Episodes
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Episode 17: Brick Building Full of Lies
May 27th, 2011 | 1 hr 26 mins
Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin talk about checking email under the table to catch up on your 27 high priority tasks, a good time to use the word priority, blowing cycles on meeting with Narnia's stakeholders, and getting tasks out of your dreamcatcher.
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Episode 16: Bracing for the Blow
May 18th, 2011 | 1 hr 12 mins
Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin aren't afraid of lawyers, dentists, negative feelings, or of not being afraid of something.
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Episode 15: Marionette of my own Design
May 10th, 2011 | 1 hr 9 secs
Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin are here to discuss the awareness of fear, asking yourself why, and knowing the problem instead of chasing fake confidence, patches, and hacks.
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Episode 14: Velocity of Disappointment
May 3rd, 2011 | 1 hr 7 mins
Merlin Mann joins Dan Benjamin to talk about problems that are impossible, problems that are boring, problems that you're scared of, and why you need to differentiate between fear and anxiety so you can be scared of something interesting.
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Episode 13: The Kid's Great
April 26th, 2011 | 1 hr 30 mins
Dan and Merlin talk about "Cranking" - Merlin's latest post at 43folders.com.
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Episode 12: Chewie's Medal is Not Canonical
April 19th, 2011 | 1 hr 4 mins
Merlin Mann has some "followup" before he and Dan Benjamin discuss entrusting your agency to others, how to reclaim it, and picking the right balance between expertise and challenge instead of fixing your metadata.
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Episode 11: Johnny Heuristic
April 12th, 2011 | 1 hr 18 mins
Merlin Mann joins Dan Benjamin to talk about evolution, investing in roulette, taking smarter chances and futureproofing your passion.
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Episode 10: At Last the 'Inspiration' Show
March 29th, 2011 | 1 hr 21 mins
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Episode 9: Out of Scope!
March 22nd, 2011 | 1 hr 11 mins
Dan and Merlin improvise topics this week and get from Synechode, NY to dopamine, being scared and being safe, believing your thoughts and coloring your dreams, and solving problems by moving your hands instead of thinking.
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Episode 8: Little Velvet Hands
March 15th, 2011 | 1 hr 13 mins
This week, Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin eighty-six their restaurant jobs—emptying grease traps, handling logs of meat, and sharing what they learned by bringing mostly bad food to America's table. Dan burns velvet hands, Merlin's Mom gives the guy with th
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Episode 7: Vocational Wheel
March 8th, 2011 | 1 hr 22 mins
Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin relate to Richard–a listener in the middle of a quarter life crisis working jobs he doesn't like–with stories from their pasts, suggestions to combat the cascade of seriousness, and some first steps for breaking out of the voc
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Episode 6: Expectational Debt
March 1st, 2011 | 1 hr 3 mins
Merlin Mann is back from Webstock and ready to recap with Dan Benjamin, which leads back to caring first, performance and fear, meditation, hypnotherapy, and why you really need the hard answer instead just more tips.