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Episode 487: Nostradamus Pants

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

DISCUSSED: There's really only one topic right now, and it's not going away any time soon. Many analogies and historical echoes are explored. The future, if it exists, is going to be very weird.

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:01.6

Hello, Marilyn.

0:04.2

Good morning, Dan. How are you?

0:05.3

I'm pretty good. How are you?

0:07.2

I'm feeling very professional this morning.

0:09.2

Oh, good. We can all use a little bit of that.

0:11.2

I'm wearing three neckties.

0:13.9

Three out at once.

0:14.9

Where you would expect.

0:15.9

No, it's not.

0:16.9

I see. I see. I see.

0:19.0

Uh-huh. You do not see.

0:21.5

No, I want to, but.

0:23.2

Very professional.

0:24.2

Um, that's going.

0:27.1

Oh, it's going good.

0:28.8

Uh-huh. Yeah. How about you?

0:30.6

Yeah.

0:31.2

All right. All right.

0:32.4

Kind of tired, but you know,

0:34.6

uh, you know,

0:36.0

yeah, by sleeping patterns are shifted as you know.

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