Episode 54: Freemium Mason

Back to Work

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2012

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Merlin and Dan talk about returning to paleo, the nature of wieners and discouragement, crown vic habits and anxiety addiction.

You won't beat it without a cocktail of grit and care with just the right amount of sacrifice.

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0:00.0	Hello. Hey, Merlin, man. Oh, how are you? Oh, they can't hear that. Yeah, they can hear that.
0:12.0	Was that rock music? Yeah, I hear everything. Hmm. I wish I could believe you.
0:18.1	I wish I could believe you. I hear everything. Hmm. Hmm. Everything.
0:22.0	Everything. Are we on the thing? Yeah, we're live. Oh, gosh. I feel kind of stupid. I, uh, I didn't need
0:32.7	enough. I haven't eaten. I'm having tea. I'm having a jazz and tea from Trader Joe's. So I think
0:37.6	we're going to be in pretty good shape. Hmm. Yeah, we don't have a Trader Joe's here yet in Austin,
0:41.9	but I've been to them when I was out out west. They're great. We're rumored to get one here.
0:46.5	Hope it happens. You're kidding. Why would you not have one in Austin? Is that because you're all
0:49.7	uh, mobbed up with that whole food deal? I have no idea why. There's no more whole foods as
0:56.2	like based. Yeah, they're based out here. Sure. One of the got some kind of mob thing going on.
1:02.8	Well, the rumored rumored to get a new one. So maybe Trader Corleone. I made a joke to you yesterday
1:11.6	that I'm really, really embarrassed. I got wrong. All right. It's not important. It's just that I,
1:17.4	I made the wrong Godfather reference and it's almost as bad as a pork and some wedge. Did I play
1:23.9	along? Yeah, you always do. If he's not your job, it's not your job to tell me when I'm incorrect.
1:33.4	I guess that's good. Although, I think I could really use the help, Dan. I got to be honest with you.
1:38.2	Really? Yeah, not really. Okay. Yeah. I'm going to start over. Did we start?
1:45.9	Sorry. Good week. Big week. Huge week. Oh, God. This week has been. It's been wider and longer
1:52.5	and deeper. Uh, hello, hula. Hmm, which is Hawaiian for big week. I think most of the Hawaiian
1:59.3	languages made up on like on the fly. I think it's, it's kind of like what a Polynesian pig Latin.
2:06.8	Hmm. Do you think? Yes. It seems like you could just kind of, I'm not going to do it. I'm not
2:11.2	going to go ping pong here, but I think I could probably just make up a lot of Hawaiian if I needed to.
2:15.6	Also, let's do a spam. Why spam such a thing there? Do you know why?
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