Episode description

TOPIC: How to undig a river.

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about an email message from a listener who's having trouble getting away from his inbox long enough to do what he needs to, introducing a mindfulness exercise that may help point to a deeper problem.

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Links for this episode:

• 7: The Passionate Task
  Rich Stevens and Merlin Mann join Moisés and John to discuss the state of digital comics, content discovery, and recommend some good reads.
• "Melnibonér" - kung fu grippe
  
• Showbot
  Listener-submitted titles for this episode.
• Cultural hegemony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  In Marxist philosophy, however, the term describes the domination of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class, who manipulate the culture of the society — the beliefs, explanations, perceptions, values, and mores — so that their ruling-class worldview becomes the worldview that is imposed and accepted as the cultural norm
• Nonsense From the Huffington Post
  

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