This is the first of two episodes. The idea was for Merlin and Jeff to discuss how they were using chatGPT in ways that are maybe novel. The thing is, the pre-show banter became in-show banter that barely touched the intended topic, which is awesome because now, thanks to the transcript of this episode, we have fodder for chatGPT experimentation between episodes.

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Show Links

With that, we present to you these show notes:

• Overtired #402: Emotional Sweep with Merlin Mann is a pretty good introduction to the chatGPT conversation we’ll have in the second part of this two-episode set.


• This episode has a Spotify playlist!

Merlin in the wild

• Merlin’s website


• Merlin’s Wisdom Project (Referred to repeatedly as “The Document”)


• Do by Friday (Podcast with Alex Cox. Hi Alex!)


• Roderick on the Line (Podcast with John Roderick)


• Reconcilable Differences (Podcast with John Siracusa)


• Merlin on Mastodon

From the Music Jags

• Recommended Trash Theory episodes (YouTube):
  
  
  
  • The Story of Pulp & Common People
  
  
  • Sweet Dreams: How Eurythmics Shocked America and Made MTV
  
  
  • Before 1976 Revisited: How Punk Became Punk
  
  
  • Before My Sharona: How Power Pop Became Power Pop
  
  
  • Before Nevermind: How Grunge Became Grunge
  
  
  
  


• Mind-bending live music recordings:
  
  
  
  • Queen: Somebody to Love (Montreal 1981)
  
  
  • Talking Heads (Rome 1980)
  
  
  • Vivaldi’s “Summer” Presto, feat. Anne-Sophie Mutter
  
  
  
  


• [Maxell XLII-S Commercial] (1992)


• Columbia House Record and Tape Club commercial(1985)


• Musicians talk about how they got their Zappa gigs:
  
  
  
  • Andrian Belew
  
  
  • Steve Vai
  
  
  • Vinnie Colaiuta
  
  
  • Terry Bozzio
  
  
  • Scott Thunes
  
  
  
  

From the Movie and TV Jags

• Real good noir:
  
  
  
  • Double Indemnity (1944)
  
  
  • The Big Sleep (1946)
  
  
  • Human Desire (1954)
  
  
  • The Killing (1956)
  
  
  • The Long Goodbye (1973)
  
  
  • Blood Simple (1984)
  
  
  • The Big Lebowski (1998)
  
  
  
  


• Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity


• Billy’s wonderful Letterboxd account


• Door management in the Walking Dead


• Father Gabriel opens the gate’


• Tom Waits singing “River of Men” on Fishing with John


• Ice fishing with Willem Dafoe on Fishing with John

From the Mental Health and Wellbeing Jags

Merlin’s list of useful things to say to yourself:

• “Not now.”


• “Stay on target.”


• “Stop.”


• “Just keep doing the thing.”


• “Whatever, you’ll get it next time.”


• “What exactly are you saving this for?”

Books:

• Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis


• Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn


• How We Live is How We Die by Pema Chödrön


• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Odds & Ends

• A People’s History of the United States (Howard Zinn)


• The Political Gabfest “mean time to weird” episode


• John Dickerson is very handsome and very smart and once showed Merlin a very large binder clip


• A collection of “Under Construction” gifs and images from Geocities

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