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Episode 433: The Muscle of Worry

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

DISCUSSED: Dan has found a terrific solution for his son's iPad case; on the benefits (and challenges) of getting away from our devices for a while; listener recommendations for YouTube keyboard commands, a book about cities, and some Disney scholarship; and, finally, your hosts respond to a listener's question about "circular thoughts."

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:02.0

Oh, hello.

0:03.8

Good morning.

0:04.7

How are you?

0:06.3

I'm fine.

0:07.1

Excited to be here, ready to go.

0:09.0

Oh, yeah.

0:10.0

Cloudflare.

0:11.0

Woo.

0:11.3

Yeah, they're down.

0:12.2

They're down today or something.

0:13.4

Something bad has happened.

0:15.4

The whole thing is going on.

0:16.7

You don't really realize how many people use Amazon S3

0:20.2

or Amazon services or Cloudflare until something happens

0:24.8

like this.

0:25.4

And then you realize that everyone uses them.

0:27.8

The whole internet is broken.

0:30.8

Yeah.

0:31.8

Yeah.

0:32.8

It's crazy.

0:34.6

One's basic troubleshooting kind of falls apart.

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