Episode 73: Permission to Unclench

Back to Work

5by5

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2012

⏱️ 100 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

TOPIC: Aspects of Letting Go

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about two very different viewports into doing what you want to do and being who you want to be.

There's the non-fiddly value you earn from getting junk out of your head and into a place you trust (in this instance, OmniFocus location-based contexts).

Then, there's the "what the cuss?" situation faced by listener, "Evan," who's struggling with a work conundrum that's hard on the office freezer and his feelings.

How do you move toward doing the right thing in the face of a lot of wrong? And, how do you take care of the piddly crap that's made your brain such a messy white board?

Also, there's our new t-shirts, some boot scoots, lots of tickles, plus, that total tool who pushed Shlomo out. Don't even get Merlin started. Literally.

Links for this episode:

This week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by Squarespace, Igloo Software, Smile Software.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	It's real simple. Basically, there's three grabbers, three taggers, five twig
0:02.8	winters in the player at Wackbatte, center tagger lights a pine cone and chucks
0:05.4	it over the basket and the Wackbatte tries to hit the cedar stick off the cross rock.
0:08.3	Then the twig winters dash back and forth until the pine cone burns out in the
0:10.8	empire, it calls hotbox. Finally, at the end, you count up however many
0:13.2	score downs it adds up to and divide that by nine.
0:17.3	Hello. Wow.
0:21.2	Oh, what what Mike is that? Oh, you like the sound of that?
0:25.5	Yeah, is it right on your keyboard?
0:27.6	Hello, friend. How are you? Welcome to 1913.
0:33.0	Hold on, River, by Bellymare.
0:41.0	This podcast is brought to you by Skype.
0:47.4	Can you hear me now? Yeah, I sure can. How are you?
0:50.7	You know, I'm great. I had everything set up fine in the finder.
0:53.7	I use the excellent sound source.
0:57.6	By by Rogen Meebo. That's too.
1:00.2	So, so naturally, Skype had it all completely different.
1:03.6	It just works. How are you?
1:05.4	I'm fine. Better now. Oh, what happened?
1:07.9	I got you online. Oh, you know, am I cold?
1:11.4	Do I sound cold? Oh, you sound so cold.
1:14.0	I hang on. I think my thing. Oh, look at that.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from 5by5, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of 5by5 and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.