413: ‘Holiday Party 2024’, With Merlin Mann

This again. Jiminy. Well, once more, let's talk around another election, and try, by doing so, to maybe express something about it.

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Links:

• Previously on The Talk Show, with Merlin:
• Holiday Party 2016 (daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2016/11/09/ep-172) (the bad one)

• Holiday Party 2020 (daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2020/11/07/ep-300) (the good one)

• Yours truly, on this week: “How It Went (daringfireball.net/2024/11/how_it_went)”.

• Seki Edge nail clippers:
• Panzarino at The Obsessor: “The Best Nail Clippers You’ll Ever Use (theobsessor.com/the-best-nail-clippers-youll-e…)”.

• The Talk Show, October 2022: ‘Big Booger Came After You’ (daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2022/10/12/ep-359), where Merlin first recommended these to me.

• Get them at Amazon for $16 (amzn.to/3YGkKA7). Buy two pairs.

• Kai scissors (kaiscissors.com). Get a few pairs of these too.

• Merlin’s Wisdom Project (wisdom.limo). Read this if you haven’t. Read it again if you have. So good.

• Reconcilable Differences (relay.fm/rd) — Merlin’s podcast with John Siracusa. The kids call it “Rec Diffs”.

• Merlin’s Happy Place (youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC4Rx_vdLM96ym_dpg4…) — a YouTube playlist, comprised of “Videos I watch pretty often when I need a little pick-me-up.”

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.