Episode 63: Bold with the Scissors

Back to Work

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2012

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Agency, Independence, and Outing Your Makebelieve "Partners."

Dan and Merlin return to the topic of agency.

Who's allowed to speak and act on your behalf? And, what happens when you discover people who've unilaterally decided by fiat to speak and act on your behalf?

Well. If your work (and your business) matters to you, you tell them to knock it off.

How to reclaim your own stuff, set your own terms, and fire all the non-silent non-partners of the lucrative Free Compliment Industry.

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0:00.0	Hi, Merlin. Hey, how are you? I'm good. I was just about to pee, but I can hold it. No, no, do it.
0:10.5	Are you sure? Yeah, we'll all wait. That's fine. Really? What we do when I'm going? Nothing.
0:17.0	Hmm. I'll just check you. Check email inbox in box zero.
0:21.6	It'll be like a John Cage thing.
0:25.2	You know what? I'm going to go to the bathroom for three minutes and eleven seconds. You'll
0:27.9	cut this out, right? Yeah. Okay. I'm going to try to hit mute. So yeah, I hope you do.
0:33.6	You know, I got a, I got a prostate, like a baby's fist. So I'm going to be groaning a lot.
0:38.3	Baby. Well, nothing like a, like a small baby, like an infant.
0:43.2	Can you, can you get, get somebody to insert a little musical interlude here? Yeah, we'll just
0:47.1	cut it out. I'll just edit it all out. Oh, man. This is gold. You know, is it okay? Can I
0:53.2	presumptuously to what we're going to talk about today? Yeah. Go ahead for it.
0:58.0	Is that presumptuous? No. No way. I won't wait. I'll show you. Do anyone know?
1:02.6	Stand by. I hope it's mute.
1:07.6	And really, no, I'm not going to do anything else. I will, I will just wait.
1:14.6	I look at that. The showbot thing has a little thing. It says,
1:18.8	they're back to work with hot dogs. He's in danger of starting now, boom.
1:24.8	No, I can't submit the app. It's a very in-depth process. Very big process.
1:33.7	Merlin messaged me before he says, I'm pumped. Good topic for today. So he's got, he's got a topic.
1:41.9	It's got a topic, whatever that means.
1:49.0	Hey, Dan. How's it going? Hi, Merlin. Man, how are you today? Oh, best day ever.
1:53.0	Boy, what's going on in your neck of the woods? Oh, I'm just slamming in jamming and trying to
1:57.2	figure out what jamming and slamming are. That's fantastic. That's just super swell. Oh, man.
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