September 30, 2014 at 10:00AM • 1 hour 17 minutes
TOPIC: Starting the stuff we haven't started.
This week—after some entertaining random talk and a handful of hardware and software recommendations—Dan and Merlin dive back into a familiar evergreen topic: why is it so hard to get started with a project? And, just as importantly, what can we learn from that persistent difficulty?
In a nut? Just start trying to suck more regularly.
September 23, 2014 at 2:00PM • 1 hour 48 minutes
TOPIC: Media, Rarely Well Done
This week, Dan and Merlin talk about the modern consumer media landscape and how we seem to be changing almost as fast as the technology. Almost.
September 16, 2014 at 4:00PM • 1 hour 29 minutes
TOPIC: Knowing What You'll Need to Know
This week, Dan and Merlin talk about a recent presentation Merlin gave on expertise and curiosity. They also pour out a 40 for Macworld Magazine.
September 9, 2014 at 2:00PM • 1 hour 6 minutes
TOPIC: Grab bag.
This week, Dan and Merlin talk about—what? Well. They talk about privilege, empathy, bikes, bass players, Merlin's new mic, more bathroom signs, and a controversial anecdote about how Apple was maybe kinda not nice to a customer.
September 2, 2014 at 3:00PM • 1 hour 29 minutes
TOPIC: The Durable Impossibility of Email.
This week, Dan and Merlin return to an evergreen topic: the impossibility of email.
Chaotic, paradoxical, debilitating, frustrating, buoyant, and occasionally capable of causing short-term madness, email is still the medium that we'll never get right.
But, quixotically, it never stops us from trying.
August 26, 2014 at 11:00AM • 1 hour 28 minutes
TOPIC: Is there anything else you want to tell me?
This week, Dan and Merlin discuss what bathrooms can teach us about learning, expertise, and empathy.
August 19, 2014 at 1:00PM • 1 hour 30 minutes
TOPIC: Wait, what'd I DO?!?
This week, Dan and Merlin talk about anger, misunderstandings, and trying to do the right thing. How bewildering (and emotional) it can be to feel misunderstood—as well as trying to better understand what we may have done wrong.
Emotions are armor-piercing bullets.
August 12, 2014 at 3:00PM • 1 hour 27 minutes
TOPIC: Thinking, Thinking, Thinking.
This week, Dan and Merlin talk about the inextricable links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. They also take some time to fondly remember Robin Williams.
August 6, 2014 at 11:00AM • 1 hour 7 minutes
While Merlin takes a short sabbatical, Dan is joined by special guest David Sparks to talk about presentations, making your thing, balancing acts, iBooks author, paying for your kids' school with side projects, old man glasses, and more.
July 22, 2014 at 3:00PM • 1 hour 10 minutes
TOPIC: Stupid can't stick to me.
This week, Dan and Merlin talk about the distinction between being against something vs. not having an opinion about it vs. just choosing not to let the world stick to you.
