Episode 59: Brains All the Way Down

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2012

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

This week, Dan and Merlin tackle the problem of changing cultures at work. It's not a snapshot, it's not a kitchen table, and it may actually have surprisingly little to do with you.

Which is complicated.

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0:00.0	Cultures like a baby. It's yes or no. Maybe whether you are your special lady. You got a quick
0:10.4	tick and snap shots of nothing. Hello. Hey. How are you? Who's this? No. How you happy with
0:22.6	your long distance service? Before you answer. Hi, it's me. I'm sorry. You know I said that I was
0:27.2	ready. We were late. I was ready. I made my espresso and then at the last minute, I ran over to get
0:33.0	my information from because it seems like we always end up talking about something. I don't have
0:36.5	my phone and then you get mad at me. So I want to make sure I have my phone here. Come on phone,
0:40.6	right here. Which one is it? What kind of phone? It's an Android. Yep. Yep. Yep. I got the the ice cream
0:47.4	Nexus Galaxy. Galaxy Galaxy Nexus 2.x. The 2.x. No, I got the 2.na and it's got a fly share.
0:57.8	Did you install the sandwich on it? Yeah, I put on TKTBD as well as the NAN add-in. So I get about
1:05.4	40 seconds of battery life, which is just enough time to watch the beginning of an Android video
1:10.8	about how good Android is. Can you install tickle on that? Are you talking about the tickle
1:17.9	implementation of Lisp or something closer? Tickle TK. Oh sure. Tickle TBD. I've done that. I've
1:25.2	got actually all the way down to the metal. I removed everything that wasn't metal and it's
1:29.2	overcharged it. So I was at the Safeway because you know, I spent almost all my time
1:35.3	talking to you or standing in line at Walgreens in the Safeway. I was standing on the Safeway.
1:40.6	Kind of in front of me. Who's that guy, right? He's the guy who's really excited about his new
1:44.1	device. Okay. So that guy's in front of me in line and he takes, what does it look like?
1:49.6	It was way larger than what we would normally read as a phone. Let's put it that way. I would say,
1:58.1	it looks like something that like a cocktail waitress at the Playboy Club would put six drinks on.
2:03.4	Small drinks. So he took out this thing and I couldn't tell if it was a really,
2:06.9	really small tablet or a giant giant phone, which is not great. That should read as phone or
2:14.4	read as tablet. It was either an asinine tablet or an asinine and he took it out and you know,
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