Episode 456: Urinal Cup

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

DISCUSSED: Dan presents a curious new bathroom project; some thoughts on OCD, procrastination, and empathy; praise for Fury Road, Inglourious Basterds, and Dunkirk; Dan has follow-up on his awesome new laptop and the state of Unix shells; Merlin makes the case for occasionally getting unused to things.

Links for this episode:

I’ll Do The Procrastination Episode Tomorrow
The MacBook Adorable — Liss is More
Moving to zsh – Scripting OS X
Apple replaces bash with zsh as the default shell in macOS Catalina - The Verge
Amazon.com: Samson Q2U USB/XLR Dynamic Microphone Recording and Podcasting Pack (Includes Mic Clip, Desktop Stand, Windscreen and Cables): Musical Instruments
Causality
Compartmentalization (psychology) - Wikipedia
Compartmentalization is a subconscious psychological defense mechanism used to avoid cognitive dissonance, or the mental discomfort and anxiety caused by a person's having conflicting values, cognitions, emotions, beliefs, etc. within themselves.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, Marilyn.
0:03.2	Good morning, Dan.
0:04.4	How are you?
0:05.4	I'm not awake yet.
0:07.8	I slept later than usual now.
0:11.9	I want to use this peculiar accent for the rest of the program.
0:17.1	Were you up very late?
0:18.8	Is that why you were?
0:20.2	I don't know.
0:21.2	Okay.
0:22.2	Well, I don't think so.
0:23.7	I wasn't up particularly late.
0:26.1	I went to bed like a gentleman.
0:28.8	I slept quite soundly.
0:32.1	And now I'm trying to wake up.
0:34.4	I haven't even had my cup of tea.
0:38.6	Can you make that during the show?
0:40.0	It could be part of the show each day.
0:41.4	Like Mr. Rogers would come in and take off his card again and take off the shoes, which
0:45.9	shoes out.
0:46.9	You could do that every time we start the show.
0:48.4	You make a cup of tea.
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