413: ‘Holiday Party 2024’, With Merlin Mann

The Talk Show With John Gruber

This again. 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 (the bad one)
  • Holiday Party 2020 (the good one)
• Yours truly, on this week: “How It Went”.
• Seki Edge nail clippers:
  • Panzarino at The Obsessor: “The Best Nail Clippers You’ll Ever Use”.
  • The Talk Show, October 2022: ‘Big Booger Came After You’, where Merlin first recommended these to me.
  • Get them at Amazon for $16. Buy two pairs.
• Kai scissors. Get a few pairs of these too.
• Merlin’s Wisdom Project. Read this if you haven’t. Read it again if you have. So good.
• Reconcilable Differences — Merlin’s podcast with John Siracusa. The kids call it “Rec Diffs”.
• Merlin’s Happy Place — 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.