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Episode 570: Toilet Experiments

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

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

DISCUSSED: Dan is back from reporting on the show floor; recommendations for some Back to Work-adjacent podcast episodes; incidental thoughts and advice on presentations as performance; everybody wants a better email app; and Dan shares his thoughts on The Batman;

Runner-Up Titles

  • Two Bags of Dongles
  • Just a Butt in a Chair
  • Dirty Little Secret About Daddy
  • A Face in the Brady Bunch Grid
  • The Washington Fulfillment Society

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0:00.0

Hello. Hello, Merlin. How are you doing today? Good morning.

0:04.7

Good morning, Dan. I'm very well.

0:11.3

That's today's show. Thanks for tuning in.

0:13.6

Thank you to everyone for tuning in. If you'd like to learn more about any of the products

0:19.2

you've heard here today. Oh, and it's the I'll it Walgreens.

0:24.3

I'd hard to have up the grades to my list of things. Before I forget, I can't capture that for

0:29.0

you're killing me here. I got so much stuff here and now you got more stuff. I'll put it in your

0:33.5

area. This is this is why we should know you know what? Sir Kusen I started doing what he calls a

0:40.4

pre-flight, which is a good idea. And I see in Bacon Rayway it's something called a pre-show

0:44.2

and that's when you make it to before you perform. But okay. Which you didn't want to do it a lot

0:50.4

of the local bars, but you know a man's got to do what a man's got to do. Yeah.

0:54.0

Song says. And a pre-flight I do love a pre-flight kind of because I don't know, dirty little secret

1:01.7

about daddy. The title is that daddy likes the chaos. I don't have a problem with chapter

1:08.4

markers if you're working from an outline. Yeah. But I never want to leave anyone with the impression

1:12.8

that there are parts you should skip. Not because I'm self-involved. I mean, I am self-involved,

1:18.3

but it's not because of that. It's because you wouldn't show up at an improv show.

1:22.1

It come to the, you know, just pop in at the end for the herald and go, what did I miss?

1:27.0

It's like, no, you have to be there for the whole thing. Yeah. But with that said, it is kind of smart.

1:32.4

It's just, you know, I like the momentum of coming in hot. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

1:37.1

There's been that so much of archchemistry. I think it is. And I think it's the heat with which we come.

1:42.1

Oh. Oh. What? I don't know. I don't know. Oh my God.

1:45.9

Prepositions for excitement or emotion. No. Wait, that's not interjections. La, la, la, la, la,

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