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Episode 436: Better Than a Lipstick

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

DISCUSSED: the admirable candor of B.B. King; the simple joys of the Ordinary Night; movies that are or are not dated and how that affects your enjoyment; how sci-fi seemed to mostly miss the internet; our embarrassment of media options; tech in media and what it means for plot stuff; technology adoption curves are definitely speeding up; doing everything you can not to use your phone as a phone; more generational stuff; how time and context changes our perception; should they take all the smoking out of movies and tv?; remember: you're not making errors—you're adding information; and, finally, Dan has an exciting announcement and a wet notebook.

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0:00.0

Weatherproof paper.

0:02.0

Hello.

0:04.0

Hi, Marilyn.

0:05.0

Good morning, Dan. How are you?

0:06.0

I'm pretty good. How are you doing?

0:08.0

Oh, it's Tuesday. It's the optimistic day.

0:10.0

I have to miss the day. This is the day you look forward to the most out of every week.

0:14.0

I suppose, you know, I always forget it's the optimistic day

0:18.0

until it's Tuesday. And I can't tell you about one of my rituals I do.

0:24.0

Oh, yeah, of course I want to hear your ritual.

0:26.0

Are you okay? Yeah, no, I'm good.

0:28.0

I just had to tweet out the show and I, you know,

0:32.0

I always admired BB King because he was very open about the fact that he couldn't sing

0:38.0

and play guitar at the same time.

0:40.0

And that's very admirable.

0:44.0

Then he'd stop for a second and he'd go,

0:46.0

Bound, and I don't know. That's right.

0:48.0

He could do that bending of fifth on the G string, part of my saying.

0:54.0

He'd bend it. He'd bend a fifth.

0:56.0

And then he'd do that. He's doing basically bending the fifth bow, no.

1:00.0

And then down. And then he'd hit that little on the B string.

1:03.0

Right.

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