Episode 14: Velocity of Disappointment
05/03/11 • 67 min
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.
Links for this episode:
- 5C6017AB.jpg 277×277 pixels
- Princess Ardala - Google Search
- Do I love Terry Gross? - your monkey called
- Jeff Dee's Home Page
- Deities & Demigods - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Expedition to the Barrier Peaks - [Merlin's favorite AD&D module]
- After Dark #20: After Back To Work 014 - 5by5
- Sometimes There’s a Man (Part I) MP3 Download ... - kung fu grippe
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.
Links for this episode:
- 5C6017AB.jpg 277×277 pixels
- Princess Ardala - Google Search
- Do I love Terry Gross? - your monkey called
- Jeff Dee's Home Page
- Deities & Demigods - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Expedition to the Barrier Peaks - [Merlin's favorite AD&D module]
- After Dark #20: After Back To Work 014 - 5by5
- Sometimes There’s a Man (Part I) MP3 Download ... - kung fu grippe
Previous Episode
Episode 13: The Kid's Great
Dan and Merlin talk about "Cranking" - Merlin's latest post at 43folders.com.
Links for this episode:
- Cranking | 43 Folders
- 100% New Zealand Bacon
- Netflix: Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run: 30th Anniversary Edition: Wings for Wheels: The Making of Born to Run
- Netflix: Cyrano de Bergerac
- » Chip Scanlan | Poynter.
- Male Answer Syndrome
- Netflix - Watch Louis C.K.: Chewed Up
- Amazon.com: The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing - Richard Hugo
- Bruce Springsteen - "Thunder Road" - London, 1975
- YouTube: Cyrano de Bergerac Theatre Scene
- The Poetry of Project Management, by Jeffrey Veen
- "May I mambo dogface to the banana patch?" - kung fu grippe
- After Dark #18: After Back To Work 013 - 5by5
Next Episode
Episode 15: Marionette of my own Design
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.
Links for this episode:
- Hetty Green - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Noble Eightfold Path - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Mindfulness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Audio Dharma - Gil Fronsdal's Dharma Talks
- Amazon.com: Mindfulness in Plain English: Revised and Expanded Edition (9780861713219): Bhante Henepola Gunaratana: Books
- Mindfulness In Plain English
- Abba - "Knowing Me, Knowing You"
- MP3: Sometimes There’s a Man - Part II "Then, When?" - kung fu grippe
- Canonical Photo of Hetty Green
- Alan Watts - "The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety"
- YouTube - Joni Mitchell - "Talk To Me"
- YouTube - Joni Mitchell - "Blue"
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