Episode 6: Expectational Debt
Back to Work
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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2011
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Merlin Mann is back from Webstock and ready to recap with Dan Benjamin, which leads back to caring first, performance and fear, meditation, hypnotherapy, and why you really need the hard answer instead just more tips.
Links for this episode:
- The Conversation #27: Missionless Statements - 5by5
- MacSparky - Blog - Mac Power Users - Workflows with Merlin Mann
- Introducing the Hipster PDA | 43 Folders
- MacGuffin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Amazon.com: Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers) (9781934356050): Andy Hunt: Books
- Amazon.com: The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (0785342616224): Andrew Hunt, David Thomas: Books
- Back to GTD: Do a fast "mind-sweep" | 43 Folders
- BOOK: "Creating Flow with OmniFocus," by Kourosh Dini, M.D. (HIGHLY recommended by Merlin)
- Hivelogic - The Paleo Diet: A Link Primer
- AUDIO: Quotidian Public Radio - "The 14-Second Work Year"
- VIDEO: Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now) | 43 Folders
- PHOTO: "We Look Nice Today" by lonelysandwich - kung fu grippe
- Clear and Present Danger (1994)
- Amazon.com: The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play (9781585425525): Neil Fiore: Books
- Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology : The New Yorker
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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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