Episodes
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Episode 643: The Price of Lies
April 1st, 2024 | 1 hr 29 mins
Merlin thinks LLMs have raised the bar for voice assistants in general and Siri in particular. Dan and his kid watch the excellent HBO series, "Chernobyl."
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Episode 642: A Better Roll of Toilet Paper
March 20th, 2024 | 1 hr 42 mins
Your hosts discuss facial hair, notebooks, the metric system, flexing about local weather, and becoming the bathroom supplies you want to see in the world.
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Episode 641: Germans in the Wild
March 12th, 2024 | 1 hr 17 mins
Travel is not always about traveling, but it is definitely always about your life.
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Episode 640: Bob's Big Mess
March 12th, 2024 | 1 hr 19 mins
A classic odds n' sods episode. Plus, Merlin has thoughts about memory and ecosystems, and Dan is considering jetting through an eclipse.
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Episode 639: The Commodore's Club
March 5th, 2024 | 1 hr 15 mins
Dan talks about what he's learned from traveling a bunch, and Merlin thinks a lot of weirdness comes from our twin fears of boredom and inconvenience.
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Episode 638: A New Kind of Bullet
January 23rd, 2024 | 2 hrs 14 mins
A classic odds n' sods episode.
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Episode 637: The Minimally Viable Log Cabin Channel
January 17th, 2024 | 1 hr 35 mins
A deep dive on being busy versus being time-constrained.
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Episode 636: Honoring My Pivot Table
January 9th, 2024 | 1 hr 21 mins
Dan is navigating the landscape of task management apps, and, shockingly, Merlin has some thoughts.
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Episode 635: Buffet de Canard
January 2nd, 2024 | 1 hr 20 mins
Dan and Merlin kick off the new year with a wide-ranging look at how tools and motivations evolve with how we work.
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Episode 634: Nominally Future-Resistant
December 12th, 2023 | 1 hr 20 mins
A fairly epic episode covering health tracking and self-quantization.
Remember: data doesn't have to hurt.
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Episode 633: A Self-Aware Old Man
December 5th, 2023 | 57 mins 49 secs
Your hosts talk about how we perceive the world and the challenge of mindfully updating our perceptions.