Episode 530: Nouns in America

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

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🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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DISCUSSED: Merlin has been cracking nuts, and Dan is enjoying a beverage; in Follow-Up, Dan has made great progress with his new voice assistant; Merlin has thoughts on choosing a dingus ecosystem that’s right for you; words mean things, and often you want the right “procedure word”; Merlin has some good Back to Work-adjacent media recommendations; do we really want to rebuild The Embarcadero Freeway? Really?; and, Dan has some new scholarship on the films of Stanley Kubrick.

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0:00.0	Hello. Hello, Merlin. Good morning, Dan. How are you? I'm doing good. How are you doing?
0:06.4	I'm fine. I got a lot going on. You caught me in the middle of the week of my levels.
0:10.4	Oh, do you need a little timing? You need a little warm up? I need all my time.
0:15.2	Do you? I'm enough at last. Yeah, yep, yep, yep. You have them in the back. All the time in the world.
0:20.5	Yeah. Yeah. I got cracked a couple of nuts this week. It's a good feeling. Yeah.
0:26.3	Oh, I got cracked. That's funny how, Dan. That's funny. Finally, good. I got nuts. I got a blue
0:35.6	diamond. Smokehouse almonds. Okay, I'm good. Ask your doctor if blue diamond is right for you.
0:43.1	Yeah, crack some nuts. Good nuts. Yeah. It was just about this time last week where I cracked a
0:48.8	nut with my stream deck, but I'm super excited about that. I talked about that here, right?
0:52.2	Yeah. You talked to me about it. I think when you first got it, and I told you that I had been
0:56.8	using one for about a year, they're really cool. Did you get the little one? Did you get the big one?
1:02.5	I don't know what I think I got the little one. It feels little because I don't know what was that?
1:06.7	You haven't you haven't ever heard of it? This is a lacroy with lemon lime or some I don't know.
1:11.5	It's a key lime. It's not my favorite. They were out of the 365 regular lime. Those are the good ones.
1:18.9	Oh, lime, huh? My lady likes pomplamous. I think you'd like to say pomplamous.
1:25.8	Yeah, it's like with that lady that looks to the side in the Patreon guy.
1:30.5	No, no. A big innovation with stream deck and I won't go on because, you know, it's like with John
1:36.8	Syracuse talking about, you know, when you talk about a market segmentation and slices of a pie,
1:42.4	and you take a already small slice and the slice of even smaller, like smaller perhaps than the
1:47.1	community of people interested in markdown is the people interested in stream deck.
1:51.6	My stream deck interest is so narrow. But I think everybody wants to hear me talk more about it.
1:57.7	I will. I won't do too much here, but I've finally figured out how to get, Dan, I'm going to
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