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Episode 498: Soviet Satellite Hair

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

DISCUSSED: Merlin craves an easy visit with Floyd; Spirit's lawsuit no longer winds on down the road; Question: what obligation does a company have to support their developer tools? And for how long exactly?; when are new film editions not "the good one?"; despite swearing not to do so, a popular service for monetizing indie content is, as they say, put on blast; lot of talk about business things; waiters shouldn't lie to people who used to be waiters; exciting developments in the Drafts ecosystem; and, finally, Merlin unleashes an old school stem-winder on taking a recent stab at resource-leveling—using technology!

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:02.0

Hello, Merlin.

0:04.0

Good morning, Dan. How are you?

0:06.0

I'm doing well. How are you doing today?

0:08.0

Oh, pretty good.

0:10.0

Good, good, good.

0:12.0

Pretty good, pretty tired.

0:14.0

Yeah, I'm tired too.

0:16.0

Oh, God.

0:18.0

Why so tired?

0:20.0

I don't know. Nobody cares.

0:22.0

I got busy and I'm hating it.

0:24.0

You know, I don't mind being time constrained.

0:26.0

I don't like being busy.

0:28.0

I also had a, I had a, you know, I, I, I would call it a dream.

0:32.0

I have dreams and I have what I call night thoughts.

0:34.0

Okay.

0:36.0

And a dream is usually like a made up story that somebody says,

0:38.0

oh, and you were there, but it wasn't you and all that BS.

0:42.0

But night thoughts are just some kind of thing that comes into your head, you know?

0:46.0

Are you conscious or unconscious when that's happening?

0:48.0

Am I conscious or unconscious?

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