Episode 637: The Minimally Viable Log Cabin Channel

Back to Work

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

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Merlin conducts a deep dive on being busy versus being time-constrained, and Dan has some updates on his task management odyssey.

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wisdom/wisdom.md at master · merlinmann/wisdom · GitHub — "It's only advice for you because it HAD to be advice for me."
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Howler Bros | Official online store – HOWLER BROTHERS
extratone/siri: complete list of siri voice commands
On Not Writing About New College - ungainly — "New College finds smart dingalings and helps them learn how to learn."
Life Lessons From Bokonon: Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle” | bound2books

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello?
0:02.0	Oh, hello, Merlin, how are you doing today?
0:04.0	Hi, Dan, how are you today?
0:07.0	I'm okay.
0:08.0	You know, it's one of those busier days.
0:10.0	You just seem to sneak up on you, you think...
0:12.0	Well, you should not have those, have fewer of those. I'm gonna work. They just seem to sneak up on you. You think...
0:13.0	Well, you should not have those.
0:13.7	Have fewer of those.
0:14.7	I'm gonna work on it.
0:15.7	I'm gonna make that out.
0:16.7	How are you?
0:17.7	I don't really think you are.
0:18.3	I think you're one of those people who likes to be busy.
0:20.4	I do like to be busy.
0:21.4	I do like to be busy. I don't like to be busy on other people's terms does that mean you know what I mean like it's fine if I stack a day full of stuff but if if it's what somebody else wants me to do on their time frame that I don't like as much.
0:37.0	Huh, I have a lot to say about that.
0:41.0	I'm guessing you have some more, some topics this week I do I have a I have a topic
0:47.0	Okay, I'll make it quick this is a tent pole for me. Yeah because I'm a I don't know I think sometimes words can be a useful way to
0:55.6	understand our world and I think it's very understandable that the word busy has evolved to take on different meanings, you know? I bet you know there was a
1:06.8	time where like I don't know if you were a fry cook in the 20s
1:09.8	at like a breakfast place. I don't know no but seriously I'm just trying to say that I don't think it's, I don't think it's a new phenomenon.
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