Episode 636: Honoring My Pivot Table

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

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🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Dan is navigating the landscape of task management apps, and, shockingly, Merlin has some thoughts.

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0:00.0	Who's there?
0:02.0	there?
0:03.0	Hello?
0:05.0	Oh, hi Merlin.
0:07.0	Oh, hello. Oh, hello.
0:10.0	Hi.
0:11.0	How are you?
0:12.0	I'm doing okay.
0:13.0	I think I was, I don't, you know, the allergies right now are so, so bad in Austin that
0:20.0	it is debatable as to whether people walk around saying do I have a cold do I have a COVID
0:26.8	Do I have allergies and they don't know everybody right know is affected by it. This is the worst it's ever been in the whole time I've been in Austin.
0:34.0	I heard everyone sick, it's what I heard.
0:36.0	And they may be sick, I don't know.
0:38.0	I had something.
0:39.0	No, well, and I mean, I'm, I'm, normally I would join in with you
0:42.0	except I feel like I've joined in with you on this so many times.
0:44.7	Yeah. It wasn't until like I used to get colds all the time when I lived in Florida.
0:49.1	Boy is this ever fascinating to repeat? For those of you who are just catching up, this is like when they
0:54.0	print those big giant editions of X-Men in black and white so you can like catch up on the
0:58.2	continuity without having to buy popular trades. Right. I remember it like it was yesterday.
1:04.0	I used to get sick all the time before it.
1:06.0	Six, six, six, six, six, six.
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