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Episode 512: You Have a Mustard Fetish

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

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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DISCUSSED: Merlin looks at a shelf and then, for some reason, discusses it; walls and Japanese beds and jokey-sized dishwashers all benefit from wheels; life is different when you live on a boat; it's important to find the right tool for the job; some people see forests, while others see trees; Merlin performs his very good Gordon Ramsey impression; Merlin also performs his very good David Lynch impression; in Follow-Up, we learn the extremely unsatisfying reason Personal Requests weren't working on a HomePod; there is discussion of the power of Siri alongside frustrations with its poor documentation; interesting bugs are discussed; your hosts explore the similarities between good documentation and good recipes; weird comic book feet are explored; tips on good media your hosts are enjoying; and, finally, there's some rapid-fire app and scripting recommendations.

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:01.0

Hello, Marilyn, how are you?

0:03.6

I'm looking at a shelf.

0:05.0

I'm looking at a shelf right now.

0:07.1

Very interested in this origami of family of products.

0:10.9

They make these like collapsible shelves.

0:14.3

Have you ever heard of this?

0:16.3

No.

0:17.3

See this stuff they're coming up with?

0:18.6

These nuts in Congress?

0:20.4

The origami makes you can go look it up on the Amazon.

0:22.8

The origami makes these name brand of these shelves that it's difficult to describe, but

0:29.1

if you can imagine almost like the way an ironing board works, imagine that it turned

0:33.2

on its side.

0:34.2

In the sense of there's arms and a clamp.

0:38.9

You unclamp it and then you can take the top off, move it to the side, and then the thing

0:44.9

collapses into the way a portable grocery cart would.

0:48.8

I've got a couple of these and I like these for a lot of reasons.

0:53.8

The one that we got for started we got one for our house.

0:57.5

That's a long story, but I got my wife this tiny dishwasher for Christmas and we needed

1:02.6

a way to roll it around.

1:04.6

It's very European.

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