Episode 78: Scream, Poop, and Run

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

🗓️ 30 July 2012

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Gut Churn, Pointing Arrows, and Recognizing Change

This week, Dan and Merlin talk at length about a recent article by Radiolab's Jad Abumrad, called, "The Terrors & Occasional Virtues of Not Knowing What You’re Doing."

From the genesis of Radiolab through casting about for what comes next, Jad's article reads like a Greatest Hits of Back to Work. Just terrific.

It all comes down to working through the times you don't know what you're doing and making, then accepting that—even once you do know—you still have to push through change and evolution.

Working through the fear to make something awesome? Well. That's Fine for Jad Abumrad.

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0:00.0	I sound a little bit sick.
0:03.5	I don't even mention that.
0:04.8	You do sound a little sick.
0:06.2	I don't sound sick in my head,
0:08.1	and so I put the cans on.
0:09.0	We call them cans.
0:10.5	Yeah, that's the official name for it.
0:12.4	Mm-hmm.
0:13.3	I got those Marco headphones.
0:15.0	The M, the M Arcos.
0:17.6	We look.
0:18.6	I've got, I can't hear you right now
0:20.0	because I'm looking at the Sennheiser HD280 Pro 64 Omega,
0:23.8	which I guess means is that OMS is that resistance?
0:26.8	I got 64 Omega's, is that enough?
0:29.0	You were the Alpha and the Omega.
0:30.8	Okay.
0:31.6	No, should I get more of the Omega 3s or 6s?
0:34.2	How does that work?
0:36.3	You want the...
0:37.4	Well, for you, for you, I think I say the 6s, but...
0:40.7	Mm-hmm.
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