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Episode 581: A Frog That No One Saw

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

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

DISCUSSED: Merlin runs the table this week with: unseasonable heat; the joy of realizing when someone obviously loved (and probably had to fight for) the thing that they made; and finally, an extended meditation on a phone charger and the decisions that seek to bridge past and future.

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0:00.0

hello

0:02.6

hey merlin how are you doing this fine afternoon

0:06.2

i'm fine it's it's very it's hot here to

0:10.3

day it's gonna be seventy seven out here my neck of the woods

0:13.7

oh boy man you are you are suffering

0:16.3

it's a time of

0:17.4

oh really oh it's time to do this again

0:19.2

we can do this again

0:20.4

sure it's often as you want to do it i'll do it

0:22.7

hey quick question do you have your conditioning

0:24.6

mhm i love my

0:26.4

oh my god that's a funny no one here has anything approaching air

0:29.5

conditioning weird oh my god it's almost like it's a different place

0:34.4

oh my god what is going on there you got a lot going on in Texas

0:38.4

i am lucky to keep this house in the seventies the air conditioning systems are

0:43.7

only designed to take about fifteen to twenty degrees off ambient temperature

0:47.8

and today it's a hundred and two in Austin so inside my house

0:52.3

i love it here compared to Florida but

0:59.1

if i can get it into the mid to upper seventies in my house i'm a happy camper

1:03.2

is it and is it um... i don't like to ask you personal questions because i

1:06.5

honestly you can

1:07.6

no i honestly do not want to know

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