Episode 526: Above-Average Practices

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

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

DISCUSSED: some important movie follow-up; films (and other media) can be a powerful way to talk about things we aren't supposed to be talking about; Merlin has some links to help think about what comes next as we get back to ““normal""; plus, follow-up on Dan's Kindle journey, including some really useful tips.

Links for this episode:

Pinboard: Merlin's Covid Bookmarks
Welcome to Kindle Unlimited
Dan's Godzilla Movies
Some Kung Fu Movies for Dan
The Celluloid Closet (1995) - Reference View - IMDb
A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.
Dirty Ho (1979) - The Prince's Bodyguard - YouTube
Dirty Ho (1979) - Wine Tasting - YouTube
Dirty Ho (1979) - Final Fight - YouTube

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:02.0	Hello, Marlon.
0:03.8	Good morning, Dan.
0:05.0	How are you today?
0:06.0	I am doing good.
0:07.0	Are the bits, the bits flowing?
0:09.1	It's the optimistic day.
0:10.6	Tuesday.
0:11.6	It's Tuesday.
0:12.8	It is Tuesday.
0:13.8	It's, you know, we rarely record on not Tuesdays, perhaps, you know, out of an abundance
0:19.8	of superstition because we know it's the optimistic day.
0:22.1	Right.
0:23.1	Yeah.
0:24.1	You wouldn't want to do it on a different day than that.
0:25.1	No.
0:26.1	No, that wouldn't feel right.
0:29.4	You did, you did good there, right?
0:31.0	Yeah, I think everything is solid here.
0:33.3	Your bits are flowing?
0:34.3	Yeah.
0:35.3	The bandwidth is solid and the internet is knock on wood doing good.
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