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Episode 470: Battery Car Man

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Difficult times and the Venn overlap between anxiety and OCD. Hang in there, everybody.

Links for this episode:

  • Epistemic Trespassing | Mind | Oxford Academic
    Epistemic trespassers are thinkers who have competence or expertise to make good judgments in one field, but move to another field where they lack competence—and pass judgment nevertheless. We should doubt that trespassers are reliable judges in fields where they are outsiders.
  • On "epistemic trespassing"
    In which Merlin has learned a useful new concept!
  • Found My Place - Blog
    Found My Place is a creative musical project by me, Merlin Mann. It is generously sponsored by Squarespace, in conjunction with their kind support of the Back to Work podcast I do with my pal Dan Benjamin. I hope you enjoy it, and many thanks to Squarespace for making this possible.
  • Attractive nuisance doctrine - Wikipedia
    It states that a landowner may be held liable for injuries to children trespassing on the land if the injury is caused by an object on the land that is likely to attract children.
  • The Picard, a Podcast About Star Trek: Picard

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:01.4

Hello, Merlin.

0:02.8

Good morning.

0:03.8

Good morning.

0:04.6

How are you?

0:05.5

I'm doing good.

0:06.3

How's everything?

0:07.3

Fantastic.

0:08.6

Fantastic.

0:09.6

Fantastic.

0:10.6

Fantastic to hear.

0:12.5

Fantastic.

0:15.1

I'm just living on island time.

0:17.6

Living it up.

0:18.6

Yeah.

0:19.6

Yeah.

0:20.6

Yeah.

0:21.6

What is going on?

0:22.6

Hiya.

0:23.6

Hmm.

0:24.6

Hmm.

0:25.6

How does one say?

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