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Episode 475: ¿Why Not Dos Otros?

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

DISCUSSED: Merlin is having a strange day, and Dan notices everything; please remember that fear and stress and anxiety are pretty terrible motivators; praise for On Becoming a God in Central Florida and 1Password; security theater vs. security reality; Dan's new mouse is as quiet as a…what's the word?; Brushing with Hardest Available Toothbrush Considered Harmful; Dan is gently exposing his son to one of the great films. So what?; a couple great pieces on making actual good passwords; recommendations for a Sondheim special and a terrific YouTube guy; extensive advice and suggestions for a listener moving to a Mac; learning almost anything is a lot like learning The Metric System; and, finally, praise for the great Peter N. Lewis.

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0:00.0

There you are.

0:05.5

Hello.

0:06.3

Good morning.

0:07.4

Good morning, Dad.

0:08.8

How are you?

0:09.4

How are you doing today?

0:10.6

I'm doing very well.

0:12.1

I'm having a strange and wonderful day.

0:14.4

Strange and it seemed, you know, I follow you on, um, no on Twitter.

0:19.0

Don't notice me, please.

0:20.0

And it seemed, whoa, I notice.

0:23.0

And it seems like you were awake very early or something.

0:27.6

Wow.

0:28.7

I do a similar thing with Roderick where every time before we start recording,

0:32.3

I have links in my document and my shaken bake text expander thing to make for you

0:37.2

episode that drops in a link to his Instagram.

0:40.8

You're your program with him on five by five road work and to his Twitter.

0:45.5

So I can just kind of make sure I'm totally up to date.

0:48.8

I am not, not doing a similar thing with me because I don't want to be noticed.

0:52.4

Well, I do it.

0:53.2

I do it, but I do it not just before the show.

0:55.2

I do it before everything I do.

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