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Episode 6: Expectational Debt

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2011

⏱️ 64 minutes

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0:00.0

Hey, Merlin. Welcome back to the United States of America.

0:04.2

Oh, hey, Dan, it's really great to be back here.

0:07.4

Uh, I was in New Zealand for a long time.

0:09.2

Yeah, you stayed, you stayed about a week beyond the conference.

0:12.4

And you were out there with Sandy saw some video of the two of you.

0:16.2

So what, what, what video is there's a picture?

0:18.3

No, it was a picture for your, uh, for your, uh, third host of, uh, you look nice

0:23.6

today and it was, you were saying, Scott, we miss you.

0:27.0

That's what it was.

0:28.2

And while we were there, one of the big banks in New Zealand, I don't know

0:31.8

if it was a, an official, I think it must have was like an official campaign

0:36.8

thing, but on the door of all their banks, great, it says you look nice today.

0:41.1

It's so cool.

0:42.6

Is that's, can you see that anywhere but Instagram?

0:44.4

Did you see that on Instagram?

0:45.4

I, it must have been because I, I, I can't remember where I can't keep these things

0:49.8

straight. I like the Instagram though.

0:51.3

You don't like that.

0:52.0

You, so we're sort of criticizing it and put up a little thing.

0:54.9

It was like a screenshot of text made.

0:57.6

Yeah.

0:57.9

I was that guy.

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