Ep. 536: "The Garbage Czar"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Self-help, Merlinmann, Thelongwinters, Johnroderick, Roderick, Winters, Long, The, Philosophy, Society & Culture, John, Merlin, Mann

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🗓️ 25 May 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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The Problem: The knives are too organized.

(Recorded on Saturday, May 20, 2024)

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:05.0	Hi, John.
0:08.0	I'm Erlen. How's it going?
0:10.0	How's it going?
0:11.0	Good.
0:12.0	Stoop's. doing. You're in a silly mood. What's going on in your neck of the woods?
0:26.0	My neck of the woo wounds?
0:28.0	What's in your neck of the woods?
0:29.0	What's going on?
0:30.0	What's happening?
0:31.0	Oh, well, you know, yeah. It's like there's a bunch of cords. Everything's tangled in cord. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I've been doing lots of tech things too.
0:43.0	Oh yeah.
0:44.0	Yeah, yeah, I'm untangling cords right now.
0:47.0	Oh, there it is.
0:48.0	Ooh, I was trapped under a mountain of cords.
0:51.0	Oh, no, how did that happen?
0:52.0	Just accumulation? Yeah, I don't know how it
0:54.6	happens because I never move from this position but somehow all the cords get braided
0:59.6	into giant like rat kings of of cables and and then pretty soon I'm just like my cheek is pressed against the floor.
1:08.9	This seems like a pattern with you where you don't do anything and then your tech world changes around you.
1:15.0	That's true of my whole world.
1:18.0	Really? I don't do anything. I'm just the center, I'm just the center of a rat king of chaos.
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