Episode 60: Living Inside an Unfinished Thing

Back to Work

5by5

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2012

⏱️ 71 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Dan and Merlin consider how to rethink your work as a platform. It's not just a job, or just a career, or (God forbid) just a brand--it's about deciding when you need to take your time and attention pro.

How the stuff you've made and done can be leveraged into the next things you'd like to make and do; how to find the orthogonal angles and unexpected branches; how to learn what you need to learn; and how to take your work so seriously that you'll dare a quick dip in the douche pool.

Links for this episode:

Sponsored by Byword, a Simple Text Editor for Mac and iOS

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	And tomorrow, be a perfect day, may you find love and laughter along the way.
0:10.8	Should I keep going?
0:13.8	May God keep you in His tender care, till He brings us together again.
0:21.8	Good night, everybody.
0:23.5	Hello.
0:24.5	Hi, Merlin.
0:25.5	Good morning, Dan.
0:26.5	How are you?
0:27.5	I'm doing well.
0:28.5	How's everything going there, and San Frans is going to be my private office.
0:38.7	It's a little cool.
0:39.7	My hands are kind of cool.
0:40.7	I think I might have that Reynaud syndrome, but I'm not sure.
0:43.3	Call you the slow hand.
0:45.4	Let's in a weird, weird, weird, weird.
0:51.4	I've been having a difficult time, Dan.
0:54.8	Why?
0:55.8	I've been rethinking a lot of the classics and realizing I don't like them that much.
0:59.2	Classics as in the classic rock and roll songs, or the books, the novels.
1:03.4	You're not the first person where I had a candid talk about how I feel about Jeff Beck.
1:09.2	And Eric Clapton, too, I don't know.
1:12.8	We should say we should save it, but I'm just saying, I'm having a big Rolling Stones
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from 5by5, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of 5by5 and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.