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Episode 450: Slow-Motion Hypocrisy

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Dan is getting a Synology, Merlin has been making stuff, plus the return of "Cool Things I Learned This Week."

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:02.0

Hi, Merlin.

0:04.0

The cold recorder delay, man.

0:09.0

It's been going on for years and it still has me off my game.

0:11.0

How are you?

0:13.0

I'm fine.

0:15.0

Hi.

0:17.0

I'm so tired.

0:19.0

I'm so tired, Merlin.

0:22.0

This, you know, this time zone change.

0:27.0

People say, oh, you know, it's a change time zone.

0:29.0

You get an hour.

0:30.0

You get an hour.

0:31.0

Not a time zone.

0:32.0

See, I'm tired.

0:33.0

I know.

0:34.0

This is a man.

0:35.0

I'm sorry, Dan.

0:36.0

I'm so sorry what they've done to you.

0:37.0

And he says, oh, it's no big deal.

0:40.0

You gain an hour.

0:41.0

And I say, no, you don't.

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