Episode 515: Please Do Not Tapdance for Me

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

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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DISCUSSED: There are things that one wants to see less or fewer often; is this particular button actually hooked up to anything?; there is literal must-see TV and you must see it literally immediately; everything is catching on fire; four basic steps for being a successful adult (who has to deal with other adults); thoughts on creativity and focal length; the process of unpandemicizing, or: do we still know how to put a Casual Corner in a mall?; Dan is loving his iPad; Merlin introduces a theory on The Velocity of Writing Instruments; and, finally, a quick celebrity cameo.

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:01.0	Hello, Marilyn.
0:04.0	Good morning, Dad.
0:05.6	How are you doing?
0:08.2	I'm really good.
0:10.2	Yeah.
0:11.2	Yeah, I'm really good.
0:13.0	I'm finding myself thinking this morning about things that may not be hooked up to anything.
0:18.9	Yeah.
0:19.9	Yeah.
0:20.9	Like what?
0:21.9	See less often.
0:27.0	You know, when you see a button and like there's something that sucks, there's something
0:31.6	that sucks and there's a button that says, you know, hit this button and the implication
0:37.3	is you won't see it anymore or you'll see it.
0:40.7	Let's just say less.
0:41.9	Or fewer.
0:42.9	Fewer.
0:43.9	Let's fewer, yeah.
0:45.9	Well, and there's some less on fewer.
0:48.8	When it says to me, do you want to follow Jeff Jarvis on the internet?
0:54.1	And I keep saying, no, I really don't think.
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