Episode 571: Open Faced Sandwich of Reality

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

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🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

DISCUSSED: Dan is doing new things that require a new approach to his calendar. Merlin proposes some appropriate Calendar Kyber Crystals.

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Twenty-Six Cameras: The Aviator (2004) with Merlin Mann — Special guest Merlin Mann joins the show to review the 2004 Howard Hughes biopic: The Aviator! We look at all the blueprints, hit romance corner, and try to understand what we really need.
wisdom/wisdom.md at master · merlinmann/wisdom — * Your calendar represents a portfolio of promises to your future self. Treat it that way. * Thus: The only events allowed on a serious person's calendar are commitments about time, location, and effort that will die if they are not successfully completed on a specific day. Full stop.

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:02.0	Oh, hello, Merlin. How are you doing?
0:04.0	I'm fine, Dan. How are you?
0:06.0	I'm doing fine.
0:08.0	It's early.
0:10.0	It is, it's super early.
0:12.0	Yeah. You know, I sometimes feel like the difference between central and
0:16.0	you know, you're off by one error type situation.
0:20.0	I feel like central versus specific might be the most confusing.
0:24.0	East Coast time, they don't even know. There's other time zones. They don't even know the
0:28.0	the nominal shape of the earth. They don't need to because you know, it's
0:32.0	East Coast time. But we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, happy few, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we take a lick in
0:40.0	because of the two-hour difference. That's really, that's a two-hour is a
0:44.0	bigger difference than three hours in some ways. Three, three, three hours might as
0:48.0	well be like New Zealand. You know what I'm saying? Well,
0:52.0	there's two hours. That's the difference. Well, I know, I'm
0:56.0	really, it's what I'm saying sounds ridiculous because this is probably the second or third
1:00.0	least prepared I've ever been for an episode and I'm filling time. I didn't even check, I don't even know if we have sponsors this week.
1:04.0	I didn't even check. I don't, I have one link and it's a log roll.
1:08.0	Okay. So, so just, you cut that out, right? Yeah, this show will never
1:12.0	be good. Well, then it won't be a concern.
1:16.0	I have been,
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