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Episode 491: You and Your Hog

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

DISCUSSED: time is hard; X-Men for eight cellos; in follow-up, Dan has some clues for troubleshooting his jumpy screen; it's valuable to understand what problem you didn't solve; then, of course, comes the extended weekly airing of COVID grievances; Merlin needs advice on choosing a Zoom recorder; check out Dan's new thing!; recommendations for Ted Lasso and Ethan Hunt; some lessons to bring home from vacation; plus, some more reckons on life after COVID.

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:02.0

Oh hi, Merlin. How are you today?

0:04.0

I'm fine, Dan. How are you?

0:05.0

I am doing pretty good.

0:07.0

Pretty good. Can't, uh, come on.

0:09.0

Good. Yeah.

0:10.0

You're good.

0:11.0

I mean, it is the optimistic day, but, um, sure.

0:14.0

Yeah. I'd say yes. I'm feeling super optimistic. How about you?

0:17.0

I'm tired.

0:18.0

It's hard.

0:19.0

It's hard for me.

0:20.0

Yeah. I'd better do something.

0:21.0

Let's do it later. We'll move it later. We'll do something later.

0:23.0

Come on.

0:24.0

It's hard though, because I like, I like, I like my new thing of sleeping a little later.

0:27.0

Yeah, me too.

0:28.0

I don't, I don't hate my thing of staying up a little later, but I really like the sleeping

0:32.0

a little later.

0:33.0

Yeah.

0:34.0

Another, we're back in school. School starts at 930, which is a lot better than the old

0:37.0

days.

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