332 episodes

A weekly challenge show hosted by Alex Cox and Merlin Mann.

Do By Friday Merlin Mann and Alex Cox

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.6 • 379 Ratings

A weekly challenge show hosted by Alex Cox and Merlin Mann.

    Ominous Oreo

    Ominous Oreo

    This week's challenge: curate Nebula.

    • 2 hr 12 min
    Konami Code for Your Mind

    Konami Code for Your Mind

    This week's challenge: just breathe.

    • 1 hr 18 min
    With Respect, Col. Yarmulke

    With Respect, Col. Yarmulke

    This week's challenge: watch "Survivor."

    • 44 min
    Grand Wizard of Nothing

    Grand Wizard of Nothing

    This week's challenge: run your life with ChatGPT.

    • 1 hr 2 min
    Remember.

    Remember.

    This week's challenge: make a bibliography.

    You can hear the after show and support Do By Friday on Patreon!

    • 1 hr 58 min
    A Person of Problems

    A Person of Problems

    This week's challenge: revisit Obsidian.

    • 1 hr 55 min

Customer Reviews

4.6 out of 5
379 Ratings

379 Ratings

FramesLoaf ,

Good show

I really like hearing Merlin and Alex talk about whatever each week with a thin veneer of an outline/structure.

Nickname? Fine. Ishmael. ,

I demand a refund (for this thing I didn't pay for)!

This show used to be the brightest part of my week. Then the funny one got cancelled & booted from the show and for some reason (maybe the patreon cashflow) they decided to just keep on trucking every week as if nothing happened. People gotta eat I guess. Everyone has their reasons.
I like Merlin and Alex as people and really want to like the show but there is just nothing here anymore. They had a good run, but it's over. That long tail of five star reviews may keep bringing people in, but every time I try to listen again it just makes me sad.
Imagine your favorite TV comedy but suddenly one season the main character dies, they fire the writers and remove the laugh track, and now the tragic brokenness of the actors - which used to somehow accent the comedy - is all that is left, as they dance around on an empty set with no real destination.

chriseldred ,

Good way to start your weekend.

This is a funny, if sometimes offbeat, show. I usually save this show for Friday afternoon as the perfect beginning to my weekend.

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