Episode 448: Spaghetti on Spaghetti

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

This week, Dan and Merlin dive into the benefits (and fun) of a NAS project. Also, Merlin goes off about the horror show of letting old people determine the future. Also, also, hey, kung fu movies!

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:02.0	Hey, Merlin. How are you?
0:03.8	I'm great, Dan. How are you?
0:05.5	I'm doing pretty good.
0:06.8	It's good to have the internet back.
0:09.0	It was gone.
0:10.0	What happened to the internet?
0:10.9	What are you talking about?
0:11.8	Last week for three days, we had no internet here at the studio.
0:19.0	How is that possible?
0:22.2	It went out and it turned out it was a bad cable modem
0:26.2	and it took them three days spectrum.
0:28.6	Thanks, spectrum business class.
0:30.4	Thanks, spectrum.
0:31.3	Three days to get out here.
0:33.6	And when they finally did get out here,
0:37.0	they were able to remove it, you know, to physically disconnect
0:42.3	the cable modem and replace it with a new one.
0:46.0	That took five minutes.
0:48.3	And the other hour and 25 minutes that he spent here
0:51.7	was on the phone with them, getting them to activate it
0:55.0	and waiting on hold with his own people.
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