Episode 312: Snake Eating Its Own Goodwill

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TOPIC: You're living in the future!

This week, Merlin is in a bit of a tizzy as he tries to make coffee, redo his ads, and change his productivity system at the same time. Todoist and the evolving landscape of task apps are discussed. Dan likes Trello and Merlin likes tearing everything down and maybe just starting over.

iPhone call ID and blocking apps get the treatment and Merlin has some recommendations.

Dan has some questions about comics, and the boys reminisce about The Simpsons. As you do.

Things get a little dark as your hosts look at deploying web ad (and tracker) blocking as survival and safety OPSEC.

This leads to the donning of Futurist Hats and some subsequent speculation about the unfathomable things we might expect from our devices in the coming years.

Links for this episode:

• How to use trackpad mode on iPhone and iPad | iMore
  
• Ungainly X-Mann Meetup #15 — Merlin Mann
  MERLIN MANN (Back to Work, Roderick on the Line, Reconcilable Differences, Do By Friday, You Look Nice Today, et al.) invites you to drop by Two Cats Comics on the evening of Thursday, February 23rd to hang out, talk about comics, and just say, “Hi.” It's free and it's fun.
  
• Overcast 3: Design walkthrough – Marco.org
  
• Overcast 3.0: iOS 10 Features, UI Changes, Easy Queuing, and an Interview with Marco Arment – MacStories
  
• Cortex #46: External Thinking Tool - Relay FM
  
• Stop robocalls and telemarketers with Nomorobo
  
• Phone Number Search | Truecaller
  
• Find Your Keys, Wallet & Phone with Tile’s Bluetooth Tracker and Save Up to 30%. | Tile
  

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