Episode 492: Siracusa Daylight Time

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

DISCUSSED: Merlin has a lot of infrastructure going on; your hosts share strong feelings on time zone discrimination and its attendant big-timing; Dan has more cool videos coming to his channel; some boring nerd talk on voice recording options; Dan needs your suggestions for more movies like the Missions Impossible; in Follow-Up, there's some good news and some bad news related to both COVID and San Francisco; hurricanes are coming!; Merlin figures out why Safari on his Mac got so slow; thoughts on DNS Server choices; Merlin endorses a podcast episode that involves some very Back To Work ideas; everything is copy; and, finally, some concerns about nicknames plus several important questions about the consensuality of Jake Robert's titular snake.

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:02.0	Oh, hi, Merlin.
0:03.6	Good morning, Dan.
0:04.8	How are you?
0:05.8	Good.
0:06.8	How are you doing?
0:07.8	Oh, woof.
0:08.8	It's not a mystic day.
0:09.8	There's a lot, lot, lot of infrastructure going on here.
0:13.0	Yeah.
0:14.0	It sounds like you've been working hard over there.
0:16.0	I got a lot going on.
0:17.8	What's going on?
0:18.8	I got a new chest freezer.
0:20.5	I got a new audio configuration and a different new audio configuration.
0:25.4	I'm dealing with modems.
0:27.9	I know I'm exploring a new cooler.
0:32.0	There's a lot going on right now.
0:33.4	This morning has been all about the internet infrastructure.
0:37.6	So what have you done?
0:39.6	This is fascinating stuff.
0:42.8	I'll make this quick.
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