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Episode 452: Wine is My Travel Drink

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

  • updates on travel and packing
  • a new notebook Merlin likes
  • finding a notebook that accommodates both your brain and the shape of your day
  • Merlin's bespoke six-block notebook method
  • Dan struggles mightily with his hotel room
  • a notional badge for gauging lifetime exposure to a ubiquitous TV celebrity
  • some more travel talk, including the promise for a future dedicated episode on travel updates
  • a suggestion for trying iOS Voice Control
  • finally, in some detail, we return to Synology Corner

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, hi, Dan. How are you? Hey, what's up, Merlin? How you doing?

0:05.8

Oh, yeah, Mr. Day. Welcome to the Tuesday edition of the show. Love it. I'm here for it.

0:12.6

Are you? Yes. I'm very, very much here for it. I was there, Jack, feeding you, feeding

0:19.4

you. Um, I assume you're doing well. I'm doing pretty good. Yeah, I can't complain.

0:26.2

Um, you know, who would who would listen to the complaints even even if they came in and

0:31.0

mass in bulk, bulk, let's see, I've got some things here. I've got some odds and sides.

0:38.4

I'm hoping we'll have an opportunity to return to a Synology Corner. Nice. Um, but you got

0:43.8

anything on your mind today? Synology Corner has been on my mind a lot, but open, open

0:50.2

your ideas. I want to, I want to talk to you about this hotel room, uh, things like that.

0:54.9

You're going to hotel room, right? My hotel room, yes. Oh boy. Okay. We're in there in

0:58.6

that down. Okay. Um, so I can't bring, did you bring wipes? Did you bring Clorox wipes?

1:04.3

I did. I brought two different ones. Um, and, uh, the one I brought, the wet ones, which

1:11.0

are important. And then I brought the regular Clorox. Let me see how these are the Clorox

1:16.2

to go pack. Clorox kills cold and flu viruses disinfecting wipes. Tollitalis disinfectant

1:23.9

days, fresh scent, fresco aroma. Okay. Lean down, but there's only nine in here. And

1:30.1

I'm, I'm trying to ration them, you know, I do. I do. Um, you know, I, I used to take

1:37.3

so much pride in how minimal my packing could be. And I would challenge myself to need fewer

1:44.0

and fewer things, you know, to wear. If I just had to go somewhere for a night or two,

1:48.5

I could just use my backpack. And I, I can do that. I have a very large backpack. But,

1:52.4

you know, a, I think a sponsor of this show. Um, so our whole family has those away bags

1:58.3

now. Oh, yeah. And two of them in the carry on size. And the latest one we bought is

2:05.1

like the checking luggage size. Because I'm a checker. I'm a checker, Jerry. I check.

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