Episode 595: Blessèd Vessel

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

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

DISCUSSED: Halloween Follow-Up; exit interview for Season 4 of What We Do in the Shadows; how Apple could build users' confidence and stimulate their curiosity with better documentation; Merlin makes his case for spreadsheets as your potential place where stuff goes.

Links:

K-Strass the Yo-Yo Guy Super Compilation - YouTube
PSA: You can stop/silence the alarm on a family sharing member's iPhone, via Siri on your phone. : iphone — `Hey Siri, turn off the alarm on $Person's ‌iPhone‌`
Mac keyboard shortcuts - Apple Support — "By pressing certain key combinations, you can do things that normally need a mouse, trackpad, or other input device."
Siri Light Colors
The Spotlight Search Tips Cheat Sheet for Mac — Discover how to find files faster, track flights and stock prices, convert currencies, and do a lot more with Spotlight on macOS.
Color Hex - ColorHexa.com
Google Sheets function list - Google Docs Editors Help — "Google Sheets supports cell formulas typically found in most desktop spreadsheet packages. Functions can be used to create formulas that manipulate data and calculate strings and numbers."
TableFlip - Simple Table Editor for Mac — "_The_ Markdown table editor."
IMPORTHTML - Google Docs Editors Help — "Imports data from a table or list within an HTML page."
Ask about your data & get suggested content - Computer - Google Docs Editors Help — "You can ask questions about the data in your spreadsheet. Based on your data, you’ll get suggestions for formatting, charts, and analysis."

Transcript

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0:00.0	Oh, hi, Merlin.
0:03.1	How are you doing today?
0:04.3	Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
0:05.9	I'm fine, Dan.
0:06.8	How are you, Robert?
0:07.8	I'm fine, Robert.
0:08.8	And that always seems to happen to us.
0:10.1	We get the first day of the month and on a Tuesday, the auspicious day, as you say.
0:16.3	Yeah.
0:17.3	Also, as we like say, it's a lipsen billing day.
0:20.9	I already made that joke away to restart the show.
0:23.5	Hello.
0:24.5	Hello.
0:25.5	I finally finished the season, by the way.
0:28.9	What?
0:29.9	Of what we do in the shadows.
0:32.2	Let's see.
0:33.2	How did that end?
0:34.2	Because he said, hello, which is what Colin Robinson says all the time.
0:37.9	Oh, that is.
0:39.4	I have certain words, sometimes phrases, but often words.
0:45.5	And yeah, they might sound the same, but they mean different things.
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