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Back to Work

Episode 85: Schrödinger's Soap Holder

Back to Work

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2012

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: One Operational Paper Towel; One Safety Paper Towel.

This week, Dan and Merlin discuss how to use a public restroom.

There's some other stuff, too. But, yeah. Mostly Dan and Merlin discuss how to use a public restroom.

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0:00.0

Now I'm going to use the food creation gun.

0:06.0

All right, so that's I'm really happy though. I'm very happy.

0:08.1

Okay, all of you. All right, we're live. Thank you for chatting,

0:10.8

honey.

0:13.4

People will hear just the end of that and I'll be like, why what's

0:16.1

going on?

0:17.2

Oh, and so this and then, um, and then we'll invade Poland and, okay,

0:22.7

I want to put this on the tutor by haddy. It's nice chatting with

0:25.3

buy. Thanks for coming. Lovely.

0:28.0

This is a ship.

0:29.4

Yes, a pop up.

0:30.2

So yeah, and did you put it on the tutor that the just just did just

0:37.0

pushed it out?

0:40.2

Did you, um, you get that, uh, hmm, saying goodbye.

0:45.0

No, goodbye.

0:46.6

Did you get that, uh, panorama photo?

0:48.8

I said panorama, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, check your, check your email

0:53.9

from yesterday. Check my email. You sent up, sent something.

0:56.9

I sent you of, uh, I, I used some software to take a panoramic photo.

1:01.2

Oh, it's out. I got something for me. It looked like spam.

1:03.9

Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah. Well, best panorama, sexy panorama. Hang on.

1:08.2

Let me do a search here. What is this? Merlin?

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