Episode 438: The Mashed Potatoes Need You

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

DISCUSSED: Merlin has a little visitor today. Dan has some thoughts on conference scheduling. This leads to a broader discussion of the sensitivities we may or may not have to other peoples' limitations and constraints. It's nice to meet people.

For some reason, religion, churches, and clergy are discussed. "This is what Peter did say!"

Finally, the guys answer a listener question about working from home. Merlin poses a challenge.

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:02.0	Hey, Maryland. How are you?
0:04.0	I'm great. Dan. How are you?
0:06.0	Pretty good. Everything going well today.
0:08.0	Did you hear that?
0:10.0	No, I didn't. I didn't hear it.
0:12.0	Okay.
0:14.0	I had right picked up.
0:16.0	You can just barely hear a little voice saying, good luck.
0:18.0	Oh, I mean, I hear that in my own head from time to time as well.
0:24.0	Do you? You got a little good fortune goblin.
0:28.0	You can do this. It'll be okay with this.
0:32.0	You're not as bad as people say.
0:34.0	You're worse.
0:36.0	Well, how are you?
0:38.0	Are you having Tuesday, Dan? It's the optimistic thing.
0:40.0	How are you? Pretty good.
0:42.0	Pretty good.
0:44.0	School starts tomorrow for one of those.
0:46.0	Really?
0:47.0	Tomorrow.
0:48.0	Yeah, yeah. Apparently,
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