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Episode 429: A Seer of Trees

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2019

⏱️ 92 minutes

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DISCUSSED: Merlin has a catastrophic off-by-one-week error; Roderick's June is very triggering to your hosts; sometimes, it's nice to be exposed to stuff you didn't expect, but…; at a certain point in life, you mostly just see trees of inconvenience and risk; this leads to a long (and surprisingly pretty good) meditation on FOMO, acceptance, and not pretending to be a person you never actually were; Dan helps Merlin unpack a scene near his workplace; Merlin gets in the weeds about Roger Deakins, Torquay, and two different Richards Burton; then, there's a brief side trip into the reboot of Nick Fury; and, finally the boys answer listener questions about taking notes in college and feeling resistance to completing tasks.

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:02.0

Hello, Marilyn.

0:03.5

Good morning, Dad.

0:05.2

How are you doing?

0:06.5

Well, you know how I'm doing.

0:08.2

You're doing good.

0:09.0

You're chilled.

0:10.0

You're relaxed.

0:11.0

You're restful.

0:12.0

I'm strong like bull.

0:13.0

Dan.

0:14.0

Well, Dan.

0:16.0

We have to disc...

0:17.5

You haven't had a coffee?

0:18.5

What are you drinking?

0:19.5

I'm drinking a little bit of the lime lacroy that I was in the fridge here.

0:22.5

Lime lacroy.

0:23.5

Hi.

0:24.5

Lime lacroy.

0:25.5

Hi.

0:26.5

Sounds like a good, sort of, um...

0:29.0

World War II villain, lime lacroy.

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