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Episode 462: A Contract About Your Future

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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0:00.0

Hello, Merlin. How are you?

0:10.0

Very well, Dan. Good morning. Good morning to you. Good morning.

0:13.5

I just wanted to let you know in case you weren't aware updates are available. Do you want

0:18.2

to install the updates now or do you want to restart to install these updates tonight?

0:23.2

What would you like to do? Yes. It's now good. There's no good time.

0:28.7

Yes. Right now, let's do it during the show. Okay. Is that for your system?

0:33.3

Yes. It's such a system. Yeah. Yeah. I keep trying to shut off the badge. The badge is killing

0:38.9

me. Because I'm, you know me. You know me. I wait a year. Yes, you do. Well, I still

0:45.9

got stuff. I got to learn logic before I can lose GarageBand. I have logic. I have acquired

0:53.9

logic. I have purchased logic. But is this your first foray into the world of logic?

0:58.4

No. No. Probably the fourth. Okay. I find it extremely intimidating compared to what

1:03.9

I, what I'm used to. Yeah. Which is like the GarageBand wants a week and just literally

1:08.8

dropping into files. Yeah. You know, you can get it. I can, I'll send you our back-to-work

1:15.0

template for logic after and you can, it'll kind of give you a good, a good idea of what

1:19.6

I do. Because basically what I'll do is I'll, you know, I've got all the, the track set

1:23.9

up for you and me and then, and then of course our post effects. So there's compression

1:30.5

and a little bit of EQ and stuff like that. And then that's stuff I'm looking forward to.

1:34.0

I mean, so that is about the, the noisers and all of those different things and stripping

1:39.6

silence and all that. I, I'm very interested in learning that part. I don't, I don't

1:43.5

even understand how to grab a bunch of stuff. It's very confusing. How do you grab a bunch

1:47.4

of stuff? You like drop, drop the, like, people who like actually edit shows, like edit,

1:52.7

you know, edit, like good. Yeah. Yeah. Like, you got all, it's all cut into a million

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