Episode 43: I Return Null
Topic: Asking questions in order to find better questions This week, Dan and Merlin pick up their discussion of asking better questions and how sometimes the point of asking a question isn't to get a...
30 Nov 201158min
Episode 42: Coconut Headphones
This week Dan and Merlin talk about asking good questions instead of massaging your real problem until it fits the comforting solution you found on the cover of a magazine. Links for this episode:Macw...
22 Nov 20111h 16min
Episode 41: Carpal Tunnel Diem
Dan and Merlin talk more about why we get stuck and how might re-think getting "unstuck." Looking at process over product, remembering how you got here, and getting clear about what you're really try...
16 Nov 20111h 21min
Episode 40: Dirty South Is Off the Menu
Dan and Merlin talk about what it means for Google to change the meaning of "plus," and how it might bolster the production of "stuff and needy." They also consider options for "getting unstuck" with...
9 Nov 20111h 39min
Episode 39: A Source of Rice with Velocity
On strength and tolerance. Dan and Merlin talk about the many facets of strength, including the complexity of knowing what to be strong about, to whom, and when. It's about way more than nailing the...
1 Nov 20111h 20min
Episode 38: Sorry. You Can't Have a Candle.
On improving presentation culture. Dan and Merlin talk about bombing the deck, advancing the slides, and striving to improve the self-perpetuating bad culture of presentations. Slide?!? (Also, kid ...
25 Okt 20111h 19min
Episode 37: It's Never Not Everywhere
This week, Merlin loves and hates iCloud while loving and REALLY loving Dropbox. He and Dan observe angry corn, discuss emailing files to yourself, wonder what to do with an ugly photo, and explore Mr...
18 Okt 20112h 4min
Episode 36: Writing on the Wind
Merlin Mann talks with Dan Benjamin about his dogged obsession with the flexibility of index cards—for propping up tables, giving very small cuts, and getting babies hygienically removed. Then, there ...
12 Okt 20111h 21min
