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Episode 465: That 20-Minute Sting

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

DISCUSSED: Merlin isn't quite awake yet and has some audio struggles in the midst of a new project; Dan is bringing back The Podcast Method; committing something to media can still be very special; podcasts are cool, and you should make one; praise for Temple Grandin, a Jason Snell video, and a big upgrade over the stock Home app for iOS; solid syncing has raised a lot of boats; updates on the iOS text editor landscape; and, finally, thoughts on the future of sustainable iOS app development.

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0:00.0

Hello, hey, Merlin how are you doing? This is a lovely morning. I'm doing great. And how are you?

0:07.0

How is it? How is it on your block? Are you playing stick ball?

0:13.0

I remember stick ball real skinny kid. I always steal in the stick ball.

0:21.0

Everybody hate it stick ball. Hi, I'm doing a one-man show here on Broadway.

0:27.0

I'm probably with two bees. Okay, hey, how are you? I'm all right.

0:32.0

It's usually not, almost always not interesting to talk about audio problems, but

0:36.0

except today, in which it's going to be fascinating to talk about.

0:41.0

We've got a, as Dan says in England, a fly in the ointment.

0:45.0

Oh, yes. We got a spanner in the works.

0:48.0

But I think we can, we can bring it in and it will be wheels down in about one hour.

0:55.0

I want to thank you for flying with Dan and me. Hey.

0:59.0

So the only reason that is to be invagally interesting is I don't, I'm not ready to go

1:05.0

super into it right now. I think I mentioned this a little bit, but I've done some new projects.

1:09.0

I'm doing some new fun things and one of them is I'm going to try and get back into doing music things.

1:13.0

Oh, excellent. So that is how I think screwed up my tech stack regarding audio.

1:23.0

So where are you now?

1:25.0

With the project? With the audio.

1:29.0

With the audio.

1:30.0

You know, with the audio, I mean, would you feel comfortable with where things are right now?

1:34.0

Is they stand or are you with me as brothers?

1:36.0

Yeah. That's what I meant.

1:38.0

I'm forged in war, you and me.

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