Episode 459: Alley Oop to Yourself in the Future
Back to Work
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🗓️ 7 January 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Merlin needs help in the NOC; Dan discovers sensitive sauce; there are thresholds; hurting your roller skating muscles; new printer; and, finally, Merlin conducts a long exploration of unnecessary efficiencies, evolved technologies, and the minimum viable productivity system.
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- Amazon.com: Lenox Gold Titanium Coated Utility Knife Blades - 10 Pack - Last 3X Longer Than Standard Blades: Home Improvement
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:02.0 | Hey, Merlin. How are you? |
| 0:03.6 | Good morning, Dan. How are you? |
| 0:05.4 | I'm doing all right. |
| 0:06.5 | Doing all right. |
| 0:07.1 | I should answer your question. I'm fine. |
| 0:08.8 | Okay. |
| 0:09.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:10.9 | Yeah. I'm real. I'm good. |
| 0:12.6 | I'm good. I might need you to come to my office. |
| 0:17.2 | Okay. When do you want me there? |
| 0:19.4 | I mean, what we're done here would be fine. |
| 0:21.4 | Okay. I'll head over right after. |
| 0:22.9 | Okay. |
| 0:23.9 | I need you to come work on the knock with me a little bit. |
| 0:26.8 | What's going on? |
| 0:28.3 | Nothing. It's all good. |
| 0:29.5 | You know, Zena's paradox thing about you take a half step toward the wall and you'll never reach the wall |
| 0:33.7 | because you always have a step away. |
| 0:35.7 | I feel like the further I get along with improving my and upgrading my tech world after |
| 0:41.6 | years of disrepair, the more I end up having to do. |
| 0:46.9 | And I don't know. I got ambitious this morning and I didn't have everything I thought I needed. |
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