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Episode 606: Goodnight, Night

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

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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DISCUSSED: Dan's takes some smart baby steps into home automation, and Merlin has a lot to say about everything.

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, who's Maryland man? How are you? I'm fine. Dan. How are you? I'm doing very well on this day.

0:10.5

Yep, here we are. Yeah, here we are again. Yeah, on our own.

0:15.3

Yeah, yeah, it's probably gonna be loud again. Just say no. I'll just say it once in the background

0:21.6

Hopefully yeah, I mean I don't pick I'm pretty sure they're building a water park. I

0:27.2

I

0:29.6

Came up this morning I arrived this morning and I saw the thing that lets you know

0:34.0

You're you're in for a fun time, which is the you know sometimes they bring out a as you say a urinal

0:40.7

All right a portulette or the branded name in our neck of the woods the honeypot the honeypot

0:47.2

They come out and they drop off one of those on wheels and it's like hey, this is where people are gonna make a doose

0:52.3

So that's right outside my office right now

0:54.8

and so I

0:56.8

Think that's good. It provides is done normal would say it provides an affordance for something that I would just assume be in a room

1:03.8

And not on the street, but that'll be right out front so I can think about that. I could look at it as maybe my office got a second bath

1:10.6

You know, I mean that's you've got a you've got to look at it the there's a silver lining

1:15.3

Berlin and you've just got to find the silver lemonade. Yeah, yeah, yeah, what's what's what's going on here?

1:21.3

Neck of the woods. I don't know neither. You know, I don't know. I don't even know what to say about

1:27.5

It's really just the same thing over and over just just just slightly different. Yeah, and like nevertheless painful. No

1:35.6

No, it's always the same amount of pain. It just feels it's painful in a different part of you

1:40.5

Well as a retired project manager, Dan

1:42.6

I'm aware of something called resource leveling time. I think that's the way you get there's like a there's the big there's a big pie

1:47.8

that can't change of the pain in your life the pain pie. Yeah, and there's pain pie and then there's you can slice it

1:54.2

however you want, but there's still going to be a butt ton of pain. I

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