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Episode 473: French on Tom Sawyer

Back to Work

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

DISCUSSED: Dan loves it when things just work and so does Merlin; Dan is composting, and Merlin is down to clown; ¡repita después de mi!; massive real-time follow-up; playing with iBeacons; excellent follow-up and notes from listeners; many reccomendations; memories of Grad Night; this is a very silly one.

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0:00.0

It's like, I know, Mike.

0:01.7

Hello.

0:03.6

Oh, hi, Merlin.

0:04.8

I love them.

0:05.8

I love computers.

0:06.8

I love them.

0:07.8

I love them.

0:08.8

What do you love about computers, Dan?

0:10.8

I especially love when everything works perfectly the first time.

0:14.0

That's what I say.

0:15.0

You set up once and it just goes.

0:17.1

It just goes and nothing changes.

0:19.2

Nothing changes, but then it just doesn't work.

0:22.2

Dan, in instances like this, I often like to talk about the brakes on an automobile.

0:25.8

Oh, okay.

0:27.4

It really like 85% is not really quite where you would like it to be.

0:33.2

Right.

0:34.2

Because, you know, 15 out of 100 times, I'm not going to say that brakes don't work or

0:38.7

the brakes don't stop the car.

0:40.2

Maybe the brakes do something just very, very different.

0:42.9

Yeah, sometimes.

0:43.9

Yeah, I'm saying, I do.

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