Episode 53: The Wages of Security

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2012

⏱️ 116 minutes

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In the most average episode ever, Merlin and Dan talk physical and digital work environments so you can get going in the right direction and don't have to spend all day on it.

And, when do you know you don't want 10 times more of something and what do you do about it? There's no guarantee of security, even if you show up sober, so start acting like an entrepreneur and choose what you want 10 times more of.

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0:00.0	Hey, Brian, how are you? It's good to talk to you. Feel like it's been forever. Oh, it's
0:10.8	always been forever. Forever in a day. I wish I could do this way. I wish we could
0:15.6	do a morning zoo. What should we do this every day? Would you do a show every day every
0:19.3	morning? 9 a.m. No question. No or no question. Um, let me think about it. All right.
0:26.8	No question. Cool. We tried that once with you. Look nice today. It didn't go great.
0:31.0	Well, that was them. This is us. That's right. That's he hinting. I'm, you know, I'm
0:35.2	game, you know, what I would do. I would do it the same way we did it, which was we,
0:39.0	we tried it for a few days. But the thing is, then, aren't we going to get into talking
0:42.6	about headlines and stuff? Like, or should we just kind of dick around? We just dick
0:46.7	around every morning, you and me, dick around? Yeah. Which will we call it? Danemoral and
0:51.4	dick around? I like the morning zoo name. I need something offensive as a name. Just
0:56.3	I'm tweaking your EQ a little bit right now. No. Well, what's different? I sound a little,
1:01.8	maybe sound a little better. Some backing things down a little bit. Is he using the Mackey?
1:09.1	He doesn't, he doesn't Mackey here. What are you eating? People don't like eating on the
1:13.8	shows. I know. Am I sneezed later too? I thought he was morning. When were you dressed?
1:26.6	I'm, I'm always kind of dressed given my, given my tutorial preferences and your age.
1:33.0	Yeah, I was thinking by somebody posted a photo of a bunch of people at Tumblr and they'll
1:37.6	also hand something. They'll have like professional haircuts and the shirts were tucked in and I was
1:42.9	thinking about how I shouldn't say this. But I was just thinking about how like what I wear to
1:48.7	sleep in and then what I wear to work in and like what I wear to play with my daughter in are like
1:55.4	really, really strikingly exactly the same thing. No, the exception of yesterday where I put
2:02.5	on a bathrobe to be Anakin, I needed a place to put my lightsaber so I had to have a side.
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