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Episode 617: Trailer for the Future

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

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:02.0

Oh, hi, Merlin. How are you doing?

0:04.0

So, I'm great, Dan. How are you?

0:06.0

Long time to see.

0:08.0

Long time. It has been a long time.

0:10.0

I don't want to hijack the show or anything because I know you've got plans.

0:12.0

So far, we're less than a minute in.

0:14.0

And you don't know that I have plans, but what?

0:16.0

Well, I have a problem, and I wanted to pass it on to you and perhaps the audience

0:22.0

to see if they could help me.

0:24.0

Okay.

0:26.0

So, in the kitchen, I have a, what you would call a runner rug,

0:34.0

which is like a long rectangle rug.

0:38.0

And it's in a high traffic area, and that's the whole point. It's the whole reason I got it.

0:42.0

And, you know, I...

0:44.0

But you're carpeting to retain its original showroom shine.

0:48.0

Well, it's a, yeah, I mean, it's a floor, and then it's a wood floor, and then it has the rug on top.

0:52.0

Well, you're going to a wood floor if you're taking better care of the carpeting, Dan.

0:54.0

Right. It's called an entropy reader book.

0:56.0

That's... Sorry.

0:58.0

And the problem that I'm having with this is I got...

1:04.0

Because it's a high traffic area, and it's in the kitchen, I wanted to get something...

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