Episode 74: Cheap Liberal Arts Relativism

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

🗓️ 2 July 2012

⏱️ 85 minutes

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TOPIC: How Much Honesty Can We Stand?

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about how ridiculously complex "Honesty" can be. Do "Candor," "Transparency," "Frankness," and all those other Capital Letter Nouns mean the same thing?

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0:00.0	Hi, Marlon, I'm fine. How are you? I'm great. Good. I'll talk to you later. Okay. Thank you. Bye. Bye.
0:15.4	We live? Yes. God, I'm so prepared today. Are you? I love the shows where you're prepared. God,
0:21.0	the show where you don't put any any preparation. It's disrespectful to the audience. And I can be
0:25.6	honest, it's disrespectful to me too. Where are you going to eat? Yeah. I'm going to have some breakfast
0:32.8	sausage. What kind of what was it? Is it artisanal or what kind is it? I don't know. You should check.
0:43.0	I'll check. I'll look under the under the hood. Oh, man. You know what? I did something yesterday
0:48.7	that I almost never do. I can't believe it. I'm going to send this to you right now. All right.
0:52.0	I'm going to send you a picture of a meal. I'm going to sell. Oh, you cook you cook something at
0:56.5	home. I'm a photo blogger blogger. I'm a blogger. I'm a blogger. I'm a breakfast.
1:04.3	Blogger. I have some breakfast. It's gonna be blogger. We should be blogger. I'll tumble it.
1:11.7	I'll tumble my bag. I'll pin my post. I'm just saying beware as well. I look this up. My
1:16.6	daughter and I. Be afraid. Oh, God. This is beautiful. What do you see this thing? It looks
1:22.0	like either. I don't know. It looks like an Irish train rack or the best breakfast ever.
1:26.8	Maybe both. My daughter and I like to go to this this little Irish restaurant. Don't be creepy.
1:32.5	Yes. They have Irish food, believe it or not. It's drunk and angry. That's okay. I'm Irish. I
1:38.2	can say that. It's nothing. Are you really? That explains some things.
1:42.9	Mm-hmm. You're not like good China. It sounds like good China. Is that ping pong?
1:51.6	We go to this place and she gets a donut and my meals at this place are getting consistently
1:59.8	media and hide from space. What exactly does that mean consistently? I don't know if I just sent
2:07.2	you like a meteorite. Oh, yeah. I'm looking at this. Something we need to address on the show is
2:12.0	the number of outlets that I'm sending things to people because it's becoming a problem getting
2:15.5	notes from people about how many different media outlets I'm using. What is this? Okay.
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