Episode 474: The Confidence to Keep Pedaling

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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DISCUSSED: our perception of value is definitely personal and maybe even a little generational; sometimes, the only thing you can afford is the best; a listener question about where your hosts are with comics; further praise for TaskPaper; updates on macOS text editing; Merlin capitulates to Catalina; Dan answers a listener question about coping with chronic back pain; learning how to stop rehearsing frailty by embracing the wonders of momentum.

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:01.0	Hello, Merlin.
0:04.0	Hello, Dad.
0:05.7	How are you?
0:06.7	I'm good.
0:07.7	I'm sorry you caught me off guard.
0:08.7	I like that.
0:09.7	That's my favorite thing.
0:10.7	Yeah.
0:11.7	I messed something up with the way I titled a file and I got confused.
0:14.9	And then my computer started going, do, do, do, do, do.
0:19.9	My mom attacks me this morning and she said, what's the best way to electronically store
0:24.6	and manage passwords?
0:26.8	And I said, that's a very cool question.
0:29.8	Yeah.
0:30.8	And I said to her, you know, they're not a sponsor, shame on them.
0:34.4	They have been though.
0:35.4	So I said one password.
0:37.3	Said it'll work on your phone and your iPad and your computer and you only have to know
0:40.9	one password ever again.
0:42.9	And she said, oh, that sounds cool.
0:44.2	And then a few minutes later she texted me back and said, it is not a free application.
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