Episode 537: Insane Corner of My Own Design

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

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🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

DISCUSSED: Some ups and downs of living the smart speaker lifestyle.

Also: the dramatis personae of The Land of Make Believe; feeding the demon dogs; and learning to be careful with the words we put in front of other words.

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:02.0	Hey, go, but, ah!
0:04.0	Good morning.
0:06.0	Good morning, Merlin. How are you doing today?
0:08.0	Way up there.
0:09.0	Yeah, you know, I'm doing all right.
0:11.0	I'm doing all right.
0:12.0	I feel a little bit out of sorts.
0:14.0	But no, no, no, no.
0:16.0	No, it is I. It is I who are out of sorts.
0:20.0	But you know, I'm doing all right.
0:22.0	It's Tuesday. It's the optimistic day.
0:24.0	I feel like, I'm, you know, I don't know.
0:26.0	A little lot of sorts.
0:27.0	Yeah.
0:28.0	I've got a lot of things that are just slightly not working.
0:30.0	And I'm just slightly not prepared for life right now.
0:35.0	Do you show a model through?
0:37.0	Do you know, ah, if you guys are getting any of that hot weather
0:43.0	that the Pacific Northwest people are, I mean, you're not,
0:46.0	are you Pacific?
0:47.0	Yeah, no, I do know.
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