Episode 82: Blue Food in Your Refrigerator
Back to Work
5by5
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2012
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
TOPIC: Capture, Contracts, and Mapping the Territory.
This week, Dan and Merlin talk about keeping an honest calendar and ensuring you regularly review your "contracts" with yourself.
Chock-a-block with practical COM-ponents for making sure your map is up to date with the territory.
¿Spanish question marks? ¡Si!
Zibba-zabba! Fax my gal!
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Back to Work is brought to you by Squarespace. |
| 0:02.6 | Squarespace 6 is out and it is gorgeous, it is everything you need to create an exceptional website. |
| 0:08.2 | Sign up for your account today at squarespace.com slash Back to Work. |
| 0:12.0 | And if you want to see some screencasts of me rebuilding my own site from scratch with Squarespace 6, |
| 0:16.8 | please visit merlinm.com slash s6. |
| 0:20.5 | We are very grateful to Squarespace for supporting 5x5 and Back to Work. |
| 0:24.4 | Hello. |
| 0:29.1 | Oh, hey, merlin. How are you? |
| 0:30.8 | Good, Dan. How are you? |
| 0:32.4 | Doing pretty good. |
| 0:33.6 | It's got a little bit of nutthroat. |
| 0:35.4 | Hey, look at me. I'm Merlin, man. |
| 0:37.6 | I can sing. I can dance. |
| 0:40.1 | When I come out of the shower, I'm dirtier than I am when I'm not. |
| 0:46.7 | I don't know what that means. |
| 0:49.2 | I, you know what? I just want to encourage you to follow your bliss, |
| 0:51.9 | whatever, whatever direction that takes you. |
| 0:53.7 | I think I screwed up a big time. |
| 0:55.5 | I don't, I think I incompletely sealed my nice nuts. |
| 0:58.7 | And now they're a little bit stale. |
| 1:00.1 | What does that mean, my nice nuts? |
| 1:01.9 | Nice! |
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