37.0

There's, there's so much stuff in life. There's medications. There's diet. There's all kinds

0:45.2

of stuff where I feel like, at least for me, I, I don't notice the effect when it's going

0:52.4

well. I notice when it's going poorly. And then once it's gone poorly, if I'm able

0:57.5

to pull back from the, like, wow, that really makes a difference. And I don't think it's

1:00.5

any better existence. So boring. But I don't think it's any, maybe no better example

1:04.0

of that than sleep, possibly alcohol. But like was sleep, you're like, you think like

1:08.4

a, like, a, didn't get enough sleep, didn't get enough sleep, didn't get enough sleep.

1:12.3

Right.

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