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\nAn important discussion about aging as examined and explained through the lens of James Howlett.
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Merlin thinks LLMs have raised the bar for voice assistants in general and Siri in particular. Dan and his kid watch the excellent HBO series, Chernobyl.
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Your hosts discuss facial hair, notebooks, the metric system, flexing about local weather, and becoming the bathroom supplies you want to see in the world.
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Travel is not always about traveling, but it is definitely always about your life.
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A classic odds n' sods episode. Plus, Merlin has thoughts about memory and ecosystems, and Dan is considering jetting through an eclipse.
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Dan talks about what he's learned from traveling a bunch, and Merlin thinks a lot of weirdness comes from our twin fears of boredom and inconvenience.
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A classic odds n' sods episode.
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Merlin conducts a deep dive on being busy versus being time-constrained, and Dan has some updates on his task management odyssey.
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Dan is navigating the landscape of task management apps, and, shockingly, Merlin has some thoughts.
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Dan and Merlin kick off the new year with a wide-ranging look at how tools and motivations evolve with how we work.
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A fairly epic episode covering health tracking and self-quantization.
\n\nRemember: data doesn't have to hurt.
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Your hosts talk about how we perceive the world and the challenge of mindfully updating our perceptions.
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Merlin has more on generative AI, and Dan has a sweet new watch.
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On AI and curiosity.
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And and Merlin have a wide-ranging discussion.
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Talk of eyes, intentionalities, and HDMI.
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Merlin claims he's not going to do any work for this one, and Dan has some advice for travelers.
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Your hosts catch up on some great media, and Merlin expounds on the magic of Channels. Also, Merlin logrolls a recent podcast episode and re-extolls the power of dictation.
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Dan and Merlin have a wide-ranging discussion.
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Dan and Merlin have a wide-ranging discussion about technology, and Merlin lays the groundwork for several spirited rants.
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Over the course of this classic Odds n' Sods episode, it becomes clear that all Merlin cares about is babies and 3D printing.
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Dan returns from a nice trip, and Merlin has been printing lizards.
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You’re either early or you’re late; leave time for a flat tire; have you tried melatonin?; a new search engine and some enthusiasm for blogs.
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With Merlin on the mend, your hosts discuss actors named Hurt, comic books, and old Macs.
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DISCUSSED: A self-hypnosis recommendation leads to another look at meditation (as well as not-meditation), plus Merlin has a few more beta finds that contribute to the Tiny Life Improvement Project.
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DISCUSSED: Dan sets up his little office, your hosts talk about the new Apple dingus, and Merlin highlights some strong OS updates.
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Dan dives deep on his Sonos setup, and Merlin explores official state things.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin's family doesn't understand him; an extremely funny TV show is recommended; your hosts address some of the trade-offs that continue to hinder easy smart home adoption; Dan teases a big smart audio episode next week; and Merlin starts trying to tackle an unusual Thought Technology that's become very important to him: First, Make a Hole.
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Try to make sure fear is always preceded by curiosity.
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Merlin has a lot of thoughts about AI stuff.
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Dan has big updates about his smart home setup, and Merlin is getting intimate with a robot.
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DISCUSSED: Steve Buscemi is celebrated, and The Big Lebowski is congratulated; the guys continue their dive into the state of smart home hardware with a focus on switches.
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Dan is curious about AI voice transcription, and Merlin has yet more smart home advice for a new homeowner.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin has some been analyzing a very misleading song about beaches, and Dan has been visiting more with ChadGPT.
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DISCUSSED: Dan has a new iPad keyboard, and Merlin is intrigued by ChatGPT. Also, Merlin almost tunes his guitar.
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DISCUSSED: Dan's takes some smart baby steps into home automation, and Merlin has a lot to say about everything.
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DISCUSSED: Dan begins a new journey into smart home living, and Merlin is excited about common misconceptions.
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DISCUSSED: After settling some confusion about Anna Borg, the boys settle into an amble about the state of voice assistants and the future of the theoretically smart home. As ever, Merlin is pretty excited about music, but he also needs your help figuring out where in the hell he got this new software keyboard.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin is extremely happy with a suggestion that Dan made, and Dan has a bunch of apps he's excited about.
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Typing on an iPad, rhyming compulsively, default media, and taking a young foodie out on the town.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin is excited about reading, and Dan sometimes puts his time in a box. Also: Breaking Bad.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin recommends an exciting new beta; Dan gets a new e-reader; and Merlin has a lot to say about taking notes.
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DISCUSSED: a classic odds n' sods episode encompassing a missing remote (and a failed system), some wallet FU, cool help with playlist management, unsubscribing in dribs and drabs, and a big-ass RV.
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Merlin is still on Island Time, so discussion is mostly limited to Columbo, Star Wars, Merlin's playlists, Ellsworth, and, of course, wallets.
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DISCUSSED: Dan has a new concern; some thoughts on resistance; Merlin shares a new insight on creativity and sleep; Dan has FU directly from the Nosferatu band; Merlin serves a turducken of suggestions related to text editing; and, finally, Dan needs your advice on wallets, while Merlin makes a case for currency.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin is playing with his new dingus; Dan almost talks about wallets; try Tailscale to make your stuff work better together; why you (yes, you) need a VPN; Dan is getting enthused about Obsidian; Merlin is freshly re-enthused about Daytum; and finally Dan is very excited about a Dracula he saw.
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DISCUSSED: Halloween Follow-Up; exit interview for Season 4 of What We Do in the Shadows; how Apple could build users' confidence and stimulate their curiosity with better documentation; Merlin makes his case for spreadsheets as your potential place where stuff goes.
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Fortunately, Merlin had thoroughly prepared for 62 minutes of lizards, Morgellons, animal powers, and Tom Cruise.
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Sleep, practice, infrastructure, power, and OCD are themes. As per usual.
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Dan has Covid, so Merlin agrees to carry him, and yet Dan improbably carries them both.
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There are a few odds and sods, but, yeah, it's mostly about adjudicating Peak Cruise.
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Feeling bad about feeling bad is ultimately optional.
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From choosing a pencil to relocating your ladder, one big and complex part of Knowledge Work is deciding how to do what you do.
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DISCUSSED: Your hosts talk about some of their favorite Mac apps available via Setapp.
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We've got a man on the boat.
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DISCUSSED: A very moist man's lawyer learns how Dropbox works; Merlin introduces "The Bump"; Dan has a cool new calendar technology; and Merlin speed-rounds some odds and sods.
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Frankly, it was a bit of a fever dream, but your hosts discuss sportsball, collective singular nouns, Coleridge's trap street, LEGO, and a handful of Merlin's recent wins.
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Merlin has thoughts on survival, aging, and whether to bother trying to understand whatever NFTs are. Next up, the triumphant return of "Cool Thing I Learned This Week" brings updates on iOS dictation and a very Merlin video about organization.
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Your hosts discuss dramaturgy, package managers, and monospaced fonts.
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DISCUSSED: Dan misses going to the movies; cool ways to save your bacon in Git; and Merlin is excited about a (new to him) app for personal tracking and quantization.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin runs the table this week with: unseasonable heat; the joy of realizing when someone obviously loved (and probably had to fight for) the thing that they made; and finally, an extended meditation on a phone charger and the decisions that seek to bridge past and future.
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A classic odds n' sods episode. Merlin needs help with a journaling via voice solution; your hosts look at password enhancements in the Apple betas; praise for Apple's SF fonts and SF symbols; a trippy video about paper sizes (and the universe); and, oh, those whacky Mormon sects.
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Dan & Merlin are live from the show floor, sharing their thoughts on the WWDC 2022 keynote address.
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On memory, security, and sleeping injuries.
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It's a very special "Oops! All Automation Check-ins" episode. But, of course—as always—there's also a philosophical component.
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DISCUSSED: Dan's new tenants flip him the bird, and Merlin has strong feelings about email.
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Your hosts are finally back in action with vital updates on #productivity and #creativity. Also, ginger ale and egg substitutes.
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DISCUSSED: Updates on new Plex functionality; praise for Severance; plus some updates on Merlin's new setup—and pursuing the life that you'd like to have.
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DISCUSSED: Big news from Plex; Merlin has an expansive new computer project; and Dan continues to make his way at a new gig using his trusty calendar.
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DISCUSSED: Dan is doing new things that require a new approach to his calendar. Merlin proposes some appropriate Calendar Kyber Crystals.
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DISCUSSED: Dan is back from reporting on the show floor; recommendations for some Back to Work-adjacent podcast episodes; incidental thoughts and advice on presentations as performance; everybody wants a better email app; and Dan shares his thoughts on The Batman;
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DISCUSSED: Dan and Merlin talk about Apple's latest event and consider what the future looks like from Cupertino.
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DISCUSSED: the Russians are coming; Dan has thoughts on Marvel TV shows, and Merlin has thoughts on Hawkeye specifically; Merlin bravely and boldly recommends watching a film that's often considered the greatest ever made; in Follow-Up, Dan has an update on Taskpaper as well as wanting advice on how to fire Photoshop; Merlin seems weirdly excited about his new pencil; yet more praise is heaped on Rogue Amoeba; and, finally, in an unexpected twist, both your hosts realize they did the same thing last week.
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DISCUSSED: your hosts can't complain (but, sometimes, they still do); a provisional craving for secular pre-cana; what are your canonical family holidays?; Dan has to sign something; a quick clarification on eels; Dan has some camera struggles, but Merlin offers advice that's costly and not actually all that useful; as Merlin re-approaches his World of Text, he is obviously getting even more gaybones for VS Code; and, finally, Merlin begins sketching his new project about energy, fuel, and courageous non-vacations.
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DISCUSSED: boiling ATX water and the long-term return of the Bang-Bang Machine; thought-provoking insight on youth, hustle, and work-life balance from Slate Political Gabfest; and Dan tries his hand at TaskPaper.
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DISCUSSED: 🐇🐇; Dan shares follow-up on surviving his Covid week; a listener emails the show with a fascinating offer; your hosts discuss childhood mail; in Breaking News, the actor, M. Emmet Walsh is still alive; it's fun to say "Jackery"; praise for Maira Kalman; some initial thoughts on Apple's Universal Control; and finally, advice on the wisdom of running betas.
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An epic journey that begins with Dan's viral week and ends with a misunderstanding about the first Chicago album.
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DISCUSSED: Memories of Super Dave; KEYnote by LockPickingLawyer; Dan gets conspiracy theory-curious; the tapestry of entertainment by cults; Dan helps Merlin understand Git; and Merlin gets a new hub.
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Taskapalooza begins.
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Wrapping up the year with thoughts on unearned Covid optimism, defining \"normal,\" Roomba training, Microsoft Visual Studio, plus a new (and decidedly more positive) reframing for New Year's resolutions.
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Talking Spider-Man and phones for kids.
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Merlin's Best of 2021™ kicks off with the return of \"Cool Things I Learned This Week.\"
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A classic odds and sods episode covering: Rush lyrics; personal pronoun tips; Fitness+ meditation; more melees with various voice assistant ecosystems; a big shout-out to the iconic Listener Rachel A.; and Merlin's newfound love of Keyboard Maestro.
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The Boys are back, and they're not sure how big this thing gets.
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DISCUSSED: Dad stuff; flying too close to the smart home sun; appreciating the magic of Wes Anderson; the virtues of UPS battery backup; and, finally, Merlin starts tentatively sketching a unified field theory for rethinking how we think about and use space.
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DISCUSSED: please stop changing the clocks; our kids are not us; the people of England have spoiled or corrupted several very good words; The Ellis Island Bit; surnames mean things; getting pelted with rocks and garbage; a Michael Penn playlist for 1 to 3.5 of you jackals; some Mad Max talk; it's always two things with Kevin Kelly; and, finally, some Marvel talk.
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This is what happens when Merlin stays up til 2 a.m. watching a movie and then has to record a podcast at 9 a.m.
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Dan has all the waiters singing at him, and Merlin tries to buy the non-existent SIMS 4 for the Mac.
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DISCUSSED: Your hosts talk about music, Apple Watch, and getting out of your kid's way. Also: life and MacBooks Pro.
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DISCUSSED: Dan and his son are up to Daniel Craig in their Bond journey, and this leads to an exploration of how our feelings about movies and their characters can change over time; considering the media you're scared to rewatch since it's probably not as good as you remember; your hosts dive further into browser extensions and why they're so critical to filtering your world.
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DISCUSSED: Exploring rural voices; the things that kids (and we) have had stolen away over the past couple years; what movie would get your butt back into a cinema seat?; an opinionated dive into Safari's new approach to tabs (and why it feels so concerning); and, finally, Merlin shares a bunch of Safari extensions that do new stuff—or do old stuff in a cool or interesting way.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin considers a black market medical purchase; the anatomical anomalies of the problematic sleeper are considered; some favorite YouTube finds are discussed; and, finally, your hosts begin scratching the surface of iOS 15's many clever and life-enhancing new features.
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Dan and Merlin almost talk about iOS 15.
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Reporting live from the show floor and looking at options for time tracking.
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DISCUSSED: The rules of \"Rabbit Rabbit\"; exploring the magic of Domino's probability-altering powers; forests versus trees and past versus future; Chevy Chase and a familial ninety-ten inversion; and, finally, praise for Lulu Miller's mind-blowing thoughts on the downsides of imposing \"order\" onto chaos.
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DISCUSSED: Nicholson movies; Synology yums and yucks; difficulties of shows about music; upcoming rabbit rabbit plans.
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DISCUSSED: Catching up; Merlin's Travel Results; praise for Best in Show, SCTV, and public libraries; Dan has a new computer.
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A celebration of M1 devices, the benefits of learning how to learn, and considering when a new learning curve might be worth the climb.
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Find the tool you need—but, keep asking yourself, \"Soooooo…now what?\"
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Things get pretty silly, yet somehow land on some extremely Back to Work points about time management, compression, values, and moving your own goalposts. For some reason, McDonald's becomes an important controlling metaphor.
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DISCUSSED: Dan begins a journey into new worlds of voice control and home automation.
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DISCUSSED: Some ups and downs of living the smart speaker lifestyle.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin and his wife realize the moment they crossed a line; in Follow-Up, your hosts celebrate the late great Fred Willard; in further Follow-Up, the state of the union in smart voice devices is considered; and, finally, the long arc of calendar talk starts to wind down with some hard talk on disambiguation and actually really getting real.
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DISCUSSED: Dan finally gets more three-six-five, and Merlin gets extremely deep in the stack. Also, just a little more calendar talk, including a model for deciding where something goes.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin runs into some problems reporting live from the show floor; is social media making us as happy as we'd like to think?; thoughts on pro wrestlers and the films of John Carpenter; finding the triggers for action that you didn't know you needed; recommendations for videos and Firefox extensions; why we use the web browsers that we use; your hosts dive into their favorite announcements coming out of WWDC; how exactly do you decide where something should go?; Dan reveals he has become the third kind of calendar person; exploring the ineffable (but indisputably real) value of finding technologies and experiences that you actually enjoy; and, finally, Merlin shares a novel misunderstanding with a voice dingus.
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DISCUSSED: Part one of a deep dive into calendars.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin is full of beans this week.
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DISCUSSED: A classic, old-school “Odds ’n Sods” episode that includes: Apple’s audio upgrade announcement; AirTags and the promising future of UWB; lots of thoughts on anxiety; caffeine weaners; tongue-rolling; and a salt and pepper of media recently enjoyed (and now recommended).
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DISCUSSED: Merlin has been cracking nuts, and Dan is enjoying a beverage; in Follow-Up, Dan has made great progress with his new voice assistant; Merlin has thoughts on choosing a dingus ecosystem that’s right for you; words mean things, and often you want the right “procedure word”; Merlin has some good Back to Work-adjacent media recommendations; do we really want to rebuild The Embarcadero Freeway? Really?; and, Dan has some new scholarship on the films of Stanley Kubrick.
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DISCUSSED: Dan is actively gaslighting Merlin, and this can be proven; please stop stealing focus; praise for Ferris Bueller in general and the knees of Sloane Peterson in particular; passing thoughts on fear, procrastination, impostor syndrome, and solving the right problem; Merlin is delighted to discover a much-improved Little Snitch; Dan has thoughts on his Ford’s weird button; in gadget updates, Dan has found some useful headphones and has thoughts on trying to use his new Google dingus; finally, just in general, try to keep your hands away from the dragon’s mouth.
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Merlin has a whole new setup, and Dan has a whole new TV.
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How to overcome impostor syndrome.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin is reporting live from the show floor; sleep is complicated; food is complicated, too; Dan tries to build muscles the right way; he also has strong feelings about TV shopping; Merlin just wants someone to tell him which is The Good One.
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[Siracusa, picking nits at his best]
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DISCUSSED: some important movie follow-up; films (and other media) can be a powerful way to talk about things we aren't supposed to be talking about; Merlin has some links to help think about what comes next as we get back to ““normal\"\"; plus, follow-up on Dan's Kindle journey, including some really useful tips.
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DISCUSSED: fake southern accents lead to some movie talk; Merlin apologizes; Dan does not want to spend a night in The Box; please utilize the restroom that conforms to the color of your gender; a guardsman pitches Merlin's wife; Merlin goes off on a surprisingly long tangent on kung fu movies--especially the work of The Great Gordon Liu; Dan needs a syllabus to get Cash even more into Godzilla movies; there are some words on DC movies; your hosts begin a dive into the Kindle ecosystem that turns into a dive into \"\"The Kindle Ecosystem\"\"; Friend-of-the-Show, Moisés, provides some beneficial real-time follow-up regarding the king of monsters; Merlin needs some movie backstory but also wants wants to make it extremely clear that he is very attracted to an English actress.
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(The awesome website Merlin couldn't remember)
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DISCUSSED: iOS has gotten really good; still, there's some Apple stuff we'd love to see get better; some Covid updates; anxiety and OCD in these fraught times; finally, Dan and Merlin need your advice for some networking upgrades.
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DISCUSSED: DST and rebooting sleep; some quick documentary talk; a challenging H.R. Giger poster; updates on sane prepping, looking at some interesting sources for electric power; on rational prepping; oh, boy, fatbergs; and, finally, a quick dive into the joys of \"The Everything Button\" and the myriad benefits of learning the key commands.
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Diving deep on the power of infrastructure. Yes, for you, too.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin has a lot to say about fizzy water and the drugs of Florida; someone please help Dan get his old Twitter name; talking recent media and deciding when a kid is \"ready\" for it; some Marvel talk; Jack Kirby ruled; finally, hey, tell us what you'd like to hear on topics related to preparation and infrastructure.
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Preparing isn't just for preppers. But, how do you incorporate scope and infrastructure without turning into a nut?
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DISCUSSED: Dan has updates on Texas's recent weather events and the unanticipated cascading effects on complex and interconnected infrastructures; then, for dessert, your hosts explore the delights and insights of the \"isolated tracks\" rabbit hole.
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—Eddie Van Halen (1978)
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DISCUSSED: As The Lone Star state struggles with a surfeit of anomalous weather events, your hosts dig into the challenges inherent to all sorts of complex, interconnected systems.
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DISCUSSED: Doing pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good; Dan discovers a shark is menacingly circling one of his product names; there's a reason Merlin is not in the corner office; your hosts fondly recall the Avon products of their youth; Dan shares a terrific anecdote about George Harrison and Phil Collins; please don't use my things for things those things aren't things to be used for; Mission: Impossible movies are very good; if you want to really appreciate something, it helps to make yourself be an amateur again; a recommendation for a very smart Mac location managing app; Merlin presents a lengthy and disordered jeremiad on HomeKit, HomeKit apps, and the new iOS playground; which is mostly all just to say: why are email apps still so terrible?
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No way am I even going to attempt a description this week.
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DISCUSSED: There are things that one wants to see less or fewer often; is this particular button actually hooked up to anything?; there is literal must-see TV and you must see it literally immediately; everything is catching on fire; four basic steps for being a successful adult (who has to deal with other adults); thoughts on creativity and focal length; the process of unpandemicizing, or: do we still know how to put a Casual Corner in a mall?; Dan is loving his iPad; Merlin introduces a theory on The Velocity of Writing Instruments; and, finally, a quick celebrity cameo.
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It's only advice for you because it had to be advice for me.
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DISCUSSED: life's relentlessness continues apace; Cash enjoyed Dan's modified Godfather trilogy; celebrating Lil' Inappropriate Books; a terrific recent use of \"Layla\"; some Inside Baseball talk about a recommended app segment; then, for the balance of the episode, your hosts start diving into Dan's exciting new acquisition and how best to put to good use.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin looks at a shelf and then, for some reason, discusses it; walls and Japanese beds and jokey-sized dishwashers all benefit from wheels; life is different when you live on a boat; it's important to find the right tool for the job; some people see forests, while others see trees; Merlin performs his very good Gordon Ramsey impression; Merlin also performs his very good David Lynch impression; in Follow-Up, we learn the extremely unsatisfying reason Personal Requests weren't working on a HomePod; there is discussion of the power of Siri alongside frustrations with its poor documentation; interesting bugs are discussed; your hosts explore the similarities between good documentation and good recipes; weird comic book feet are explored; tips on good media your hosts are enjoying; and, finally, there's some rapid-fire app and scripting recommendations.
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DISCUSSED: Making a problem go away is not the same thing as solving the problem.
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DISCUSSED: The generational struggle to understand things we can't understand, dealing with other people, and Star Wars.
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Sometimes, no one can see the ball—let alone reach the ball.
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Discussed: the paths of thought and emerging from a rut the size of the Grand Canyon.
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DISCUSSED: lot of projects going on!; praise for Nicki Minaj; some recent TV shows that are important to your hosts; Merlin is a little obsessed with a new Mac productivity app; interrogating problems with deliveries and porch pirates; vehicle theft can be very confusing; and, finally, some insight nobody asked for into Merlin's ambitious new hardware project.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin's additions to Bunch have him stepping on his own dingus; maybe it's time to invert the permissive legacy model for who gets access to us (as well as how and when); there's no amount of technology that can make other people be decent; Oh. Hey. Defaults? Be better; also, please quit stealing my focus; Dan is not buying anything new; your hosts talk about the various (often non-obvious) costs of adding, changing, or removing features; maybe building your whole business on Facebook wasn't such a great idea; passing discussion of Bloom County, Muppet dogs, and a Tilikum bottle; the tale of Underscore's unexpected success, and the costs it brought; talk of affordances; and, finally, Just cough up some dough, Mac!
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DISCUSSED: Merlin has a lot to say about the benefits of making lists; this leads to an old-school stemwinder on \"Journal\" calendars, functional playlists, shared Notes, the lessons of the cutlery drawer, desire paths, arbitrary grids, \"Reference\" albums, urban bike hooks, auxiliary paper towel holders, and more; praise for The Boys; the magical combination of Halide and Pixelmator Photo; Dan resurrects a beloved podcast; and, finally, Merlin endorses a really weird British weather report that can help you sleep.
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DISCUSSED: hey, it's an advice episode!; San Francisco has a lot of available office space; a musical unguent for your soul; a cool font that makes accessibility pretty; getting in front of your next wave of depression; the Emotional Police are here to cite you for your numerous infractions; and, finally, Merlin highly recommends a recent podcast episode about why we're all so exhausted and what we might want to do about it.
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DISCUSSED: Sending good vibes to The Dude; Merlin has a couple awesome app recommendations; some Follow-Up on the Apple Event, including what your hosts are ordering and what they're each excited about; which kinds of things your hosts do and do not find useful about the Apple Rumor Industrial Complex; Dan tries on a new iOS camera app; Merlin recommends a clever web cam app; some of our voice friends hear well, others understand well, and some sound good, but none (for now) do it all; finally, Dan finds some productivity insight, courtesy of The Buddha.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin is reporting live from the show floor; Dan is due for a new phone; nostalgia for buying a carton of cigarettes; praise for Netflix's \"Challenger\" series; Merlin shares some updates on his big resource-leveling project; gotta find those big rocks, amirite; interruptions are the death of the tech person's day; remember, your work is part of your life—not separate from it.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin craves an easy visit with Floyd; Spirit's lawsuit no longer winds on down the road; Question: what obligation does a company have to support their developer tools? And for how long exactly?; when are new film editions not \"the good one?\"; despite swearing not to do so, a popular service for monetizing indie content is, as they say, put on blast; lot of talk about business things; waiters shouldn't lie to people who used to be waiters; exciting developments in the Drafts ecosystem; and, finally, Merlin unleashes an old school stem-winder on taking a recent stab at resource-leveling—using technology!
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DISCUSSED: the boys update one another on some very good media they're enjoying; everybody loves a movie with a big world; Merlin pitches Dan on the improbable magic of Ted Lasso; talk turns to some new features of Apple's recent OS updates; at length, Merlin makes a case for exploring the amazing new functionalities of widgets, complications, and especially the apps of Underscore David Smith; Guardian gets an exciting update and a pro plan; there's some talk of the challenge in finding a VPN that actually does what you think it's doing; it seems like the show is over, but then there's twelve minutes of movie talk with a focus on children and boobs; finally, Merlin kinda busts a gut about trying to run a Mr. Rogers on the kids you care about.
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DISCUSSED: Folks, this one is a doozy, and that's all I'm gonna say about that.
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Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
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DISCUSSED: Merlin is reporting live from the show floor; remember to photograph your kid's room; some bearded dragon updates; some thoughts on pets; Merlin's grandfather was a reluctant dog obsessive; Dan wants to read you a label; Merlin met a fellow cadet; check out Dan's videos; Merlin is loving iOS 14, especially the smarter Siri suggestions; speculation on how machines learn; your hosts still want Macs to be Macs; Big Sur notifications are basically a Bop It; are we getting diminishing returns from theoretical Mac improvements?; Dan has a really good analogy involving wrist watches; there's a reason normal people don't like their apps to change; Merlin puts review requests on blast; an edit button would still be nice; Merlin finds himself with an unusual opportunity to field test some disused home tech; and, finally, it is hoped that Frasier will leave of his own volition.
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DISCUSSED: California has no shortage of crises; Dan's got a brand new bag; thoughts on exercise as prophylactic medicine; extremely anecdotal data on the rise of fake ratings and reviews on Amazon; the return of \"A cool thing I learned this week\" brings some very neato apps, tips, and whatnot.
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DISCUSSED: Rabbit, rabbit!; Dan wants to be sedated; at some point, Merlin had most of the optimism bred out of him; a lot of problems and small beefs get overlooked for survival and sanity reasons right now; Dan shares listener recommendations for movies like the Missions Impossible; time was, you went to the weird video store and just hoped you got the good guy; Dan wants to remind you that he signed a letter of agreement—a CONTRACT; maybe it's time we abandon that increasingly meaningless term, \"screen time\"; Merlin thinks you can give a baby a name that's funny in only one way, but never in more than one way; every generation demonizes a new technology that they're sure will corrupt the youths; Dan has strong thoughts on the Indiana Jones trilogy (yes, there are exactly three and only three); no one is as persuasive as Sean Connery; Merlin made some movie lists; sometimes you get something that's \"mostly for your kid\" when it's totally not for your kid; Dan draws inspiration from Roald Dahl's work setup; this is probably a pretty good time to be risk-averse; a reminder that there are still always opportunities to improve how you operate; this leads to an examination of \"desire paths\" and learning from what your intuition and previous behaviors are trying to tell you; Merlin's Infrastructure Week is extended as he goes ham on speeding up his Mac; and, finally, Merlin discusses a useful Mac utility before putting it on blast.
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TIP: if you see some movies you love here, you can trust my taste. If you don’t, you will probably hate these. They are all weird. All of them.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin has a lot of infrastructure going on; your hosts share strong feelings on time zone discrimination and its attendant big-timing; Dan has more cool videos coming to his channel; some boring nerd talk on voice recording options; Dan needs your suggestions for more movies like the Missions Impossible; in Follow-Up, there's some good news and some bad news related to both COVID and San Francisco; hurricanes are coming!; Merlin figures out why Safari on his Mac got so slow; thoughts on DNS Server choices; Merlin endorses a podcast episode that involves some very Back To Work ideas; everything is copy; and, finally, some concerns about nicknames plus several important questions about the consensuality of Jake Robert's titular snake.
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DISCUSSED: time is hard; X-Men for eight cellos; in follow-up, Dan has some clues for troubleshooting his jumpy screen; it's valuable to understand what problem you didn't solve; then, of course, comes the extended weekly airing of COVID grievances; Merlin needs advice on choosing a Zoom recorder; check out Dan's new thing!; recommendations for Ted Lasso and Ethan Hunt; some lessons to bring home from vacation; plus, some more reckons on life after COVID.
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DISCUSSED: Dan is joining a campaign, and Merlin's eyesight now precludes him from being an AD&D dungeon master; Dan has a concern about his laptop screen and needs your help; then, the boys settle in for a good, old-fashioned recommendations episode; podcasts, pens, video editing apps, a 3D printer, a new SoundSource, hard drives, and even a moisturizing cream for your little patch.
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DISCUSSED: the joys of a movie that reveals itself over multiple viewings; good storytelling is difficult but so rewarding; as you know, Bob, a lot of movies have that Walk Hard problem; Merlin has questions about Dan's day-to-day in Travis County; people are cooking the books; why do so many people have the Extremis virus these days?; we could still make a big dent; and, finally, wow, the demands for performance sure can be exhausting.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin has discovered a unique new voice emerging from the medical and spiritual communities; your hosts interrogate the implications of this new material; Dan and Merlin have media recommendations; as a main topic, your hosts explore the many, intertwined complexities of trying to figure out \"the future\" right now.
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DISCUSSED: There's really only one topic right now, and it's not going away any time soon. Many analogies and historical echoes are explored. The future, if it exists, is going to be very weird.
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DISCUSSED: knife talk and flea market nostalgia; a deep dive on state knife law; knife tips from listeners; Merlin reinstalled Homebrew; comfort viewing amidst these challenging times; also, a healthy fear of Australian spiders.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin has flies in his bathroom; Dan's town is really going through some times; there's some COVID talk, duh; Merlin solved a very strange iOS beta bug; main topic involves some thoughts on the Apple betas and the tantalizing future that they imply; Dan has a new keyboard and an accompanying conspiracy theory; leathers men are discussed; and, finally, Merlin needs to use the bathroom—provided the flies will allow it.
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DISCUSSED: the things we can and cannot do anything about; the things that can and cannot change; and the wisdom to know all of the differences.
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DISCUSSED: Dan and Merlin take a first look at Apple's recently-announced iOS and iPadOS updates.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin is nauseated, and Dan has advice on what you definitely should or should not buy at a gas station; Merlin says he'll be brief, but, as usual, it turns into a real stem-winder as…; Merlin addresses the complexity of treating mental illness in a way that doesn't upend your body and life; Dan needs some TV show recommendations, but has very strong feelings about talking animals; Merlin wonders aloud if he's ever met @Darth; case close.
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DISCUSSED: Dan and Merlin talk about hot dogs.
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DISCUSSED: Skype struggles; nobody likes parsnips; Dan remotely teaches Merlin to cut his own hair; Dan introduces a new game show, and Merlin is dealing with poop; life is not currently optimized for multiple-event days; Merlin challenges you to remember when exactly eight minutes has gone by; why we'll eventually each discover what the hell happened on our personal Galápagos; the exhaustion of Zoom calls; an omnibus recommendation related to movies; finally, Dan Columbos Merlin with a question about napping, which leads to some surprising insights on our feelings about success and failure.
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DISCUSSED: discussion of The Freshman and thoughts on what makes a movie \"hold up\"; has anyone ever craved a three-star movie?; what Merlin really wants is a smart friend; Dan is enjoying On Becoming a God in Central Florida; the difficulty of making weird good; I didn't buy it a beer; your mask is not a case for your beard; Dan has follow-up on bikes; Merlin has follow-up on companies and WFH help; thoughts on what we know and don't know about the difficulties of ““reopening””; the benefits and challenges of being a chain-worrying project manager; praise for the Austin Grackles.
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DISCUSSED: Here we are in Spain; a lot went on behind the scenes of The Wizard of Oz; also Modern Problems existed; further discussion of 80s movies; they used to make more movies; B-MO gets a show?; secrets of the child whisper network; Saturday morning memories; C19 is making a lot of holes and gaps in kids' lives; what even is the deal with colleges?; wisdom from the great Kevin Kelly; it's one thing to know something, but it's another thing to know something; and, finally, beginning to explore how best to level resources and expectations as many of us work from home.
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DISCUSSED: Dan has concerns!; every road has many parts, but you seriously need to show your humanity; stop signs are really just velocipede serving suggestions; not all wood floats; too soon; an ambitious crossover is proposed; Cormac McCarthy rules; Phillip W. Battery sure has a lot going on for a busy and attentive new dad; as a main topic, your hosts bounce off a terrific recent episode of Merlin's beloved You're Wrong About; hey, what B2W-ish lessons can be drawn from the response to the Y2K \"bug\"?; ultimately, it is just so hard to solve one problem without potentially creating five other problems; memories of New Year's Eve, 1999; for once, Dan wasn't concerned at all; more praise for YWA, and a humble apology to Sarah; hey, listen, don't be ashamed to find delight; praise for Slugline 2; a recommendation for a James Franco movie.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin is having a strange day, and Dan notices everything; please remember that fear and stress and anxiety are pretty terrible motivators; praise for On Becoming a God in Central Florida and 1Password; security theater vs. security reality; Dan's new mouse is as quiet as a…what's the word?; Brushing with Hardest Available Toothbrush Considered Harmful; Dan is gently exposing his son to one of the great films. So what?; a couple great pieces on making actual good passwords; recommendations for a Sondheim special and a terrific YouTube guy; extensive advice and suggestions for a listener moving to a Mac; learning almost anything is a lot like learning The Metric System; and, finally, praise for the great Peter N. Lewis.
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DISCUSSED: our perception of value is definitely personal and maybe even a little generational; sometimes, the only thing you can afford is the best; a listener question about where your hosts are with comics; further praise for TaskPaper; updates on macOS text editing; Merlin capitulates to Catalina; Dan answers a listener question about coping with chronic back pain; learning how to stop rehearsing frailty by embracing the wonders of momentum.
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DISCUSSED: Dan loves it when things just work and so does Merlin; Dan is composting, and Merlin is down to clown; ¡repita después de mi!; massive real-time follow-up; playing with iBeacons; excellent follow-up and notes from listeners; many reccomendations; memories of Grad Night; this is a very silly one.
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TW: very brief mention of suicide around minute 24.
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In this very intimate episode, Dan and Merlin share some ideas for positive yet do-able projects to improve your life and world in these dumb, scary times.
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Difficult times and the Venn overlap between anxiety and OCD. Hang in there, everybody.
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DISCUSSED: “CATS — Now and Forever!”; BokBok.wtf; on civic responsibility; Dan browses worms, and Merlin finds him a spider; Dan wants some keyboard advice, and Merlin just needs a ride; some thoughts on engaging versus escaping right now; praise for Danny Elfman and Oingo Boingo; suggestions for leveraging the wonder of libraries today; Dan is working on a big Minecraft project, also some listener letters.
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DISCUSSED: heck, yeah, there's a lot of uncertainty; the woeful knock-on effects of COVID-19, from SxSW to presidential handshaking; Dan graciously accepts Merlin's apology; it's so important that you not touch the fish's face; Dan's Podcast Method is back, baby; you can tell an ecosystem is healthy when the advice about it diversifies; Dan explains the Kelvin Timeline and why he hates it; a Celebration of Bones emerges; Merlin is intrigued by Otter and a little unsure about Jumbo; Dan wants you to know it's still him; breaking handshake news; the boys get a nice letter from a listener; Merlin kinda busts a gut about where his head was at when Back to Work launched; audio is afoot; recommended starter episodes are offered; and, finally, praise for Lost and Japanese Queer Eye.
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DISCUSSED: Skype steals focus, and Merlin ate your poem; music is pretty great; some odds and sods and recommendations; everyone should have a bell; learning to trust your system (and yourself); listener mailbag; Dan loves his new backpack; more on bulwarks against madness.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin isn't quite awake yet and has some audio struggles in the midst of a new project; Dan is bringing back The Podcast Method; committing something to media can still be very special; podcasts are cool, and you should make one; praise for Temple Grandin, a Jason Snell video, and a big upgrade over the stock Home app for iOS; solid syncing has raised a lot of boats; updates on the iOS text editor landscape; and, finally, thoughts on the future of sustainable iOS app development.
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DISCUSSED: new muting!; infrastructure is hard; on dogs; Dan gets a podcast recommendation from his fish guy; who we're 'shipping on Star Trek; a free musical performance for a beloved sponsor; some good TED talks; do we like ligatures in monospace fonts?; Dan is getting restarted with OmniFocus, and Merlin has many, many thoughts and suggestions; finally, your hosts conclude by communicating The Pig Joke. Classic.
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DISCUSSED: thoughts on hand-washing and habit-building; Dan has a really good scarecrow joke; Merlin still can't figure out how many 12-year-olds Dan owns; Dan has a question about laptops and backpacks; the Tao of Backpacks; how to listen to a podcast; Dan has a question about iPhone cases; what we talk about when we talk about ad blocking; Merlin recommends a TED talk and a podcast about delight; Dan's new Picard podcast is going well; Dan has questions about OmniFocus; finally, Dan has questions about Los Angeles and, then, repeatedly ruins Merlin's very good endings.
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Merlin is pretty out of it this week, and Dan shares some listener questions.
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DISCUSSED: strongly-held podcast preferences; Skype hates you; praise for Rogue Amoeba and Strong Songs; a small B2W milestone passes; Dan likes 1917; what Jack did; praise for Match Game; a couple app and font reccos; tips for tricking out your Logitech mouse; no, seriously, Skype actively hates you; Merlin nabs an excellent new domain name for the program; Merlin continues his deep dive into LaunchBar; and, finally, some thoughts on burritos and tacos.
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DISCUSSED: A fun and creepy new face swap app; Twitter is not creating much new happy; this leads to a discussion of generational perceptions about what's acceptable or even desirable (especially with Apple products); praise for the podcast, The Dream; Merlin gets a new clock; the origin of #MerlinsPoopList; who pays $168 for a bikini?; Merlin has uvula problems; Dan explores P&S Liquid and an upsetting gurgling noise; and, finally, \"Back to the Mac 2020™\" kicks off with a first dive into the magic of Obdev's LaunchBar.
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Merlin needs help in the NOC; Dan discovers sensitive sauce; there are thresholds; hurting your roller skating muscles; new printer; and, finally, Merlin conducts a long exploration of unnecessary efficiencies, evolved technologies, and the minimum viable productivity system.
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For this very special end of the century, fin de siècle episode, Dan and Merlin make bespoke personal recommendations for music, podcasts, apps, TV shows, YouTube videos, and gadgets.
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DISCUSSED: holiday lizard talk; some benefits of using \"Environment\" and \"Journal\" calendars; nostalgia for the Palm family of products in general and Graffiti in particular; responses to listener letters about: finding a \"hook\" for a new habit, physical media follow-up, HomeKit dinguses, Markdown editors, the joys of the TaskPaper lifestyle, advice on recovering from a disruption, and, finally, some thoughts on the unexpected benefits of disruption.
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DISCUSSED: Dan presents a curious new bathroom project; some thoughts on OCD, procrastination, and empathy; praise for Fury Road, Inglourious Basterds, and Dunkirk; Dan has follow-up on his awesome new laptop and the state of Unix shells; Merlin makes the case for occasionally getting unused to things.
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DISCUSSED: Drafts for Mac is out!; check out Damon Lindelof on The Watch; suggestions for HomeKit power strips; and responses to listener letters on rediscovering the joys of physical media and getting started with addressing chronic pain.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin has an email confession; Dan steps up with a shoulder; listeners have given your hosts a season of the show; praise for HBO's Watchmen; a discussion of curating media for kids; Merlin exercises Personal Privilege; everybody is different!; praise for the new MacBook Pro (and who it may or may not be good for); the beginnings of what could be an extensive series on reclaiming control of your own media; some Plex homework for both listeners and your hosts; a brief rant on the downsides and limitations of renting other people's music; Merlin is birthday-gifted with Planty II plus some awesome @pants materials.
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Our worst episode ever. Enjoy!
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Dan is getting a Synology, Merlin has been making stuff, plus the return of \"Cool Things I Learned This Week.\"
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DISCUSSED: coincident birthdays; mathowie's gigantism and very online Ex Machina house; extensive actor and media talk; you probably hadn't heard, but, The Revenant was very difficult to make; Apple TV+ is getting…not great notices; success is a great deodorant, but could iPhone : 2010s Apple :: Windows : 1990s Microsoft?; hardware follow-up on Merlin's new modem and UPS setup; the value of always showing hustle, and why you should always run out first base; Dan's in a jam-up with his internet provider over a seemingly unnecessary piece of harware; further hardware follow-up from Merlin on spreading his wings with his Synology; Dan has a new keyboard he loves; praise for several Logitech products; and, finally, why Merlin just can't quit his MX Master Mouse.
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This week, Dan and Merlin dive into the benefits (and fun) of a NAS project. Also, Merlin goes off about the horror show of letting old people determine the future. Also, also, hey, kung fu movies!
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It's Infrastructure Week! Dan and Merlin start with California's power crisis and end up pivoting to phones, cable TV, and, of course, Apple.
\n\nWhat happens when a resource we think of as a solved part of our infrastructure suddenly isn't so solved?
\n\nAnd, what would Apple look like if it treated all of its services as seriously as it once treated the Mac?
\n\nAlso: lizard updates, but please don't Google \"hornworms.\"
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This week, Dan and Merlin talk about living in a world of hardware choices.
\n\nHow do you decide which device is best suited to a given task? Which ones do you find yourself preferring to use because they're friction-free—or just fun?
\n\nAnd, in what ways do our previous behaviors, habits, and expectations end up unconsciously coloring our future decisions?
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This week, Dan and Merlin talk about Apple's OS rollouts, changes in Apple retail, and week two with the new Apple Watch.
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This week, Dan and Merlin focus on the new Apple Watch.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin has a cool new voice from talking to friends late last night; Dan has an automotive collision anecdote, while Merlin has thoughts on how preparation fails us in extreme moments; in follow-up, Listener Steve has terrific advice on dealing with bad hotel room technology; your hosts love insider information from pilots and other category pros; Dan ordered a watch, and Merlin is apparently not actually wrecking a plane; the guys respond to listener letters about ages of people in movies, Dan's world-destroying Disney fact (that he can't remember), plus a listener's concern about company password hygiene; and finally, Dan has great news about refreshing an iMac, but less great news about household password hygiene.
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Dan and Merlin discuss the upcoming big Apple event and why this one's potentially interesting. Also, dog anecdotes.
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DISCUSSED: finding an actor's age and height; time analogies; Merlin needs help naming two critical phenomena; Dan is dissatisfied with how cars look; could Wolverine get a Caillou tattoo, and would it grow back, hmmmm?; Merlin is getting into plants (no, not sexually); the return of that time when Danny held the license plate; and finally, Merlin has a long stemwinder on an admittedly amorphous topic: the unimpeachable benefits of undoing most of the buttons we've clicked.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin has a little visitor today. Dan has some thoughts on conference scheduling. This leads to a broader discussion of the sensitivities we may or may not have to other peoples' limitations and constraints. It's nice to meet people.
\n\nFor some reason, religion, churches, and clergy are discussed. \"This is what Peter did say!\"
\n\nFinally, the guys answer a listener question about working from home. Merlin poses a challenge.
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Dan and Merlin explore the complexities of personal style. Not personal style as in fashion, but as in preferences, identity, and modes of interaction. How do we let others know how we are?
\n\nHow do we derive a sense of what works best for us, and why is it such a shameful struggle to effectively communicate that to others? What do AirPods, Snapchat, and Bloomberg Terminals potentially have in common?
\n\nAnd, would it be cool if I just listen to this podcast instead of talking about my blouse and the weather?
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DISCUSSED: the admirable candor of B.B. King; the simple joys of the Ordinary Night; movies that are or are not dated and how that affects your enjoyment; how sci-fi seemed to mostly miss the internet; our embarrassment of media options; tech in media and what it means for plot stuff; technology adoption curves are definitely speeding up; doing everything you can not to use your phone as a phone; more generational stuff; how time and context changes our perception; should they take all the smoking out of movies and tv?; remember: you're not making errors—you're adding information; and, finally, Dan has an exciting announcement and a wet notebook.
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DISCUSSED: kindness; eyeglasses, at length—including eyeglasses indignities, discounts, and injuries; a renewed surfeit of dingalings, fake friends, and a dumb podcast hit piece; and, finally, your hosts respond to a listener question on getting stressed about personal quantization.
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Show notes are short this week because Merlin had to go buy contrast paints for his figs.
\n\nMain topic is speculating about speculation.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin is a little hoarse; but what's an actual pony versus an actual little horse?; there's a lot of sadness and housing problems in the Hundred Acre Wood; the challenges of recommending starter media; the further challenges of being a media super-fan; (and how this relates to not seeing The Flintstones and stealing a copy of Fight Club from Blockbuster Video); Florida is hot; may everyone live long enough to feel bad for saying something really stupid on a podcast; is Piglet a small pig or just a pig baby?; Dan needs your help to find Cash a durable iPad case and keyboard solution; Merlin needs your help understanding the logic of keyboard media keys; to Dan, Piglet was always a baby pig; then, there's some follow-up on Disney parks; Dan again threatens to permanently ruin Disney for you, but he promises to clearly bracket it; and, finally, Dan has had it with people stealing flu valor. Just stop it, people.
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First and most importantly, Dan is back! Woo!
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\n\nEssentially, Walt Disney World in particular has the control, data, and means to be extremely good at resource management, and that's just fascinating to think about.
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Dan's away this week, so Merlin tries going it alone.
\n\nTopics include lessons from painting D&D minifigs, listener letters, and some recommendations.
\n\nFeel better soon Dan; we need you!
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DISCUSSED: Merlin has a catastrophic off-by-one-week error; Roderick's June is very triggering to your hosts; sometimes, it's nice to be exposed to stuff you didn't expect, but…; at a certain point in life, you mostly just see trees of inconvenience and risk; this leads to a long (and surprisingly pretty good) meditation on FOMO, acceptance, and not pretending to be a person you never actually were; Dan helps Merlin unpack a scene near his workplace; Merlin gets in the weeds about Roger Deakins, Torquay, and two different Richards Burton; then, there's a brief side trip into the reboot of Nick Fury; and, finally the boys answer listener questions about taking notes in college and feeling resistance to completing tasks.
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DISCUSSED: Nobody got enough sleep last night, but they're gonna power through anyhow; your hosts fawn over the amazing Chernobyl miniseries; various hardware mute button options are discussed; Merlin can't draw but is very excited about making pictures on an iPad; Dan is looking forward to seeing more Olyphant; your hosts address a listener's question about their \"everyday carry,\" but honestly mostly end up talking about bags; also, you really need a bag in a bag in a bag; and, finally Merlin has an admittedly privileged aspiration involving keys.
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DISCUSSED: nasty, brutish, and short sleep; watching TV with a game controller; Dan has to deal with suite concatenation; your hosts crave the expertise of a craftsman; Merlin realizes he and his lady friend see very different forests (spoiler: hers is way better); popcorn ceiling comes in cans; your hosts contrast their views on kipple, sentimentality, and need; Dan struggles to turn off his buttons, and Merlin loves his iPad's Paste button; provisional, anecdotal praise for AT&T's Call Protect service; there's a distinction between long sleep and good sleep; Dan has to stab a prestige TV doppelgänger, and Merlin learns about Night Company; Merlin has recommendations for a Mac automation app, a new David Sparks Field Guide, and a handy new IoT dingus; speculation that smart home adoption truly won't tip until the interactions get less dorky; mobile charging options for travel are debated; everybody needs a Dad Hat; and, finally, with only three days of school left, Dan receives a very concerning email.
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DISCUSSED: Dan has a new setup, and Merlin randomly recommends a kids' book; your hosts remember too much; Dan realizes he took the wrong shop class, and Merlin realizes why Generation X was (and remains) mostly useless; Dan walks us through his new setup, and the boys talk about the joys of VNC; Merlin is excited about the new \"Guard\" functionality of the Amazon voice dingus; Ferris Bueller's Day Off is still very good; what is the sound of one Koan falling?; your hosts discuss an article proposing why everything should take 20 minutes; Merlin dives deep on his own longstanding use of this heuristic; this leads to some classic #productivity talk; there's some instamatic camera nostalgia; Dan has a new project, and you should maybe contact him; Once AGAIN!; the glory of Spirited Away is discussed; Dan recommends a good TV show for date night; and, finally, Dan and Merlin admit they'd probably watch basically anything about Watchmen.
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DISCUSSED: Dan explains what the photos he sends mean; Merlin encourages Dan to air a beef, and Dan kindly assents; Oh, boy, Windows! My old nemesis…Windows!; the Mac's interoperability glory days were amazing; it really sucks to watch a computer start up and start up and start up; ports confuse Merlin, who is now officially an old; Dan and Merlin talk about a few things they enjoyed watching on YouTube; Merlin has a recommendation for downloading internet videos (purely for educational reasons); Merlin also recommends a really good podcast episode about \"data-driven parenting\"; then, Merlin kinda pops off a little; hey, listen: you can rarely have benefits without risks (and kinda vice-versa); Dan's watching Deadwood again, and Merlin gets kinda excitable again and does lots of quotes for some reason; and, finally, Merlin has a super-tip about improving your results in Apple Health.
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DISCUSSED: the restorative tonic of a good night's sleep; a return to sleep as video game; it's okay to tweet your hosts about hoagies and Publix; concerns about butt cancer; Dan recommends a Netflix series; Merlin endorses Overcast clips; the difficulty of balancing user requests with reality; Merlin commends the deliberate simplicity of his daughter's spork; Merlin recommends a podcast; and, finally, your hosts respond to a listener's email about the therapeutic benefits of \"controlling a small area.\"
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DISCUSSED: Dan and Merlin get hungry, but they've had it with all the bread; the trough food is so costly; no one is sweating Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons; Marvel-ish movies are discussed, including the new one with Lady Sansa; Merlin is very concerned about aphasias; Dan introduces us to Forbidden Snacks and endorses his new shoe appliance; shoe appliances are then discussed; Dan hasn't had to use his sword…yet; people sure love them some pencils; there was some weather, so the seder got all fakakte; the finer points of Judaism and sundry Hebraica are clarified; Dan got scrolls-on-tape from a sympathetic cantor; Buster Scruggs is recommended; the boys receive a quick surprise visit from the great Tom Waits; and, finally, your hosts talk about a terrific YouTube video about what we can all learn from our worst trainwrecks.
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DISCUSSED: Dan has just started a new pen; there's some pen, pencil, and eraser talk; Dan has an important anecdote about utilizing eraser-based people skills; Dan's iMac is working fine, but he's concerned about the poofs coming out of the balloon blower; Dan saw Venom and has some thoughts; Merlin commends a comic and a podcast and an app launcher; the evolution of computer interaction has rewired our brains; why do they have to make the print so small?; Merlin has songs in his head; and, finally, Merlin apologizes to Nick Fury.
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DISCUSSED: What we talk about when we talk about optimism; the power of \"Act as Though\"; on edibles; a YouTube recommendation, then more YouTube recommendations; how even do we tell YouTube what we never want to see again? HOW?!; the difficulty of sensible algorithms; the fascinating concept of \"pareidolia\"; Professor Shoelaces's extensive metatags; your hosts answer a listener's question about when to go physical versus when to go digital.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin is back on his old cans; Dan is pivoting to video; Cash stepped in paint, and kids are terrible storytellers; a book recommendation; a case for the Oxford comma, please and thank you; Dan starts asking for help with his new iMac; gross nickel–and-diming by Apple; praise for Southwest Airlines; Dan (finally) gets to finish asking for help with his new iMac; a cool new open source Mac video app; the Mac laptop keyboard problems ain't going away; Dan really likes Final Cut; Merlin fights with UPS, both on principle and as a game; Merlin thinks Dan's egg cooker rules.
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DISCUSSED: allergy attack!; big anniversary today; elegy for Two Cats Comics; some D&D talk; Dan got a sword!; yet more D&D talk; key commands for line-moving; Dan got his YouTube URL back; a Theranos book recommendation; Dan almost got cast in a TV show; some observations and reckons about Apple's big Services event.
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DISCUSSED: Top o' the Morling!; praise for the home release of Spider-Verse; Dan and Merlin offer some more TV recommendations; Merlin endorses an excellent \"turns out\" podcast; a deep dive on slow-rise squishes and related stress toys; Merlin wears his childhood privilege on his sleeve.
\n\nFinally, the guys answer an excellent listener question about the complex work of maintaining a household with someone you love.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin is trying some new things and probably needs to adjust his DIP switches; audio equipment is discussed; remembering Hal Blaine; German words; fish dropsy; dining at Alamo Draft House; kids and crafts; follow-up on Power Puttering; recommending a Siracusa anecdote; recommending a philosophy podcast; recommending several cool products; some strong (if muddled) thoughts on the Michael Jackson documentary.
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DISCUSSED: Merlin is living the Domino lifestyle; R.I.P. Two Cats Comics; praise for iA Writer; Merlin needs help with his sudden Gmail spam; a meditation on comics as some awesome fun and an ugly damned business; nostalgia for hobby shops and Expedition to the Barrier Peaks; and finally Merlin reintroduces the concept of \"Power Puttering.\"
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DISCUSSED: Dan has an awesome new video; Spider-Verse is out!; Merlin's dorky Segway is discussed; app recommendations for a clean new Gmail and an even-smarter Dark Sky; Dan spills the beans on his new sound bar setup; TV selection and purchase is a known thistle; idiot trolls hassle poor Carol Danvers; Dan has an important new egg technology; and, finally, the boys fret about Apple's new 2FA requirements a little.
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Mostly one big topic: screen time.
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DISCUSSED: It's the optimistic day, but Merlin really screwed up an edit; there's some Inside Baseball about how podcasts get made; it's nice to have someone notice the shaving cream on your jowl; movie ratings are explored; why all the bosoms in 80s movies?; Dan wonders if he should have approached a celebrity; Merlin introduces further thought technologies for not being a creep with a famous person; the paucity of public experiences; Dan talks about Austin's mussel water; we learn about the prevalence of weevils; meth sourcing; a nice note from a listener about when podcasts are absolutely not evil; and, finally, a desperate plea for podcast platforms to stay independent and open please please pretty please.
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DISCUSSED: Gong Hei Fat Choy!; follow-up on the FaceTime bug and the complexity of getting bug and security reports from normals; the weirdness of bug-finders demanding a bounty; Merlin is fascinated to learn about \"combinatorial explosion\" and how it helps to explain why power-cycling fixes stuff; why you should always blow the dust out of the plug; recent examples of how restarting just fixes stuff; Merlin logs out of email apps and recommends an iOS calendar app; a case for killing OAuth where you don't need it; and, finally, your hosts respond to a listener question about whether podcasts can be \"evil.\"
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DISCUSSED: Dan's fighting his computer and explores font corruption; Merlin hates pebbles in his shoe; Dan has an anecdote about massages; Merlin has an anecdote about the FaceTime exploit; this leads to discussion about how big companies deal with huge-scale, unexpected problems; some thoughts on The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect; the problem with journalism about stuff we actually know about; remembering Michael Crichton; Heartbeeps!; a clever way to reduce damage from careless delivery; is there a new Browser War underway?; and answering a question from Listener Stephen about life after Editorial.
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DISCUSSED: dreams and whether people like hearing them; turns out: Merlin recommends a podcast episode about mental stuff; practice vs. rehearsal; visualization as a rehearsal thing; follow-up on science fair projects; our new, post-search-engine habits; Math is hard; Merlin didn't get Anna's emails; cool screen-grabbing mojo; and Dan reviews excellent listener book recommendations.
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DISCUSSED: moisture; kids and watches; some recent media consumption; encouraging kids to have good taste; memories of watching VHS movies in school; follow-up on Dan's new keyboard experiment; Drobo concerns; thinking about modern backup and, gosh, how that's evolved; frustrating typos; Dan and Merlin have iOS concerns; Dan has further thoughts on Bandersnatch.
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DISCUSSED: Optimistic Tuesdays; office cleanup; a grave bleach mishap; follow-up on Wirecutter; a listener suggestion on, of all things, acupressure; Dan loves his cool new keyboard, but has a big caveat; Merlin is working with magnets; on \"Hardware Disease\"; request for Riordan-style book recommendations; exciting follow-up on the Burger Decay Project; plus, some closing thoughts on Apple's recent results dustup and what it might suggest about near-future tech trends.
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DISCUSSED: \"Rabbit Rabbit!\"; partial shutdown and the toilet problems it creates; updates on options for Bluetooth keyboards; some extremely random and anecdotal reckoning about the recent Big Apple News; your hosts' beef with Wirecutter; some odds and sods recommendations and cool life hacks.
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It's the most wonderful time of the year, so the boys answer listener mail and get a little silly.
\n\nHappy Holidays, jackals.
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No buttons to press. Even the Watch app is optional. Just sleep!
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Discussed: the harsh mistress of holidays, Hanukah presents, Cash's cool gift, the joys of good UX, some excellent very good recommendations, an exciting Science experiment involving hamburgers, kids are terrible at writing things down, things that changed Merlin's game, and some excellent follow-up on how we recognize number patterns.
\n\nHappy Holidays, you jackals.
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Discussed: Merlin worries that Dan is getting ground down; web sites are getting very thirsty; Dan thinks it's like pads in football; Dan has updates and more thoughts about doing development work on an iPad; Merlin thinks we should talk more about which devices we choose for doing which things; the boys also have some recommendations.
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Discussed: Why Tuesday is the optimistic day; pourover coffee for Dan's wife; confirm shaming; updates on iPad keyboards and covers; approximately annual history of \"Bawk Bawk!\"; some thoughts on Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart; kids and learning Programming; the things that are difficult to teach anyone.
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Discussed: Thanksgiving; spatchcock chicken; kids and their stupid eating; Dan's concern about how we talk to each other; Merlin encourages people to try not to be terrible.
\n\nAlso, some odds and sods on iPad Pro updates, and thanks to our nice listeners.
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Discussed this week: Dan's MOSH setup on iPad; Dan's new NEW iPad; ease of setup on iOS; some iOS photo editing app recommendations; two things Merlin learned this week; and a little rant about how everybody apparently already knows everything.
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Dan and Merlin talk about their first week using the new iPad Pro.
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Discussed this week: coffee water, voting, inertia, new iPads on the way, difficult buying decisions, returning merchandise (as a thing), some TV suggestions, Dan's new ODROID, 80s video game nostalgia, asking for your iPad-at-work input, plus seeking suggestions for apps for new joggers.
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This week, Dan and Merlin talk about Apple's Fall event in Brooklyn today. They liked the event.
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Discussed: nailing it, the optimistic valence of Tuesdays, difficulties finding replacement parts on Amazon, headphone preferences, Alexa's service outage and new whisper mode, Austin's big water crisis and what it says about epistemology, reason, and society, plus 20 years of The Big Lebowski.
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This week, Dan and Merlin talk about the FitBit Charge 3 and where it fits into their worlds—as well its place in the larger tracker and smart watch ecosystems.
\n\nExcursions also include: BroBot, weather stations, weather apps, some TV and movie talk, some space talk, plus children's failures to understand how time basically works.
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Discussed: the tyranny of earliness, the benefits of timeliness, an interesting horology episode about Apple Watch, more watch talk, a blog recommendation, a quick look at Merlin's new FitBit, an update on home WiFi options, Merlin raps a little, Dan gets wired for Ethernet, what we'd like so see in an updated Mac Mini, some listener followup on Bear export and (deliberately) slow interfaces, considering oneself touch-ed, skeuomorphic sounds, and various Florida wildlife encounters.
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This week: some TV and movie stuff, Dark Mode and accessibility, OS stability and beta temptation, Merlin has an anecdote, the powers and frustrations of Siri via Apple Watch, updates to the Fitbit family, tech that does enough, Dan tried Bear, updates on the Chrome login thing, and an intriguing listener comment about Apple's ASP/inch3.
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This week, Merlin's got a LOT going on. Full Catastrophe Living!
\n\nDiscussed: booger colors, some tv and movies, a dream deferred, various X-Persons, loving GoodTask 3, plus Dan and Merlin just cannot remember many, many things.
\n\nNext, your hosts dive into their first day with Mojave and reminisce about the days when you could make your Finder look all steampunk. This leads to a deeper dive on what the future of Macs might be and why they feel how they do (hint: they are both kind of old).
\n\nThey also both want to know what the heck is going on with Chrome, and Dan pitches a movie.
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A classic odds-and-sods episode, featuring important discussions about sleep tracking, the Apple Watch, Succession, sound bars, Chris Nolan's Batman, and Nintendo Online.
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Discussed: upcoming Apple announcements; do people with bigger screens use more apps more often?; some follow-up on adaptive testing; and comics for kids.
\n\nYour hosts answer a listener question about knowing when it's time to quit something.
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Skype gets way too ambitious; sprinkling sauce on a service; a mandatory social network for doorbells; Dan acquires a new deity; some excellent listener follow-up on Computerized Adaptive Testing; Dan takes his boy to see a bona fide cinema classic; Dan has some great TV recommendations; Merlin reports in from the deep weeds of a fraught smart speaker ecosystem.
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Discussed: homework and testing; wallets and wallet philosophies; things to learn from wallet philosophy; how to fall asleep; watching Star Trek; Dan's new smart speaker; Merlin yells at Alexa several times.
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Discussed: courting a vegetarian; The Information Problem; FU on Dan's new slide remote and keyboard; also, belts; travel pre-screening options; a recommended article on hypocognition; Dan saw IT; thoughts on Twiki and Erin Grey; and Dan's recent home problem.
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Discussed: tech that's gotten so much more dependable (and, yeah, so much less dependable); Dan needs a new presenter remote; Marvel's First Family (finally) returns; who would win if The Hulk fought The Thing?; Merlin introduces Dan to the Ponyverse; some camp equipment follow-up; and Merlin goes off on the awesomeness of libraries with some hot new service recommendations.
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Discussed: Merlin sounds like a saxophone, keyboards are extensively discussed, pros and cons of various MacsBooks Pro, Dan likes using one monitor, pining for best-of-class hardware from Cupertino, Merlin has dorky and boring follow-up, recommending an Apple Watch sleep app and an iOS location tracker, some excellent ice replacements, Dan's favorite bespoke cooler, a disappointing belt, a very good belt, Dan gets a creepy email, Merlin did NOT forget something, Cash gets more cool stuff, and Merlin recommends a Zelda tome.
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Discussed: current monospaced font preferences, experimenting with text sizing, getting on the sucker list, old McDonalds had some styrofoam, new tech that would kill old stories, kids bewilderment with old tech, the bonkersness of Face/Off, wonderful listener gifts for Cash, a book about anxiety Merlin likes.
\n\nDan and Merlin also answer listener questions about mise en place and doubting one's future after college.
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Merlin really likes the ones where Dan prepares.
\n\nDiscussed: four-twenty in The Mile High state, some tv and movie recommendations, the creativity that comes from constraints, The Information Problem, plus thanks for some lovely gifts to Cash from listeners.
\n\nMost of the episode focuses on a provocative new article about whether podcast hosting should be \"free.\"
\n\nMerlin nerds out on iOS Trackpad mode, and Dan drops a Science Corner about heat versus temperature. Also: Star Trek.
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This week: Dan may or may not be sanguine, and Merlin is having another meetup; comics, movie and TV discussion (and recommendations) abound; Cash is impatient for a red DS; the magic of ubiquitous capture is extolled; Merlin has a problematic thumb and spends hours on the phone with AT&T; a book about anxiety is endorsed; handles for the emotional suitcase are offered; a new unicorn is born; and, Merlin has a summer project for you to try.
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Dan's ex-cold, some media recommendations, strobe light problems, Dan's new phone, bad eyeglasses, your fault versus your problem, plus listener feedback about estimating hours and costs.
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Discussed this week: head colds, Florida, vitamin shots, Pleiades, Pigeon Pose, a new kind of spam, some media recommendations, iOS 12, and a listener question about a job they just don’t wanna do.
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Follow-up on the Benjamin family phone plan, what it's like to use a phone that's not a phone anymore, excitement for Siri Shortcuts, an AR measurement app recommendation, Dan's new TV recommendations, some travel headphone recommendations, massive disruption in the fizzy water space, some pseudo-insider-ish follow-up on Siri, plus Dan's adventure back into the world of Android and how it went.
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This week, Dan and Merlin talk about some of their favorite announcements at the big computer show.
\n\nThey also deep dive into how to handle the Benjamin family's need for a new phone.
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Discussed this week: media dustups, the deleterious career effects of social media, a week or so of Instagram, love of dogs, a podcast appearance, two great services for spotting fake Amazon reviews, some Netflix recommendations, Inspector Gadget, remastering Star Trek, kids and black & white movies, serious mail, inventing The Sabbath, and some freestyle advice.
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Discussed: trust my method, beards, foo bar baz, casting Mysterio, villains of Peter Spiderman, an unpaid debt to Dan, medieval electric billing, endorsing Evil Genius and Belief, the power of Spotify podcasts via Alexa, more on Apple TV and voice commands, the pain of scrubbing, 4k HDR via Movies Anywhere, a question on soundbars, Hulu's awesome new \"Live Guide\" (finally!), a word on TV remote usability, eero's new \"Labs,\" updates to Spark, a new light therapy lamp, and some suggestions on getting a FitBit.
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Discussed: lame patents, Salvador Dalí, allergy season, backpack discrimination, friend cosplay, things Dan can't say, AT&T woes, Merlin saw a bear, a YouTube rabbit hole, and some excellent historical Disney content.
\n\nDan and Merlin answer a listen's questions about sleep tracking and leveraging Alexa at the office.
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Discussed: time flies, nesting dolls, cloud saves for Switch, oy vey the service subscriptions, wheat and chess boards, WiFi and health, abdomen cinchers, more Netflix recommendations, the hollow face illusion, Marked 2 update, and a couple more recommendations.
\n\nDan and Merlin answer a listener's question about balancing work momentum and \"down time.\"
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Discussed: places that are closed, dinosaur eyes that follow you, a TV show about makeup, some thoughts on Infinity War, the joy of content that really nails the medium, more on B2W shirts, Merlin hates everything, eminent domain, Dan has questions about Venom, Merlin recommends Uncanny X-Force (Remender & Opeña), and Rob Liefeld's pouch life.
\n\nYour hosts also answer listener questions about finding a mentor and knowing if it's time to move on from a job.
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Discussed: Dan's gummi vitamins, vitamins in general, the childhood shame of those weird plaque pills, exotic sickness images, Fifth Disease comes to Austin, Dan's car troubles, Faraday Cages and how to build them, a potential t-shirt for you.
\n\nDan was cleaning out his garage, and Merlin has a lot to say about the philosophy and practical components of getting rid of junk at scale. Also, Dan really kills it on eBay.
\n\nMerlin is very excited about Fantastic Four coming back and has some potential warnings about the new Wes Anderson film. Spoilers: there's nothing weak about knowing what freaks you out.
\n\nAlso, the boys discuss why Merlin changed his mic setup. Which is fascinating.
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This week, the boys discuss Drafts, The Archive, Merlin's love of Spotify, some great playlists, and weird rules for cheerleaders.
\n\nIn extensive follow-up, your hosts talk about the listener who was having trouble with addressing employees and social media use. This goes lots of interesting places.
\n\nNext up, even more input from listeners on social media policies and living life in a fishbowl.
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Bula vinaka, bee tee dubs nation! This is an epic odds and sods episode, replete with TV follow-up, font follow-up, and Wild, Wild Country follow-up, along with book recommendations, happy Splatoon 2 talk, and a pretty terrible 70s board game. Also, ubi sunt retail amirite?
\n\nAlso, your hosts finally (finally!) address a listener's excellent and very difficult question about her millennial employee's use of social media. Lot of levels!
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This week, Dan and Merlin discuss Jessica Jones and the problem of super power constitution, plus some more Netflix recommendations (\"Look away! Looooook awaaaaay!\"). They also do a dive into updates on the monospace fonts they like and use. Next, up they talk about the new app, The Archive, contrasting with nvALT.
\n\nFinally, your hosts answer an excellent listener question about struggling to manage more experienced developers.
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This week, your hosts say \"Bula Vinaka!\" They also discuss phone cards, some Netflix recommendations, Merlin's phone usage, and \"accidentally\" getting punched in the face by your kid. Of course, they also talk about the TV and voice control ecosystems.
\n\nThey also respond to listener questions about better active listening, and how they each take notes for podcasts.
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This week, your hosts discuss Steely Dan, digital mastering, The Police, Dune, high-quality VCRs, and Dan's brother-in-law's close call.
\n\nNext, they dive into a fascinating article on why projects fail.
\n\nFinally, the boys respond to a listener's question about cautious workplace enthusiasm.
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This week, your hosts talk about some stuff they're doing, loving Spotify, some Echo podcast-listening tips, the attraction of Google Drive, some thoughts on backup strategies, getting swole, the joys of rock tumbler ownership, scary times in Austin, weird iMac problems, some more thoughts on backup strategies, Merlin's obsession with drumming videos, and yet more Apple TV foibles.
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This week, your hosts talk about using Windows, technology modalities, making sane decisions as a developer, reality TV, 20th anniversary of The Dude, Merlin's new fondness for Spotify, analyzing takes on the HomePod, options for high-quality in smart speakers, dealing with recurring financial (and psychological) eels, competitive heat in the smart home ecosystem, Canadians, and the name of Scotland Yard. They also answer a listener question about feeling overwhelmed by content options.
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This week, Dan and Merlin talk about weather as a thing and giving up on Cash's dumb iPad problem. This leads to discussion about the risks, opportunities, and frustrations of having lots of data in different places (probably).
\n\nThe main topic this week is an exploration of TickTick. Neat app.
\n\nThey also almost talk about Black Panther.
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This week, Dan and Merlin talk a little too much about Harry Potter, but also manage to cover some other media properties as well as the shockingly limited options for British casting. Dan has a new task management app, and Merlin decides to give it a spin too. The need for help from the jackals who make Cash's iPad app is escalated.
\n\nIn a somewhat classic style, the conversation moves to considering Big Issues around work, friction, modality, usability, and apps for pound-sign productivity.
\n\nTwitter, its apps, and its perplexing (lack of?) company direction are discussed. Merlin has something like a razor for this.
\n\nDan is told that he is upset.
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This week, Dan and Merlin talk about lots of recent experiences with the weird and often-frustrating world of streaming TV. What a mess.
\n\nThere's also some discussion of sauna suits, The Eagles, Mummers, and Dan's victorious t-shirt.
\n\nAlso, Dan needs your help with solving a terrible problem with one of Cash's iPad games.
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This week, Dan and Merlin talk about the Eagles' big win, what constitutes a catch, Dan's cool new shirt, Merlin's surprisingly positive interactions with Kabletown, the seeming magic of Movies Anywhere, some recent TV recommendations, and a great listener tip for using Nuzzel.
\n\nYour hosts also respond to Listener Daniel's question about new job responsibilities making him feel like an impostor.
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This week, Dan and Merlin talk about crazy kids' homework, Dan's exciting nerd field trips in the Bay Area, the magic of PIXAR, a handy Netflix companion site, and using Siri on Apple TV.
\n\nThings get a little heated during a discussion about all the weirdly fawning coverage of HomePod—and whether or when Apple's new speaker dingus might find a place in your hosts' lives.
\n\nRecommendations include a podcast with Hawkeye Pierce, an excellent boiled eggs recipe, and some cool TED-Ed videos.
\n\nYour hosts respond to listener feedback about bitter Nintendo cartridges and field an interesting question about creating consumer-friendly tech support.
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This week, Dan and Merlin talk a lot about writing and respond to feedback from listeners.
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This week, Dan has some weather, Cash makes a battery, homework can be a silly drag, management is about scalability and quantification, how to figure out how much you have to do, 80s movies can be problematic, ultracrepidarianism, making fish wanna get nasty, and you gotta give people ONE suggestion.
\n\nGreat listener feedback on the evolution of pro kitchens, real-life risk aversion, and a terrific use of Echo's drop-in functionality.
\n\nAlso, the possibilities and shortcomings of Machine Learning are discussed.
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This week, your hosts cover some odds and sods, share some recommendations, design some fantasy podcast apps, and introduce an exciting new feature involving the Internet Science Site.
\n\nThey also respond to a listener's thorny question about dealing with negative chatter in the workplace.
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This week, Dan and Merlin talk about why they're trending, an exciting update on the Mr. Robot ATV bug, the frustrating opacity of using Apple's stuff, Dan's love for Nintendo Switch, nostalgia for NASA, Merlin's love for the Amazon Spot, the problem of fish food and regret, updates on your hosts' sleep technologies, possible solutions for killing spam on iPhone, and some more thoughts on dealing with Netflix's filtering, ratings, and…jeez kinda just everything about their dingaling interface.
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The boys wrap up a big year—a huge year—with an unintentionally thematic episode about feelings, expectations, nostalgia, and the black boxes of life, technological and otherwise.
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This week, Dan and Merlin talk about keyboard preferences (and their noises), Merlin catching Dan's weird \"Mr. Robot\" bug on Apple TV, feedback about \"inside jokes,\" exclusion as a weapon, more good Robert Wright interviews, a deepish dive on Netflix personalization techniques (alongside some speculation on how well it's working), platforms and technologies as lobster traps, the problem with cartoons about screaming, how much kids love YouTube, the challenge of partnering with podcast middlepersons, a new Netflix show Dan likes, possibilities for new Marvel properties, and listener feedback on the potential benefits of using work tools you don't prefer.
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This week, Dan and Merlin talk about (partial) resolution to Dan's Apple TV bug, some venting about delivery problems, general complaining about customer service, a good TV podcast episode, a very good Buddhism podcast episode, some excellent Buddhism talk, listener follow-up on Dan's strange video mail package, shakeups and wild innovation in the TV bidness, that creepy/mean Netflix tweet, and a listener's question about whether the tech requirements at a promising new job should be a deal-breaker.
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This week, Dan and Merlin discuss theories on Dan's Mr. Robot/Apple TV bug, living in an opinion bubble, an update on flu shot efficacy, Dan's recent insane mail delivery, speculation on how giant ad buys work, consternation about memory-holed media.
\n\nYour hosts respond to a listener's question about the difficulty of choosing a career path that wasn't what you'd expected.
\n\nMerlin also explains his shaving strategy.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
LinkedIn Learning (You can get a free 30-day trial with LinkedIn Learning today, by visiting LinkedIn.com/backtowork.
Slack (Slack: Where work happens. Find out why at Slack.com).
MOTIV (For $20 off your first order, visit mymotiv.com and at checkout enter BACKTOWORK).
FreshBooks (To claim your month long unrestricted free trial, go to FreshBooks.com/backtowork and enter BACK TO WORK in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section).
This week, Dan and Merlin talk about…so many things. Merlin had a lot of coffee.
\n\nBig topics include:
\n\nLinks for this episode:
LinkedIn Learning (You can get a free 30-day trial with LinkedIn Learning today, by visiting LinkedIn.com/backtowork.
TextExpander (Visit textexpander.com.com/podcast for 20% off your first year)!
RXBAR (For 25% off your first order, visit RXBAR.com/backtowork and enter the code BACKTOWORK at checkout).
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This week, your hosts discuss: holiday disruptions, life patterns, the joys of regularity, discovering unnecessary existential vulnerabilities, scheduling as a video game, getting your head around sous vide cooking, modern kids' arithmetic, CBD dosage stuff, using the Sway app, meditation for improving attention management, dealing with the character who speaks your internal voice, some hot tips on starting meditation, a historical video series Merlin's family likes, a quest for a typeface, nostalgia for teeny tiny fonts, a listener question about how to end a conference call, a recommendation for Netflix's The Punisher, and some angry attempts to conceal ma' secret formular.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
FreshBooks (To claim your month long unrestricted free trial, go to FreshBooks.com/backtowork and enter BACK TO WORK in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section).
HelloFresh (For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, visit HelloFresh.com and enter promo code BACKTOWORK30).
Videoblocks (Go to videoblocks.com/backtowork to get all the stock footage, audio, and images you can imagine for just $149).
TOPIC: Integrity and Fear.
\n\nThis week your hosts discuss: sandwiches, solar power, some recent movies and what makes them memorable (or not), the glory of Edgar Wright, fun movie commentaries, Dan's rowing machine, big changes for Chairman Bendis, a cool free font from IBM, awesome creativity from a listener, some thoughts on apps for meditation and relaxation (and the important distinction between those things), the downside of Competitive Mindfulness and similar, some excellent feedback on last week's episode, the fear of integrity loss, Dan's trip to NYC, follow-up on resetting an iPhone, and the fine art of computer troubleshooting.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Slack (Thanks to Slack for supporting Back To Work. Slack: Where work happens. Find out why at Slack.com).
eero (For free overnight shipping to the US or Canada, visit eero.com and at checkout select overnight shipping then enter BACKTOWORK to make it free).
Videoblocks (Go to videoblocks.com/backtowork to get all the stock footage, audio, and images you can imagine for just $149).
Squarespace (Start your free trial site today, at Squarespace.com and when you sign up make sure to use the offer code ITSYOURSHOW to get 10% off your first purchase).
TOPIC: Trials, Trophies, and Trying Harder.
\n\nThis week, the boys arrive from either the past or future to talk about Dan's spoon problem, the refuse racket, the slog of incremental improvement, the perils of black and white thinking, folding paper seven times, and Dan’s mad cart-riding skills.
\n\nThis leads to this week’s main topic: an epic exploration of success and failure. No spoilers, but this is a good one.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
ZipRecruiter (Visit ziprecruiter.com/backtowork to post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE).
Casper (Visit Casper.com/itsyourshow and use the code ITSYOURSHOW for $50 towards your new mattress).
TopResume (For 10% off a resume writing service package, visit topresume.com/backtowork).
Squarespace (Start your free trial site today, at Squarespace.com and when you sign up make sure to use the offer code ITSYOURSHOW to get 10% off your first purchase).
Dan and Merlin talk about Halloween, the Chromebook, Apple, WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), and hair removal.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
LinkedIn Learning (You can get a free 30-day trial with LinkedIn Learning today, by visiting LinkedIn.com/backtowork.
PDFpen Family (Visit smilesoftware.com/podcast for details on the PDFpen Family).
HelloFresh (For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, visit HelloFresh.com and enter promo code BACKTOWORK30).
Videoblocks (Go to videoblocks.com/backtowork to get all the stock footage, audio, and images you can imagine for just $149).
TOPIC: Too much ambiguity in time.
\n\nThis week, your hosts discuss hot weather adjustments, Merlin's Skype woes, the state of the union on Skype replacement contenders, ruminations on Mac troubleshooting, the fraught future of retail comic book stores, a side rant on the really dumb economics of the comics industry, hobby shop nostalgia, lobby bell techniques and triangle mounting options, some great tips for pressing things on iOS Safari, the joys of Safari Reader mode, Chrome vs. Safari, changing our browser habits, and Dan's weird screen problem.
\n\nThen, Merlin just goes freaking OFF on the problems with how we talk about time.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Slack (Thanks to Slack for supporting Back To Work. Slack: Where work happens. Find out why at Slack.com).
Videoblocks (Go to Videoblocks.com/backtowork to get all the stock footage, audio, and images you can imagine for just $149).
TOPIC: Turns out.
\n\nThis week, the boys talk about audio problems, hot dogs, kegeling, Merlin's next meet-up, Tsum Tsums, comic suggestions, Battle of the Sexes, excellent recent TV series, All the President's Men, the app Pacifica, warming buns, Dan's encounter with Koo Koo Kanga Roo, a dearth of good information about VPNs (yikes!), levels of \"Turns Out,\" a podcast episode about gluten, and hot phones with possibly low batteries.
\n\nIn a very surprising \"turns out,\" Dan has a surprising call that leads to a very interesting experience with a hardware device. Dan really wants macOS on an iPad. Don't at him.
\n\nThere's also some fruitful if fraught discussion about habit-building. Merlin is not a fan of \"The Countdown.\"
\n\nDan is attacked by a sky spider and might have to move now.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Squarespace (Start your free trial site today, at Squarespace.com and when you sign up make sure to use the offer code ITSYOURSHOW to get 10% off your first purchase).
FreshBooks (To claim your month long unrestricted free trial, go to FreshBooks.com/backtowork and enter BACK TO WORK in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section).
TOPIC: Surface Tension.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin discuss names of cities in Florida, wireless neckbands, elliptical bikes, chore systems (and parental withholding), iOS battery life, canny Mac laptop battery monitoring, how battery cycles work, Todd, and things you already know (unless you don't already know them).
\n\nTwo pretty good YouTube channels are recommended.
\n\nYour hosts talk about that weird thing where iOS throws up a password pop-up, including some recent bad news on how it might be exploited. Gross.
\n\nThere's also some exciting news about possible Brand Synergies.
\n\nThings wrap with responding to listener questions about smart home location woes and choosing a VPN.
\n\nMurrrrrrph!
\n\nLinks for this episode:
ZipRecruiter (Visit ziprecruiter.com/backtowork to post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE).
RXBAR (For 25% off your first order, visit rxbar.com/backtowork and enter promo code BACKTOWORK at checkout.)
TOPIC: You're not supposed to pet the car.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin discuss Nest Cam updates, Ring doorbell tracking, Echo family additions, HDMI questions, the fraught landscape of 4K HDR TV stuff, and how shopping makes Merlin feel kind of vulnerable.
\n\nTwo excellent music podcasts are recommended.
\n\nDan has a new MacBook Pro and a lot to say about it.
\n\nMerlin introduces something he calls \"Power Puttering.\"
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Squarespace (Start your free trial site today, at Squarespace.com and when you sign up make sure to use the offer code ITSYOURSHOW to get 10% off your first purchase).
Bombfell (Visit bombfell.com/backtowork for $25 off your first purchase).
TOPIC: Publix Hustle
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about grocery store promotions, transactional help, the racket of school photos, Occam's Razor for public schools, Time Machine troubleshooting, the scourge of The Crackle, and BMO the salesman.
\n\nThe boys help a lot of people by responding to listener questions about the state of Siri, making friends after college, and the seeking of universal truth.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
PDFpen Family (Visit smilesoftware.com/b2wfor details on the PDFpen Family).
Mack Weldon (Visit MackWeldon.com and use the code BACKTOWORK for 20% off your order!)
After some Followup and Front Matter, your hosts dive into iOS 11. (Spoilers: it's really good.)
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Squarespace (Start your free trial site today, at Squarespace.com and when you sign up make sure to use the offer code ITSYOURSHOW to get 10% off your first purchase).
ZipRecruiter (Visit ziprecruiter.com/backtowork to post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE).
This week, Dan and Merlin convene to talk about today's big Apple event.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Care.com(To save 30% off a Care.com Premium membership visit Care.com/backtowork when you subscribe.)
FreshBooks (To claim your month long unrestricted free trial, go to FreshBooks.com/backtowork and enter BACK TO WORK in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section).
This week, Dan has useful updates on Windows backup options and answers questions about building a Hackintosh. Both of your hosts extoll the virtues of their new Apple TV remote case dinguses.
\n\nThe big topic this week is Nintendo Switch, and Dan has a lot of great stuff to share about his family's first weekend with their new console. (Spoiler: everybody likes it!)
\n\nYour hosts respond to listener questions about iOS wishlist items and how to freshen up a moribund OmniFocus setup.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Casper (Visit Casper.com/itsyourshow and use the code ITSYOURSHOW for $50 towards your new mattress).
Mack Weldon (Visit MackWeldon.com and use the code BACKTOWORK for 20% off your order!)
TOPIC: Don't provoke Dan.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin (once again) complain about what works and what just kiiiinda works with smart devices. Who's winning the voice control game, and who's struggling to play catchup? Ecosystems!
\n\nNext up, the boys talk about some surprisingly handy and useful cases for that befuddling Apple TV remote. Also, Dan needs your help to back up Cash's Windows box. Merlin has an important request, too.
\n\nAlso provided are scientific updates on how much a scale weighs.
\n\nFinally, Merlin offers a whole goddamned book's worth of awesome productivity advice via a cheap notebook and five (5) daily bullet points.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
TextExpander (Try TextExpander FREE for 30 days when you visit textexpander.com/b2w.
Mack Weldon (Visit MackWeldon.com and use the code BACKTOWORK for 20% off your order!)
SendPro from Pitney Bowes (Visit pb.com/backtowork to learn more, and when you sign up you’ll get SendPro FREE for 90 days, you’ll get a free 10-pound scale, and when your free trial is over, you’ll get SendPro for only $5 a month).
TOPIC: It's like elevator buttons.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk a lot about komodo dragons. Also, homework sucks, seed codes rule, and @Movesapp drools.
\n\nHow do we get so scared about things? How cool did flying used to be?
\n\nYour hosts respond to listener questions about the state of self-tracking, and the scourge of extraneous device notifications.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Formstack (Visit formstack.com/backtowork for a free trial and to receive a promo code for 25% off your first three months).
ZipRecruiter (Visit ziprecruiter.com/backtowork to post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE).
TOPIC: How do you know when you're legitimately overwhelmed?
\n\nThis episode, your hosts catch up on Florida, schedule and sleep consistency, ladders vs. walls, travel mania, and the fraught landscape of personal device security.
\n\nYour hosts respond to listener feedback and questions regarding feeling overwhelmed and dealing with dumb clocks.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Formstack (Visit formstack.com/backtowork for a free trial and to receive a promo code for 25% off your first three months).
SendPro from Pitney Bowes (Visit pb.com/backtowork to learn more, and when you sign up you’ll get SendPro FREE for 90 days, you’ll get a free 10-pound scale, and when your free trial is over, you’ll get SendPro for only $5 a month).
Blue Apron (Check out this week’s menu and get your first three meals FREE—with FREE SHIPPING—by going to BlueApron.com/backtowork.
TOPIC: Keep your hand away from the giant's mouth!
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin look back on summer and forward to the new school year. Also, some excellent ad hoc Business Analysis about the past and future of malls and other retail outposts.
\n\nYour hosts respond to listener feedback and questions regarding domain name speculation and options for tracking multiple currencies
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Formstack (Visit formstack.com/backtowork for a free trial and to receive a promo code for 25% off your first three months).
eero (For free overnight shipping to the US or Canada, visit eero.com and at checkout select overnight shipping then enter BACKTOWORK to make it free).
Bombfell (Visit bombfell.com/backtowork for $25 off your first purchase).
TOPIC: Start treating yourself like a dummy today.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about iOS 11, the trade-offs of running betas, and waking up to how we're using devices differently. Merlin has thoughts on the usefulness of the will to live.
\n\nDan has a new approach to dealing with PR pitches, and the boys undertake an exciting new social experiment.
\n\nYour hosts answer listener questions about the mechanics of calendar scheduling and best practices for building new habits.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
The return of Special Guest Merlin Mann!
\n\n(Talking about "Drive")
\n
Squarespace (Start your free trial site today, at Squarespace.com and when you sign up make sure to use the offer code ITSYOURSHOW to get 10% off your first purchase).
Mack Weldon (Visit MackWeldon.com and use the code BACKTOWORK for 20% off your order!)
TOPIC: Mapping Your Focus and Motivation
\n\nThis week, Dan talks about a cool new addition to his Fireside.fm service, and Merlin interviews him about how he likes to choose, plan, and evolve the features of an app.
\n\nTwo questions this week, both from Listener Jonathan.
\n\nFirst, your hosts address the era of Peak TV, including how they choose their TV services and how they recommend narrowing in on finding the best stuff to watch (and when).
\n\nNext, the evergreen topic of calendars and todos returns. How do you decide what goes where? And how do combine focus and motivation to derive a functional map of your time terrain?
\n\nDan considers acquiring a house mammal.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
TextExpander from Smile (To try TextExpander free for 30 days visit textexpander.com/b2w)!
Jet (For 20% off your first 2 orders over $35, visit Jet.com and enter promo code BACKTOWORK at checkout)!
ZipRecruiter (Visit ziprecruiter.com/backtowork to post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE).
TOPIC: Help! My bosses are doing a really dumb thing!
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin help a listener and his youngster get started with Spider-Man. Also, hey, support your Local Comic Shop!
\n\nListener Molly asks how to help prevent a terrible, damaging change from happening inside her company.
\n\nDan talks about War for the Planet of the Apes, and Merlin knows when to exit on a good bit.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Blue Apron (Check out this week’s menu and get your first three meals FREE—with FREE SHIPPING—by going to BlueApron.com/backtowork.
Slack (Slack: Where work happens. Find out why at slack.com).
TOPIC: Making the spice flow.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin dive into the thriving ecosystem of Florida's ad hoc roofing and lawn care professionals. Merlin gets The Boeing Contract, and Dan leaves a check under the mat.
\n\nYour hosts admit they don't really understand the big kerfuffle over 1Password, but they admit to feeling the pain of being an indie developer today. Dan just wants the beef ribs he'd been promised.
\n\nAround 1:19:30, the spoiler horn fires off for a squee-filled celebration of Spider-Man: Homecoming. (Seriously. Just go see this movie.)
Links for this episode:
eero (For free overnight shipping, visit eero.com and at checkout select overnight shipping then enter BACKTOWORK to make it free)!
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ZipRecruiter (Visit ziprecruiter.com/backtowork to post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE).
TOPIC: Time Tetris in Difficult Mode
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin do a VERY deep dive on one listener's question about life with an excruciating shared Google Calendar. Merlin, unsurprisingly, has a lot to say about this. No. Like, really. A lot a lot.
\n\nOther topics include Food Lion bleach meat, God's only sandwich, Adventure Time Mashup Pack (Finally!), Agape love, and, importantly, \"What’s Happening To Sleep Train?\"
\n\nLinks for this episode:
* Squarespace (Start your free trial site today, at Squarespace.com and when you sign up make sure to use the offer code ITSYOURSHOW to get 10% off your first purchase).
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\n\nIn this week's tight and bright episode, Dan and Merlin do dome followup on food bars and CBD oil, then discuss how to get better at letting people just enjoy what they like.
\n\nIn this week's main topic, your hosts address how to think more productively (and more realistically) about what you need from a task management app.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
SendPro from Pitney Bowes (Visit pb.com/backtowork to learn more, and when you sign up you’ll get SendPro FREE for 90 days, you’ll get a free 10-pound scale, and when your free trial is over, you’ll get SendPro for only $5 a month).
ZipRecruiter (Visit ziprecruiter.com/backtowork to post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE).
PDFpen 9 (Visit SmileSoftware.com/b2w to learn more about the new PDFpen 9).
TOPIC: Thirty cable boxes.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about beloved late night talk shows, Planet of the Apes, and the future of TV. Dan introduces his new thought technology about \"Protoforms.\"
\n\nYour hosts also respond to listener questions about using Chromecasts and how to start the day.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Blue Apron (Check out this week’s menu and get your first three meals FREE—with FREE SHIPPING—by going to BlueApron.com/backtowork.
SendPro from Pitney Bowes (Visit pb.com/backtowork to learn more, and when you sign up you’ll get SendPro FREE for 90 days, you’ll get a free 10-pound scale, and when your free trial is over, you’ll get SendPro for only $5 a month).
RXBAR (For 25% off your first order, visit rxbar.com/backtowork and enter promo code BACKTOWORK at checkout.)
ZipRecruiter (Visit ziprecruiter.com/backtowork to post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE).
TOPIC: Asterisks and Question Marks.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin cover corgis (and other pets), asking for lettuce wraps, high-floor sandwiches, bread in a tube, John Wick (no spoilers), and the wonderful comic infographics of Kate Willaert.
\n\nThere is some ecosystem talk regarding ride sharing statistics and Apple's announced addition of podcast listening analytics. How many bits of identifying information are you sending?
\n\nYour hosts answer Listener Tim's question about when to accept that you can't do everything and should just let go of old project ideas.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
* Squarespace (Start your free trial site today, at Squarespace.com and when you sign up make sure to use the offer code ITSYOURSHOW to get 10% off your first purchase).
\n\nTOPIC: She was only 15 years old!
\n\nThis week kicks off with some thoughts on yesterday's WWDC Keynote and some potentially promising signs for Apple's future.
\n\nDan declares YouTube videos from The Trip to be the greatest thing Merlin has ever shown him, and he is correct. Merlin is infatuated with Nebo.
\n\nThen, the boys answer listener questions about calendars, GTD and Buddhism, and how to choose a browser.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Away (Visit awaytravel.com/fathersday and use the code BACKTOWORK for $20 off any carry-on purchase, a free Harry's shave kit & stories collection book).
FreshBooks (To claim your month long unrestricted free trial, go to FreshBooks.com/backtowork and enter BACK TO WORK in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section).
TOPIC: \"The results have been increbidle.\"
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin opine about various Apple feelings and wondering where the heck things are going. Merlin is sanguine.
\n\nMerlin is mad at KFC, and Dan reminds us how great 1974 was for movies.
\n\nFinally, your hosts respond to listener feedback.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
PDFpen (To learn more about the new PDFpen 9 visit smilesoftware.com/b2w)
Bombfell (Visit Bombfell.com/backtowork to get $25 off your first purchase).
TOPIC: Again with the motivation.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about what motivates the companies who make set-top boxes vs. the providers of the content for those dinguses. What attracts fans to a given platform, and why are we getting so resistant to straight-up buying movies and TV shows? (\"I learned it by watching you!\")
\n\nIn listener feedback, your hosts examine whether and how various apps and services can be deployed in the service of building better habits.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
* Squarespace (Start your free trial site today, at Squarespace.com and when you sign up make sure to use the offer code ITSYOURSHOW to get 10% off your first purchase).
\n\nTOPIC: Odds 'N Sods
\n\nIn this sprawling \"odds 'n sods\" episode, Dan and Merlin discuss: superheroes, scary movie trailers, (yes, more) egregious package delivery drama, customer service Buddhism, some excellent kids books, updates on the pretty good Hulu Live TV service, commercials for prescription drugs, politics and blood pressure, the joys of Nuzzel.com, auditing your online authorizations, why Meh.com are jackals, spray-on hair, delivery tracking services, and, yes, some deep updates on emails pitching visits from guests.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
* Squarespace (Start your free trial site today, at Squarespace.com and when you sign up make sure to use the offer code ITSYOURSHOW to get 10% off your first purchase).
\n\nTOPIC: Lady in a tube.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin unexpectedly end up doing a pretty deep dive on Amazon voice products and the evolving ecosystem around them. Which is way more interesting than it sounds.
\n\nDeep dive.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Alibaba (Visit Gateway17.com/WORK to save 75% off the registration fee, while event passes last).
FreshBooks (To claim your month long unrestricted free trial, go to FreshBooks.com/backtowork and enter BACK TO WORK in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section).
TOPIC: Curiosity before fear.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the experience of Apple stores and repairs, The Handmaid's Tale, Dan's invertebrate-sensing skills, and some follow-up on \"look left, go left.\"
\n\nListener Molly asks about how to become a morning person, and Listener Lance wants help with the anxiety of moving someplace new.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Casper (Visit Casper.com/itsyourshow and use the code ITSYOURSHOW for $50 towards your new mattress).
Alibaba (Visit Gateway17.com/WORK to save 50% off the registration fee, while event passes last).
TOPIC: Velocity!
\n\nThis week Dan and Merlin talk about lice, Kenny Rogers, strange memory phenomena, an intriguing new oil, and popcorn nugs pricing.
\n\nA question from Listener Ben leads to suggestions for finding velocity.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
TextExpander (Visit textexpander.com/b2w to start your free trial).
Blue Apron (Check out this week’s menu and get your first three meals FREE—with FREE SHIPPING—by going to BlueApron.com/backtowork.
Flow (Visit getflow.com/bokbok to start a free trial today. Listeners of Back to Work will save 20% on a monthly plan or 30% on an annual subscription at checkout!)
TOPIC: Triangles Everywhere!
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin shuck and/or jive about stealing, Publix, airlines, driver’s ed, douchebagerié, Twitter bots, and more.
\n\nMain topic this week is a question from Listener Brian about project management. Merlin expounds at length at this dark art and what it can teach us about life.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Squarespace (Start your free trial site today, at Squarespace.com and when you sign up make sure to use the offer code ITSYOURSHOW to get 10% off your first purchase).
Hotjar (By visiting hotjar.com/b2w you will get a 30 day (extended) free Business trial of Hotjar and all its functionality).
HireLoop (Visit hireloop.io/b2w to get a free credit towards their Professional features).
TOPIC: Oh my GOD, this is torture.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about—amongst other odds and sods— the Mean FedEx Guy, the weird future of gig economies, and Adventure Time.
\n\nThen, there's some handy tips on how to leverage iOS Accessibility settings for a better and more efficient experience on your device.
\n\nListener Michelle writes in to ask about dealing with colleagues who use the hallway as an ad hoc one-on-one meeting. What strategies can we employ to be civil and collegial about careless interruptions without lowering our standards or losing our minds?
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Squarespace (Start your free trial site today, at Squarespace.com and when you sign up make sure to use the offer code ITSYOURSHOW to get 10% off your first purchase).
Hotjar (By visiting hotjar.com/b2w you will get a 30 day (extended) free Business trial of Hotjar and all its functionality).
After some brief shucky-jivey, the boys resign themselves to discussing the big Apple announcement. They ponder why and how the message was delivered in the way it was as well as what it means. Dan has thoughts on modularization and Merlin reveals a new unified field theory.
\n\nThen, yay, lots more responses to excellent questions from listeners.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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After some very important follow-up, and more than a little shucking and jiving, your hosts answer questions from listeners.
\n\nThis is a good one!
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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This week, Dan and Merlin have one of their beloved \"odds and sods\" episodes. Something for everyone in this diverse and bewildering episode.
\n\n\"Same day delivery!\"
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TOPIC: \"Delivery Attempted.\"
\n\nThis week, Merlin struggles with his coffee-making options, and Dan recalls his days of fishing lures. USPS deliveries, several TV shows, and Wolverine's disturbing bone claws are also discussed.
\n\nListener Jackson writes in to ask about dealing with failings of self-discipline.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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TOPIC: \"Remember this film is supposed to be a comedy.\"
\n\nThis week: Dan struggles with his progressive lenses, but he really liked the movie, Logan. Merlin's daughter has made four piles, and he finally accepts that he really should be watching more movies for his \"work.\" Then, there's follow-up on that crazy S3 typo and some pretty poor Oscars® OPSEC.
\n\nThen we're on to answering listener feedback via two futurist hats and a parenting hat:
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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Mack Weldon (Visit MackWeldon.com and use the code BACKTOWORK for 20% off your order!)
TOPIC: You can't perfect life.
\n\nThis week opens with the carnage of today's Amazon S3 problems and why so much of the internet seems broken. A brief history of outage monitoring is provided and a praxis for improving the process is proposed.
\n\nDan and Merlin debate what can be learned from how kids and other non-olds use technology \"wrong.\" Should they be learning from us or should we be learning from them?
\n\nThis leads to some deeper ruminations on how we can choose to get better at doubting our own perceptions and correcting our own weird thinking. The future still isn't here yet—and that's kinda what makes it the future.
\n\nAfter some discussion of mental health and creativity, the show pivots into yet more discussion of emerging technology, and how it consistently scares the crap out of people until…it just doesn't.
\n\nDan and Merlin wrap by answering a listener's question about whether it's better to be good at writing or at speaking.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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TOPIC: You're living in the future!
\n\nThis 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.
\n\niPhone call ID and blocking apps get the treatment and Merlin has some recommendations.
\n\nDan has some questions about comics, and the boys reminisce about The Simpsons. As you do.
\n\nThings get a little dark as your hosts look at deploying web ad (and tracker) blocking as survival and safety OPSEC.
\n\nThis 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.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
TextExpander (Visit textexpander.com/b2w to start your free trial, and learn how companies such as WordPress and Desk multiply their productivity using TextExpander.)
FreshBooks (To claim your month long unrestricted free trial, go to FreshBooks.com/backtowork and enter BACK TO WORK in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section).
TOPIC: Alice hopes to hear from you.
\n\nThis week's episode is packed—literally, packed—with useful tips, tricks, and even a crazy challenge.
\n\nPsyching yourself into falling asleep, learning how to breathe, using your iPhone's secret trackpad, and a gauntlet thrown (or maybe dropped?) to make yourself do everything with your voice for a day.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Squarespace (Start your free trial site today, at Squarespace.com and when you sign up make sure to use the offer code ITSYOURSHOW to get 10% off your first purchase).
Mack Weldon (Visit MackWeldon.com and use the code BACKTOWORK for 20% off your order!)
TOPIC: My place is here—I fight with you!
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin cover a meetup announcement, Merlin's Les Mis obsession, Dan's new Hackintosh Method, and the Benjamin Family's slippery bar problem. Merlin advocates for \"The Tiny Life Improvement Project.\" Pens and pencils are recommended, desks are discussed, and LBJ speaks out about his bespoke slack needs.
\n\nThe boys talk about the FTC's actions over Vizio's super-creepy user tracking, and wonder what questions to ask about the future of privacy on our smart devices.
\n\nThings wrap with a quick discussion of culture-specific cargo culting and why we still cut the ends off the roast.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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TOPIC: Celebrating your successful failures.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin kick off with discussion of night bears, the ascendance of Netflix, and some very nice emails from listeners. Merlin also shares an important life hack for Twitter.
\n\nMerlin brings in a new thought technology via Jen Kirkman guesting on John Moe's wonderful podcast, The Hilarious World of Depression: learning how to talk back to the voices in your head.
\n\nDan gives some big updates to his (theoretical) project to build a (theoretical) Hackintosh. Huge week.
\n\nFinally, Merlin shares a thought on how to potentially find success in your miniature failures. What happens when you decide to keep doing something not because you want to succeed at it…but just because it's a thing that you do?
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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TOPIC: Act like you're somebody that you like.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the evolution of voice recognition and touch interfaces and reminisce on the early days of making the turtle move.
\n\nDan brings in the topic of how fears of both failure and success lead to missed opportunities. Your hosts talk about how to track down the nagging bad feelings about these regrets and troubleshoot what we can learn from them.
\n\nMerlin talks about recently returning to “Morning Pages,” what he’s learning from doing it, as well as some tips to help you get started with doing your own daily brain dump.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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TOPIC: Youth is the aberration.
\n\nThis week, Dan provides updates on his Hackintosh project, which leads to a discussion of finding reviews and advice with context. The hosts realize, acknowledge, and quickly move past their program’s 6th anniversary, spending more time on that drum sound Merlin makes with his mouth.
\n\nRecent email pitches are discussed, and advice is offered on smarter ways to pitch strangers on practically anything.
\n\nMerlin responds to a question from a listener about learning to find inspiration in the absence of crisis.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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eero (For free overnight shipping, visit eero.com and at checkout select overnight shipping then enter the promo code BACKTOWORK to make it free).
TOPIC: Reframing the conversation with yourself.
\n\nThis week, Merlin talks about his weird mortgage ads and compliments the literally fancy pants he got from the silver underpants people. Suggestions are offered for running a dehumidifier in a “smart home.”
\n\nDan and Merlin have a lot to say about terlets (hey, it’s been a while).
\n\nMerlin shares a service for intelligently correlating personal tracking data, a listener has success with some B2W email advice, and another listener asks for tips on doing better self-talk.
\n\nDan shares his cool new project to build a Hackintosh.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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Audible (You can’t make more time, but you can make the most of it. Turn your walk into something more with a 30-day free trial at Audible by going to audible.com/b2w).
TOPIC: This is a feeling I'm feeling.
\n\nThis week, your hosts look at the announcement of Dish's new Air TV box, along with the rapidly evolving landscape for cord-cutters. Also, fantasies of monk holes are entertained.
\n\nThe big topic this week is a discussion of a listener's question about the role of positive thinking. [This is a good one.]
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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This is the Best of 2016 Compilation Episode, featuring your favorite moments of the show over the last 12 months. Each clip was suggested and submitted by you, our amazing listeners.
\n\nHave a great new year!
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TOPIC: Is Tim firing us?
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the challenge of dealing with email that's only kind of from a real person. There's some follow-up on Apple and wishing they'd just give us a \"Get out of here!\"
\n\nMerlin recommends some podcasts and a terrific new clipboard manager from Tapbots.
\n\nDan talks about why he finally gave in and treated his eyes to a bigger phone. Just don't get him started on progressive lenses.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week, the boys talk about slicing sand, unboxing videos, Overwatch, and some recommended TV viewing. Odds and sods, as you say.
\n\nMain topic is follow-up re: listener feedback on recent Apple conversations.
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TOPIC: Vaio Life!
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin respond to listener feedback and talk about the tightrope walk of caffeine consumption.
\n\nMerlin suggests a new AudioDharma talk, which leads to a discussion of whether you have to be an X to learn about Y. Spoiler Alert: you don't.
\n\nDan updates us on his son's hot new gaming PC, and your hosts can't stop themselves from ruminating (again, again) on why Apple's hardware choices feel be so frustrating…and disappointing.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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Foot Cardigan (Visit FootCardigan.com and enter the code WORK at checkout for 10% off and get some awesome socks!).
Squarespace (Visit squarespace.com/backtowork and use the code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off your first purchase).
TOPIC: Kipple and Boomboxes
\n\nThis week Dan and Merlin start by talking about purging junk and answering listener feedback about kids and phones and teachers dealing with email.
\n\nMain topic this week is whither Apple? Based on how the company is evolving, who do we think their future products will be for?
\n\nLinks for this episode:
PDFpenPro (Get 20% off new PDFpenPro 8 purchases by visiting SmileSoftware.com/b2w before December 15, 2016).
MailChimp (Join more than 14 million people who use MailChimp to grow their businesses on their terms).
Meh (Definitely don't click this link for Meh. It's horrible and terrible. Each day they have a new thing they're selling and funny videos. Who wants that?)
TOPIC: Your \"backstage\" vs. their \"onstage\"
\n\nThis week, Merlin shares some useful thoughts (via Patrick Rothfuss) on being careful about how we compare ourselves to others.
\n\nThe hosts also share some terrific listener suggestions for fantasy books for kids.
\n\nAlso, Dan has strong feelings about poultry.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
What is the difference between DVD+R and DVD-R? What is the difference between a pub and a bar? An alligator and a crocodile? What is the difference between 401(k) and IRA? Treasuries and bonds? AMD Turion and Athlon processors? How is a Pentium Core 2 Duo different from Pentium Dual Core? How does the work environment at IBM compare with working at Microsoft? How does living in Seattle compare with living in Amsterdam? What is the difference between a Plasma TV and an LCD TV? Cal Tech and UCLA? Yankees and the Red Sox?
\n\nYou can find or write all these comparisons on Diffen.
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This week, Dan and Merlin do another of their beloved Odds 'n Sods episodes, with tons of great recommendations for movies, TV, apps, services, and nighttime medical appliances.
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This week, Dan and Merlin are a little out of sorts, so, after some chat and followup, they talk about some of the things that make them happy. Plus, awesome Mac key commands.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Squarespace (Visit squarespace.com/backtowork and use the code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off your first purchase).
Tommy John (For 20% off your order visit tommyjohn.com/backtowork and enter the code BACKTOWORK).
TOPIC: Leaving Dropbox Vegas
\n\nMerlin survives a sleepover, and Dan has a concern about Dropbox.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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TOPIC: How to pester people responsibly.
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TOPIC: The Minimum Viable Waste of Time.
\n\nSome awesome odds and sods, a great new Markdown editor for OS X, and a main topic on dealing with those aggressive email follow-up people.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Casper (Visit Casper.com/itsyourshow and use the code ITSYOURSHOW for $50 towards your new mattress).
Away (For $20 off your order, visit awaytravel.com/backtowork and use promo code BACKTOWORK during checkout. Travel smarter with the suitcase that charges your phone).
TOPIC: A Surfeit of Merlin Mannsplaining.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin produce an undisputed instaclassic odds and sods episode.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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TOPIC: The Unreliable Narrator of You
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about weather, compost, small changes, plus some Sling TV followup.
\n\nThe main topic involves Merlin helping Dan sanely enter the Philips Hue Light ecosystem. It's not just for nerds any more. (Although, sure, yeah, it's still mostly for nerds.)
\n\nLinks for this episode:
TextExpander (Try TextExpander free for 30 days when you visit Smilesoftware.com/b2w).
Criquet (Visit Criquetshirts.com/backtowork and use the code BACKTOWORK for 20% off your first purchase).
TOPIC: Nobody's favorite thing.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about update failures, magic, and attention.
\n\nTheir ongoing dive into the fractured and frustrating world of the modern cord-cutter ecosystem continues.
\n\nIt's ponderous.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Squarespace (Visit Squarespace.com/backtowork and use the code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off your first purchase).
Zendesk (Visit zendesk.com/backtowork to learn more and to get native, in-app support to your app quickly and easily.)
TOPIC: Every week (and every time you think of it)
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin start by talking about some of the great updates iOS 10—alongside the usual strident advice about backing up before you do anything. Merlin also shares the late-night debacle of trying to order a new iPhone.
\n\nThere's some talk about weird 80s Budweiser commercials and then a deep dive on how (and whether) to setup and use the neato Plex DVR.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Casper (Visit Casper.com/itsyourshow and use the code ITSYOURSHOW for $50 towards your new mattress).
MorningSave by Mediocre (Go and check out Meh and MorningSave by the awesome people at Mediocre).
TOPIC: Find My Mac. Please.
\n\nWith Apple's big iPhone event coming tomorrow, Dan and Merlin discuss what makes this particular day such a black box in Apple's history. This is likely to be the last day for some time when we will know SO very little about where Apple is heading.
\n\nAlso, there's some discussion of which kinds of technology we're most resistant to and maybe why that is.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Squarespace (Visit Squarespace.com/backtowork and use the code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off your first purchase).
eero (For free overnight shipping of your brand new eero wifi system visit eero.com and at checkout select overnight shipping then enter the code BACKTOWORK to make it free).
TOPIC: Frantic SM 10 Pieces
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the problem with wraps, the problem with notebooks, and the problem with Amazon reviews.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
PDFpen Family (Visit smilesoftware.com/b2w for details on the PDFpen Family: PDFpen for macOS, PDFpen for iPad & iPhone, and PDFpen Scan+).
Soylent (Get your first case of Soylent for 50% off when you start a subscription via the special link soylent.com/5by5.)
TOPIC: Hey, try this.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin have a shortie, so they talk about stuff they're loving right now and make some recommendations on gadgets, music, movies, and more.
\n\nAlso, the scientific link between chemtrails and morgellons can finally be revealed.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Casper (Visit Casper.com/backtowork and use the code BACKTOWORK for $50 towards your new mattress).
Wealthfront (Visit Wealthfront.com/5by5 to get your first $15,000 managed for free).
TOPIC: Kids don't need VCR Plus+.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin continue their series on updates.
\n\nThe topic this week is all about media consumption—in particular, the massive changes to how they learn about, locate, obtain, schedule, and consume media over the past decade or so.
\n\nSure, there's the usual old man talk about how How It Used To Be, but there's a heavy focus on how these changes are changing the way media is funded and produced. What's that media landscape gonna look like when a 5-year-old playing with an iPad becomes the producer of media in a very few years?
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Squarespace (Head to squarespace.com/backtowork and use the offer code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off your first purchase).
Wealthfront (Visit Wealthfront.com/5by5 to get your first $15,000 managed for free).
This week, Dan and Merlin open with an unintentionally deep dive on how Merlin has been tricking out his house with home automation stuff.
\n\nThe main topic this week returns to the theme of updates; in this case, how ubiquitous devices have changed pretty much everything.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Warby Parker (Head to warbyparker.com/dan to order your free Home Try-On’s today).
Wealthfront (Visit Wealthfront.com/5by5 to get your first $15,000 managed for free).
This week, Dan and Merlin continue their series on updates, talking about the evolution of electronic task management in their lives. Hint: simplify, simplify.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Squarespace (Visit Squarespace.com/backtowork and use the code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off your first purchase).
Wealthfront (Visit Wealthfront.com/5by5 to get your first $15,000 managed for free).
TOPIC: Orinoco Flow
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin continue their series on updates, focusing on the difference between the days before and after ubiquitous wifi.
\n\nAlso, lots of fun odds and sods on Scrivener and surviving summer with kids.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
TextExpander (Boost your productivity and learn more by visiting the link).
Wealthfront (Visit Wealthfront.com/5by5 to get your first $15,000 managed for free).
eero (For free overnight shipping of your brand new eero wifi system visit eero.com/backtowork and at checkout select overnight shipping then enter BACKTOWORK to make it free).
TOPIC: Way of the future.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin continue their discussion on updates to their systems and their productivity worlds. In particular: how have new technologies and critical masses of users led to wanting or needing fewer intermediary communications layers?
\n\nFor years, email was more than just the lingua franca; it was that one internet communication protocol that every user could be counted upon to have and use.
\n\nBut, today? Options, baby, options! Sometimes for worse, but, so often, for much better.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Start with: s02e07 (Greg Pikitis)
\nBest Ep: s04e11 ("Get on Your Feet!")
\nSentimental Fave: s07e11 (Goodbyes)
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Amazon Songs of Summer (Visit the link to checkout the Amazon Songs of Summer playlist).
Wealthfront (Visit Wealthfront.com/5by5 to get your first $15,000 managed for free).
TOPIC: Updates on Productivity and a modern Kobayashi Maru Scenario
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin start a new series on updates. Which sounds really boring, but it isn't, we swear.
\n\nThis time out, the boys start by diving deep on how and why just so much of their productivity systems have changed over the years. Innumerable ways in which technology and life has evolved to where so many of the old systems seem fiddly, unnecessary, or both.
\n\n[This is a good one.]
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Casper (Visit Casper.com/backtowork and use the code BACKTOWORK for $50 towards your new mattress).
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TOPIC: …and, then what happens?
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the unexpected cognitive benefits of ritual, repetition, and thinking through the fascinating question: \"…and, then what happens?\"
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Hover (Visit Hover.com to find the domain of your dreams and use the offer code TIMETRAVEL to get 10% off your first purchase).
Squarespace (Visit Squarespace.com/backtowork and use the code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off your first purchase).
Wealthfront (Visit Wealthfront.com/5by5 to get your first $15,000 managed for free).
TOPIC: People, amirite?
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the complexities of communicating with each other. And, brother, is it ever complicated.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
TOPIC: Varieties of pain.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about Dan's progress on building fireside.io and its imminent beta release. Lots of fascinating details on why he's made it and who it might be great for.
\n\nThen, there's discussion of the unexpected mental benefits of physical training, and the influence that various sorts of pain (real or imagined) can have on us.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
FreshBooks (For a 30 day free trial, just go to FreshBooks.com/backtowork and enter Back To Work in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section).
Parachute (Visit Parachutehome.com/backtowork and use the code BACKTOWORK for $25 off your first purchase).
TOPIC: Merlin's never sent his heartbeat.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about some of this week's WWDC announcements, the past and future of Apple, and that awkward feeling of wondering whether and when new technology is personally relevant.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Casper (Visit Casper.com/backtowork and use the code BACKTOWORK for $50 towards your new mattress).
eero (For free overnight shipping of your brand new eero wifi system visit eero.com/backtowork and at checkout select overnight shipping then enter BACKTOWORK to make it free).
TOPIC: Fill one bag.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about our relationship with the stuff in our lives and how overwhelming it can be. Solutions are offered—throw out that old cinnamon!
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Hover (Visit Hover.com to find the domain of your dreams and use the offer code BACKTOWORK to get 10% off your first purchase).
Squarespace (Visit Squarespace.com/backtowork and use the code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off your first purchase).
FreshBooks (For a 30 day free trial, just go to FreshBooks.com/backtowork and enter Back To Work in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section).
TOPIC: Disruptions in Service
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about that ineffable but growing feeling of disconnection from the collections we used to treasure. Music, Photos, Movies, Books—all the stuff we increasingly entrust to The Cloud.
\n\nSeems like there's a weird confluence of changing culture and buggy technology that makes us feel sadly meh about making everything work. And that feels weird.
\n\nAlso? Don't be Randyll Tarly. That guy's a total choad.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
I can't even tell what one of my 99 Problems isn't.
\n\nJiminy.
\n\nTextExpander (Visit smilesoftware.com/b2w to check out the new TextExpander).
Squarespace (Visit Squarespace.com/backtowork and use the code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off your first purchase).
TOPIC: True or false dilemmas?
\n\nThis week, things kick off with a discussion of how to be helpful. Especially at your kid's school, but really just in general. This leads to a rumination on \"roots\" and what makes us feel like we're part of a community.
\n\nThe main topic is about the future of machine learning, voice control, and all things \"smart.\" What do we want, what can we imagine, and how do our own biases and habits constrain our sense of possibility?
\n\nLinks for this episode:
FreshBooks (For a 30 day free trial, just go to FreshBooks.com/backtowork and enter Back To Work in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section).
Warby Parker (Visit Warbyparker.com/dan to begin your free home try on experience today).
TOPIC: Such small hands.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about Dan's acquisition of an iPhone SE and how much he's loving it. This leads to some ruminative discussion about how we pick devices based on how we prefer to use them.
\n\nAlso, some love for Spider-Man in the Civil War movie.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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TOPIC: Grow what? Grow HOW?
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin have a surprisingly passionate discussion about growth.
\n\nCompanies gotta \"grow,\" right? But…what the hell does that really even mean?
\n\nLotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what-have-yous.
\n\nAlso, an important update on Pek Pongpaet.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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TOPIC: Opinion at Scale.
\n\nThis week kicks off with a confession that Dan and Merlin are increasingly less interested in coverage of Apple's finances and the related Kremlinology and blind guessing about the company. Merlin announces the unlikely product he'd love for Apple to create (and why it'll probably never happen).
\n\nAlso, lots of followup on apps and services for fitness and personal tracking.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Squarespace (Visit squarespace.com/backtowork and use the code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off your first purchase).
Audible (Visit audible.com/b2w to get a free 30-day trial membership and a free audiobook. Browse the over 250,000 audio programs – download a title free and start listening. It’s that easy).
TOPIC: Finding stories and insights hiding in your data.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin dive deep into the new world of personal tracking. Dan has a new FitBit, and Merlin has a surprisingly complicated system involving many devices and apps. Great stuff you can try for yourself.
\n\nAlso discussed: Merlin's weird cat, Deadpool, Pek Pongpaet the Professional Podcast Pundit, Alexa on Fire TV, a defense of Reed Richards, and Dan's advice on how to setup your own VPN.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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TOPIC: Putting an Overt Stake in the Ground.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin end up talking about the surprising stuff a Fitbit can do for you. Dan even buys one.
\n\nAlso, some discussion of pope hats, NASCAR, (the amazing) Screens 4, and that failing restaurant by Dan's office that kinda looks like Terminus.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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TOPIC: But, alas.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about Smile's updated announcement about TextExpander and the ugly problem of blind internet rage.
\n\nAlso, lots of talk about ponderous 80s movies and old TV shows, including Dan learning which program had that tiny tabletop robot.
\n\nAlso, we are endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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Meh (Visit the link to check out their awesome daily deals).
TOPIC: Wow, times change.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the challenges and opportunities of subscription-based payment models. When do they work (or not) and how quickly does autopay fatigue kick in?
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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Squarespace (Visit Squarespace.com/backtowork and use the code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off).
TOPIC: Welcome to Costco. I love you.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about breakfast sandwiches, the pain and suffering of dealing with Apple IDs, managing kids and their iOS devices, Merlin's weird week with Playstation Vue, and the science (or otherwise) behind iOS's Night Shift.
\n\nThe main topic this week focuses on quality, values, and self-improvement. Are Dan and Merlin just cloud-yelling old men for wishing writers (and everyone for that matter) would try a little harder? Maybe. Maybe not.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about:
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Bench (Visit the link to get 20% off your first six months).
TOPIC: No one cares about your demo anymore.
\n\nThis week Dan & Merlin talk about realizing when life isn't all about you and getting better at learning how to say \"thank you.\"
\n\nAlso, lots of great practical (and philosophical) suggestions for getting started with or back into comics.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Harry's (Visit Harrys.com and use the code COMICS at checkout to get $5 off your first purchase).
GoToWebinar (Get started with GoToWebinar today\nYou focus on the content. GoToWebinar handles the rest. Visit the link today to learn more).
Wealthfront (Visit wealthfront.com/5by5 to get your first $15,000 managed for free).
Freshbooks (Visit the link to try FreshBooks free for 30 days and enter 'Back to Work' in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section during sign up.)
TOPIC: Staying out of Technology Detention
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin do another giant-size grabbag episode that covers a lot of ground, including:
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Igloo (Sign up now and try it for free at IglooSoftware.com/BackToWork).
GoToWebinar (Get started with GoToWebinar today\nYou focus on the content. GoToWebinar handles the rest. Visit the link today to learn more).
Squarespace (Visit Squarespace.com/backtowork and use the code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off).
Wealthfront (Visit wealthfront.com/5by5 to get your first $15,000 managed for free).
TOPIC: That's Not How the Future Works.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about evolving technology culture, the weird landscape of semi-smart devices, and why Merlin does and kinda doesn't do Getting Things Done so much anymore.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Casper (Visit Casper.com/backtowork and use the code BACKTOWORK for $50 towards your new mattress.)
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Wealthfront (Visit wealthfront.com/5by5 to get your first $15,000 managed for free).
TOPIC: Grab Bag.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin cover the waterfront. This wide-ranging episode covers lots of listener feedback, corrections of egregious errors, D&D alignment, the danger of guessing why people are how they are, some fun Tumblr recommendations, considering the yak-shaving ordeal of time-shifting broadcast TV, plus further discussion of last week's topic re: kids and computer access.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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Bench (Visit the link to get 20% off your first six months).
GoToWebinar (Get started with GoToWebinar today\nYou focus on the content. GoToWebinar handles the rest. Visit the link today to learn more).
PDFpen (Visit the link to see what PDFpen can do for you).
TOPIC: Epistemology and Parenting as Dumpster Fire
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin end up talking a lot about what they don't know and how they know they don't know it. The biases, errors, and frames that make us feel wiser than we probably are.
\n\nSometimes it pays to learn how to be a dummy.
\n\nAlso, Dan learns what a \"film projector\" is.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Squarespace (Visit Squarespace.com/backtowork and use the code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off).
Bushel (Your first three devices are free forever, and each additional device is just $2 per month with no contracts or commitments. Learn more at Bushel.com/BacktoWork).
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TOPIC: Feelings, Slide Rules, and The Franklin Test
\n\nThis week Merlin hasn't had enough coffee and may have early-onset toxoplasmosis, so he and Dan respond to great feedback from listeners, mostly on feeling feelings.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Harry's (Visit Harrys.com and use the code COMICS at checkout to get $5 off your first purchase).
Warby Parker (Head to WarbyParker.com/Dan to order your free Home Try-On’s today).
Igloo (Sign up now and try it for free at IglooSoftware.com/BackToWork).
TOPIC: Information, Context, and Courage.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the reaction to last week's episode about work and identity and respond to follow-up questions from listeners.
\n\nAlso, Merlin buys a faucet.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Squarespace (Visit Squarespace.com/backtowork and use the code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off your first purchase.)
Hello Fresh (For $35 off your first week of deliveries, visit HelloFresh.com and enter COMICS when you subscribe!)
Casper (Visit Casper.com/backtowork and use the code BACKTOWORK for $50 towards your new mattress.)
TOPIC: Coder, Kayaker, Father, Person.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about Dan's attempt to vastly rejigger his schedule in the interest of mental and physical health.
\n\nThis leads to a long discussion of work, identity, expectations, and choosing which of the voices in your head to listen to and when.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
PDFpen (Come see what PDFpen can do for you at SmileSoftware.com/b2w.)
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TOPIC: Say something funny.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about entertainment as a career and how difficult it can be to know whether you're suited for it.
\n\nPlus, discussions of X-Men, San Francisco's collapse, and the best way to get vomit out of the bathroom sink.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Igloo (To learn more and to try it for free visit IglooSoftware.com/BacktoWork.)
Harry's (Harry’s is giving you $5 off your first order with the promo code COMICS. Stop overpaying for a great shave and start the new year off right!)
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TOPIC: Budgeting the Primary Secondary Project
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin do a deep dive on a very old and very thorny topic: managing time.
\n\nThing is: this is not about bookkeeping—it's about accounting. Being honest, humble, and diligent in mindfully applying your time and seeing how it went.
\n\n(This is a good one.)
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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TOPIC: Elephants all the way down.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin do a deep dive on communication, perception, persuasion, empathy, and understanding, as illustrated by everything from The Force Awakens to Don LaPre to PR emails to Donald Trump to a variety of elephants—plus a famous photo of a man and the fake dead triceratops he supposedly killed.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
—Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
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Casper (Sleep better in 2016 by visiting Casper.com/BackToWork and use the code BACKTOWORK for $50 towards your new mattress).
TOPIC: Something something the things we own.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the way shopping changes how we buy stuff—and how buying is changing what we can actually shop for.
\n\nThen, there's a ruminative discussion of the Mast Brothers chocolate dust-up and what it might say about our sense of story, identity, and \"authenticity.\"
\n\nLinks for this episode:
TextExpander 5 (Visit SmileSoftware.com/b2w to download a free demo of TextExpander and improve your communication today).
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TOPIC: Maybe quit being so \"busy.\"
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin drop a lot of science on the miraculous taxonomies of Judaica. Mazel Tov!
\n\nFor the big topic, Merlin launches into an animated jeremiad on words meaning things, with a focus on being terminally \"busy\" versus being willfully \"time-constrained.\"
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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TOPIC: Sunrise, Sunset.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin celebrate their 250th episode with an extensive discussion of McDonaldland and its horrific culture and citizenry.
\n\nThe main topic addresses the ““sunsetting”” of the Mailbox iOS app—and what it highlights about deciding where to put our stuff, what apps we choose to use, and what contingency plans it's probably wise to have in place.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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TOPIC: Personal Crazy Walls
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin start by covering a lot of things that you might actually be thinking of.
\n\nThe meat of the episode focuses on a listener question about deciding what things go where—leading to a pretty nerdy exegesis of Notes vs. text files, reminders vs. task managers, and where stuff goes vs. where it probably should go.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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Squarespace (Get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase when you use the code ITSYOURSHOW).
TOPIC: More Songs About Buildings and Food
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about transitions, microwave ovens, air conditioning, and the likelihood of salmonella.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
TextExpander (Visit SmileSoftware.com/b2w to download a free demo of TextExpander and improve your communication today).
Freshbooks (Visit the link to try FreshBooks free for 30 days and enter 'Back to Work' in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section during sign up).
TOPIC: A Mark on a Page
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin kick off by talking about Dan's recent interview with \"Weird Al\" and how he's such an interesting harbinger of changing times for media and platforms.
\n\nNext, Merlin responds to a listener's question about how he uses a notebook, which leads to an extended dissertation on how to ruin your notebook in the best way possible. Nothing doesn't go in here.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
We’ve been asked more than once to have a compendium of all of these reviews. This is it.
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Hover (You can get 10% off your first purchase by going to Hover.com and using the code LIBRARYELF at checkout).
TOPIC: Medieval or Renaissance?
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin start out by helping listeners learn to identify the subtle differences between all things Renaissance and Medieval.
\n\nThe remainder of the show is split between an in-depth introduction to the Plex media ecosystem, and a philosophical and practical meditation on choosing how to spend a given day.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Slack (Visit Slack.com/backtowork and create a new team and you’ll get $100 in credit you can use when you decide to upgrade to a paid plan).
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Harry's (It's Movember! So go to Harrys.com now and you’ll get $5 off if you type in the code COMICS with your first order).
TOPIC: First impressions of the new Apple TV
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the triumphs and travails of their first few days with the fourth generation Apple TV.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
lynda (Visit lynda.com/backtowork to get free 10-day trial access to their 3,000+ courses).
Casper (Go and get $50 toward any mattress purchase by visiting Casper.com/BackToWork and use the code BACKTOWORK).
TOPIC: You are who you choose to be.
\n\nThis week Dan and Merlin talk about making buying decisions, dealing with unsolicited email, preventing stupid from sticking to you, and finding systems that may or may not work.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
TOPIC: It's Business All the Way Down.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about joys and frustrations of contemporary consumer technologies. So great yet so frustrating. So powerful yet so hobbled. It's weird how, as great as the newest tech ever gets, we so quickly find we're bumping right up against business, business, business.
\n\nThen, there's some more discussion of updates in iOS 9 and what we can now do with iPhone 6s, highlighting the astonishing power of trackpad mode.
\n\nFinally, some updates on Dan's cord-cutting and how one may choose how and what we're each willing to pay for—and how it's just no fun to amortize other people's garbage with your own time.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
TOPIC: Procrastination is a life sentence.
\n\nThis week, after some high-level discussion on the topics of Marvel and media reduxes, Dan and Merlin (maaaaybe) wrap up their initial and very positive impressions of iOS 9 on modern Apple devices.
\n\nMore fawning talk of Siri, plus tips on easily adding items to Reminders and Notes.
\n\nDan also lays out his freeing new philosophy and implementations for doing sane email on an iPad.
\n\nThen, Merlin goes off a little on why constantly feeling bad about yourself is a terrible idea.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
TOPIC: iOS Amazement
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about Dan's new iPad Air 2 and continue their discussion of how much iOS 9 on modern devices is already changing how we do our work.
\n\nAlso, some nerdy updates on how Merlin uses synced text files via Drafts, Editorial, and nvALT.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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\n\nThis episode, Dan and Merlin talk about this week's massive leaps forward with the pairing of iOS 9 and iPhone 6s.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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","summary":"TOPIC: Speed, Reliability, and Expectations","date_published":"2015-09-29T14:30:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/841e0606-3b38-4fc1-bcb1-1a58e07373b8.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":49963032,"duration_in_seconds":6198}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/239","title":"Episode 239: Starving African Child","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/239","content_text":"TOPIC: Block! Block! Body blow! Uppercut!\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk less about ad-blocking and more about what kind-of feels like (but might not actually be) a point of change for web advertising, podcasting, and media as a whole, which could affect, like, everything, man.\n\nLinks for this episode:Internet History Podcast | From Netscape To The iPadPolitical Gabfest on the second Republican presidential debate and the possible government shutdown over the Planned Parenthood controversy.On this week’s Slate Political Gabfest Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the second round of Republican debates and how each candidate performed, and the potential government shutdown over Planned Parenthood funding and what it means for the 2016 election. They also talk to writer, speaker, and broadcaster Merlin Mann about time, attention, and productivity.\nCirculating Ideas | the librarian interview podcastSteve chats with Merlin Mann about his history with libraries, the importance of the library as a community space, why libraries aren’t dead, and checking in with the Library Elf.\nReconcilable Differences - Relay FMJohn Siracusa and Merlin Mann try to figure out exactly how they got this way.\nQuarterly rent report confirms: There are zero affordable neighborhoods for renters in S.F. - On The BlockThe overall median price for a 1-bedroom in SF hit $3,530 earlier this month\nThis is what $350,000 buys you in San Francisco’s crazy housing market - On The BlockThe two-bedroom, one-bath “beauty” built in 1906 offers 765 square feet of living space and just went on the market for $350,000. That’s $458 per square foot, which might be considered a “bargain” since the average price per square foot in San Francisco is $957, according to real estate site Trulia.\nAmazon.com: Shure BETA 87A Supercardioid Condenser Microphone for Handheld Vocal Applications: Musical InstrumentsBETA 58A Vocal Microphone | Shure AmericasFlavor Enhancer - Food Flavor Enhancers - Accent FlavorHoward Hughes: His Life and Madness: Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele: 9780393326024: Amazon.com: BooksAmazon.com: The Aviator: Martin Scorsese, John Logan, Warner Bros., wb: Amazon Digital Services , Inc.5by5 | Road WorkThe September Issue (2009) - IMDbGHOSTERY Home PageBrought to you by Harry's (Use the code COMICS to get $5 off the starter shave set), Squarespace (Use the code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off of your first purchase), Pond5 (For 25% off your next purchase of royalty-free media just visit Pond5.com and enter the 'BACKTOWORK' at checkout), and Freshbooks (Visit the link to try FreshBooks free for 30 days and enter 'Back to Work' in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section during signing up).","content_html":"TOPIC: Block! Block! Body blow! Uppercut!
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk less about ad-blocking and more about what kind-of feels like (but might not actually be) a point of change for web advertising, podcasting, and media as a whole, which could affect, like, everything, man.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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","summary":"**TOPIC**: Block! Block! Body blow! Uppercut!\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk less about ad-blocking and more about what kind-of feels like (but might not actually be) a point of change for web advertising, podcasting, and media as a whole, which could ","date_published":"2015-09-22T20:15:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/76b73089-c94e-4496-9dc3-51c2fb31fcb6.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":52921765,"duration_in_seconds":6568}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/238","title":"Episode 238: A 100-Year Problem","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/238","content_text":"TOPIC: Knowing what you'll need to know.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin answer a listener question about how the \"slow your roll\" thought technology can apply to learning new skills.\n\nLinks for this episode:Political Gabfest SFTickets | Slate Magazine's Political Gabfest | City Box OfficePolitical GabfestJohn Dickerson - How to Process a Hotel RoomJohn Dickerson, Journalist & Handsomeman | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Are People Really More Busy? The Rise of Shadow Work | The Art of ManlinessUnited States Guide: The American school system, Grades, school hours and terms: Most children start schoolChildren usually start in kindergarten or grade one at the age of five or six and go up one grade each year until reaching grade 12 at the age of 17. Occasionally a student must repeat a grade because of prolonged absence or low marks, although this is rare. The 12 years following the kindergarten year are usually organised under what is known as the ‘6-3-3 plan’ where grades 1 to 6 are in elementary (primary) school, grades 7 to 9 in junior high or middle school and grades 10 to 12 in a (senior) high school.\nTexas State Highway Loop 1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaVIDEO: \"Advanced Tricycling\" talk by Merlin Mann (2014)Magneto - Marvel Comics DatabaseThe case of the 500-mile emailDunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right: Atul Gawande: 9780312430009: Amazon.com: BooksA Life-Saving Checklist - The New YorkerIf something so simple can transform intensive care, what else can it do?\nLife hack. Boom. | kung fu grippeLife hack. Boom.\nEp. 170: \"The Wilder Universe\" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin MannThe Problem: They billed John $300.\nLearning the bash Shell: Unix Shell Programming (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)): Cameron Newham: 9780596009656: Amazon.com: Books100-year flood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaKobayashi Maru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBrought to you by Casper (Visit Casper.com/backtowork and use the code BACKTOWORK to get $50 towards your brand new mattress), Wealthfront (Visit wealthfront.com/5by5 to get your first $15,000 managed for free), lynda (Learn something new today by visiting lynda.com/backtowork to get a free 10 day trial to their 3,000+ courses), and Freshbooks (Visit the link to try FreshBooks free for 30 days and enter 'Back to Work' in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section during signing up).","content_html":"TOPIC: Knowing what you'll need to know.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin answer a listener question about how the \"slow your roll\" thought technology can apply to learning new skills.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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","summary":"TOPIC: Knowing what you'll need to know.","date_published":"2015-09-15T14:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/a210fee7-de44-4644-aaf4-80ae98fd5735.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":56004419,"duration_in_seconds":6953}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/237","title":"Episode 237: Slow Your Roll","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/237","content_text":"TOPIC: Stop that train!\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about some ideas for noticing and then battling the surfeits of negative thought that sometimes threaten to overrun us.\n\nAlso: talk of a cool new computer mouse, evolution in the comic book industry, and what constitutes \"real camping.\"\n\nLinks for this episode:Amazon.com: Logitech MX Master Wireless Mouse (910-004337): Computers & AccessoriesUrban Dictionary: slow your rollTerm used to inform a homie that he's getting outta control and he might want to shut the hell up before he gets beat the hell up.\"Yo dawg, you better slow your roll fool.\"\nWhat does slow (one's) roll mean? slow (one's) roll Definition. Meaning of slow (one's) roll. OnlineSlangDictionary.comLogitech MX Master Review! - YouTubeTech YouTuber Mouse v2 has arrived!\nAmazon.com: SteelSeries QcK Gaming Mouse Pad (Black): ElectronicsQ: Will this mouse pad work with my mac?\n\nA: No. This mousepad is incompatible with Macs. The gripping material on the underside of the mat is 58c9x Wally spec from Indonesia. While this spec fits nicely into 64 bit Windows architecture, it will mix up the mainframe if you try to put this into an Apple Macintosh chipset.\nPodcasting Microphones Mega-Review – Marco.orgIt’s hard to find useful microphone recommendations for podcasters: most people have only tried one or two, except pro audio engineers, who have very different needs and record in very different environments. And almost no reviews include audio samples to compare.So I set out to change that. Some commonly recommended mics were disappointing, some were right on, and I’ve found some real gems that were previously unknown in my podcasting circles.\nGamma World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAirstream USA, Airstream Travel Trailer, Silver Bullet | AirstreamSocial • XOXO Festivalcatastrophize - WiktionaryTo regard a bad situation as if it were disastrous or catastrophic\nBrought to you by JustWorks (Get 15% off your first year when you visit justworks.com/backtowork to sign up and use the code BACKTOWORK), Wealthfront (Visit wealthfront.com/5by5 to get your first $15,000 managed for free, Backblaze (Don’t lose your work, back it up! Get a two week free trial by going to Backblaze.com/BackToWork), and Squarespace (Use the code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off of your first purchase).","content_html":"TOPIC: Stop that train!
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about some ideas for noticing and then battling the surfeits of negative thought that sometimes threaten to overrun us.
\n\nAlso: talk of a cool new computer mouse, evolution in the comic book industry, and what constitutes \"real camping.\"
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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","summary":"TOPIC: Stop that train!","date_published":"2015-09-08T16:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/d04a0ce8-c1c2-4e4c-a454-7cd9a69ee819.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":47605316,"duration_in_seconds":5903}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/236","title":"Episode 236: Finished for Now","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/236","content_text":"TOPIC: Practice, practice, practice.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the perilous wonders of practice of all kinds.\n\nLinks for this episode:How Portability Ruined the Telephone - The AtlanticAmazon.com: Boiron Homeopathic Medicine Coldcalm Tablets for Colds, 60 Count: Prime PantryPractice (learning method) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Making of an ExpertActually, practice doesn’t always make perfect — new study - The Washington PostMalcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 Hour Rule for deliberate practice is wrong: Genes for music, IQ, drawing ability, and other skills.Drafts | Agile TortoiseEditorial for iOSnvALT - BrettTerpstra.comnvALT 2.2b 106 - BrettTerpstra.comMarkdown Service Tools - BrettTerpstra.comTaskPaper — Simple to-do list software for MacInput: Fonts for CodeAdding straight single and double quotes to Inconsolata'The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness' reveals the tortured genius of Studio Ghibli | The Vergemac system kaleidoscope - Google Searchmac system kaleidoscope\nThe Dalrymple Report5by5 | Bingeworthy: Mr. Robot #1: PrimerMise en place - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMise en place (French pronunciation: ?[mi z?? ?plas]) is a French culinary phrase which meant \"putting in place\", as in set up. It is used in professional kitchens to refer to organizing and arranging the ingredients (e.g., cuts of meat, relishes, sauces, par-cooked items, spices, freshly chopped vegetables, and other components) that a cook will require for the menu items that are expected to be prepared during a shift\nFor A More Ordered Life, Organize Like A Chef : The Salt : NPRThe system that makes kitchens go is called mise-en-place, or, literally, \"put in place.\" It's a French phrase that means to gather and arrange the ingredients and tools needed for cooking.\nBrought to you by JustWorks (Get 15% off your first year when you visit justworks.com/backtowork to sign up and use the code BACKTOWORK), lynda (Learn something new today by visiting lynda.com/backtowork to get a free 10 day trial to their 3,000+ courses), and Wealthfront (Visit wealthfront.com/5by5 to get your first $15,000 managed for free).","content_html":"TOPIC: Practice, practice, practice.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the perilous wonders of practice of all kinds.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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","summary":"TOPIC: Practice, practice, practice.","date_published":"2015-09-01T17:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/e511d895-6a2e-43af-9b5d-1031130bd920.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":45985517,"duration_in_seconds":5701}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/235","title":"Episode 235: This is a Thing","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/235","content_text":"TOPIC: Losing hit points.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the stuff you have to do to stay healthy and well—and the rocky path to realizing when you have to actually \"make it a thing.\"\n\nThere's also some follow-up on OTA antennas, car keys, and how little most of us really understand about the media industries.\n\nLinks for this episode:Ungainly X-Mann Meetup #10 — Merlin MannStrandpromenade / By the seaside Ringtone iOS LOOP 10 Min - YouTubeSutro Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSutro Tower is a 297.8 m (977 ft) three-pronged antenna tower near Clarendon Heights in San Francisco, California. Rising from a hill between Twin Peaks and Mount Sutro, it is a prominent part of the city skyline and a landmark for city residents and visitors.\nNalgene | The original water bottle. Made in the USA. BPA Free.Amazon.com | Thermos 12 Ounce Funtainer Bottle, Pink: Thermos For Kids: Pasta BowlsAmazon.com | Thermos 12 Ounce Funtainer Bottle, Batman: Pasta BowlsLumberjanes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaNimona: Noelle Stevenson: 9780062278227: Amazon.com: BooksNoelle Stevenson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHarry Houdini - The Death of Harry HoudiniBrought to you by TextExpander 5 (To learn more and download a free demo of TextExpander 5 today visit the link), JustWorks (Get 15% off your first year when you visit justworks.com/backtowork to sign up and use the code BACKTOWORK), and Wealthfront (Visit wealthfront.com/5by5 to get your first $15,000 managed for free).","content_html":"TOPIC: Losing hit points.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the stuff you have to do to stay healthy and well—and the rocky path to realizing when you have to actually \"make it a thing.\"
\n\nThere's also some follow-up on OTA antennas, car keys, and how little most of us really understand about the media industries.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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","summary":"TOPIC: Losing hit points.","date_published":"2015-08-25T15:45:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/38143098-136d-4b35-a2f9-6e847ba67a89.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":40195318,"duration_in_seconds":4977}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/234","title":"Episode 234: Two Inches Behind the Board","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/234","content_text":"TOPIC: Compensatory muscles\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about how much emotions can become like physical injuries—and what happens when we try to overcompensate for either.\n\nLinks for this episode:5by5 | The Ihnatko Almanac #152: Project RunwayAndy is joined by Merlin Mann to discuss Project Runway.\nnevver: Peanuts | kung fu grippeadam baldwin - Google Searchvincent d'onofrio - Google Searchwilford brimley age in 1984 - Wolfram|AlphaFeeling Good: The New Mood Therapy: David D. Burns: 0071001008999: Amazon.com: BooksFeeling Good | The website of David D. Burns, MDIt follows from this model that all emotional... | kung fu grippeIt follows from this model that all emotional change is ultimately brought about by cognitions\nReconcilable Differences #7: 50 Shades of John - Relay FMThis week, John and Merlin do some follow-up on John's picky eating and his family's failures at meal planning. Both men cop to loving soup. Also some updates on Destiny.Then on to the big topic: how does John's mind work, and how did he get that way?\n5by5 | Back to Work #3: The Second ArrowMerlin Mann and Dan Benjamin discuss ADD, Buddhism, mindfulness, concentration, and insight.\nFaraday cage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThieves using a $17 device to break into cars with keyless systemsCar Thieves Hack Remote Keyless Entry Systems with $17 Device - TechliciousHigh-tech car thieves may be breaking in by amplifying key fob signal - CBS NewsChoosing the Best TV Antenna for San Francisco, CaliforniaHDTV Antenna Selection Guide, Reviews and InformationAmazon.com: Mohu Leaf 50 Indoor HDTV Antenna (formerly Leaf Ultimate): Electronics5by5 | Road WorkAmazon.com: The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety (8601300190136): Alan W. Watts: BooksDavid Foster Wallace: The 'Fresh Air' Interview : NPRTwitterCard Wars - The Adventure Time Wiki. Mathematical!Unjustly Maligned | \"Monopoly\" with Cory Casoni (Episode 24)Brought to you by Wealthfront (Visit wealthfront.com/5by5 to get your first $15,000 managed for free), lynda (Learn something new today by visiting lynda.com/backtowork to get a free 10 day trial to their 3,000+ courses), and Squarespace (Use the code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off of your first purchase).","content_html":"TOPIC: Compensatory muscles
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about how much emotions can become like physical injuries—and what happens when we try to overcompensate for either.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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","summary":"TOPIC: Compensatory muscles","date_published":"2015-08-18T17:45:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/1ba5da66-df25-41f9-86be-4aa2b6210ca3.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":49217397,"duration_in_seconds":6105}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/233","title":"Episode 233: Emotional Density","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/233","content_text":"TOPIC: Can I ask you a question?\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the complexities of communicating effectively via email. They also begin to sketch out a unified field theory for escalating communication media based on informational and emotional destiny.\n\nAlso, more thoughts on The Smiths, plus some recommendations on books and comics for kids.\n\nLinks for this episode:Food Safety Talk 79: You’re Into Botulism Country (with Merlin Mann) — Food Safety TalkMerlin Mann joins Don and Ben for a discussion on food safety and cooking using science at home.\nHow Long Does Food Last? Shelf Life & Expiration Date GuideThe Podcast Resurgence: Your Definitive Listening Guide - WSJSUPERMAN FAMILY ADVENTURES #1 | DC ComicsAmazon.com: Superman Family Adventures, Vol. 1 (9781401240509): Art Baltazar, Franco: BooksThe Complete Wreck (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Books 1-13): Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist: 9780061119064: Amazon.com: BooksHarry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7): J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandPre: 9780545162074: Amazon.com: BooksDutch angle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Dutch angle, also known as Dutch tilt, canted angle, oblique angle or German angle, is a type of camera shot where the camera is set at an angle on its roll axis so that the shot is composed with vertical lines at an angle to the side of the frame, or so that the horizon line of the shot is not parallel with the bottom of the camera frame.\nR.E.M. - Letter Never Sent - YouTubeReconcilable Differences - Relay FMFans Petition Fox To Sell Fantastic Four Rights Back To Marvel Studios | Comicbook.comBrought to you by Wealthfront (Visit wealthfront.com/5by5 to get your first $15,000 managed for free), and lynda (Learn something new today by visiting lynda.com/backtowork to get a free 10 day trial to their 3,000+ courses).","content_html":"TOPIC: Can I ask you a question?
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the complexities of communicating effectively via email. They also begin to sketch out a unified field theory for escalating communication media based on informational and emotional destiny.
\n\nAlso, more thoughts on The Smiths, plus some recommendations on books and comics for kids.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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","summary":"TOPIC: Can I ask you a question?","date_published":"2015-08-11T16:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/5b717b6b-00f2-4169-ba9a-bb564bcde1d8.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":38690876,"duration_in_seconds":4789}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/232","title":"Episode 232: You Got This.","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/232","content_text":"TOPIC: Don't just be the meatbag in the room.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about \"the fill-in guy,\" TV shows they're loving, listener feedback, improving presentations, The Smiths, the evolution of podcasts, contact management woes, and remembering what you're capable of.\n\nLinks for this episode:'Mad Max: Fury Road' Will Be On iTunes Soon So Catch Up With Some Of Your Favorite Heroines First | BustleConversation Parade: An Adventure Time Podcast | Podcast | Infinite Guest Podcast NetworkIn this limited-run series, Open Mike Eagle (rap artist and host of Infinite Guest’s Secret Skin) and John Moe (host of Infinite Guest's Wits) talk about the characters, story lines and themes in the hit Cartoon Network animated series Adventure Time. John and Mike also talk with the creative forces behind the show, interviewing the actors, storyboard artists, producers and others who make Adventure Time.\nShe'll be right - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaShe'll be right (often followed by a friendly term of address such as mate) is a frequently used idiom in Australian and New Zealand culture that expresses the belief that \"whatever is wrong will right itself with time\", which is considered to be either an optimistic or apathetic outlook.\nFake, soiled underpants for home security. » Coolest GadgetsDirty Underwear Hidden Safe | Cheaters Spy ShopAmazon.com: The Brief Safe Hidden Contents Travel Passport Wallet - Diversion Safe: ClothingBona Drag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Smiths - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Police - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaLouder Than Bombs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSmiths - Hatful of Hollow - Amazon.com MusicSmiths - Queen Is Dead - Amazon.com MusicSmiths - Smiths - Amazon.com MusicSyncman | Synchronize Address Book with GmailMac App Store - Contacts CleanerMan. People. | kung fu grippeMacular degeneration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMacular degeneration, often age-related macular degeneration (AMD or ARMD), is a medical condition that usually affects older adults and results in a loss of vision in the center of the visual field (the macula) because of damage to the retina.\n5by5 | Back to Work #38: Sorry. You Can't Have a Candle.The Smiths : Hand in Glove (Old Grey Whistle Test 1983) - YouTubeBrought to you by Squarespace (Use the code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off of your first purchase), Casper (Visit Casper.com/backtowork and use the code BACKTOWORK to get $50 towards your brand new mattress), and Wealthfront (Visit wealthfront.com/5by5 to get your first $10,000 managed for free).","content_html":"TOPIC: Don't just be the meatbag in the room.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about \"the fill-in guy,\" TV shows they're loving, listener feedback, improving presentations, The Smiths, the evolution of podcasts, contact management woes, and remembering what you're capable of.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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","summary":"TOPIC: Don't just be the meatbag in the room. ","date_published":"2015-08-04T19:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/e61429bc-30c0-463f-b8fe-21c3075a0f41.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":55054184,"duration_in_seconds":6834}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/231","title":"Episode 231: Hot Rod Hospital Ship","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/231","content_text":"With Merlin on sabbatical (returning next week), Dan is once again joined by John Roderick. They discuss the significance of dreams, sleep paralysis, unexplained phenomenon, alien abductions, a relationship with magic, the importance of history, night terrors, and leaving a legacy.\n\nLinks for this episode:Sleep paralysis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDiaper-wearing astronaut jailed in love triangle plot - The Denver PostLisa Nowak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaNeil deGrasse Tyson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaNo Iran Deal - Rick Santorum for PresidentPATEK PHILIPPE SA - Men's WatchesBrought to you by Harry's (Start shaving smarter today by using the code COMICS at checkout to get $5 off the starter set), TextExpander 5 (To learn more and download a free demo of TextExpander 5 visit smilesoftware.com/b2w), lynda (Start learning something new today by visiting lynda.com/backtowork to get free 10 day trial access to their 3,000+ courses), and Wealthfront (Visit wealthfront.com/5by5 to get your first $10,000 managed for free).","content_html":"With Merlin on sabbatical (returning next week), Dan is once again joined by John Roderick. They discuss the significance of dreams, sleep paralysis, unexplained phenomenon, alien abductions, a relationship with magic, the importance of history, night terrors, and leaving a legacy.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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","summary":"With Merlin on sabbatical (returning next week), Dan is once again joined by John Roderick. They discuss the significance of dreams, sleep paralysis, unexplained phenomenon, alien abductions, a relationship with magic, the importance of history, night ter","date_published":"2015-07-28T16:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/ec1d2ba5-2f7d-4591-ad87-34080f32748f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":57314306,"duration_in_seconds":7117}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/230","title":"Episode 230: My Emotional Reservoir","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/230","content_text":"With Merlin on sabbatical, Dan is joined by John Roderick to talk about being a candidate, taking care of yourself, managing introversion, trying on ideas without fear, the Thirty Years War, and the struggle of being a generalist.\n\nLinks for this episode:John Roderick for Seattle City CouncilThirty Years' War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaEp. 163: \"The Maisie Glotz File\" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin MannEugenics in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaInternational Society for Krishna Consciousness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBrought to you by HipChat (Visit HipChat.com/backtowork to get 90 days of HipChat Plus for free), Harry's (Use the code COMICS to get $5 off the starter shave set), and lynda (Learn something new today by visiting lynda.com/backtowork to get a free 10 day trial to their 3,000+ courses).","content_html":"With Merlin on sabbatical, Dan is joined by John Roderick to talk about being a candidate, taking care of yourself, managing introversion, trying on ideas without fear, the Thirty Years War, and the struggle of being a generalist.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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","summary":"With Merlin on sabbatical, Dan is joined by John Roderick to talk about being a candidate, taking care of yourself, managing introversion, trying on ideas without fear, the Thirty Years War, and the struggle of being a generalist.","date_published":"2015-07-21T15:15:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/690b9124-dcbb-4fc3-b8a1-ab3dba3e2c7c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":62076325,"duration_in_seconds":7712}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/229","title":"Episode 229: Shrimp in the Desert","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/229","content_text":"TOPIC: The perils and joys of just getting started.\n\nThis week's episode is chockablock with awesomeness, from the sublime to the ridiculous. It ends on a very inspiring note. But, en route:\n\n\nMexican guys love Morrissey\nShabbos goys cause fire to be created\nAn eruv is an ad hoc house described by string\nMerlin has Aloha for Judaism\nTeaching History is hard\nAmerica owes some apologies\nEndorsing \"Ordinary People Change the World\" books\nEndorsing Mr. Robot and Humans\nThanks for great Holacracy feedback (more later)\nFeedback on Merlin's lightning cable corrosion\nDan's Concern: Acura recall\nWhat's up with \"over the shoulder syndrome?\"\nIs it dangerous to talk on a phone in the car?\nIs it dangerous to approbate?\nHUGE followup on \"perfect is the enemy of the good\"\nJust make a mark on a page.\n\n\nLinks for this episode:MaxFunCon: Merlin Mann on Doing Creative Work; The Sound of Young America | Maximum FunMerlin Mann talks about the process of doing creative work, and particularly how to abandon the quest for perfection, get off your butt and get started.\nHow email became the most reviled communication experience everCBT is becoming less effective, like everything else « Mind HacksTime management is only making our busy lives worse - QuartzThe Avalanche of Options — MediumCollision Mitigation Braking System™ (CMBS™) | 2014 Acura MDX | Acura Owners SitePart of the Advance Package, the Collision Mitigation Braking System™ (CMBS™) with heads-up warning was developed to help reduce the likelihood of a frontal collision. The system is designed to alert the driver of a potential collision and take steps to help mitigate the severity of a frontal collision if the system determines it to be unavoidable.\nShabbos goy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaShabbat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaActivities prohibited on Shabbat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaEruv - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaEruv - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaLisa's Substitute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAmazon.com: Christopher Eliopoulos: BooksI am Abraham Lincoln (Ordinary People Change World): Brad Meltzer, Christopher Eliopoulos: 9780803740839: Amazon.com: BooksDouglas Adams Quote Rules that describe our reactions to technologies...\nThe Sisters Of Mercy - This Corrosion HQ - YouTubeThe Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - YouTubeGoogle Ngram Viewerapprobation\nWhy do Mexican Americans love Morrissey so much? - The Washington PostWhat is the appeal of Morrissey (or “Moz”) to this community? With help from Nancy Marie Arteaga, a former diehard Moz fan, I asked three major Morrissey fans about the Latino fixation.\nResolved: Stop Blaming the Pancake | 43 FoldersBrought to you by Warby Parker (Visit WarbyParker.com/dan to get free 3 day shipping on your final frame choice), HipChat (Visit HipChat.com/backtowork to get 90 days of HipChat Plus for free), Squarespace (Visit the link and use the code ITSYOURSHOW to get a free trial and 10% off your brand new website).","content_html":"TOPIC: The perils and joys of just getting started.
\n\nThis week's episode is chockablock with awesomeness, from the sublime to the ridiculous. It ends on a very inspiring note. But, en route:
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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","summary":"TOPIC: The perils and joys of just getting started.","date_published":"2015-07-14T13:15:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/57be1150-2768-4a93-9744-cd69034e3f9c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":44956296,"duration_in_seconds":5572}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/228","title":"Episode 228: Tibet's Next Top Buddha","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/228","content_text":"TOPIC: What kind of \"perfect\" can you tolerate?\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin have a big week. A huge week.\n\nOpening with a thank you to generous listeners, the boys then proceed to tackle some FU on the complicated world of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III (he is recognized!).\n\nNext up is some preliminary discussion on Pando's recent hit piece on Tony Hsieh, his weird edict for Holacracy at Zappos, and his strange and checkered history with theoretically transforming downtown Las Vegas.\n\nMoving forward, \"Merlin's Concern\" about his bizarre lightning cable problem is addressed and assigned to further research by the Fun Bunch.\n\nFinally, the meat of the episode is served in an extended meditation on whether and when \"perfect is the enemy of good\"—and how that concept maybe relates to aspects of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy.\n\nLinks for this episode:Pasadena Artist Who Claims To Be Buddha Reincarnated Is Wanted In China: LAistA Pasadena man who claims to be the reincarnation of Buddha is selling his art for millions. He's also wanted by the Chinese government for fraud.\nWorship long-haired handsome at cult-museum on first Thursdays | SF ArtsStill, new favorite museum. It has a treehouse, holograms, and I wasn't abducted despite the fact that there was maybe one other visitor there on the first Thursday I was waved in from the sidewalk. The other visitor was a guy who talked loudly on his cell phone about how he was \"just checking out some museum man, they like said it was free so I was like cool.\"\nPasadena man Dorje Chang, known to followers as Buddha, is gaining followers in art worldShe described Buddha as a ?holy being? who can cure ailments, conjure nectar and move objects with his mind.\nDorje Chang Buddha III has been recognized: True Buddha Dharma spoken by H.H. Tathagata\"H.H. Tathagata Dorje Chang Buddha III is recognized!\"\nHolacracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHolacracy is a social technology or system of organizational governance in which authority and decision-making are distributed throughout a holarchy of self-organizing teams rather than being vested in a management hierarchy. Holacracy has been adopted in for-profit and non-profit organizations in the U.S., France, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, and the UK.\nA Holacracy of DuncesI’m a sucker for stories of giant risks and giant rewards, so it took me a while to figure out why Holacracy made me feel queasy rather than excited. I’d watched before as Hsieh had made big announcements which turned out to be disasters. People had lost their jobs before, and there had even been suicides. Why did his plan for Holacracy somehow seem even more reckless?\nPerfect is the enemy of good - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\"Perfect is the enemy of good is an aphorism which is commonly attributed to Voltaire, who quoted an Italian proverb in his Dictionnaire philosophique in 1770…\"\nNegative Thought Patterns and Cognitive Therapy CBTAll-or-Nothing Thinking. \"I have to do things perfectly, because anything less than perfect is a failure.\"\n\nDisqualifying the Positives. \"Life feels like one disappointment after another.\"\n\nNegative Self-Labeling. \"I feel like a failure. I'm flawed. If people knew the real me, they wouldn't like me.\"\n\nCatastrophizing. \"If something is going to happen, it'll probably be the worst case scenario.\"\n\nKundun (1997) - IMDbAmazon.com: Uni-Ball 207 Retractable Micro Point Gel Pens, 12 Black Ink Pens Plus 2 Bonus Pens (1905408): Office ProductsFeeling Good: The New Mood Therapy: David D. Burns: 0071001008999: Amazon.com: BooksApple Lightning connector pinout diagram @ pinouts.ruLightning Cables Failing Due to Corrosion, Cause Unclear - Mac RumorsSmart bracelet changes design with the touch of a button - ArabianBusiness.comInsight Meditation Center: Insight Meditation CenterAmazon.com : Sanford Prismacolor Premier Markers, 5-Pack, Fine Line, Black (14171) : Artists Markers : Office ProductsHow Netflix Reinvented HR - HBRLord of the Flies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaLord of the Flies is a 1954 dystopian novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results.\nWon't You Pimai Neighbor? - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAt the party a number of objects, one of which belonged to Sanglug, are laid out on a rug for the candidates to choose from\nThe meeting room hardware virusThen, someone else forced this into their Mac. Perhaps two pins tried to go into just the one socket. At any rate, it would now break the socket and get it all out of whack. That socket, used with another adapter in another room, would then break that adapter. This new broken adapter would then go on to break even more Macbook DVI connectors.\n5by5 | Back to Work #227: The Treasure Room[AUDIO] Andrea Fella: \"Anxiety Worry and Fear\"Highly recommended talk that Dan and Merlin both love.\nBrought to you by HipChat (Visit HipChat.com/backtowork to get premium features like unlimited file storage, unlimited message history and guaranteed support FREE for 90 days) and Harry's (Use the code COMICS to get $5 off the starter shave set).","content_html":"TOPIC: What kind of \"perfect\" can you tolerate?
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin have a big week. A huge week.
\n\nOpening with a thank you to generous listeners, the boys then proceed to tackle some FU on the complicated world of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III (he is recognized!).
\n\nNext up is some preliminary discussion on Pando's recent hit piece on Tony Hsieh, his weird edict for Holacracy at Zappos, and his strange and checkered history with theoretically transforming downtown Las Vegas.
\n\nMoving forward, \"Merlin's Concern\" about his bizarre lightning cable problem is addressed and assigned to further research by the Fun Bunch.
\n\nFinally, the meat of the episode is served in an extended meditation on whether and when \"perfect is the enemy of good\"—and how that concept maybe relates to aspects of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Brought to you by HipChat (Visit HipChat.com/backtowork to get premium features like unlimited file storage, unlimited message history and guaranteed support FREE for 90 days) and Harry's (Use the code COMICS to get $5 off the starter shave set).
","summary":"TOPIC: What kind of \"perfect\" can you tolerate?","date_published":"2015-07-07T14:15:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/b2e95fb2-a33f-4779-85bb-6eb3f200ff84.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":38052031,"duration_in_seconds":4709}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/227","title":"Episode 227: The Treasure Room","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/227","content_text":"TOPIC: Learning to shut up and relax.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the challenges and benefits of getting out of your own head.\n\nLinks for this episode:Art Museum | San Francisco | International Art Museum of AmericaThe International Art Museum of America - Museums - SoMa - San Francisco, CA - Reviews - Photos - YelpInside Out (2015) - IMDbLife Is Beautiful - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaWhy Stoicism is one of the best mind-hacks ever – Lary Wallace – AeonStoicism is, as much as anything, a philosophy of gratitude – and a gratitude, moreover, rugged enough to endure anything.\nStoicism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Stoics taught that destructive emotions resulted from errors in judgment, and that a sage, or person of \"moral and intellectual perfection\", would not suffer such emotions.\nStoicism | Internet Encyclopedia of PhilosophyStoicism is essentially a system of ethics which, however, is guided by a logic as theory of method, and rests upon physics as foundation.\nStoicism 101: A Practical Guide for Entrepreneurs | The Blog of Author Tim FerrissThe Dalrymple ReportSummer camp: Where kids grow up on their own and parents back home stay the same.They are moments you experienced truly for yourself. In Homesick and Happy, Michael Thompson writes about a study where people were asked about their happiest childhood memory\nThe Practice of Loving-Kindness (Metta): As Taught by the Buddha in the Pali CanonFacets of Metta by Sharon SalzbergDan's Wish ListMerlin's WishlistSponsored by Casper. Use code BACKTOWORK to get $50 off your awesome new mattress, and by Smile the makers of PDFPenPro for Mac.","content_html":"TOPIC: Learning to shut up and relax.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the challenges and benefits of getting out of your own head.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Casper. Use code BACKTOWORK to get $50 off your awesome new mattress, and by Smile the makers of PDFPenPro for Mac.
","summary":"TOPIC: Learning to shut up and relax. ","date_published":"2015-06-30T14:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/fae99204-69e4-43f5-966d-8f88f00acd3e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":39630239,"duration_in_seconds":4906}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/226","title":"Episode 226: Only Child*","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/226","content_text":"TOPIC: Hitting and sharing and dietetic lunch.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about having and not having siblings (and what it may or may not actually mean) as well as addressing some of the rapid changes coming to the business of podcasting.\n\nLinks for this episode:Reconcilable Differences #3: Helena Sell - Relay FMThis week, John and Merlin finally set themselves to the task of beginning to argue about their differences.After a look at their feelings about reviews (and review culture), John takes Merlin to task for his stance on the 1999 film Fight Club (and Fight Club culture). Then, things conclude with a passionate debate on the societal impact of sports (and sports culture).\nThe Dalrymple ReportUngainly X-Mann Meetup #9 — Merlin MannMERLIN MANN (Back to Work, Roderick on the Line, Reconcilable Differences, You Look Nice Today, et al.) invites you to drop by Two Cats Comics on the evening of Thursday, June 23rd to hang out, talk about comics, and just say, “Hi.”\n5by5 | Quit #66: Pick up the BandsawTil Debt Do Us Part (Season 2, #8) — StartUp — Gimlet MediaThe tensions start out small. But then things quickly escalate into arguments over equity and roles in the company. Lauren and Emma find themselves having conversations with each other they never thought they’d have. Plus, they get some advice from someone in the business of dealing with cofounder disagreements, the CEO Whisperer.\nA Practical Guide to Sous Vide CookingOn Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen: Harold McGee: 9780684800011: Amazon.com: Books5by5 | Amplified #141: I'll Eat My Own HandCulture GabfestSponsored by MailRoute (To remove spam from your life for good visit the link and get a free trial and 10% off the lifetime of your account).","content_html":"TOPIC: Hitting and sharing and dietetic lunch.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about having and not having siblings (and what it may or may not actually mean) as well as addressing some of the rapid changes coming to the business of podcasting.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by MailRoute (To remove spam from your life for good visit the link and get a free trial and 10% off the lifetime of your account).
","summary":"TOPIC: Hitting and sharing and dietetic lunch. ","date_published":"2015-06-23T16:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/c7c191c3-6911-43f5-b84f-ac82f08bae2a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":41339059,"duration_in_seconds":5120}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/225","title":"Episode 225: A Different Kind of Happy","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/225","content_text":"TOPIC: You can't have ALL the phone calls.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin battle Skype to talk about Dan't hissing floor, text editing on iOS, plus more followup on WWDC announcements.\n\nSpotlight on a second look at last week's conversation about how we do and don't communicate.\n\nLinks for this episode:Special 2: The Original Trilogy of Merlin MannIn August 2012, Brett interviewed Merlin Mann on the now-legendary 6th episode of Systematic. Thus was a trilogy born. From processes to pills and apps to naps, one of Systematic's signature returning-guest series was born.Using the latest in bleeding-edge digital technology, we have restored these episodes to the original creative vision that was literally, figuratively, and metaphysically impossible at the time.We've gone all the way back to the original masters, removing and modifying content (ads) that distracts from the auteur's intent. What results is a bespoke, artisanally created Special Edition product unlike any in the crowded Merlin Mann Podcast market today.This presentation of The Original Trilogy of Merlin Mann includes bonus, never-before-heard, ultra-exclusive deleted content, presented in the most ridiculous and semi-obtrusive way possible that does not involve a Blu-ray player.Special Thanks to George Lucas, the Fair Use Clause, The United States of America, and The Merlin Mann Trust.Artwork Sacrilege performed by Philip Mozolak\nNBD. Just two grown men eating nuts in the... | kung fu grippeGoogle Photos is fun. | kung fu grippeUlysses5by5 | Back to Work #224: Sugar Pills and a Pack of CigarettesTOPIC: Poundsign CommunicationThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about evolutions in how we do and don't communicate with each other.\nSponsored by lynda.com (To start learning something new today visit the link to get free 10 day access to their 3,000+ online courses) and MailRoute (To remove spam from your life for good visit the link and get a free trial and 10% off the lifetime of your account).","content_html":"TOPIC: You can't have ALL the phone calls.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin battle Skype to talk about Dan't hissing floor, text editing on iOS, plus more followup on WWDC announcements.
\n\nSpotlight on a second look at last week's conversation about how we do and don't communicate.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by lynda.com (To start learning something new today visit the link to get free 10 day access to their 3,000+ online courses) and MailRoute (To remove spam from your life for good visit the link and get a free trial and 10% off the lifetime of your account).
","summary":"TOPIC: You can't have ALL the phone calls.","date_published":"2015-06-16T15:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/f11027bb-11d1-4164-b4c9-995b2759e89d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":43976605,"duration_in_seconds":5450}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/224","title":"Episode 224: Sugar Pills and a Pack of Cigarettes","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/224","content_text":"TOPIC: Poundsign Communication\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about evolutions in how we do and don't communicate with each other.\n\nLinks for this episode:Reconcilable Differences #1: We All Ruined It Together - Relay FMIn this inaugural episode of Season 1, John and Merlin begin framing the conversation on exactly how they got how they are.From the dungeons of Usenet to the dragons of roving bullies, origins are explored, awkwardness is catalogued, and differences are provisionally reconciled.\nUnjustly Maligned | \"Watchmen\" with Merlin Mann (Episode 15)Writer and podcaster Merlin Mann joins Antony to stand up (mostly) for the “Watchmen” movie, discuss the difficulty of separating source material from its adaptation… and then there’s that ending.\nApple - Live - June 2015 Special Event? Brian Tong's Apple Watch Review - 5 Things to Like/Dislike - One Month In - YouTubeSponsored by Squarespace (Use the code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off) and Citrix GoToMeeting (Try it free for 30 days by visiting GoToMeeting.com and click the “TRY IT FREE” button).","content_html":"TOPIC: Poundsign Communication
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about evolutions in how we do and don't communicate with each other.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Squarespace (Use the code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off) and Citrix GoToMeeting (Try it free for 30 days by visiting GoToMeeting.com and click the “TRY IT FREE” button).
","summary":"TOPIC: Poundsign Communication","date_published":"2015-06-09T15:45:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/161b6b77-b22a-44e0-975e-2aba0d3ca9e5.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":54255069,"duration_in_seconds":6735}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/223","title":"Episode 223: Normal is Whatever is There","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/223","content_text":"TOPIC: Interstitial time and why you want it back.\n\nThis week, after some preliminary discussion of smoking and the children who throw rocks and run track, Dan and Merlin answer questions from listeners.\n\nLinks for this episode:OpenDNS: Cloud-Delivered Security Enforcement & IntelligencePublic DNS | Google DevelopersAd-free time! | Blocking ads, unblocking Netflix, Pandora, Hulu, BBC and moreStatus overview | Down DetectorInflight smoking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHome and Family solutions | OpenDNSBetterTouchToolSpark - fast and smart email for your iPhone on the App Store on iTunesMicrosoft Outlook on the App Store on iTunesSponsored by Lynda - visit http://lynda.com/backtowork for a free 10-day trial, and by Squarespace - use code ITSYOURSHOW for 10% off your first purchase.","content_html":"TOPIC: Interstitial time and why you want it back.
\n\nThis week, after some preliminary discussion of smoking and the children who throw rocks and run track, Dan and Merlin answer questions from listeners.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Lynda - visit http://lynda.com/backtowork for a free 10-day trial, and by Squarespace - use code ITSYOURSHOW for 10% off your first purchase.
","summary":"TOPIC: Interstitial time and why you want it back.","date_published":"2015-06-02T13:15:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/f61066ef-8d16-4214-be31-5c78e8dcdde9.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":34245681,"duration_in_seconds":4233}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/222","title":"Episode 222: Full-Stack Obsessive","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/222","content_text":"Merlin and Dan use The Aviator as a jumping-off point to talk about OCD as it relates to perfectionism, creativity, and drive in the workplace. They discuss rituals and their consequences, the importance of mise en place, and eliminating disruptive processes.\n\nAlso, Merlin invokes the term \"workflows\".\n\nLinks for this episode:5by5 | Back to Work #221: Minimally Viable InterruptionTOPIC: Time, Stones, and Giving Yourself a BreakJust…give yourself permission to not feel like a dick today. Especially if you think you don't deserve it.\nOutside the Lines: An Artists' Coloring Book for Giant Imaginations: Souris Hong-Porretta: 9780399162084: Amazon.com: BooksNetflix June 2015: What's Coming? What's Going?The Aviator (June 1): Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio team up for a sweeping Howard Hughes biopic.\nStanley Kubrick's Boxes (TV Movie 2008) - IMDbStanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001) - IMDbMise en place - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaa French phrase which meant \"putting in place\", as in set up. It is used in professional kitchens to refer to organising and arranging the ingredients (e.g., cuts of meat, relishes, sauces, par-cooked items, spices, freshly chopped vegetables, and other components) that a cook will require for the menu items that are expected to be prepared during a shift.\nFor A More Ordered Life, Organize Like A Chef : The Salt : NPRThe system that makes kitchens go is called mise-en-place, or, literally, \"put in place.\" It's a French phrase that means to gather and arrange the ingredients and tools needed for cooking.\nRatatouille (2007) - IMDbJohnny Carson: The First King Of Late Night - Esquirenervous\nHow It All Began: A Brief History of the Kitchen Brigade - Food - The Austin ChronicleSponsored by Casper (Visit the link and enter the code BACKTOWORK for $50 toward your new mattress purchase), PDFpen Scan+ by Smile Software (Visit the link to learn more and start scanning documents to your mobile device), Wealthfront (Visit the link and get your first $10,000 managed for free), and JustWorks (Let JustWorks handle your benefits, payroll, and HR by visiting the link and using the code 'backtowork' when you sign up to get 15% off your first year).","content_html":"Merlin and Dan use The Aviator as a jumping-off point to talk about OCD as it relates to perfectionism, creativity, and drive in the workplace. They discuss rituals and their consequences, the importance of mise en place, and eliminating disruptive processes.
\n\nAlso, Merlin invokes the term \"workflows\".
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Casper (Visit the link and enter the code BACKTOWORK for $50 toward your new mattress purchase), PDFpen Scan+ by Smile Software (Visit the link to learn more and start scanning documents to your mobile device), Wealthfront (Visit the link and get your first $10,000 managed for free), and JustWorks (Let JustWorks handle your benefits, payroll, and HR by visiting the link and using the code 'backtowork' when you sign up to get 15% off your first year).
","summary":"Merlin and Dan use The Aviator as a jumping-off point to talk about OCD as it relates to perfectionism, creativity, and drive in the workplace. They discuss rituals and their consequences, the importance of mise en place, and eliminating disruptive proces","date_published":"2015-05-28T15:30:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/a4ba3577-162b-45cd-9d31-c8951344cda2.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":123325521,"duration_in_seconds":6147}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/221","title":"Episode 221: Minimally Viable Interruption","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/221","content_text":"TOPIC: Time, Stones, and Giving Yourself a Break\n\nJust…give yourself permission to not feel like a dick today. Especially if you think you don't deserve it.\n\nLinks for this episode:Dogs CAN see in colour: Scientists dispel the myth that canines can only see in black and white | Daily Mail OnlineThe Dalrymple ReportMac Power Users #257: Workflows with Merlin Mann: Episode VI - Relay FMColor Therapy: An Anti-Stress Coloring Book: Cindy Wilde, Laura-Kate Chapman, Richard Merritt: 9780762458806: Amazon.com: BooksBalance (Angie's Extreme Stress Menders Volume 1): Angie Grace: 6063887956581: Amazon.com: BooksCreative Haven Creative Cats Coloring Book (Creative Haven Coloring Books): Marjorie Sarnat: 9780486789644: Amazon.com: BooksThe Dalrymple Report — OvercastCreative Coloring Animals: Art Activity Pages to Relax and Enjoy! (Design Originals): Valentina Harper: 9781574219715: Amazon.com: BooksAmazon.com: Sargent Art 22-7251 50-Count Assorted Colored PencilsAmazon.com : Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils, 48 Assorted Color Pencils : Wood Colored Pencils : Office ProductsAmazon.com : Kum Long Point Pencil Sharpener with Pointer : Office ProductsSunrise Launches ‘Meet’, a Custom Keyboard to Schedule Meetings – MacStories5by5 | Back to Work #139: Tap Your Meat Stack5by5 | Back to Work #133: I'm Glad Your Computer DiedMysterious red light puzzles Cocoa Beach residents5by5 ShowbotThe Flashing Lights - 01 Where The Change Is - YouTubeIron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson gets cancer all-clear | Music | The GuardianFLAX art & design - The Source for Arts & Crafts SuppliesElton John - I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues - YouTubeSponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting (Visit the link and click the “TRY IT FREE” button to get a free 30 day trial and have your first meeting up and running in minutes), Wealthfront (Visit the link to get $10,000 managed for free), JustWorks (Visit the link and get 15% off your first year of HR, benefits, and payroll needs by using the code 'backtowork'), lynda (Learn something new today by visiting the link for free 10 day trial access to their 3,000+ courses).","content_html":"TOPIC: Time, Stones, and Giving Yourself a Break
\n\nJust…give yourself permission to not feel like a dick today. Especially if you think you don't deserve it.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting (Visit the link and click the “TRY IT FREE” button to get a free 30 day trial and have your first meeting up and running in minutes), Wealthfront (Visit the link to get $10,000 managed for free), JustWorks (Visit the link and get 15% off your first year of HR, benefits, and payroll needs by using the code 'backtowork'), lynda (Learn something new today by visiting the link for free 10 day trial access to their 3,000+ courses).
","summary":"TOPIC: Time, Stones, and Giving Yourself a Break","date_published":"2015-05-19T15:30:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/92ff3b6b-6b44-405f-a061-5f633849f2b3.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":47475554,"duration_in_seconds":5887}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/220","title":"Episode 220: Canadian Gentle","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/220","content_text":"TOPIC: Hopeless and Impossible.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin, delve deeper into the impossibly hopeless nature of email.\n\nLinks for this episode:Girl Talk - All DayGirl Talk - Feed the AnimalsMaking Time to Make: Bad Correspondence | 43 FoldersLetters of Note: Just personal enough? The Kids in the Hall - Hard Day - YouTubeHBO: Living With Lincoln: HomeQueen - Somebody To Love - YouTubeRoman à clef - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia5by5 ShowbotSponsored by Harry's (Use the code COMICS for $5 off your first purchase), Squarespace (Use the code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off), lynda (Visit the link and get 10 day free trial access to their 3,000+ courses), and Wealthfront (Visit the link and get your first $10,000 managed for free).","content_html":"TOPIC: Hopeless and Impossible.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin, delve deeper into the impossibly hopeless nature of email.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Harry's (Use the code COMICS for $5 off your first purchase), Squarespace (Use the code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off), lynda (Visit the link and get 10 day free trial access to their 3,000+ courses), and Wealthfront (Visit the link and get your first $10,000 managed for free).
","summary":"TOPIC: Hopeless and Impossible.","date_published":"2015-05-12T11:15:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/8bbb308a-7a56-48f6-855e-239e2dbdaac0.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":45146254,"duration_in_seconds":5596}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/219","title":"Episode 219: At Sixes and Sevens","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/219","content_text":"TOPIC: Jumping Over the Precipice.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about what to be courageous about and when. It's rarely as easy or as simple as it seems.\n\nLinks for this episode:Inside Amy Schumer - Pretentious Hotel - YouTubeAt sixes and sevens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaTo be \"at sixes and sevens\" is a British English idiom used to describe a state of confusion or disarray.\nAxolotl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJohn Cleese on Creativity - YouTubeSponsored by Slack (The messaging app for teams), Citrix GoToMeeting (Visit GoToMeeting.com and click the “TRY IT FREE” button), Wealthfront (Visit the link to get $10,000 managed for free) and MailRoute (To remove spam from your life for good visit the link and get a free trial and 10% off the lifetime of your account).","content_html":"TOPIC: Jumping Over the Precipice.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about what to be courageous about and when. It's rarely as easy or as simple as it seems.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Slack (The messaging app for teams), Citrix GoToMeeting (Visit GoToMeeting.com and click the “TRY IT FREE” button), Wealthfront (Visit the link to get $10,000 managed for free) and MailRoute (To remove spam from your life for good visit the link and get a free trial and 10% off the lifetime of your account).
","summary":"TOPIC: Jumping Over the Precipice.","date_published":"2015-05-05T13:45:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/e449a305-e463-4816-95ee-402ed4f522ed.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":46810362,"duration_in_seconds":5804}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/218","title":"Episode 218: The Tigers in Your Kitchen","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/218","content_text":"TOPIC: Fear, Anxiety, and Existential Whack-A-Mole\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about Color Guard, the science of binge watching, and the uncertain future of podcasts.\n\nBut, mainly, they talk a lot about fear and anxiety. Deep dive here. How are fear and anxiety different? What's a habitual thought feel like? And, what are some little ways to start gently climbing out?\n\nLinks for this episode:TeeVee | Daredevil Rewind: Episodes 4-6 (Episode 64)In this episode we crest violent bloodshed and flow with universe building. Characters are further fleshed out as the tides begin to rise again. Merlin “The Hammer” Mann and Dan “The Anvil” Moren bring their pipes to help Hell’s Kitchen.\nColor guard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaQueen & David Bowie vs. Taio Cruz - Dynamite Pressure [DJ Tripp] - YouTube5by5 | Cash's Corner #3: A Psychic Ability5by5 | Back to Work #1: Alligator in the BathroomIn the inaugural episode of Back to Work, Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin discuss why they’re doing this show, getting back to work instead of buying berets, the lizard brain, and compare the Shadow of the Mouse to San Francisco, and eventually get to some practical tips for removing friction.\n5by5 Showbot11 LET ME SEE YOU - YouTubeMashup (music) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaA mashup (also mesh, mash up, mash-up, blend, bootleg[1] and bastard pop/rock) is a song or composition created by blending two or more pre-recorded songs, usually by overlaying the vocal track of one song seamlessly over the instrumental track of another.\nSponsored by PDFpen Scan+ (Visit the link and start scanning documents easily right from your mobile device), TripCase (Make all of your travel simple and organized for free today), Wealthfront (Visit the link and get your first $10,000 managed for free), and lynda (Learn something new today by visiting the link for free 10 day trial access to their 3,000+ courses).","content_html":"TOPIC: Fear, Anxiety, and Existential Whack-A-Mole
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about Color Guard, the science of binge watching, and the uncertain future of podcasts.
\n\nBut, mainly, they talk a lot about fear and anxiety. Deep dive here. How are fear and anxiety different? What's a habitual thought feel like? And, what are some little ways to start gently climbing out?
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by PDFpen Scan+ (Visit the link and start scanning documents easily right from your mobile device), TripCase (Make all of your travel simple and organized for free today), Wealthfront (Visit the link and get your first $10,000 managed for free), and lynda (Learn something new today by visiting the link for free 10 day trial access to their 3,000+ courses).
","summary":"TOPIC: Fear, Anxiety, and Existential Whack-A-Mole","date_published":"2015-04-28T14:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/a79a75c5-da18-48e3-9507-2db0871dc28c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":46080195,"duration_in_seconds":5713}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/217","title":"Episode 217: The Worst Most Advanced Teenager","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/217","content_text":"TOPIC: Take it personal and make it personal.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about culture, solipsism, hiring, and needle-moving things.\n\nLinks for this episode:Ungainly X-Mann Meetup #8 — Merlin MannSteve Albini: State of the Music Industry 2015 - yewknee? A Few Good Men Introduction - YouTubeJohn Gholson on Twitter: \"Recolored KILLING JOKE looks like a totally different book. http://t.co/wcKz73nhHH\"#19 Underdog — Reply All — Gimlet Media5by5 | Hypercritical #12: Nothing Is So PerfectJohn Siracusa and Dan Benjamin turn a critical eye towards last week's episode on criticism, then try to pick the single biggest challenge facing three different wildly successful companies: Google, Facebook, and yes…Pixar.\nHypercritical: OS X ReviewedNearly 15 years ago, I wrote my first review of Mac OS X for a nascent “PC enthusiast’s\" website called Ars Technica. Nearly 15 years later, I wrote my last. Though Apple will presumably announce the next major version of OS X at WWDC this coming June, I won’t be reviewing it for Ars Technica or any other publication, including the website you’re reading now.\n5by5 ShowbotMr. Show - \"The Five Voices\" Sketch\"He takes it personal and MAKES it personal.\"\nHere's What It Really Looks Like When Classic Comics Get RecoloredEarlier today, Marvel unveiled its \"remastered\" edition of the 1977 comic adaptation of Star Wars. Many were unhappy to see the art of Howard Chaykin redone with a modern comic's color palette, including writer John Gholson, who took to Twitter to show how much a comic loses when it's recolored.\nScrum Sprint Planning MeetingAfter the sprint review meeting, the team and the ScrumMaster get together for the retrospective meeting. During this meeting, the team considers what went well, what didn’t, and what improvements could be made in the next sprint. Team members should be able to speak frankly about the sprint’s successes and failures. It’s an especially important opportunity for the team to focus on its effectiveness and identify strategies to improve its processes. Moreover, it allows the ScrumMaster to observe common impediments that impact the team and then work to resolve them.\nAfter fifteen years, Ars says goodbye to John Siracusa’s OS X reviews | Ars TechnicaStandard WordPress cannot handle a Siracusa review.\nSponsored by Slack (The messaging app for teams), Citrix GoToMeeting (Visit GoToMeeting.com and click the “TRY IT FREE” button), Wealthfront (Visit the link to get $10,000 managed for free) and TripCase (Make all of your travel simple and organized for free today).","content_html":"TOPIC: Take it personal and make it personal.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about culture, solipsism, hiring, and needle-moving things.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Slack (The messaging app for teams), Citrix GoToMeeting (Visit GoToMeeting.com and click the “TRY IT FREE” button), Wealthfront (Visit the link to get $10,000 managed for free) and TripCase (Make all of your travel simple and organized for free today).
","summary":"TOPIC: Take it personal and make it personal.","date_published":"2015-04-21T17:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/03a48e93-cc5d-4289-8622-42b2ad8d3cc1.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":57925373,"duration_in_seconds":7193}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/216","title":"Episode 216: Safety Sword","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/216","content_text":"TOPIC: Kremlinology and Verbing\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin follow-up on Dan's neighbor and The Trailer Incident. They also undertake a rather circuitous exploration of how little we understand about how stuff gets made. This leads to a semi-useful discussion of how the verbs we verb do and don't constitute the nouns we noun—and when we realize that.\n\nLinks for this episode:5by5 | 5by5 at the Movies #3: The Big Lebowski - \"A Life of Achievement\"Dan Benjamin and Merlin Mann talk about The Big Lebowski, which is just, like, their opinion, man.\n5by5 ShowbotWhat is Catastrophizing? | Psych CentralCatastrophizing is an irrational thought a lot of us have in believing that something is far worse than it actually is.\nPain catastrophizing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaKremlinology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSponsored by Squarespace (Use the code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off), lynda (Visit the link for a free 10 day trial and access to their 3,000+ courses), Tripcase (Visit the link and start making all of your travel simple and organized for free with Tripcase), and Wealthfront (Visit the link and get your first $10,000 managed for free with Wealthfront).","content_html":"TOPIC: Kremlinology and Verbing
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin follow-up on Dan's neighbor and The Trailer Incident. They also undertake a rather circuitous exploration of how little we understand about how stuff gets made. This leads to a semi-useful discussion of how the verbs we verb do and don't constitute the nouns we noun—and when we realize that.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Squarespace (Use the code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off), lynda (Visit the link for a free 10 day trial and access to their 3,000+ courses), Tripcase (Visit the link and start making all of your travel simple and organized for free with Tripcase), and Wealthfront (Visit the link and get your first $10,000 managed for free with Wealthfront).
","summary":"TOPIC: Kremlinology and Verbing","date_published":"2015-04-14T18:45:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/af49a1c2-db4d-4b3b-be8d-a2f91d91e721.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":34762813,"duration_in_seconds":4298}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/215","title":"Episode 215: Legacy Cat","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/215","content_text":"TOPIC: With great power comes…uh, uh, what-have-you.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin cover a lot of ground. What makes a great comics movie. What movies to show (and not show) your kids. The majesty of The Big Lebowski. And, what exactly Dan should do about a construction trailer and a crawfish-pinching doctor.\n\nLinks for this episode:5by5 | Getting There #33: Merlin Mann Shows Us His PanaceaIn which we talk with the brilliantly undefinable—yet always gracious—special guest: Merlin Mann. Best known as a cornerstone of the classic indie band Bacon Ray, he’s apparently also a prolific podcaster, renowned blogger, sometimes-comedian, and index card enthusiast. However, he’s here today because of his (and all joking aside) amazing insight into, advice about, and dissection of the areas of productivity, motivation, and, well, just trying to get there. As he tackles our listeners' questions (as well as our own), we get a couple hours of some classic Merlin-Mann-ing.\n5by5 | Getting There #33: Merlin Mann Shows Us His Panacea on Huffdufferhuffduff-videoExtracts the audio from videos on YouTube, Vimeo, and many more sites and sends it to Huffduffer.\nKieron Gillen Talks WATCHMEN Could you... | kung fu grippeWomen in RefrigeratorsBatman: The Killing Joke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDeath of the Family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia5by5 | Cash's Corner #1: Double Thumbs Upkung fu grippe - \"Phone’s Ringin’, Dude\"Scratching my own itch, here’s the ringtone from The Dude’s portable phone. As .m4r, .m4a, and .mp3.\n5by5 ShowbotHonest Trailers - Interstellar - YouTubeThe Making of \"The Big Lebowski\"Part 1.\nPeterExline.com - The Big LebowskiSo, I'm telling the story about my car getting stolen and finding a kid's homework in the car, then tracking the kid and calling his folks. Lew and I went over there. Lew had a briefcase and inside it were baggies filled with stuff from the car. One baggie had a Whopper wrapper, another the kid's homework. The kid's father lived in the living room in a hospital bed. Older guy. Don't think he and the kid played a lot of baseball in the backyard. Turns out he had a thirty year career in Hollywood.\nKieron Gillen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaKieron Gillen (born 1975) is a British comic book writer and former computer game and music journalist. He is known for his creator-owned comic Phonogram, created with artist Jamie McKelvie, published by Image Comics, and for numerous projects for Marvel Comics, such as Journey into Mystery and Uncanny X-Men.\nAmazon.com: Watchmen (9781401245252): Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons: Books5by5 | After Dark #515: After Back to Work 215Sponsored by Slack (The messaging app for teams), Warby Parker (Visit the link to get free 3-day shipping on your order), PDFpen 7 for OS X (Visit the link to learn more about PDFpen 7 for OS X from Smile Software), JackThreads (Visit the link and use the code BACKTOWORK for an additional 15% off on top of the already exclusive, daily prices).","content_html":"TOPIC: With great power comes…uh, uh, what-have-you.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin cover a lot of ground. What makes a great comics movie. What movies to show (and not show) your kids. The majesty of The Big Lebowski. And, what exactly Dan should do about a construction trailer and a crawfish-pinching doctor.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Slack (The messaging app for teams), Warby Parker (Visit the link to get free 3-day shipping on your order), PDFpen 7 for OS X (Visit the link to learn more about PDFpen 7 for OS X from Smile Software), JackThreads (Visit the link and use the code BACKTOWORK for an additional 15% off on top of the already exclusive, daily prices).
","summary":"TOPIC: With great power comes…uh, uh, what-have-you.","date_published":"2015-04-07T15:45:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/c43beef5-af6a-4ba3-af9e-4c8a31d468b3.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":48446843,"duration_in_seconds":6009}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/214","title":"Episode 214: Destroyed by Farm Equipment","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/214","content_text":"TOPIC: Youth as exception.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about chess, the problem with SEO, and why getting old is normal (if you're lucky).\n\nLinks for this episode:I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski: Life, The Big Lebowski, and What Have You: Ben Peskoe, Bill Green, Scott Shuffitt, Will Russell: 9781596912465: Amazon.com: BooksSearch results for the big lebowski on Can I Stream.It?Dudeism - Ordination by the Religion of The Big LebowskiiTunes - Movies - The Big LebowskiAmazon.com : Aqua Notes - Waterproof Notepad 40 Sheet Mountable Pad : Memo Paper Pads : Office ProductsAmazon.com: No Stress Chess: Game: Toys & GamesAmazon.com: Monopoly Junior Board Game: Toys & GamesExpressed as a Vest | You Look Nice TodayUnhealthy ligatures, a course of Prednisone, “I’m not following you!”, obscure chess moves, smoking for the cure, misused orifices, we pass as nosies, Karl Van Hœt.\nTV Talk Machine | Werewolf Don Draper (Episode 27)Expressed as a Vest — You Look Nice Today — OvercastTime management - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia \"The Eisenhower Method\"\nVarsity: Pilot PenMozart of Chess: Magnus Carlsen - YouTubeSponsored by lynda (Visit the link to get free 10 day access to their 3,000+ courses), Wealthfront (Visit the link to get your first $10,000 managed for free), and Citrix GoToMeeting (Visit the link and try it free for 30 days).","content_html":"TOPIC: Youth as exception.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about chess, the problem with SEO, and why getting old is normal (if you're lucky).
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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","summary":"TOPIC: Youth as exception.","date_published":"2015-03-31T19:30:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/8b92fec5-c808-4bf1-b399-d3c34928d7b7.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":36867148,"duration_in_seconds":4561}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/213","title":"Episode 213: That's Not Where Rogue Goes!","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/213","content_text":"TOPIC: Thinking Patterns and Thinking Bias\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk in detail about how our unconscious patterns of thinking can damage our quality of life and hinder our ability to grow.\n\nLinks for this episode:Cognitive bias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDon't You Dare Use 'Comprised Of' On Wikipedia: One Editor Will Take It Out : NPRFor single-minded devotion to grammatical rectitude, you'd be hard-pressed to match a Wikipedia editor named Bryan Henderson, who goes by the user name of Giraffedata. He was the subject of a piece by Andrew McMillan on the long-form site Medium that provoked a lot of debate. Giraffedata has a single bee in his bonnet, the phrase \"comprised of.\" He has written a 6,000-word essay on his Wikipedia user page explaining why he thinks it's an egregious error. And to drive home his point, he has made 47,000 edits over the last eight years, most of them aimed at purging the phrase wherever it occurs on the Wikipedia site. He doesn't show it any mercy even when it appears in a quotation — in his view, it's a kindness to writers not to quote their mistakes.\nThinking, Fast and Slow: Daniel Kahneman: 9780374533557: Amazon.com: BooksAvailability heuristic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe availability heuristic is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method or decision.\nList of cognitive biases - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCognitive biases are tendencies to think in certain ways that can lead to systematic deviations from a standard of rationality or good judgment, and are often studied in psychology and behavioral economics.\nFundamental attribution error - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaIn social psychology, the fundamental attribution error, also known as the correspondence bias or attribution effect, is people's tendency to place an undue emphasis on internal characteristics to explain someone else's behavior in a given situation, rather than considering external factors.\nEp. 148: \"Can't Find the Starch\" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin MannThe Problem: You need the belt to see the belt.\n5by5 ShowbotXanadu (Rush song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaConspiracy (TV Movie 2001) - IMDb","content_html":"TOPIC: Thinking Patterns and Thinking Bias
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk in detail about how our unconscious patterns of thinking can damage our quality of life and hinder our ability to grow.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
TOPIC: A lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin are all thrown off since they're recording on a Monday. Weird, right?
\n\nThey mostly talk about the respective states of comics and Apple fandom.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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","summary":"TOPIC: A lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous.","date_published":"2015-03-16T17:45:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/2cf5ff8b-54b9-4c82-aacf-06b87c6919cd.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":35125478,"duration_in_seconds":4343}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/211","title":"Episode 211: Squeeze the Teabag","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/211","content_text":"TOPIC: The weather is not the sky.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about discovering the challenges that help you to thrive—and grow.\n\nLinks for this episode:Email overload: Building my own email app to reach Inbox Zero.Search | San Francisco Public Library | BiblioCommonsCostco Business Delivery - Wilcox Organic Hard Cooked and Peeled Eggs, 2 pk, 12 ctMonodraw for Mac — HelftoneIngenuiTEA Teapot from Adagio TeasAmazon.com : Tazo Earl Grey Filter Bag Tea, 24-Count Packages (Pack of 6) : Black Teas : Grocery & Gourmet FoodCostco Connection MagazineM?nuka honey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAmazon.com : Manuka Health MGO 400+ Manuka Honey (20+) 250gm : Grocery & Gourmet Food5by5 | Back to Work #29: I Download FLACWith Dan on sabbatical, Merlin is joined by TV’s Rob Corddry (Children’s Hospital, The Daily Show, Hot Tub Time Machine) to talk about Getting Things Done, writing, fear, and finding success as a blood-soaked clown.Special guest Rob Corddry.\nI Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79: Lauren Tarshis, Scott Dawson: 9780545459396: Amazon.com: BooksWhen Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics): Pema Chodron: 9781570623448: Amazon.com: BooksPema Chödrön - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPema Chodron Foundation — Buddhist Monastic Life in the West - Gampo AbbeyWhen Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics): Pema Chodron: 9781570623448: Amazon.com: BooksSponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting (Visit the link and click the “TRY IT FREE” button to get a free 30-day trial), and FreshBooks (Visit the link and enter 'Back to Work' in the “How did you hear about us” section for a free 30-day trial).","content_html":"TOPIC: The weather is not the sky.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about discovering the challenges that help you to thrive—and grow.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting (Visit the link and click the “TRY IT FREE” button to get a free 30-day trial), and FreshBooks (Visit the link and enter 'Back to Work' in the “How did you hear about us” section for a free 30-day trial).
","summary":"TOPIC: The weather is not the sky.","date_published":"2015-03-10T15:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/8da6eb61-bba2-4bf4-8346-ca4b4223d59e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":32878915,"duration_in_seconds":4063}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/210","title":"Episode 210: Fighting with Garbage Can Lids","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/210","content_text":"TOPIC: Less of an Island.\n\nThis week Dan and Merlin talk about time, negotiations, and what we want (and don't want) from our email apps.\n\nLinks for this episode:Eudora (email client) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMicrosoft Outlook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSlack: Be less busyMacromedia HomeSite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSponsored by Squarespace (use code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off), lynda (Visit the link to get a free 10 day trial), and Casper (Use the code \"BACKTOWORK\" for $50 off your mattress order).","content_html":"TOPIC: Less of an Island.
\n\nThis week Dan and Merlin talk about time, negotiations, and what we want (and don't want) from our email apps.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Squarespace (use code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off), lynda (Visit the link to get a free 10 day trial), and Casper (Use the code \"BACKTOWORK\" for $50 off your mattress order).
TOPIC: Throwing Stars and Managers
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about working in a beehive and discuss whether they played D&D properly.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by PDFpenPro 7 (Visit the link to learn more and start using PDFpenPro 7 today), Squarespace (Use the code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off), and FreshBooks (Visit the link and make sure to enter BACK TO WORK in the “How did you hear about us?” section to get FreshBooks free for 30 days).
","summary":"TOPIC: Throwing Stars and Managers","date_published":"2015-02-24T18:45:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/a42ba98d-54c6-4876-8043-264d27f4a922.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":48615040,"duration_in_seconds":6030}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/208","title":"Episode 208: Don't Touch Daddy","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/208","content_text":"TOPIC: Illness, Late Night TV, AI in the home, and Talking Baby Dolls\n\nThis week, Merlin battles the flu to talk with Dan about late night television, binge watching, talking baby dolls, and the kind of artificial intelligence we really need.\n\nLinks for this episode:\"Portlandia\" One Moore Episode (TV Episode 2012) - IMDbThe Arsenio Hall Show - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia5by5 | Back to Work #3: The Second ArrowTheanine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAdderall: Uses, Dosage, Side Effects & Safety Info - Drugs.comAmazon.com: Baby Wanna Walk: Toys & GamesOral-B’s Bluetooth Toothbrush Offers App Features It Doesn’t Necessarily Need | TechCrunchPortlandia - One more episode... - YouTubeSponsored by Squarespace (use code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off) and lynda (Visit the link and do something good for yourself in 2015, sign up for a FREE 10-day trial).","content_html":"TOPIC: Illness, Late Night TV, AI in the home, and Talking Baby Dolls
\n\nThis week, Merlin battles the flu to talk with Dan about late night television, binge watching, talking baby dolls, and the kind of artificial intelligence we really need.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Squarespace (use code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off) and lynda (Visit the link and do something good for yourself in 2015, sign up for a FREE 10-day trial).
","summary":"**TOPIC**: Illness, Late Night TV, AI in the home, and Talking Baby Dolls","date_published":"2015-02-17T18:45:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/da104264-dd95-41df-8dc4-442bd918313e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":45424002,"duration_in_seconds":5631}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/207","title":"Episode 207: Vampires in the Wallpaper","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/207","content_text":"TOPIC: Scoping the Minimally-Viable Me\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin catch up on illness, Marvel comics, and what-have-you, but end up talking a lot about who we really are—who \"I\" actually am. Merlin eventually slips into an imbued and mildly-psychedelic fugue state that may strike the listener as alternately insightful and insane.\n\nLinks for this episode:Review: HAWKEYE #21 | ComicosityHawkeye #21 - Comics by comiXologyUpdated: \"Visual Guide to Marvel Character Movie Rights\" Infographic by The Geek Twins [Infographic] ~ The Geek TwinsFrom 'Batman' To 'Birdman,' Michael Keaton Knows Suits And Superheroes : NPR5by5 ShowbotThe Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety: Alan W. Watts: 8601300190136: Amazon.com: BooksJoCo Cruise Crazy 5: Jan 31-Feb 8, 2015 | An 8-night Eastern Caribbean cruise on Royal Caribbean's Independence of the Seas, with Jonathan Coulton and friends | JoCo Cruise CrazyBirdman (2014) - IMDbMarvel 75 Years: From Pulp to Pop! (2014) on VimeoMarvel Studios - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaLouis CK - Incurable Shitty Ankle - YouTubeFantastic Four | Official Teaser Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX - YouTubeSponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting (Visit the link and click the “TRY IT FREE” button to get a free 30-day trial),FreshBooks (Visit the link and enter 'Back to Work' in the “How did you hear about us?” section for a free 30-day trial), and lynda (Visit the link and do something good for yourself in 2015, sign up for a FREE 10-day trial).","content_html":"TOPIC: Scoping the Minimally-Viable Me
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin catch up on illness, Marvel comics, and what-have-you, but end up talking a lot about who we really are—who \"I\" actually am. Merlin eventually slips into an imbued and mildly-psychedelic fugue state that may strike the listener as alternately insightful and insane.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting (Visit the link and click the “TRY IT FREE” button to get a free 30-day trial),FreshBooks (Visit the link and enter 'Back to Work' in the “How did you hear about us?” section for a free 30-day trial), and lynda (Visit the link and do something good for yourself in 2015, sign up for a FREE 10-day trial).
","summary":"TOPIC: Scoping the Minimally-Viable Me","date_published":"2015-02-10T13:45:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/c3be9643-aec9-4024-a556-e385d65e0f12.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":48694346,"duration_in_seconds":6039}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/206","title":"Episode 206: Talking to Santa","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/206","content_text":"TOPIC: Work as Practice\n\nThis week Dan and Merlin chew on some of the numerous eternal imponderables of creative work—with a special focus on \"work as practice.\"\n\nLinks for this episode:Cotton Bureau – #SUPERTRAIN by Roderick on the LinePack a small bag with the very first official Roderick on the Line shirt.\n5by5 | Back to Work #31: You Can Polish AC/DC All Day Long5by5 | Back to Work #205: Obsolete, circa 19935by5 | After Dark #503: After Back to Work 205Ep. 25: \"Supertrain\" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin MannThe Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety: Alan W. Watts: 8601300190136: Amazon.com: BooksRicky Jay: Deceptive Practice ~ Film Trailer and Synopsis | American Masters | PBSRicky Jay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAudio Dharma - Lovingkindness (Metta)Metta, or lovingkindness is the heartfelt wish for the well-being of oneself and others. The practice of Metta meditation is the systematic cultivation of our capacity for lovingkindness. Cultivating friendliness and goodwill is an important partner to mindfulness meditation.\n\n\"Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants\" - YouTubeIf You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say, SAY IT IN ALL CAPS | This American LifeFlow (psychology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Magic Number | You Look Nice TodayThe Mind - Alan Watts - YouTubeAlan Watts speaks on worrying and compulsive thinking.\nSponsored by FreshBooks (Visit the link and enter 'Back to Work' in the “How did you hear about us?” section for a free 30-day trial) and PDFpen for iPad & iPhone (Visit the link to learn more and start editing your PDFs anywhere you are).","content_html":"TOPIC: Work as Practice
\n\nThis week Dan and Merlin chew on some of the numerous eternal imponderables of creative work—with a special focus on \"work as practice.\"
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by FreshBooks (Visit the link and enter 'Back to Work' in the “How did you hear about us?” section for a free 30-day trial) and PDFpen for iPad & iPhone (Visit the link to learn more and start editing your PDFs anywhere you are).
","summary":"TOPIC: Work as Practice","date_published":"2015-01-27T17:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/7a703851-4515-4342-857c-683b5d7f6581.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":38159489,"duration_in_seconds":4723}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/205","title":"Episode 205: Obsolete, circa 1993","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/205","content_text":"With Merlin on sabbatical, Dan is joined by John Roderick to discuss his recent visit to Africa, the military, corporate friends, strategic thinking, the Internet, digital books and albums, echoes, playmobil figures, measuring your arms, the tribal world, selling coats on the internet, and more.\n\nLinks for this episode:Lockheed AC-130 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRoderick on the Line - Merlin MannNeoconservatism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJCI - Cold acclimation recruits human brown fat and increases nonshivering thermogenesisFar-left politics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHow to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants: David Rees, John Hodgman: 9781612193267: Amazon.com: BooksArtisanal Pencil SharpeningJonathan CoultonDon't miss the Three Johns at Camp... - Armed Forces EntertainmentSF Sketchfest 2015: Roderick on the Line with Merlin Mann an...Sponsored by Casper (Visit the link and use code COMICS for $50 towards your comfy new mattress purchase), Harry's (Start shaving smarter today and use the code COMICS for $5 off your first purchase), and Squarespace (use code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off).","content_html":"With Merlin on sabbatical, Dan is joined by John Roderick to discuss his recent visit to Africa, the military, corporate friends, strategic thinking, the Internet, digital books and albums, echoes, playmobil figures, measuring your arms, the tribal world, selling coats on the internet, and more.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Casper (Visit the link and use code COMICS for $50 towards your comfy new mattress purchase), Harry's (Start shaving smarter today and use the code COMICS for $5 off your first purchase), and Squarespace (use code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off).
","summary":"With Merlin on sabbatical, Dan is joined by John Roderick to discuss his recent visit to Africa, the military, corporate friends, strategic thinking, the Internet, digital books and albums, echoes, playmobil figures, measuring your arms, and more.","date_published":"2015-01-21T22:30:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/9d13679c-14dc-4368-81cc-68a503fc3227.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":62224581,"duration_in_seconds":7731}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/204","title":"Episode 204: Space Geisha","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/204","content_text":"TOPIC: \"I am NOT talking about bartending.\"\n\nA kind of two-parter this week.\n\nFirst up, a meditation on invasive thoughts, how they can take over our lives, and how we can maybe learn to deal with them.\n\nSecond (starting about 38 minutes in), a VERY SPOILER-HEAVY dissection of the amazing new time travel movie, Predestination.\n\nLinks for this episode:Predestination (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia'\"—All You Zombies—\"' - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPredestination paradoxes in popular culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaEP 200: All You Zombies - Escape Pod : Escape PodPredestination International TRAILER 1 (2014) - Ethan Hawke Sci-Fi Thriller HD - YouTubemutewinter/ShowbotEclipse desktop & web IDEsAmazon.com: Etymotic Research HF5 Portable In-Ear Earphones (Black): ElectronicsPredestination (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaInvisibilia : NPRBatman | This American LifeThe Man Who Couldn't Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought: 9781447238287: Amazon.com: BooksWhy OCD Is 'Miserable': A Science Reporter's Obsession With Contracting HIV : Shots - Health News : NPR5by5 | Build and Analyze #37: Happy in Three PlacesRoswell That Ends Well - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaA time traveller's primer | Ryan North | TEDxUofT - YouTubeParadox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaTemporal paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPredestination paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaGrandfather paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBootstrap paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Man Who Folded Himself - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBy His Bootstraps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPrimer (2004) - IMDbSeawater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\"However, drinking seawater to maintain hydration is counterproductive; more water must be excreted to eliminate the salt (via urine) than the amount of water from the seawater itself.\"\nThe Incomparable | Monkey with a Tinfoil Sandwich (Episode 153)TopatoCo: Time Traveler Essentials PrintHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) - IMDbHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMikeBeasterfeld/Shewbot-ircbot · GitHubrob liefeld pouches - Google SearchMikeBeasterfeld/Shewbot-rails · GitHubI made this timeline of events for the time travel movie Predestination (2014) - ImgurSF Sketchfest 2015: Roderick on the Line with Merlin Mann an...Sponsored by lynda (Visit the link and do something good for yourself in 2015, sign up for a FREE 10-day trial to lynda.com), Citrix GoToMeeting (Visit the link and click the “TRY IT FREE” button to get a free 30-day trial), and Warby Parker (Visit the link and get free 3-day shipping on your order).","content_html":"TOPIC: \"I am NOT talking about bartending.\"
\n\nA kind of two-parter this week.
\n\nFirst up, a meditation on invasive thoughts, how they can take over our lives, and how we can maybe learn to deal with them.
\n\nSecond (starting about 38 minutes in), a VERY SPOILER-HEAVY dissection of the amazing new time travel movie, Predestination.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by lynda (Visit the link and do something good for yourself in 2015, sign up for a FREE 10-day trial to lynda.com), Citrix GoToMeeting (Visit the link and click the “TRY IT FREE” button to get a free 30-day trial), and Warby Parker (Visit the link and get free 3-day shipping on your order).
","summary":"TOPIC: \"I am NOT talking about bartending.\"","date_published":"2015-01-13T15:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/29d0990f-2c10-49ab-a82b-d7dcde691bbf.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":49979005,"duration_in_seconds":6200}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/203","title":"Episode 203: I Blame the Media.","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/203","content_text":"TOPIC: The things you did or didn't say.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin sympathize with their pal Marco's recently becoming \"way too popular for a day.\"\n\nWhat happens when something we said or wrote gets quoted, misquoted, taken out of context, or amplified a thousand times more than we'd expected?\n\nLinks for this episode:Bursitis Definition - Diseases and Conditions - Mayo ClinicBursitis (bur-SY-tis) is a painful condition that affects the small, fluid-filled sacs — called bursae (bur-SEE) — that cushion the bones, tendons and muscles near your joints. Bursitis occurs when bursae become inflamed.\nYad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaA yad (Hebrew: ???, literally \"hand\"\nChopper Command - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPitfall! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSuperman (1979 video game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe player(s) takes control of the DC Comics character Superman, who must repair the bridge destroyed by Lex Luthor, capture Luthor and his criminal underlings, enter a phonebooth to turn back into Clark Kent, then return to the Daily Planet in the shortest amount of time. To slow Superman's progress, Kryptonite has been released by Luthor. If hit by Kryptonite, Superman loses his abilities to capture criminals and fly. To regain them, he must find and kiss Lois Lane.\nSuperman - Atari 2600 - YouTubeYars' Revenge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaApple has lost the functional high ground – Marco.orgWhat it’s like to be way too popular for a day – Marco.orgPanic Blog » Panic’s lost 1982 artwork. Found.Quote approval – Marco.org5by5 ShowbotMeet Belty, the ridiculous but strangely popular showstealer of CES Unveiled - CNETSponsored by Audible (Click the link and get a free audiobook of your choice and a free 30-day trial membership) and Squarespace (use code ITSYOURSHOW for 10% off your first purchase).","content_html":"TOPIC: The things you did or didn't say.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin sympathize with their pal Marco's recently becoming \"way too popular for a day.\"
\n\nWhat happens when something we said or wrote gets quoted, misquoted, taken out of context, or amplified a thousand times more than we'd expected?
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Audible (Click the link and get a free audiobook of your choice and a free 30-day trial membership) and Squarespace (use code ITSYOURSHOW for 10% off your first purchase).
","summary":"TOPIC: The things you did or didn't say.","date_published":"2015-01-06T14:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/0308ed4a-b7db-4cc6-91c0-3cd63f9f1b78.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":44162947,"duration_in_seconds":5473}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/202","title":"Episode 202: Choosing is a Radio Button","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/202","content_text":"TOPIC: The Life You Actually Want.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about organization, multitasking and new year's resolutions.\n\nLinks for this episode:Amazon.com: ARRIS / Motorola SB6121 SURFboard DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem - Retail Packaging: Electronics\"Requires Cable Internet Service\"\ndeep-dark-fearsThe Cost of Continuously Checking Email - HBRSuppose each time you ran low on an item in your kitchen—olive oil, bananas, napkins—your instinctive response was to drop everything and race to the store. How much time would you lose? How much money would you squander on gas? What would happen to your productivity?\nIn search of lost time: Why is everyone so busy? | The EconomistTHE predictions sounded like promises: in the future, working hours would be short and vacations long. “Our grandchildren”, reckoned John Maynard Keynes in 1930, would work around “three hours a day”—and probably only by choice. Economic progress and technological advances had already shrunk working hours considerably by his day, and there was no reason to believe this trend would not continue. Whizzy cars and ever more time-saving tools and appliances guaranteed more speed and less drudgery in all parts of life. Social psychologists began to fret: whatever would people do with all their free time?\nAmazon.com: Elenco Electronic Snap Circuits, Jr. Kit: Toys & GamesIt's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff: Peter Walsh: 9780743292658: Amazon.com: BooksGetting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity: David Allen: 9780142000281: Amazon.com: BooksIt's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff: Peter Walsh: 9780743292658: Amazon.com: Books5by5 | Back to Work #173: The Best Days End in TearsCapgras delusion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFive Somewhat Novel Compulsions I had at one time or another | 5ivesSimulation hypothesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAre You Living in a Computer Simulation?The Fermi Paradox - Wait But WhyGreat Filter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFermi paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaA time traveller's primer | Ryan North | TEDxUofT - YouTubeAdventure Time #6 - Comics by comiXology5by5 Showbotkolpanic/Achiever · GitHubMihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow, the secret to happiness | Talk Video | TED.comFlow (psychology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFlow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: 9780061339202: Amazon.com: Booksdeep-dark-fears: deep dark fears | kung fu grippeSponsored by FreshBooks (Visit the link to and enter BACK TO WORK in the “How did you hear about us?” section and get a free 30-day trial of FreshBooks) and lynda (Visit the link and do something good for yourself in 2015, sign up for a FREE 10-day trial to lynda.com).","content_html":"TOPIC: The Life You Actually Want.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about organization, multitasking and new year's resolutions.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by FreshBooks (Visit the link to and enter BACK TO WORK in the “How did you hear about us?” section and get a free 30-day trial of FreshBooks) and lynda (Visit the link and do something good for yourself in 2015, sign up for a FREE 10-day trial to lynda.com).
","summary":"TOPIC: The Life You Actually Want.","date_published":"2014-12-30T15:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/9d884f8b-b891-4b42-8c2a-750399885b34.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":41730891,"duration_in_seconds":5169}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/201","title":"Episode 201: Never Enough Bathrooms","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/201","content_text":"TOPIC: The Opacity of the Stack\n\nIn this depressing holiday episode, Dan and Merlin talk about how tenuous our modern infrastructures feel. How great it is when everything in the stack \"just works\"; how increasingly seldom all the pieces work; and how frustrating it can be to figure out exactly what's broken.\n\nLinks for this episode:Spider-Woman Gets Her First Costume Change in DecadesSpider-Woman Rocks A Great New Look, Courtesy Of Kris AnkaAmazon.com: LEGO Star Wars 75055 Imperial Star Destroyer Building Toy: Toys & GamesAmazon.com: LEGO Star Wars 75055 Imperial Star Destroyer Building Toy: Toys & GamesDinosaurology (Ologies): Jack Fawcett, Various: 9780763667399: Amazon.com: BooksAll Things Considered for December 22, 2014 : NPRWe Ask A Scholar: How Does Ridley Scott's 'Exodus' Compare With The Bible's? : NPRNPR's Robert Siegel asks Robert Alter, a professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, for his thoughts on the film. Alter has translated most of the Hebrew Bible, including the five books of Moses, and he's a leading secular scholar of Scripture.\nExodus: Gods and Kings | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX - YouTubeWhat's at stake in the legal battle over Comcast's home WiFi hotspots - GeekWireStuxnet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaStuxnet is a computer worm that was discovered in June 2010. It was designed to attack industrial programmable logic controllers (PLCs).\nClarke's three laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.\nUPS will ship 34 million packages today | The VergeMerlin Mann on Twitter: \"USPS delivery tracking appears to have exactly three states: 1. We never heard of it 2. We got no idea where it is 3. We assume you got it\"Sponsored by lynda (Visit the link and sign up for a FREE 10-day trial to lynda.com and start learning something new) and MailChimp (Visit the link and send 12,000 emails per month, to 2,000 subscribers, forever).","content_html":"TOPIC: The Opacity of the Stack
\n\nIn this depressing holiday episode, Dan and Merlin talk about how tenuous our modern infrastructures feel. How great it is when everything in the stack \"just works\"; how increasingly seldom all the pieces work; and how frustrating it can be to figure out exactly what's broken.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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","summary":"TOPIC: The Opacity of the Stack","date_published":"2014-12-23T16:45:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/010780c4-6bc2-419d-b8e1-8751b5b0a172.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":33296327,"duration_in_seconds":4115}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/200","title":"Episode 200: Blitzkriegscheiße","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/200","content_text":"TOPIC: He'll only do three of these.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin mark their 200th episode by responding to listener feedback and talking about Led Zeppelin and lunch tables.\n\nLinks for this episode:peg.gd: Bacon Ray - “Tomfoolery” 7-inch (AAJ Records, 1995)BBC Radio 4 Extra - Raw Meat RadioChris Morris is known by most for his ground-breaking film and television work but, like most good things he 'started on the radio'. Described by the man who suspended him from Radio 1 (Matthew Bannister) as 'one of the greatest talents working in British broadcasting', Morris developed his anarchic and surreal style in local radio. It was at BBC Bristol and GLR in the late 80s and early 90s that he honed his trademark technical skills and first adopted some of the sketches and personas that would later help make his name.\nWorkflow | Powerful automation made simple.Powerful automation made simple.\n? Skee-Lo - I Wish (Official Video) - YouTubeHow the West Was Won (Led Zeppelin album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaLed Zeppelin- LA Drone/The Immigrant Song (HTWWW) - YouTubeSearch Result: Robert Plant\"I Wish\" T-Shirts & Hoodies by Jacob King | RedbubbleAmazon.com: Culturelle Digestive Health Probiotic, 80 Capsules: Health & Personal CareAmazon.com: Led Zeppelin: How The West Was Won: MusicChris Morris - Trying To Book A Flight - YouTubeChris Morris and Paul Garner Taxi-Bothering - YouTubeSponsored by FreshBooks (Visit the link and enter 'Back to Work' in the “How did you hear about us?” section to get FreshBooks free for 30 days), Backblaze (Visit the link to get your free trial and then it’s just $5/month per computer for unlimited backup, and it backs up fast), and PDFpen Scan+ (Visit the link to learn more and get the power of your office in your pocket).","content_html":"TOPIC: He'll only do three of these.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin mark their 200th episode by responding to listener feedback and talking about Led Zeppelin and lunch tables.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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","summary":"TOPIC: He'll only do three of these.","date_published":"2014-12-16T15:30:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/0bfbb95f-1430-4742-aab3-14b05f384e7f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":34958850,"duration_in_seconds":4323}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/199","title":"Episode 199: Merlin Mann's Best of 2014","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/199","content_text":"TOPIC: When You Love a Voice.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about podcasts they're loving right now. And, yeah, Merlin rants a little about overthinking and fetishizing podcast production.\n\nLinks for this episode:5by5 | Hypercritical #93: A Magic Elf in My ComputerJohn Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk more about Forstall's departure from Apple, Surface storage, and Fusion Drive, then discuss US voting technology, Google voice search, and how Apple's design problems are more than skin deep.\nOne Man's Epic Quest To Sanitize Your Filthy, Germ-Riddled Coffee Cup Lid | Fast Company | Business + InnovationFor the past seven years, Levey has been working to invent a hygienically sealed takeout coffee cup lid that he calls Clean Coffee. In essence, it is a standard plastic takeout lid with an adhesive seal covering the drinking hole and part of the rim, which can be peeled off like a sticker once the user is ready to drink from it. \"This is the simplest way to accomplish that objective,\" Levey says of his patented prototype’s design, for which he's currently working to secure a manufacturer.\nYou Made It Weird #237: Patton Oswalt « NerdistSlate’s Culture Gabfest on British TV import Black Mirror, cultural obsession, and the decline of TV comedyThis week on the Slate Culture Gabfest, the critics talk about British television import Black Mirror, newly available on Netflix. The show’s dystopian vision of our tech-saturated present (and possible future) is darkly thrilling. But does it quite live up to the hype that has preceded it from across the Atlantic? Next, a double whammy of Willa Paskin. Slate’s television critic joins the gabfest to talk about her analysis of cultural obsession and the way we talk about things we love today. Finally, television comedy is in sad decline. Why don’t we watch comedy any more, and can the genre be rescued?\n\nEpisode #133 – Bullet to the Head The Flop HouseJeff Altman | The Carson PodcastThe hilarious Jeff Altman talks to Mark performing his Johnny Carson impression at the Comedy Store in front of Johnny, his Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson appearances, becoming friends with legendary drummer Buddy Rich, his numerous Letterman appearances, and the NBC cult classic Pink Lady and Jeff.\n\nDawn of the Planet of the Apes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) - IMDbImage Comics | Releases | Bitch Planet #1BOOM! Studios - Come Innovate With Us. - BOOM! Studios |Lumberjanes Digital Comics - Comics by comiXologyJo, April, Mal, Molly and Ripley are five best pals determined to have an awesome summer together...and they're not gonna let any insane quest or an array of supernatural critters get in their way! Not only is it the second title launching in our new BOOM! Box imprint but LUMBERJANES is one of those punk rock, love-everything-about-it stories that appeals to fans of basically all excellent things.\n99% Invisible | A Tiny Radio Show About Design with Roman MarsEp. 125: \"All the Great Shows!\" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann**The Problem**: John wasn’t _actually_ a big fan.\n\nA Christmas Story - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaVideo: Johnny Carson: King of Late Night | Watch American Masters Online | PBS VideoJohnny Carson's last TV appearance - YouTubeEx-Men: Wolverine - YouTubeSearch Result: Robert Plant5by5 | Hypercritical #42: The Wrong GuyJohn Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Steve Jobs. Topics include Isaacson's failings as an author and biographer, the technical cluelessness on display in the book, and Steve Jobs, Enemy of Progress.\nAt-will employment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAt-will employment is a term used in U.S. labor law for contractual relationships in which an employee can be dismissed by an employer for any reason (that is, without having to establish \"just cause\" for termination), and without warning.\nTriangle Shirtwaist Factory fire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Manhattan, New York City on March 25, 1911 was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers – 123 women and 23 men [1] – who died from the fire, smoke inhalation, or falling or jumping to their deaths.\nTriangle Fire . American Experience . WGBH | PBSIt was the deadliest workplace accident in New York City’s history. A dropped match on the 8th floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sparked a fire that killed over a hundred innocent people trapped inside. The private industry of the American factory would never be the same.\nDawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)Organizational Dynamics: Retiring in Place by Dr. Lynn Friedman, psychologist in Washington DCHe is, as they say, \"retired in place.\" No one counts on him, ever. Unless of course, you count not counting on him as a form of counting on him.\nDudes!! Tomorrow’s the day!! Bitch Planet #1 is... | Bitch PlanetDudes!! Tomorrow’s the day!!\nSpider-Man & The X-Men #1 - Comics by comiXologyMeet the Jean Grey Academy's new guidance counselor: Spider-Man! What's a non-mutant doing at a school for mutants? What secret suspicion has fueled the formation of his special student class? And because you demanded it! Sauron and Stegron the Dinosaur Man! The villain team 65 million years in the making! You didn't demand it? Well somebody did.\n5by5 Showbot43f Podcast: John Gruber & Merlin Mann's Blogging Panel at SxSW | 43 FoldersEx-Men: Gambit - YouTube5by5 | Podcast MethodDan Benjamin answers your questions about podcasting and recording, audio and video equipment, software, mic technique, pre- and post-production, workflows, and more.\nOvercastA powerful yet simple iPhone podcast player.\n5by5 | The Incomparable #173: Santa-Based Christmas'Tis the season for holiday music! Unfortunately, while we unabashedly love the holidays, only some holiday music strikes our fancy. Join us as we talk about what makes a good holiday song and then stick around (if you dare) as we complain about some of the worst the season has to offer. Happy holidays, folks!\n\nSpecial guests David J. Loehr, Erika Ensign, Lisa Schmeiser, Monty Ashley, Philip Michaels, and Steve Lutz.\n\nInquisitive #11: Merlin As A Service - Relay FMThe Dick Cavett Show - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBONANZA! #4: Roving Reporter - Relay FM5by5 ShowbotSponsored by FreshBooks (Visit the link and enter 'Back to Work' in the “How did you hear about us?” section to get FreshBooks free for 30 days), Oscar (To learn more about Oscar's health insurance plans or to get a quote, visit the link or call for 1-844-OSCAR-23), and Squarespace (use code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off).","content_html":"TOPIC: When You Love a Voice.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about podcasts they're loving right now. And, yeah, Merlin rants a little about overthinking and fetishizing podcast production.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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","summary":"TOPIC: When You Love a Voice.","date_published":"2014-12-09T14:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/ef5195a4-29a2-4298-93ee-79e4c4ce8adc.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":39688971,"duration_in_seconds":4914}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/198","title":"Episode 198: Gardening Leave","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/198","content_text":"TOPIC: Time to reboot.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin respond to a note from Listener Tim on how to stay busy and active during his garden leave. The Boys encourage him to experiment with the personal rebooting that's almost impossible to do when you're stuck at an official jobby-job.\n\nLinks for this episode:[VIDEO] Flake Music - \"Spanway Hits\"Garden leave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaGarden leave or gardening leave describes the practice where an employee leaving a job – having resigned or otherwise had their employment terminated – is instructed to stay away from work during the notice period, while still remaining on the payroll.[1] This practice is often used to prevent employees from taking with them up-to-date (and perhaps sensitive) information when they leave their current employer, especially when they are leaving to join a competitor.\nSeki Edge Stainless Steel Fingernail Clipper: Amazon.comButter, Bacon, and Bone Broth: A Week on the Lakers Diet «Amazon.com: Marvel Legends Modok Series Spider-woman Action Figure: Toys & GamesRight-to-work law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaReal MayonnaiseCowboys QB Tony Romo reveals his disappointments in preparing for Eagles | Dallas Morning NewsMeatballs (1979) - IMDbBreaking Away (1979) - IMDbYorkshire pudding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRatatouille (2007) - IMDb5by5 | Five Minute Tech News #318: Jackie Chan and Solar PanelsNetflix says a former executive collected kickbacks from vendors he helped connect to the streaming video company. Now Netflix is suing its former employee, who is currently Yahoo’s chief information officer.\nDishwashing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSpider-Woman (Jessica Drew) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSpider-Woman (Jessica Drew) is a fictional character, a superheroine in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Marvel Spotlight \nLegal Stuff\"Garrison Keillor sure owns a lot of words!\"\nGarden leave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\"Garden leave or gardening leave describes the practice where an employee leaving a job – having resigned or otherwise had their employment terminated – is instructed to stay away from work during the notice period, while still remaining on the payroll.\"\nPower Pack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPower Pack is a fictional team of comic book superheroes consisting of four young siblings who appear in books published by Marvel Comics. They were created by writer Louise Simonson and artist June Brigman and first appeared in their own series in 1984. The series lasted 62 issues. The characters have since appeared in other books.\nAvengers vs. X-Men - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAvengers vs. X-Men (abbreviated AvX) is a 2012 crossover event that was featured in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The event, consisting of an eponymous limited series and numerous tie-in books, involves the return of the Phoenix Force and the subsequent war between the Avengers and the X-Men.\nA Friendly Car Wash - New Port Richey - New Port Richey, FL | YelpA review: \"You can judge a book by its cover. This place looks run down and antiquated and the teenagers working there are lethargic and completely unmotivated.\"\nSponsored by MailChimp (Visit the link and send 12,000 emails per month, to 2,000 subscribers, forever) and lynda.com (Start learning something new by visiting lynda.com/backtowork and get a FREE 10-day trial where you can access all of their 2,400+ courses).","content_html":"TOPIC: Time to reboot.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin respond to a note from Listener Tim on how to stay busy and active during his garden leave. The Boys encourage him to experiment with the personal rebooting that's almost impossible to do when you're stuck at an official jobby-job.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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","summary":"TOPIC: Time to reboot.","date_published":"2014-12-02T15:45:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/5f58dbd7-d2d7-460b-9813-4d00e4d5ddda.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":38162944,"duration_in_seconds":4723}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/197","title":"Episode 197: Way of the Brown Lego","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/197","content_text":"TOPIC: Mail Bag.\n\nThis week, Dan & Merlin respond to listener email and toots. Specifically, dealing with passive-aggressive team members, bulbous \"CC:\" lines, and what constitutes \"stability.\"\n\nLinks for this episode:Image Comics | Releases | Bitch Planet #12014 Best Writer Eisner Award nominee KELLY SUE DeCONNICK (PRETTY DEADLY, Captain Marvel) and VALENTINE DE LANDRO (X-Factor) team up for the very third time to bring you the premiere issue of BITCH PLANET, their highly-anticipated womenin- prison sci-fi exploitation riff. Think Margaret Atwood meets Inglourious Basterds.\nPREVIEWSworld - Kelly Sue DeConnick Cuts Loose On Bitch PlanetYou’ve hears the old expression “good things come to those who wait”? Well, sometimes the best things come out of those who wait for a really, really long time. Like years. Like what Kelly Sue DeConnick just did with launching Bitch Planet \nTurkey in a Can - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBob is excited about a three-day brine recipe for the Thanksgiving turkey. The holiday is further complicated by Tina's insistence on sitting at the adults' table this year, to Bob and Linda's refusal, and Gayle and her cats staying with the Belchers for the holiday.\nzdarsky: 100% wholehearted agreement ... | kung fu grippethings like this book make me excited to jump online and scream as loudly as I can. you know that feeling when an author you really like just knocks one out of the park. this is what this book is.\nP8RIOT — AMAZING!!! Artwork of 12 different universes of...Here's The Thing: Ira Glass - WNYCAlec Baldwin sits down with Ira Glass to compare notes on interviewing, the afterlife, and how to find one’s voice – with a microphone or a camera lens.\nAmazon.com: Lords of Waterdeep: A Dungeons & Dragons Board Game: WIZARDS RPG TEAM: Toys & GamesD&D Lords of Waterdeep on the App Store on iTunes5by5 ShowbotListener-submitted titles for this episode.\nGist: Fast Markdown Link in Textexpander`[![%filltext:name=field 1% img][]][%filltext:name=field 1% link]`\nPaging Tim and Eric. Unrelated: I can’t tell you... | kung fu grippeMicronauts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDeath Cab For Cutie - Pictures In An Exhibition - YouTubeGitHub · Build software better, together.Sponsored by Varonis DatAnywhere (Try turning your own network shares into a private cloud free for 30 days with an unlimited amount of users and if you visit the link you'll get 5 users free forever), MailChimp (Visit the link and send 12,000 emails per month, to 2,000 subscribers, forever), TextExpander Touch 3 (Visit the link to learn more about TextExpander Touch 3 with a custom keyboard that lets you expand custom keyboard shortcuts into frequently-used text snippets on your iPhone or iPad), and Squarespace (Use code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off).","content_html":"TOPIC: Mail Bag.
\n\nThis week, Dan & Merlin respond to listener email and toots. Specifically, dealing with passive-aggressive team members, bulbous \"CC:\" lines, and what constitutes \"stability.\"
Links for this episode:
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","summary":"TOPIC: Mail Bag.","date_published":"2014-11-25T15:15:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/27e610aa-03b4-4be9-b1b5-61c68364ce87.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":49788934,"duration_in_seconds":6176}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/196","title":"Episode 196: The Circle of Lice","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/196","content_text":"TOPIC: Hakuna Matata.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about home pest control, misleading beef jerky, and becoming a more conservative electronics consumer.\n\nLinks for this episode:'Sync Solver' Allows Fitbit Users to View Fitness Related Data in Apple's Health App - Mac RumorsThe $0.99 app provides a daily sync of eleven different pieces of data from the Fitbit into the Health app. The points of data accrued include: active calories, resting calories, dietary calories, body fat percentage, body mass index, flights of stairs climbed, sleep analysis, walking and running distances, weight, and steps taken.\nMy Big Truck Book (My Big Board Books): Roger Priddy: 9780312511067: Amazon.com: BooksDo It Yourself Pest Control SuppliesDo It Yourself Pest Control Products & Supplies | Do My Own Pest ControlFamily Circle - Teens, Family, Food, Style and MorePork Maple SausagesThe Flop HouseFitbitEpisode #133 – Bullet to the Head The Flop HouseWalter Hill has made several great movies in his career. Is Bullet to the Head one of them? Meanwhile, Stuart unveils a new impression in his repertoire, Dan inspires a discussion about the horrors of gorilla sex, and Elliott keeps missing our special celebrity guest.\nRaising Arizona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAMC Javelin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRaising Arizona (1987) - Original Theatrical Trailer - YouTubeAncillary Justice Audiobook | Ann Leckie | Audible.comThe Martian Audiobook | Andy Weir | Audible.comAncillary Justice Audiobook | Ann Leckie | Audible.comiPad Air 2 - Buy iPad Air 2 - Apple Store (U.S.)Amazon.com: MERLIN D MANN: WishlistThis list is for: MERLIN D MANN\nsnopes.com: Cockroach EggsThe Talk Show ?: Ep. XCIX, With Merlin MannVery special guest Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about Comcast customer service, cable-cutting, Marlins Man (no relation) and his showboating-spectator predecessors, and the state of podcasting today. Also: daylight saving time and Roman numerals.\nAccidental Tech Podcast: 92: You Don't Know My Pants\"Post-show: John's iPhone activation woes\"\nCreative NOMAD - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRio (digital audio players) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRaising Arizona (1987) - Quotes - IMDb\"Edwina's insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase.\"\nOvercast - accidental tech podcast 92: You Don’t Know My PantsJohn Siracusa's iPhone activation woes.\nValley Girl (1983) - Trailer - YouTubeSponsored by lynda.com (Start learning something new by visiting lynda.com/backtowork and get a FREE 10-day trial where you can access all of their 2,400+ courses), Varonis DatAnywhere (Try turning your own network shares into a private cloud free for 30 days with an unlimited amount of users and if you visit varonis.com/backtowork you get 5 users free forever), Warby Parker (Visit warbyparker.com/dan to get FREE 3-day shipping on your order of boutique-quality, classically crafted eyewear at a great price), and Audible (Visit the link to get a free audiobook of your choice and a free 30-day trial membership to Audible).","content_html":"TOPIC: Hakuna Matata.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about home pest control, misleading beef jerky, and becoming a more conservative electronics consumer.
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Sponsored by lynda.com (Start learning something new by visiting lynda.com/backtowork and get a FREE 10-day trial where you can access all of their 2,400+ courses), Varonis DatAnywhere (Try turning your own network shares into a private cloud free for 30 days with an unlimited amount of users and if you visit varonis.com/backtowork you get 5 users free forever), Warby Parker (Visit warbyparker.com/dan to get FREE 3-day shipping on your order of boutique-quality, classically crafted eyewear at a great price), and Audible (Visit the link to get a free audiobook of your choice and a free 30-day trial membership to Audible).
","summary":"TOPIC: Hakuna Matata.","date_published":"2014-11-20T15:45:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/bfc4c8a4-835b-4138-aec1-31685560504e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":52370947,"duration_in_seconds":6499}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/195","title":"Episode 195: Prima Facie Butter Coffee","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/195","content_text":"TOPIC: Working alone together.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin look at the many ways workplaces have changed over the years, and how they can be great or not so great.\n\nLinks for this episode:Ungainly X-Mann Meetup #6 — Merlin MannMERLIN MANN (Back to Work, Roderick on the Line, You Look Nice Today, et al.) invites you to drop by Two Cats Comics on the evening of Thursday, November 13th to hang out, talk about comics, and just say, “Hi.”\nThe Talk Show: Ep. XCIX, With Merlin MannVery special guest Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about Comcast customer service, cable-cutting, Marlins Man (no relation) and his showboating-spectator predecessors, and the state of podcasting today. Also: daylight saving time and Roman numerals.\nWikipedia:Unusual articles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\"This page is for Wikipedians to list articles that seem unusual. These articles are valuable contributions to the encyclopedia, but are a bit odd, whimsical, or something you would not expect to find in Encyclopædia Britannica.\"\n\n[via Metafilter]\nSockarooni Pasta Sauce | Newman's OwnAmazon.com: Newman's Own All Natural Sockarooni Pasta Sauce: Everything ElseBio-Hack: 5 Reasons Why Everyone is Suddenly Putting Butter In Their Coffee | NextSharkFirst World War Poems - In Flanders Fields by John McCraeIn Flanders fields the poppies blow \nBetween the crosses, row on row, \nThat mark our place; and in the sky \nThe larks, still bravely singing, fly \nScarce heard amid the guns below. \n\nSometimes There’s a Man (Part I) MP3 Download ... | kung fu grippeAs heard on Back to Work s01e14, here’s the first part of my rock opera about Dan Benjamin.\nInternet Arcade : Free Software : Download & Streaming : Internet ArchiveDr. Schaffner, Rutgers SEBS: Department of Food ScienceDon Schaffner (@bugcounter) | TwitterFood Safety TalkMerlin’s Awkward Hair Odyssey - an album on FlickrBrooklyn Nine-Nine | Latest BuzzOver the Garden Wall (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaOver the Garden Wall - VideoDouble Robotics - Telepresence Robot for TelecommutersEpisode #61 – Surrogates The Flop HouseImagine you were a robot. Now imagine everyone else is a robot. Now imagine Bruce Willis is a robot. Two out of three of those things are pretty hard to imagine, right? Welcome to the world of Surrogates. Meanwhile, Elliott imagines a lost Disney live-action hit, Stuart tells us what his surrogate would look like, and Dan plucks the low-hanging fruit.\nGreg - “Potatoes and Molasses” (Over the Garden... | kung fu grippeGreg - “Potatoes and Molasses” (Over the Garden Wall)I. LOVE. This. Show.\nSegmented sleep - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBBC News - The myth of the eight-hour sleepDuring this waking period people were quite active. They often got up, went to the toilet or smoked tobacco and some even visited neighbours. Most people stayed in bed, read, wrote and often prayed. Countless prayer manuals from the late 15th Century offered special prayers for the hours in between sleeps.\nJoust (video game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe 10,000 Hour Rule Is Not Real | Smart News | SmithsonianThe biggest meta-analysis of research to date indicates that practice does not make perfect\nSponsored by Harry's (use the code COMICS at checkout for $5 off your order and change the way you shave forever), Doodle (Start making scheduling an enjoyable experience with Doodle), MailChimp (Send 12,000 emails per month to under 2,000 subscribers, forever), and Backblaze (Visit the link and start backing up your computer with unlimited data for just $5 a month).","content_html":"TOPIC: Working alone together.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin look at the many ways workplaces have changed over the years, and how they can be great or not so great.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Harry's (use the code COMICS at checkout for $5 off your order and change the way you shave forever), Doodle (Start making scheduling an enjoyable experience with Doodle), MailChimp (Send 12,000 emails per month to under 2,000 subscribers, forever), and Backblaze (Visit the link and start backing up your computer with unlimited data for just $5 a month).
","summary":"TOPIC: Working alone together.","date_published":"2014-11-11T15:15:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/240e3722-cf3c-4522-8cd7-8e751b8e7a58.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":49430858,"duration_in_seconds":6132}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/194","title":"Episode 194: The Company of a Clown","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/194","content_text":"TOPIC: What gets us on the moon?\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about varieties of clowns, rogue walruses, bloody elevator buttons, taking risks, and catching footballs.\n\nLinks for this episode:Charli XCX - SuperLove (Official Video) - YouTubeInquisitive #11: Merlin As A Service - Relay FMThis week Myke is joined by Merlin Mann. They talk about preparing for changes in life and preparing for podcasts, trying to understand what people enjoy, avoiding analytics and a look back at inbox zero.\nInquisitive #11: Merlin As A Service - Relay FM on HuffdufferThis week Myke is joined by Merlin Mann. They talk about preparing for changes in life and preparing for podcasts, trying to understand what people enjoy, avoiding analytics and a look back at inbox zero.\nBONANZA! - Relay FMHosted by Myke Hurley and Matt Alexander, Bonanza! is an important show about nothing in particular.\nUngainly X-Mann Meetup #6 — Merlin MannA Nerdy SF Comics Event with Merlin Mann, hosted by Two Cats Comics in West Portal.\n\nMERLIN MANN (Back to Work, Roderick on the Line, You Look Nice Today, et al.) invites you to drop by Two Cats Comics on the evening of Thursday, November 13th to hang out, talk about comics, and just say, “Hi.”\nBBC News - A Point of View: Four types of anxiety, and how to cure themBut how to worry - and how not to, that's the question. I am a professional worrier, anxious by vocation - one thumb always hovering above the panic button, which is at least helpful when there's a real problem.\nMy Thoughts: The Rogue WalrusMan on Wire (2008)A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, \"the artistic crime of the century.\"\nA Natural Fix for A.D.H.D. - NYTimes.comTo compensate, they are drawn to new and exciting experiences and get famously impatient and restless with the regimented structure that characterizes our modern world. In short, people with A.D.H.D. may not have a disease, so much as a set of behavioral traits that don’t match the expectations of our contemporary culture.\n? Supernatural pickpocketing skills!! Awesome to watch! - by Apollo Robbins - YouTubeBanksy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHis satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world.\nMadison Bumgarner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPenn and Teller Explain Sleight of Hand - YouTubeApollo Robbins: The art of misdirection | Talk Video | TED.comHailed as the greatest pickpocket in the world, Apollo Robbins studies the quirks of human behavior as he steals your watch. In a hilarious demonstration, Robbins samples the buffet of the TEDGlobal 2013 audience, showing how the flaws in our perception make it possible to swipe a wallet and leave it on its owner’s shoulder while they remain clueless.\nTom Magliozzi, Popular Co-Host Of NPR's 'Car Talk,' Dies At 77 : NPRThank you Easter Bunny, Bawk Bawk! - YouTubeJohn Wayne Gacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaGacy became known as the \"Killer Clown\" due to his charitable services at fundraising events, parades and children's parties where he would dress as \"Pogo the Clown\", a character he devised himself.\nShowbotListener-submitted suggestions for this week's episode title.\nWorld Series 2014: Madison Bumgarner pitches Giants past Royals for title - The Washington PostAmazon.com: LEGO Creator Small Cottage 31009: Toys & GamesAccessories include sausage, tongs and a skateboard.\n\nFeatures lamp, drawers, swivel chair, table, removable roof and opening rear wall.\nThe Man Who Walked Between the Towers: Mordicai Gerstein: 9780312368784: Amazon.com: BooksThe man who walked between the towers (Book, 2003) [WorldCat.org]Philippe Petit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPhilippe Petit (born 13 August 1949) is a French high-wire artist who gained fame in 1974 for his high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, on the morning of 7 August.\nAmazon.com: Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (9780743203043): Robert D. Putnam: BooksDr.Katz - Ray Romano - Ep. 102 Pretzelkins - YouTubeFeeling strong, Bumgarner gets critical Game 5 nod | MLB.comSloan Concert Setlist at Croatian Cultural Centre, Vancouver on November 9, 2001 | setlist.fmVeteran of the Psychic Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe 10,000 Hour Rule Is Not Real | Smart News | SmithsonianSponsored by Casper (Visit casper.com/backtowork and enter the code COMICS to get $50 toward your mattress purchase), lynda.com (Start learning something new by visiting lynda.com/backtowork and get a FREE 7-day trial where you can access all of their 2,400+ courses), Varonis DatAnywhere (Try turning your own network shares into a private cloud free for 30 days with an unlimited amount of users and if you visit varonis.com/backtowork you get 5 users free forever), and Doodle (Start making scheduling an enjoyable experience with Doodle).","content_html":"TOPIC: What gets us on the moon?
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about varieties of clowns, rogue walruses, bloody elevator buttons, taking risks, and catching footballs.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Casper (Visit casper.com/backtowork and enter the code COMICS to get $50 toward your mattress purchase), lynda.com (Start learning something new by visiting lynda.com/backtowork and get a FREE 7-day trial where you can access all of their 2,400+ courses), Varonis DatAnywhere (Try turning your own network shares into a private cloud free for 30 days with an unlimited amount of users and if you visit varonis.com/backtowork you get 5 users free forever), and Doodle (Start making scheduling an enjoyable experience with Doodle).
","summary":"TOPIC: What gets us on the moon?","date_published":"2014-11-04T15:15:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/afca403b-ee5d-4402-ae66-f568badb1865.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":40938887,"duration_in_seconds":5070}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/193","title":"Episode 193: Disappointment Delivery Mechanism","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/193","content_text":"TOPIC: You Are That Little Dot.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about notifications, beeps, bloops, flashes, and all the stuff we have zero control over. There's about a million ways people can contact us and just as many ways we can unintentionally disappoint every one of them.\n\nThere's sanity in realizing which stuff you actually control, which stuff you have to let go, and how many of the expectations in-between can be reasonably managed.\n\nLinks for this episode:Email Drafts the Hard Way\"I learned a hard lesson early in my adventures of writing words on a computer screen: The last thing you write is the recipient address.\"\npeg.gd: Bacon Ray - “Tomfoolery” 7-inch (AAJ Records, 1995)Reminder: you can download the theme song from B2W for free here.\nselfdeterminationtheory.org — An Approach to human motivation & personalityHome - selfdeterminationtheory.orgSilver Surfer Vol. 1: New Dawn - Comics by comiXologyThe Silver Surfer, sentinel of the cosmos, is often alone on his quest to defend space. All that changes when Surfer meets earthling Dawn Greenwood, a young woman determined to push the Surfer's boundaries. Plus, the introduction of the villain known as Never Queen! When Surfer tries to return Dawn home, he finds himself in his strangest battle yet with Shuma-Gorath!\nTechnical Difficulties - 080 - A History of Computing with Dr. DrangDr. Drang returns to explore his background in computing from the late 1970s to today. Along the way we discover what happens when you mess up a punchcard, what Linux was like in the early days, why he uses a Mac today, and his perspectives on the near future of computing.\n5by5 | The Incomparable #217: Weird Reverse Hidden CharismaCome with us if you want to live! It's time for our re-watch of 1984's classic sci-fi/horror/monster/car chase movie \"The Terminator.\" It's a film that offers a fine distillation of everything '80s, from Linda Hamilton's Guess jeans to the pulsating Casio keyboard soundtrack. How do Kyle Reese's stolen pants remind him of home? And whatever you do, keep an eye out for a gigantic Austrian!With panelists Erika Ensign, David J. Loehr, and Steve Lutz.\nBenedict Cumberbatch As ‘Doctor Strange': Actor Cast In Marvel Movie | DeadlineScratch — Your Quick-Input NotepadDrafts - Agile TortoiseEditorial for iOSByword • Simple and efficient text editor for Mac, iPhone and iPad.Sugar: The Bitter Truth - YouTube5by5 | Back to Work #192: Party City TrophiesTOPIC: Reinforcement, Aikido, and FearThis week, Dan and Merlin try to tackle positive versus negative reinforcement.\nJust give me all the bacon and eggs you have... - YouTubeShowbotListener-submitted titles for this episode.\nFilm Crit Hulk Smash: ON DESPAIR, GAMERGATE AND QUITTING THE HULK | Badass DigestHulk attempts to make sense of the maelstrom. \nHome - Woodworkers Collective - Los Angeles - Offerman WoodshopReinventing iOS Automation: Editorial Review – MacStoriesSponsored by Varonis DatAnywhere (Try turning your own network shares into a private cloud free for 30 days with an unlimited amount of users and if you visit varonis.com/backtowork you get 5 users free forever) and TextExpander Touch 3 (TextExpander Touch 3 gives you custom keyboards that let you expand custom keyboard shortcuts into frequently-used text snippets on your iPhone or iPad.)","content_html":"TOPIC: You Are That Little Dot.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about notifications, beeps, bloops, flashes, and all the stuff we have zero control over. There's about a million ways people can contact us and just as many ways we can unintentionally disappoint every one of them.
\n\nThere's sanity in realizing which stuff you actually control, which stuff you have to let go, and how many of the expectations in-between can be reasonably managed.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Varonis DatAnywhere (Try turning your own network shares into a private cloud free for 30 days with an unlimited amount of users and if you visit varonis.com/backtowork you get 5 users free forever) and TextExpander Touch 3 (TextExpander Touch 3 gives you custom keyboards that let you expand custom keyboard shortcuts into frequently-used text snippets on your iPhone or iPad.)
","summary":"TOPIC: You Are That Little Dot.","date_published":"2014-10-28T15:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/cab4f86e-7fe1-4376-918b-21ca9862f42c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":46428946,"duration_in_seconds":5756}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/192","title":"Episode 192: Party City Trophies","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/192","content_text":"TOPIC: Reinforcement, Aikido, and Fear\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin try to tackle positive versus negative reinforcement.\n\nLinks for this episode:Ad-free time! | Blocking ads, unblocking Netflix, Pandora, Hulu, BBC and moreErnie Kovacs - Droongo - YouTubePublished for the First Time: a 1959 Essay by Isaac Asimov on Creativity | MIT Technology Review24 Surprisingly Divisive Pooping HabitsEp. 129: \"Museo De Garbagemen\" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin MannDeep dive on the Savannah Cat mentioned after recording last week.\nGuitar for the Practicing Musician - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe awesome 'Guardians of the Galaxy' mixtape will be released on cassette | The VergeBig Red Machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSteve Garvey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaStephanie's New Born Lamb | LEGO ShopAmazon.com: LEGO Friends 41029' Stephanie's New Born Lamb: Toys & GamesIs This Working? | This American LifeStories of schools struggling with what to do with misbehaving kids. There's no general agreement about what teachers should do to discipline kids. And there's evidence that some of the most popular punishments actually may harm kids.\nRestorative practices - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaShowbotStanley Jordan playing \"Over the Rainbow\" - YouTubeTapping - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaTapping is a guitar playing technique, where a string is fretted and set into vibration as part of a single motion of being pushed onto the fretboard, as opposed to the standard technique being fretted with one hand and picked with the other.\nAutograph - Turn up the Radio - YouTubeThe Mountain Goats - \"Cubs in Five\"Aikido - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaUeshiba's goal was to create an art that practitioners could use to defend themselves while also protecting their attacker from injury.\n\"AVOL\" How I look to my kid the morning after... | kung fu grippeThis episode was sponsored by Squarespace (use code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off) and by Varonis DatAnywhere (Try turning your own network shares into a private cloud free for 30 days with an unlimited amount of users and if you visit varonis.com/backtowork you get 5 users free forever).","content_html":"TOPIC: Reinforcement, Aikido, and Fear
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin try to tackle positive versus negative reinforcement.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This episode was sponsored by Squarespace (use code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off) and by Varonis DatAnywhere (Try turning your own network shares into a private cloud free for 30 days with an unlimited amount of users and if you visit varonis.com/backtowork you get 5 users free forever).
","summary":"TOPIC: Reinforcement, Aikido, and Fear","date_published":"2014-10-21T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/c534aa46-6b73-4080-9e7e-0a5a46d69a0e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":45478916,"duration_in_seconds":5638}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/191","title":"Episode 191: Heisenberg Uncertainty Dog","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/191","content_text":"TOPIC: People, amirite?\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about neighbors, dogs, Macs, MLB.tv, and\nflavors of reinforcement.\n\nLinks for this episode:Support Dan Benjamin creating Podcasts and videosShowbot5by5 | Back to Work #190: C-3PO's BeardWatch Live Streaming Major League Baseball Games Online with MLB.TV | MLB.com: SubscriptionsLOT of asterisks there.\nNeighbors | This American Life\"Stories of people trying to love their neighbors...and failing.\"\nSponsored by Squarespace (use code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off and don't forget to check out all the brand new Squarespace 7 has to offer), lynda.com (Start learning something new by visiting lynda.com/backtowork and get a FREE 7-day trial where you can access all of their 2,400+ courses), and consider supporting 5by5 on Patreon.","content_html":"TOPIC: People, amirite?
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about neighbors, dogs, Macs, MLB.tv, and\nflavors of reinforcement.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Squarespace (use code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off and don't forget to check out all the brand new Squarespace 7 has to offer), lynda.com (Start learning something new by visiting lynda.com/backtowork and get a FREE 7-day trial where you can access all of their 2,400+ courses), and consider supporting 5by5 on Patreon.
","summary":"TOPIC: People, amirite?","date_published":"2014-10-14T14:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/650728ba-3e8e-494e-b0ce-8b94598638e2.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":42198987,"duration_in_seconds":5228}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/190","title":"Episode 190: C-3PO's Beard","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/190","content_text":"TOPIC: The Ultimate Existential Investor\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin vent about Apple as only its superfans really can. What happens when things…don't…just work?\n\nLinks for this episode:Three Ring Binder Tickets, San Francisco - EventbriteBatgirl (2011-) #35 - Comics by comiXologyBarbara Gordon is no stranger to dusting herself off when disaster strikes so when a fire destroys everything she owned, she spots the opportunity for a new lease on life—and seizes it!\nFoxPro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRunning and Cycling GPS Tracker, Performance Analytics, Maps, Clubs and Competition | StravaiOS 8 Adoption Stagnates Just Two and a Half Weeks After Launch - Mac RumorsAmazon.com: Gan Mao Ling, 100 ct, Plum Flower: Health & Personal CareAmazon.com: Bi Yan Pian, Nose Inflammation Pills, 120 Tablets: Health & Personal CareAmazon.com: Gan Mao Ling ECONOMY SIZE, 500 ct, Plum Flower: Health & Personal Care$50.00 For sale since 2010. Fifty dollars. ... | kung fu grippeBATGIRL #35 | DC ComicsThe New 52: Futures End - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAbsolutely No Machete Juggling » The Star Wars Saga: Introducing Machete OrderRamsay Hunt syndrome type II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDavid Fincher - And the Other Way is Wrong - YouTubeEdgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy - YouTubeShowbotEpisode #139 – Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones The Flop HouseThe three peaches spend this episode cloning around about Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones, as part of a podcrawl with Read it and Weep (who took on Episode I) and Proudly Resents (who will be taking on Episode III). Meanwhile, Dan’s space gaydar is misaligned, Elliott explains the proper way to steal a cake, and the greatest secrets of Stuart’s nerdiness are revealed.\nColloidal Silver: Risk Without BenefitSponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting (If you sign up for GoToMeeting before October 10, 2014 – you’ll get another Citrix product of your choice FREE for 6 months!) and Squarespace (use code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off).","content_html":"TOPIC: The Ultimate Existential Investor
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin vent about Apple as only its superfans really can. What happens when things…don't…just work?
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting (If you sign up for GoToMeeting before October 10, 2014 – you’ll get another Citrix product of your choice FREE for 6 months!) and Squarespace (use code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off).
","summary":"TOPIC: The Ultimate Existential Investor","date_published":"2014-10-07T14:45:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/68f78707-927a-42de-b4f9-6ef962b23d63.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":39538911,"duration_in_seconds":4895}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/189","title":"Episode 189: That's How You Roll When You're a Lobster","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/189","content_text":"TOPIC: Starting the stuff we haven't started.\n\nThis week—after some entertaining random talk and a handful of hardware and software recommendations—Dan and Merlin dive back into a familiar evergreen topic: why is it so hard to get started with a project? And, just as importantly, what can we learn from that persistent difficulty?\n\nIn a nut? Just start trying to suck more regularly.\n\nLinks for this episode:Advanced Tricycling - Merlin Mann - Constant Contact 2014Video of Merlin's recent presentation on the elusiveness of getting better—and learning what to get better _at_.\n\nPresented on September 12, 2014 at Constant Contact's e4e Developer conference in Waltham, Mass.\nAmazon.com: Marvel Infinite Series Rocket Raccoon Figure, 3.75\": Toys & GamesList of supernatural beings in Chinese folklore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaLibrary Extension - Chrome Web StoreBan Lan Gen (Isatis Root)Main functions are to clear heat-toxicity, cool blood, and relieve sore throat. Main usage and indications are macula due to pestilential toxicity invasion, high fever, headache, infection with swollen head, dark reddish purple tongue, scarlet fever, erysipelas, mumps, pharyngitis, sore boils and bunacles, chicken pox, measles, hepatitis, cold and flu, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, epidemic encephalitis B, pneumonia, unconsciousness, hematemesis, bleeding from five sense organs or subcutaneous tissue, swollen throat, pinkeye causing by inflammation, shingles, and osteomyelitis, etc.\nLibrary Extension - See book availability from your local library while you browse Amazon.com | Library Extension for ChromeLibrary Extension The \nTemplateTunnelBearASUS Dual-Band Wireless Router (RT-AC56U) at Amazon.comAmazon.com: TP-LINK TL-WR702N Wireless N150 Travel Router, Nano Size, Router/AP/Client/Bridge/Repeater Modes, 150Mpbs, USB Powered: Computers & AccessoriesEdimax N150 Wireless Personal Hotspot and Travel Router (BR-6258nL) at Amazon.comShowbotListener-submitted suggestions for this week's episode.\nIt's Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome!: RSI Theory and Therapy for Computer Professionals: Suparna Damany MSPT, Jack Bellis: 9780965510998: Amazon.com: BooksLes Fleurs du mal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\"—Hypocrite lecteur,—mon semblable,—mon frère!\"\nMaxFunCon: Merlin Mann on Doing Creative Work; The Sound of Young America | Maximum FunMerlin Mann talks about the process of doing creative work, and particularly how to abandon the quest for perfection, get off your butt and get started.\nSituation awareness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSituation awareness is the perception of environmental elements with respect to time and/or space, the comprehension of their meaning, and the projection of their status after some variable has changed, such as time, or some other variable, such as a predetermined event. It is also a field of study concerned with perception of the environment critical to decision-makers in complex, dynamic areas from aviation, air traffic control, ship navigation, power plant operations, military command and control, and emergency services such as fire fighting and policing\nResource leveling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaResource leveling as defined by PMBOK is a (project management) \"technique in which start and finish dates are adjusted based on resource constraints with the goal of balancing demand for resources with the available supply\".\nThe Flop HouseMerlin's pick for the podcast you should already be listening to and obsessing over.\nEpisode #133 – Bullet to the Head The Flop HouseMerlin's provisional candidate for the best episode of The Flop House to start with.\nElf | Your Personal Email Library Reminder ServiceSponsored by Lynda. For a free 7 day trial, visit lynda.com/backtowork.","content_html":"TOPIC: Starting the stuff we haven't started.
\n\nThis week—after some entertaining random talk and a handful of hardware and software recommendations—Dan and Merlin dive back into a familiar evergreen topic: why is it so hard to get started with a project? And, just as importantly, what can we learn from that persistent difficulty?
\n\nIn a nut? Just start trying to suck more regularly.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Lynda. For a free 7 day trial, visit lynda.com/backtowork.
","summary":"TOPIC: Starting the stuff we haven't started.","date_published":"2014-09-30T10:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/98b99754-f2a0-45f6-a684-4110af421f61.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":37763030,"duration_in_seconds":4673}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/188","title":"Episode 188: The Smell of Snake Anxiety","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/188","content_text":"TOPIC: Media, Rarely Well Done\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the modern consumer media landscape and how we seem to be changing almost as fast as the technology. Almost.\n\nLinks for this episode:Ungainly X-Mann Meetup #5 — Merlin MannMERLIN MANN (Back to Work, Roderick on the Line, You Look Nice Today, et al.) invites you to drop by Two Cats Comics on the evening of Thursday, September 25th to hang out, talk about comics, and just say, “Hi.”\n\nIntroducing Exclusive iOS 8 Updates For All Readdle Apps | ReaddleWithout further ado lets dive into the hottest news our team has prepared for you.\nEp. 125: \"All the Great Shows!\" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin MannThe Problem: John wasn’t actually a big fan.\nBIRDMAN - Official International Trailer - YouTubeAlejandro G. Iñárritu, Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis | Birdman | Fox SearchlightAmazon.com: Shure SM7B Vocal Dynamic Microphone, Cardioid: Musical InstrumentsAmazon.com: Presonus AudioBox 22VSL 24-Bit/96 kHz 2x2 USB 2.0 Audio Interface: Musical InstrumentsAmazon.com: Marvel Famous Firsts: 75th Anniversary Masterworks Slipcase Set (9780785191285): Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck, Joe Sinnott, Joe Orlando, Bill Everett, Marie Severin: BooksJackal PodcastsNatureBoxDescription: Enjoy the comforting sweetness of cookie dough without the guilt. The only problem is deciding whether you should share these hand-made Nom Noms!\nAmazon.com: Marvel Famous Firsts: 75th Anniversary Masterworks Slipcase Set (9780785191285): Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Don Heck, Joe Sinnott, Joe Orlando, Bill Everett, Marie Severin: BooksiPhone 6 Plus slightly bent after 2 days - MacRumors ForumsPlex Media Server: Your Media on all of Your Devices - Plex.tvSmile Blog: TextExpander Snippet Expansion Comes to Every App in iOS 8iOS 8’s New Key LoggerMeet “Ultimate Productivity Bundle” by Readdle | ReaddleFlexibits | Fantastical 2 for iPhone | The fast and friendly calendar app.Edge of Spider-Verse #2 - Comics by comiXologyGwen Stacy as Spider-Woman! In one universe, it wasn't Peter Parker bitten by the radioactive spider, but Gwen Stacy! She's smart, charming and can lift a car, just don't tell her Police Chief father! How is she involved in Spider-Verse?\nJackal PodcastsThis episode hosted by Mike Beasterfeld. Guest for this episode was TwistByrn.\nUpcoming price increase for NEW Plex Pass subscriptions - Plex Blog : Plex BlogInterview: John Darnielle, Author Of 'Wolf In White Van' | Mountain Goats Singer Writes About Pain : NPRA5 ChordNasturtium (genus) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Flop HouseTwo Cats Comic Book Store - Two Cats Comic Book StoreShowbotNerd.is Tumblr Edition — Fully funded! Thanks to everyone who supported the...Sponsored by PDFpen Scan+ (Start scanning documents right from your iPhone and iPad with PDFpen Scan+), SOLARO (Start studying for all your 3rd-12th grade courses online and get 50% the entire life of your SOLARO subscription when you use the code GOAHEADCALLER at checkout), Citrix ShareFile (Click the link then click on the microphone at the top of the homepage and enter the code BTW for a special 30-day FREE trial), and Squarespace (use code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off).","content_html":"TOPIC: Media, Rarely Well Done
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the modern consumer media landscape and how we seem to be changing almost as fast as the technology. Almost.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by PDFpen Scan+ (Start scanning documents right from your iPhone and iPad with PDFpen Scan+), SOLARO (Start studying for all your 3rd-12th grade courses online and get 50% the entire life of your SOLARO subscription when you use the code GOAHEADCALLER at checkout), Citrix ShareFile (Click the link then click on the microphone at the top of the homepage and enter the code BTW for a special 30-day FREE trial), and Squarespace (use code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off).
","summary":"TOPIC: Media, Rarely Well Done","date_published":"2014-09-23T14:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/d2090d28-df2c-42d4-bff9-974b75f7f56d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":52502974,"duration_in_seconds":6516}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/187","title":"Episode 187: Peeling a Dangerous Onion","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/187","content_text":"TOPIC: Knowing What You'll Need to Know\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about a recent presentation Merlin gave on expertise and curiosity. They also pour out a 40 for Macworld Magazine.\n\nLinks for this episode:If You’re Going Through Hell, Keep Going | Quote InvestigatorIn conclusion, the above citations represent a snapshot of current knowledge and future discoveries are possible. QI would tentatively credit Douglas Bloch with the adage containing the phrase “don’t stop” based on the 1990 citation.\nAnalog(ue) #5: The Only Way Out Is Through - Relay FMOn this episode Casey and Myke are joined by Stephen Hackett. They talk about what it's like to share private family matters on the internet.\nHero InitiativeThe Hero Initiative creates a financial safety net for comic creators who may need emergency medical aid, financial support for essentials of life, and an avenue back into paying work. Since inception, the Hero Initiative has been fortunate enough to benefit over 50 creators and their families with over $500,000 worth of much-needed aid, fueled by your contributions! It's a chance for all of us to give back something to the people who have given us so much enjoyment.\nWitless to history: Inside the first issue of MacworldHaving a whole new magazine devoted to the Mac was pretty cool back in 1984. You've seen the cover of the first issue, right?\nEngineers4Engineers 2014 Developer ConferenceSean Hussey (seanhussey) | TwitterDreyfus model of skill acquisition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaLetter of recommendation — Hair-Breened IdeasBut I’m not here to feed Internet tittle-tattle. Rather, as someone who’s been with Macworld (and MacUser before it) for a very long time, I’d like to provide potential employers (and those who are simply interested in their favorite writers) some details about my departed colleagues.\nWhen a door closes | MacworldThe Incomparable - a podcast from The IncomparableThis episode was sponsored by our friends at Casper (It's time for you to lay down on a premium mattress that you got at a fraction of the price. Use the code COMICS for $50 towards towards your order and for every bed sold Casper will donate $50 to the charity chosen by Merlin & Dan), lynda.com (Start learning something new by visiting lynda.com/backtowork and get a free 7-day trial where you can access all of their 2,400+ courses), and by Citrix ShareFile (Click the link then click on the microphone at the top of the homepage and enter the code BTW for a special 30-day FREE trial).","content_html":"TOPIC: Knowing What You'll Need to Know
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about a recent presentation Merlin gave on expertise and curiosity. They also pour out a 40 for Macworld Magazine.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This episode was sponsored by our friends at Casper (It's time for you to lay down on a premium mattress that you got at a fraction of the price. Use the code COMICS for $50 towards towards your order and for every bed sold Casper will donate $50 to the charity chosen by Merlin & Dan), lynda.com (Start learning something new by visiting lynda.com/backtowork and get a free 7-day trial where you can access all of their 2,400+ courses), and by Citrix ShareFile (Click the link then click on the microphone at the top of the homepage and enter the code BTW for a special 30-day FREE trial).
","summary":"TOPIC: Knowing What You'll Need to Know","date_published":"2014-09-16T16:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/e7623381-bf14-469a-b750-a79561ace8d1.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":43521029,"duration_in_seconds":5393}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/186","title":"Episode 186: I Wish John Siracusa Were Here","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/186","content_text":"TOPIC: Grab bag.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about—what? Well. They talk about privilege, empathy, bikes, bass players, Merlin's new mic, more bathroom signs, and a controversial anecdote about how Apple was maybe kinda not nice to a customer.\n\nLinks for this episode:What is the blue light from our screens really doing to our eyes? — Tech News and Analysis“I discovered that using light at night is bad for people’s health and interferes with their sleep. I felt a moral obligation to do something about it, particularly when I learned it’s the blue component in ordinary white light that is suppressing the production of melatonin. And melatonin not only helps you sleep but is a marvelous material that has a very big influence on health in general\nWhat My Bike Has Taught Me About White Privilege | A Little More Sauceblanco on Twitter: \"@hotdogsladies Sorry for the delay your Samson Microphone package should be there today. Hope you enjoy it.\"Samson — C01U ProLouis CK - Time Travel is Excluslively a White Privilege - YouTube(30) On August 18, 2014 we lost our house and many... - Karen Scholz LeibfredMighty Fine Burgers Fries & Shakes – AustinApple - Support - AppleCare+ - iPhoneDaring Fireball: Security Trade-OffsI’ve heard from Genius Bar staffers who eventually left the job because of the stress of dealing with customers suffering data loss.\nEngineers4Engineers 2014 Developer ConferenceShowbotRestorative practices - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRestorative practices is a social science that integrates developments from a variety of disciplines and fields — including education, psychology, social work, criminology, sociology, organizational development and leadership — in order to build healthy communities, increase social capital, decrease crime and antisocial behavior, repair harm and restore relationships.\nOlestra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaIn the late 1990s, Olestra lost its popularity due to side effects, but products containing the ingredient can still be purchased at grocery stores in some countries.\nThe Flop HouseLetter of recommendation — Hair-Breened IdeasSponsored by Squarespace (use code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off) and Harry's (Get a better more affordable shave by using the code COMICS at checkout and you'll get $5 off your first purchase).","content_html":"TOPIC: Grab bag.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about—what? Well. They talk about privilege, empathy, bikes, bass players, Merlin's new mic, more bathroom signs, and a controversial anecdote about how Apple was maybe kinda not nice to a customer.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Squarespace (use code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off) and Harry's (Get a better more affordable shave by using the code COMICS at checkout and you'll get $5 off your first purchase).
","summary":"TOPIC: Grab bag.\n","date_published":"2014-09-09T14:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/206836b2-5894-4c48-8278-6fc0e5a5d512.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":32271036,"duration_in_seconds":3987}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/185","title":"Episode 185: David Foster Wallace Morning","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/185","content_text":"TOPIC: The Durable Impossibility of Email.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin return to an evergreen topic: the impossibility of email.\n\nChaotic, paradoxical, debilitating, frustrating, buoyant, and occasionally capable of causing short-term madness, email is still the medium that we'll never get right.\n\nBut, quixotically, it never stops us from trying.\n\nLinks for this episode:Engineers4Engineers 2014 Developer Conference[VIDEO] Two-Wheelin’ Per this week’s Back to Work. ... | kung fu grippeIn which Merlin's kid scoots like a big kid.\nRotten Tomatoes: Movies | TV Shows | Movie Trailers | ReviewsJackal PodcastsA weekly interview show with fans of podcasting\nDaisyDisk - Analyze disk usage and free up disk space on MacIron Maiden - Flight Of Icarus - YouTubeKeyboard shortcuts for Gmail - Gmail HelpLearn them. Love them.\nMailboxWe redesigned the inbox to make email light, fast, and mobile-friendly. Quickly swipe messages to your archive or trash and scan entire conversations in a chat-like view. It's a whole new inbox.\nDispatch: TextExpander-enabled Email App for iPhoneDispatch makes it easy to act on mails even when you're on the move.\n\nBased on Merlin Mann's idea of managing your inbox, it helps you tame your inbox by letting you delete, defer, delegate, generate actions and even respond to your mails with ease.\nParisLemon — Yes, Another Email RantI know all of this sounds crazy. But given my hatred of email, I often find myself thinking about the psychology behind it. And thinking about if there’s something here to give me the upper hand.\nFresh Start: The Email DMZ | 43 FoldersLike a lot of the best fresh starts, this one's a total psych-out\nGuardians of the Galaxy - Rotten TomatoesInfinite Jest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe lengthy and complex work takes place in a semi-satiric future version of North America, centering on a junior tennis academy and a nearby substance-abuse recovery center.\nA Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaIn the title essay, originally published in Harper's as \"Shipping Out\", Wallace describes the excesses of his one-week trip in the Caribbean aboard the cruise ship MV Zenith, which he rechristens the Nadir.\nLe Show - Harry ShearerSodium laureth sulfate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSodium laureth sulfate, or sodium lauryl ether sulfate (SLES), is an anionic detergent and surfactant found in many personal care products (soaps, shampoos, toothpaste etc.). SLES is an inexpensive and very effective foaming agent\nAmazon.com: Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 1: Cosmic Avengers (Marvel Now) (9780785166078): Brian Michael Bendis, Steve McNiven, Sara Pichelli: BooksGuardians of the galaxy 1 : cosmic avengers . (Book, 2014) [WorldCat.org]Dropbox - How do I save space on my computer?Selective Sync is a feature of the Dropbox desktop application that allows you to select only the folders you want to be synced to your computer. Selective Sync gives you the control to ensure you have only the files you need on any computer. It's especially handy if you want to save space on netbooks and other computers with small hard drives.\nSatisficing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaContrast | Launch Center ProAutopen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThis episode was sponsored by our friends at lynda.com (Start learning something new by visiting lynda.com/backtowork and get a free 7-day trial where you can access all of their 2,400+ courses), and Varonis DatAnywhere (Try turning your own network shares into a private cloud free for 30 days with an unlimited amount of users and if you visit varonis.com/backtowork you get 5 users free forever).","content_html":"TOPIC: The Durable Impossibility of Email.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin return to an evergreen topic: the impossibility of email.
\n\nChaotic, paradoxical, debilitating, frustrating, buoyant, and occasionally capable of causing short-term madness, email is still the medium that we'll never get right.
\n\nBut, quixotically, it never stops us from trying.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This episode was sponsored by our friends at lynda.com (Start learning something new by visiting lynda.com/backtowork and get a free 7-day trial where you can access all of their 2,400+ courses), and Varonis DatAnywhere (Try turning your own network shares into a private cloud free for 30 days with an unlimited amount of users and if you visit varonis.com/backtowork you get 5 users free forever).
","summary":"TOPIC: The Durable Impossibility of Email.","date_published":"2014-09-02T15:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/c209d4d5-f4e3-4255-9c8d-f7e27e8c8d14.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":43513091,"duration_in_seconds":5392}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/184","title":"Episode 184: Days of Bathrooms Past","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/184","content_text":"TOPIC: Is there anything else you want to tell me?\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin discuss what bathrooms can teach us about learning, expertise, and empathy.\n\nLinks for this episode:Rules of the Road - San Francisco Bicycle CoalitionThe SF Bicycle Coalition is proud to be the leading resource for street safety in San Francisco. Every year, we reach tens of thousands of people with the Bicycle Rules of the Road. Here are the 10 bike laws you need to know to pedal safely and legally:\n5by5 | 5by5 Specials #29: Four Places at OnceDan and his 6 year old son Cash discuss antenna breaks in the upcoming iPhone 6 housing, iPad as a gaming platform, the technology of podcasting and live streaming, the limits of Magneto's powers, Adventure Time, deadly amoebas, visiting Four Corners, Bigfoot, rodeos, a crystal tooth, and more.\nCalifornia Law Now Requires All Smartphones to Have Built-In Kill Switches By July 2015 - Mac RumorsThe law requires smartphones to include software or hardware that will render the device inoperable to an unauthorized user in the event that the phone is misplaced or stolen. The anti-theft technology, which has to be able to withstand a hard reset or operating system downgrade, must prevent reactivation of the smartphone on a wireless network except by the authorized user. The anti-theft tools must be installed during the phone's initial setup process, and it must be reversible so an authorized user can unlock the device if it is returned to their possession.\nLife after death: Resuscitating a drowned iPhone 5 | MacworldCalling my iPhone “unsinkable” might be a bit much—in all fairness, it did actually sink. But I’m getting ahead of myself.\nPaul Emerson on Twitter: @sween My brother thought the edge of an Airblade was a place to squeegee the water off your hands.5by5 | Back to Work #183: Remember Who Has the CannonTOPIC: Wait, what'd I DO?!?\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about anger, misunderstandings, and trying to do the right thing. How bewildering (and emotional) it can be to feel misunderstood—as well as trying to better understand what we may have done wrong.\n\nEmotions are armor-piercing bullets.\nAmazon.com: Wherever You Go, There You Are (9781401307783): Jon Kabat-Zinn: BooksWhen Wherever You Go, There You Are was first published in 1994, no one could have predicted that the book would launch itself onto bestseller lists nationwide and sell over 750,000 copies to date. Ten years later, the book continues to change lives. In honor of the book's 10th anniversary, Hyperion is proud to be releasing the book with a new afterword by the author, and to share this wonderful book with an even larger audience.\nShowbotListener-submitted titles for this episode.\nThe Doorknob Effect - Carol BergmanDreyfus model of skill acquisition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAmazon Affiliate Stores | Fresh Store BuilderSponsored by Squarespace (Create your own professional website and use the code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off your first purchase), Smile (Download a free demo, and see how easily you can edit PDFs with PDFpen), and Varonis DatAnywhere (Try turning your own network shares into a private cloud free for 30 days with an unlimited amount of users and if you visit varonis.com/backtowork you get 5 users free forever).","content_html":"TOPIC: Is there anything else you want to tell me?
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin discuss what bathrooms can teach us about learning, expertise, and empathy.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Squarespace (Create your own professional website and use the code ITSYOURSHOW for a free trial and 10% off your first purchase), Smile (Download a free demo, and see how easily you can edit PDFs with PDFpen), and Varonis DatAnywhere (Try turning your own network shares into a private cloud free for 30 days with an unlimited amount of users and if you visit varonis.com/backtowork you get 5 users free forever).
","summary":"TOPIC: Is there anything else you want to tell me?","date_published":"2014-08-26T11:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/3e5b9052-9e19-463c-b589-0ab42d5f7e12.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":42935048,"duration_in_seconds":5320}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/183","title":"Episode 183: Remember Who Has the Cannon","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/183","content_text":"TOPIC: Wait, what'd I DO?!?\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about anger, misunderstandings, and trying to do the right thing. How bewildering (and emotional) it can be to feel misunderstood—as well as trying to better understand what we may have done wrong.\n\nEmotions are armor-piercing bullets.\n\nLinks for this episode:David Letterman airs Robin Williams tribute | PopWatch | EW.comLetterman gave us a glimpse of just how electric Williams’ late night appearances were with a compilation video of his times on the show. The video features some of Williams’ trademark physical, over-the-top comedy, but it also focuses on Williams’ laughter, how he threw his head back and guffawed.\nGoing Deep With David Rees | National Geographic ChannelThought Stopping: Why it doesn't work, and what works better.\"Treat Worry like a Heckler, not a Mugger\"\nAll About Change\"What, when I do it, will lead to my long-term well-being and happiness?\"\nMatthieu Ricard: The habits of happiness | Talk Video | TED.comWhat is happiness, and how can we all get some? Biochemist turned Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard says we can train our minds in habits of well-being, to generate a true sense of serenity and fulfillment.\nShowbotListener-submitted titles for this episode.\n5by5 | The Incomparable #207: I Am GrootLane Splitting is Legal in CaliforniaDefensive driving - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMett? - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThis episode was sponsored by our friends at lynda.com (Start learning something new by visiting lynda.com/backtowork and get a free 7-day trial where you can access all of their 2,400+ courses), Harry's (Get a better more affordable shave by using the code COMICS and you'll get $5 off your first purchase), and Varonis DatAnywhere (Try turning your own network shares into a private cloud free for 30 days with an unlimited amount of users and if you visit varonis.com/backtowork you get 5 users free forever).","content_html":"TOPIC: Wait, what'd I DO?!?
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about anger, misunderstandings, and trying to do the right thing. How bewildering (and emotional) it can be to feel misunderstood—as well as trying to better understand what we may have done wrong.
\n\nEmotions are armor-piercing bullets.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This episode was sponsored by our friends at lynda.com (Start learning something new by visiting lynda.com/backtowork and get a free 7-day trial where you can access all of their 2,400+ courses), Harry's (Get a better more affordable shave by using the code COMICS and you'll get $5 off your first purchase), and Varonis DatAnywhere (Try turning your own network shares into a private cloud free for 30 days with an unlimited amount of users and if you visit varonis.com/backtowork you get 5 users free forever).
","summary":"TOPIC: Wait, what'd I DO?!?","date_published":"2014-08-19T13:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/5adf06a1-b522-4ba5-8ef7-a54b36c0df5e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":43815066,"duration_in_seconds":5430}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/182","title":"Episode 182: Non-Canonical Suspenders","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/182","content_text":"TOPIC: Thinking, Thinking, Thinking.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the inextricable links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. They also take some time to fondly remember Robin Williams.\n\nLinks for this episode:BIOGRAPHY: Robin Williams LifetimeWilliams was bullied badly during childhood for being chubby and would often spend much of his time playing alone in the family's large home to avoid his tormentors. Eventually, he conquered his overweight label though by joining the wrestling and tracks teams, and realised he could make the other children laugh as a way of gaining respect from them.\nBorn Standing Up: A Comic's Life: Steve Martin: 9781416553656: Amazon.com: BooksChris Evans (actor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaChristopher Robert \"Chris\" Evans (born June 13, 1981)[1] is an American actor and film director. Evans is best known for his superhero roles as Johnny Storm / Human Torch in Fantastic Four (2005) and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)\n[VIDEO] Craig Ferguson and Robin Williams InterviewThereIsHelp - Mefi WikiRemembering Robin Williams | Best Of MetaFilterAmong many stories and reminiscences, some members recall their IRL experiences with Robin Williams, \"mensch, great talent... genuine soul\"\n‘Captain America’ Star Chris Evans is Ready to Leave the Marvel UniverseFor A More Ordered Life, Organize Like A Chef : The Salt : NPRThis week's episode of Back to Work is kindly sponsored by Squarespace (10% off with offer code, \"ITSYOURSHOW\").","content_html":"TOPIC: Thinking, Thinking, Thinking.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the inextricable links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. They also take some time to fondly remember Robin Williams.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is kindly sponsored by Squarespace (10% off with offer code, \"ITSYOURSHOW\").
While Merlin takes a short sabbatical, Dan is joined by special guest David Sparks to talk about presentations, making your thing, balancing acts, iBooks author, paying for your kids' school with side projects, old man glasses, and more.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by lynda (Learn something new by visiting lynda.com/backtowork and get a 7-day free trial where you can access to over all of their 2,400 courses), Warby Parker (visit warbyparker.com/dan to get FREE 3-day shipping on your order of boutique-quality, classically crafted eyewear at a great price), and Smile (Start editing your PDFs the easy way with PDFpen from the great people over at Smile Software).
","summary":"While Merlin takes a short sabbatical, Dan is joined by special guest David Sparks to talk about presentations, making your thing, balancing acts, iBooks author, paying for your kids' school with side projects, old man glasses, and more.","date_published":"2014-08-06T11:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/a488e8b6-ec85-480d-b4f6-8638a13a0a95.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":32930995,"duration_in_seconds":4069}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/180","title":"Episode 180: Deus Ex Machina for Your Gut","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/180","content_text":"TOPIC: Stupid can't stick to me.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the distinction between being against something vs. not having an opinion about it vs. just choosing not to let the world stick to you.\n\nLinks for this episode:Marked 2 - Smarter tools for smarter writersMarked is a previewer for Markdown files. Use it with your favorite text editor and it updates every time you save. With robust features for previewing, reviewing and exporting beautiful documents, you can work in plain text while reveling in rich formatting.\nPresentations — MacSparkyMost presentations are terrible. That, however, does not need to be the case for your presentations. Author David Sparks, a trial attorney and seasoned technology speaker, explains how to create your own exceptional presentation. This Presentation Field Guide explains how to plan a presentation that will connect with your audience, the technical wizardry to create a stunning presentation, and walks you through presentation day to make sure it goes off without a hitch.\nThe elegant art of not giving a shitGiving a shit does not necessarily mean you’re doing anything useful, but it makes it seem like you are. It feels like there’s some kind of justice that you’re getting closer to with every moment you give a shit. But that’s not true, because giving a shit, by itself, is only thinking — and thinking has little use aside from figuring out what to do.\nKeyboard ShortcutsA floating panel with a shortcut cheat sheet is available from the Help menu, or by pressing ??K.\nThe Flop HouseHome Page - Television Tropes & IdiomsInconsolataInconsolata is my first serious original font release. It is a monospace font, designed for code listings and the like, in print. There are a great many \"programmer fonts,\" designed primarily for use on the screen, but in most cases do not have the attention to detail for high resolution rendering.\nTechnical Difficulties - 077 - Learning Vim with PotatowirePotatowire finally leaves the crib, joining Gabe and Erik to discuss command-line text editing with vim. We learn how he started, why he uses a forty-year old text editor, and some cool things you can do when your hands never have to leave the keyboard.\nPale Man - Villains Wiki - villains, bad guys, comic books, animeThe Pale Man is a secondary villain from Guillermo del Toro's 2006 fantasy film Pan's Labyrinth. He was played by Doug Jones (who also portrayed the faun).\n5by5Use the form below to subscribe to The Back to Work Newsletter. Sent only when we release an episode, the newsletter contains the latest episode's details, description, notes, and links, delivered right to your inbox.\nThe Exorcist (1973)5by5 | Hypercritical #12: Nothing Is So PerfectJohn Siracusa and Dan Benjamin turn a critical eye towards last week's episode on criticism, then try to pick the single biggest challenge facing three different wildly successful companies: Google, Facebook, and yes…Pixar.\nThe Flop House: Episode #34 – Mirrors The Flop HouseWe watch Kiefer Sutherland in Mirrors. We mean the movie– we didn’t break into his bathroom or anything. Meanwhile, Elliott pitches a crypt keeper movie, Dan inadvertently casts Dean Martin in his greatest role ever, and Stuart has a little problem comprehending the film’s ending.\nEpisode #150 – Grudge Match The Flop HouseWe talk about Grudge Match, the movie that pretends DeNiro has a chance against steroidal Stallone. Meanwhile Dan discusses Kevin Hart’s need to do only Kevin-branded movies, Elliott uncovers Sean Connery’s strange belief he’s in every movie, and one of Stu’s relatives makes an unexpected appearance.\n5by5 | Mac Power Users #204: Presentations: A MacSparky Field GuideShowbot5by5 | Back to Work #3: The Second ArrowMerlin Mann and Dan Benjamin discuss ADD, Buddhism, mindfulness, concentration, and insight.\nRemembering Actress Mercedes McCambridge : NPRMcCambridge died March 2 at the age of 87. McCambridge chilled audiences in the 1970s as the voice of the Devil in The Exorcist. She won an Academy Award for her first film role — in 1949 for All the King's Men. She also starred with Joan Crawford in Nicholas Ray's western, Johnny Guitar.\nPut You In A Better Mood. This week's episode of Back to Work is kindly sponsored by:\n\n\nPresentations — MacSparky - David Spark's new iBook on becoming a better presenter.\nMailChimp - Send up to 12,000 emails per month for free.\n","content_html":"TOPIC: Stupid can't stick to me.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the distinction between being against something vs. not having an opinion about it vs. just choosing not to let the world stick to you.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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\n\nTOPIC: A Personal History of Personal Publishing
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the constantly-changing landscape of online publishing. How we got from home pages to blogs to social media and beyond. Things move around, things get shorter (or longer), and things get super-weird and unpredictable.
\n\nHow do you decide where your stuff goes and who do you expect it to reach in this whackadoodle environment?
\n\nYou won't believe what happens next!
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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","summary":"TOPIC: A Personal History of Personal Publishing","date_published":"2014-07-15T15:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/eda6cf67-01e3-4821-accb-979b57688f72.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":36931081,"duration_in_seconds":4569}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/178","title":"Episode 178: Fake Laminated Bull Poop","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/178","content_text":"TOPIC: Yes. Yes.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin follow-up on their recent 5by5 at the Movies episode about Glengarry Glen Ross, talking more about sales culture, media consumption, how our personal data gets used to close us, and why Dan admires Ricky Roma.\n\nOr, Tony Roma, as you call him.\n\nLinks for this episode:5by5 | 5by5 at the Movies #3: A Slight Burglary: Glengarry Glen RossMerlin Mann and Dan Benjamin talk about Glengarry Glen Ross.\nA Slight Burglary: Glengarry Glen Ross on HuffdufferSee You at the Top: Zig Ziglar: 9789971643096: Amazon.com: BooksNaked Consumer: How Our Private Lives Become Public Commodities: Erik Larson: 9780140233032: Amazon.com: Booksround tuit - WiktionaryA circular object giving its owner the ability to get done everything that would have otherwise been put off to a later date.\n'Original' Round Tuit! - Round Tuit gifts - Round Tuit Coins - Round Toit Origins - Round Tuit HistoryShowbotWatch Planet Hulk Online | NetflixWhen Earth's superheroes exile the volatile Incredible Hulk to a distant planet called Sakaar, the muscle-bound green monster is sold into slavery.\nTwitter / URFLAW_derek: @Hotdogsladies & @danbenjamin ...@Hotdogsladies & @danbenjamin - glengarry leads = femininity/object of desire (coloring in film & ornamentation).\nOn Social Media, Some Are Susceptible to Internet Outrage - NYTimes.comBut Internet outrage often says more about the commenter than the cause, and its deployment may do more harm than good, to the instigator and the issue.\nThe Naked Consumer « Erik Larson : Best-selling Author of In the Garden of BeastsAfter receiving a sudden surge of junk mail directed at new parents—even though my wife at the time was merely pregnant—I set out to explore the lengths companies go to spy on individual consumers. It was fascinating, and a little scary. For example, I discovered one market-research firm that put human spies in stores to follow every move a shopper made, and another company that secretly commandeered viewers’ televisions to show them commercials no one else got to see.\nThe naked consumer : how our private lives become public commodities (Book, 1992) [WorldCat.org]Tony Roma’s Steakhouse Restaurant With Seafood, Ribs & More“She looks so pregnant!” - an album on FlickrA celebration of Celebrity Baby Pr0n\n5by5 | 5by5 at the Movies #1: GoodfellasDan Benjamin and John Siracusa discuss Goodfellas.\nAvengers (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe first adventure featured the Asgardian god Loki seeking revenge against his brother Thor. Using an illusion, Loki tricked the Hulk into destroying a railroad track.\nWatch The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes Online | NetflixThe Avengers -- Thor, Ant-Man, Hulk, Iron Man and other heroes -- are ready to save the day from villains such as Loki, HYDRA and the Red Skull.\nThe Incredible Hulk: Grey Hulk aka Joe FixitThis incarnation can lift approximately 75 tons. This incarnation does possess the \"madder he gets, the stronger he gets\" ability but at a much slower rate since this incarnation has some level of intelligence and reasoning and would not \"lose control\" as easy as the Savage Hulk incarnation.\n\nThis week's episode of Back to Work is kindly sponsored by Squarespace (10% off with offer code, \"ITSYOURSHOW\").","content_html":"TOPIC: Yes. Yes.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin follow-up on their recent 5by5 at the Movies episode about Glengarry Glen Ross, talking more about sales culture, media consumption, how our personal data gets used to close us, and why Dan admires Ricky Roma.
\n\nOr, Tony Roma, as you call him.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is kindly sponsored by Squarespace (10% off with offer code, \"ITSYOURSHOW\").
TOPIC: Motivation
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about their upcoming 5by5 at the Movies episode on Glengarry Glen Ross, which segues naturally into a discussion of the many aspects of motivation.
\n\nCarrots, sticks, bonuses, fear, status, and just growing up all shape our understanding of why we (and, yeah, others) do what we do.
\n\nWhat happens when our motivation starts better accounting for how other people are motivated?
\n\nGet them to sign on the line which is dotted.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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\n\n","summary":"**TOPIC**: Motivation","date_published":"2014-07-01T13:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/f16bb524-5e11-4bb1-9f48-79dbc79c458b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":38914910,"duration_in_seconds":4817}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/176","title":"Episode 176: \"ENJOY YOUR MEAL\"","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/176","content_text":"TOPIC: (Not) Solving People Problems With Technology.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the challenge of finding business workflows that…actually work. And, what happens if you try to fix a \"people problem\" with a technical solution.\n\nAlso, detailed discussion on Wolverine's healing factor, gruesome hand-shaving, Florida's giant grasshoppers, dangerous bourbon foil, and varieties of elves.\n\n\n\nCome to Ungainly X-Mann Meetup #4\n\nPSA: Hey, if you live in the Bay Area and you like comics and/or Merlin, please come out to Two Cats Comics on Thursday night and hang out with Merlin. [more »]\n\nLinks for this episode:Ungainly X-Mann Meetup #4 — Merlin MannMERLIN MANN (Back to Work, Roderick on the Line, You Look Nice Today, et al.) invites you to drop by Two Cats Comics on the evening of Thursday, June 26th to hang out, talk about comics, and just say, “Hi.”\nIs West Portal the ‘new Noe’? - On The Block5by5 | The NewsWBP SYSTEMS / Heap CRM / Keep all your information together, with the Small Business CRM / Messages, Contact Manager, Address Book, Calendars, Automation and TasksMarketcircle | Daylite | OverviewHighrise: Small Business CRM, Web-Based Contact ManagerOnline Form Builder with Cloud Storage Database | WufooX-Men (2000) - Quotes - IMDbROGUE: When they come out...does it hurt? \nWOLVERINE: Every time.\nWolverine (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\"While the adamantium in his body stops or reduces many injuries, his healing factor must also work constantly to prevent metal poisoning from killing him.\"\nRomalea guttata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaIt can reach nearly 3 inches (8 cm) in size.\nThe Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (Dover Fine Art, History of Art): Salvador Dali: 9780486274546: Amazon.com: BooksThe Secret Life of Salvador Dalí - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\"enjoy your meal\" - YouTubeJodorowsky's Dune - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJodorowsky's Dune (2014) - HD Trailer - YouTubeFlammable vs. inflammable - GrammaristJosh Centers (jcenters) on TwitterThe Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FLEggs on the Plate without the PlateShowbotThis week's episode of Back to Work is kindly sponsored by:\n\n\nPDFpen Scan+ by Smile\nLynda.com (7-day free trial!)\n","content_html":"TOPIC: (Not) Solving People Problems With Technology.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the challenge of finding business workflows that…actually work. And, what happens if you try to fix a \"people problem\" with a technical solution.
\n\nAlso, detailed discussion on Wolverine's healing factor, gruesome hand-shaving, Florida's giant grasshoppers, dangerous bourbon foil, and varieties of elves.
\n\nPSA: Hey, if you live in the Bay Area and you like comics and/or Merlin, please come out to Two Cats Comics on Thursday night and hang out with Merlin. [more »]
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is kindly sponsored by:
\n\nTOPIC: \"Creativity\" where you din't expect it.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about PIXAR, creativity, and FoldingText before finally succumbing to the treachery of Skype.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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\n\nTURNSOUT\")TOPIC: Dan & Merlin in Fancy San Francisco
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin visit across a table in a darkened room to talk about WWDC, San Francisco's lesser-known features, and how to spend less time bogged down in day-to-day junk.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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\n\nITSYOURSHOW\") - Squarespace is the easiest way for anyone to create an exceptional website.TOPIC: Culture is what we DO.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about processing a hotel room and leading by example.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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","summary":"TOPIC: Culture is what we DO.","date_published":"2014-05-27T13:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/5c71b0d0-0c7a-4fbb-b7e6-58210eb3ae5d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":35958895,"duration_in_seconds":4448}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/172","title":"Episode 172: Somewhere Between a Habit and a River","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/172","content_text":"TOPIC: How to undig a river.\n\nThis 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.\n\n(This is a good one)\n\nLinks for this episode:7: The Passionate TaskRich Stevens and Merlin Mann join Moisés and John to discuss the state of digital comics, content discovery, and recommend some good reads.\n\"Melnibonér\" - kung fu grippeShowbotListener-submitted titles for this episode.\nCultural hegemony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaIn 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\nNonsense From the Huffington PostThis week's episode of Back to Work is kindly sponsored by Lynda.com (7-day free trial!)","content_html":"TOPIC: How to undig a river.
\n\nThis 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.
\n\n(This is a good one)
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is kindly sponsored by Lynda.com (7-day free trial!)
","summary":"TOPIC: How to undig a river.","date_published":"2014-05-22T15:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/a2cab9b7-1d95-4611-a4c5-da53c964e669.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":30686977,"duration_in_seconds":3789}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/171","title":"Episode 171: Put a Sweatshirt In My Wallet","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/171","content_text":"TOPIC: It's like wallets and backpacks.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about H.R. Giger, Dan's latest Android experiment, more on app privacy, and why we need both wallets, backpacks, and suitcases. You know. Analogies.\n\nLinks for this episode:[SPONSOR] Build a Website — Squarespace[SPONSOR] Online Eyeglasses & Sunglasses - $95 Rx Glasses | Warby Parker5by5 | The Incomparable #194: A Real Imaginary FriendGrab your black cat and portable radio, climb on your mom's broomstick, and join us for a discussion of Hayao Miyazaki's classic animated film \"Kiki's Delivery Service.\" This film features a climactic scene featuring an out-of-control dirigible, so you know we love it.With panelists Merlin Mann, John Siracusa, and Steve Lutz.\nBonus Track | Mann Canon (Episode 194b)Many digressions from our “Kiki’s Delivery Service” episode, including all the stuff John Siracusa told us to remove because it’s just him making references to Merlin’s podcasts so obscure even Merlin doesn’t remember them.May 10, 2014 • 17 minutes • Jason Snell with Merlin Mann, Steve Lutz and John Siracusa\nJudge Expresses Concerns Over Casey Kasem's Safety - ABC NewsA judge on Monday ordered an investigation into the whereabouts of Casey Kasem after an attorney for the ailing radio personality's wife said the former \"Top 40\" host had been removed from Los Angeles without his children's knowledge.\nH.R. Giger Has Passed AwaySwiss artist H.R. Giger, made famous for his work designing the iconic creatures in the Aliens series, has passed away at the age of 74.\nCrimson Tide (1995) - IMDbThe Hunt for Red October (1990) - IMDbCool Tools – What’s in My Bag? Mark FrauenfelderEVERYDAY CARRY I need more knives. And a giant... | kung fu grippe5by5 | SuperchargedShowbotListener-submitted titles for Episode 171.\nJudas Priest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Subliminal message trial)Milius (2013)The true story of the greatest filmmaker you never knew\nThe Hunt for Red October (1990)Miguel Sandoval - IMDbThe Paul Lynde Halloween Special (1976) - YouTubeThe Paul Lynde Halloween Special - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Paul Lynde Halloween Special is a Halloween-themed television special starring Paul Lynde broadcast October 29, 1976 on ABC. It featured guest stars Margaret Hamilton in her first reprisal of her role as the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz. Also guest starring are Billie Hayes as Witchiepoo from H.R. Pufnstuf, Tim Conway, Roz Kelly, Florence Henderson, rock band KISS, Billy Barty as Gallows the Butler, Betty White and, in an unbilled surprise appearance, Donny and Marie Osmond.\nMailboxWe redesigned the inbox to make email light, fast, and mobile-friendly. Quickly swipe messages to your archive or trash and scan entire conversations in a chat-like view. It's a whole new inbox.\n\nDispatch: TextExpander-enabled Email App for iPhoneDispatch makes it easy to act on mails even when you're on the move.\n\nBased on Merlin Mann's idea of managing your inbox, it helps you tame your inbox by letting you delete, defer, delegate, generate actions and even respond to your mails with ease.\n\ndanah boyd | apophenia » Best Of ApopheniaThis week's episode of Back to Work is kindly sponsored by:\n\n\nSquarespace (10% off with offer code, \"TURNSOUT\")\nWarby Parker (HOME TRY-ON: 5 days; 5 pairs; 100% free)\n","content_html":"TOPIC: It's like wallets and backpacks.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about H.R. Giger, Dan's latest Android experiment, more on app privacy, and why we need both wallets, backpacks, and suitcases. You know. Analogies.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is kindly sponsored by:
\n\nTURNSOUT\")Merlin and Dan talk about Marked, Drafts, MLKSHK shutting down, App.net, routers, Hong King Phoey, poisoned meatballs, and more.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by lynda (for 7 day free trial), Squarespace (use code TURNSOUT for 10% off), and Harry's (use code COMICS for $5 off your purchase).
","summary":"Merlin and Dan talk about Marked, Drafts, MLKSHK shutting down, App.net, routers, Hong King Phoey, poisoned meatballs, and more.","date_published":"2014-05-06T17:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/e80e394e-49b7-412e-a48a-8ee6c9dd1984.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":45523050,"duration_in_seconds":5643}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/169","title":"Episode 169: Upgrade Your Skateboard","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/169","content_text":"Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin talk about comiXology and the future of online digital purchases.\n\nLinks for this episode:Wonder Woman (2009) (V)A modern man's trespass of the island of the Amazons enables an imprisoned war god to escape and Princess Diana wins the responsibility to recapture him.\nNonsense From the Huffington PostSquarespace Metrics for iPad — The Official Squarespace BlogWith its fluid design and powerful inspection tools, Squarespace Metrics provides valuable insight into your data through key performance indicators, interactive charts, and dynamic views – all with a beautiful interface you can truly enjoy. Starting today, we’re pleased to offer Metrics for the iPad as a universal download.\nThe House Rules | The Thom Zahler WeblogSo, I’m taking the opportunity of the New Year to post my schedule. It’s important to manage expectations. How fast should you be expected to respond to an email? When is too early to call? So, here we go with my five house rules.\nCaptain America: Man Out of Time Digital Comics - Comics by comiXologyWhen the Avengers pull a frozen soldier from the sea, they bring back the Living Legend of World War II---a man whose memories of life 60 years ago are as fresh as yesterday! How will Steve Rogers adapt to the world of the 21st century?\nShowbotevilhero/mylar · GitHubSponsored by PDFpen Scan+ by Smile Software.","content_html":"Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin talk about comiXology and the future of online digital purchases.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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","summary":"Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin talk about comiXology and the future of online digital purchases. ","date_published":"2014-04-29T13:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/eff72568-3e00-43a1-9151-3ea0e399cb8f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":42326906,"duration_in_seconds":5244}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/168","title":"Episode 168: It's Okay for Cats to Wander Around on Planes","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/168","content_text":"TOPIC: Standing up to Attention Bullies.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the world's impossible expectations regarding each of our own time, attention, and access.\n\nWhat happens when we tacitly allow the universe to ask us anything any time for any reason? How do we develop the sympathy to understand how vastly our schedules and priorities differ at a given moment?\n\nWell. One possible solution is to learn to find the courage to not be terminally \"\"busy\"\" all the time. That's all on us.\n\nLinks for this episode:[SPONSOR] Harry's - Quality Men’s Shaving Products. Fair Prices. Simple.Warren Ellis » How To See The FutureBut I’ll suggest to you something. The theories of atemporality and manufactured normalcy and zero history can be short-circuited by just one thing.Looking around.\nMorgan Stanley's Parker On Email Access - Business InsiderIn a new note to clients, Parker writes that he got an email from someone saying they had \"limited access\" to their email. He proceeds to explain how that's a lame excuse in this day and age.\n30 Pilots And Flight Attendants Confess Their Best Kept Secrets | Viral QuakeThese questions were asked on Reddit, and the answers are insane. Are these true??? My mind has officially been blown. I travel a lot, so some of this is pretty scary if you ask me. Here is the text leaked from Reddit:\nCyrano de Bergerac (1950) - \"Nose Speech\" & \"Fencing Ballade\" - YouTube5by5 | Back to Work #153: Anxiety's a GoatTOPIC: The thoughts we think. And think. And think.This week, Dan and Merlin talk about anxiety, compulsive thoughts, and how to at least crack an air hole in a big problem.\nShowbotLive, listener-submitted title suggestions for this week's episode.\nRoderick on the Line, Ep. 34: \"A Shit Barge Full of Long Pigs\"That Mitchell and Webb Look - Send us your reckons - YouTubeWonder Woman (2009) (V)A modern man's trespass of the island of the Amazons enables an imprisoned war god to escape and Princess Diana wins the responsibility to recapture him.\nGetting Things Done®, GTD® and David Allen & CO | HomeThis week’s episode of Back to Work is kindly sponsored by Harry’s Quality Men’s Shaving Products. ($5 off your purchase with discount code, “QUIT”) ","content_html":"TOPIC: Standing up to Attention Bullies.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the world's impossible expectations regarding each of our own time, attention, and access.
\n\nWhat happens when we tacitly allow the universe to ask us anything any time for any reason? How do we develop the sympathy to understand how vastly our schedules and priorities differ at a given moment?
\n\nWell. One possible solution is to learn to find the courage to not be terminally \"\"busy\"\" all the time. That's all on us.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week’s episode of Back to Work is kindly sponsored by Harry’s Quality Men’s Shaving Products. ($5 off your purchase with discount code, “QUIT”)
TOPIC: Ubi Sunt, LCS?
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the uneasy future of local comic shops—especially in light of Amazon's announced acquisition of comiXology.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is kindly sponsored by lynda.com (Start learning now with a 7-day free trial)
","summary":"TOPIC: Ubi Sunt, LCS?","date_published":"2014-04-15T14:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/a8fec658-3f82-45a0-a645-2de063afddd1.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":35079078,"duration_in_seconds":4338}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/166","title":"Episode 166: 404 - Friends Not Found","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/166","content_text":"TOPIC: The future we can't know.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about how quickly technology is evolving, how janky that evolution can be, and how terrible we all are at forecasting what will come next and beyond.\n\nCould Merlin have ever imagined he'd pay $3.00 for an episode of Under the Gunn? No, he could not.\n\nLinks for this episode:The health effects of a world without darkness – Rebecca Boyle – AeonYou Are Not So SmartList of cognitive biases - RationalWikiCognitive bias describes the inherent thinking errors that humans make in processing information. Some of these have been verified empirically in the field of psychology, while others are considered general categories of bias. These thinking errors prevent one from accurately understanding reality, even when confronted with all the needed data and evidence to form an accurate view. \nEnd-of-history illusion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe end-of-history illusion is a ubiquitous psychological illusion in which teenagers and adults of all ages believe that they have consistently experienced significant personal growth and changes in tastes until now, but will somehow not continue to grow and mature in the future.[1] That is, despite knowing how much they have changed in the last ten years, they believe that ten years from now, they will think and feel the same as they do today.\nYANSS Podcast 020 – James Burke and Matt Novak ponder the future and why we are terrible at predicting it « You Are Not So SmartIn this episode of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast we sit down with James Burke and discuss the past, the present, and where he sees us heading in the future. Burke says we must soon learn how to deal with a world in which scarcity is scarce, abundance is abundant, and home manufacturing can produce just about anything you desire.\nProject Runway: Under the Gunn - Episodes, Videos & Schedule - myLifetime.comYANSS Podcast – Episode Four – The Self Illusion « You Are Not So SmartConfirmation Bias « You Are Not So SmartThe Misconception: Your opinions are the result of years of rational, objective analysis.The Truth: Your opinions are the result of years of paying attention to information which confirmed what you believed while ignoring information which challenged your preconceived notions.\nAccidental Tech Podcast: 59: The Little Puck That Couldchit | Definition at Dictionary.com MobileThis week’s episode of Back to Work is kindly sponsored by: \n\n\nSquarespace (10% off with offer code, “TOOTHFAIRY”)\nBusyCal - BusyCal is an alternative to the built-in Calendar app on OS X that provides powerful time-saving features in a friendly, easy-to-use package.\n","content_html":"TOPIC: The future we can't know.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about how quickly technology is evolving, how janky that evolution can be, and how terrible we all are at forecasting what will come next and beyond.
\n\nCould Merlin have ever imagined he'd pay $3.00 for an episode of Under the Gunn? No, he could not.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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\n\nTOOTHFAIRY”)TOPIC: Words mean things.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the blight of buzzwords, jargon, and douchespeak writ large.
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\n\nTOOTHFAIRY”)TOPIC: Curiosity & Creativity
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk more about expertise and how it relates to the ineffable qualities of curiosity and creativity. Can curiosity be inspired or taught? Or, is it just something you either have or don't? How do we buck the implicit authority to explore the vast universe of \"unnecessary things?\"
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\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about LEGO and what becoming a Master Builder can teach us about expertise.
\n\nAlso: tooth fairies, binder clips, and the pedagogical warning shot.
\n\nWARNING: This episode of B2W contains information about holiday-related personalities that may be of a sensitive nature. Listener discretion is advised.
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\n\nBACKTOWORK”)Back to Work”)YOURSHOW”)BACKTOWORK314”)TOPIC: ““Experiencing Issues”” with Customer Service
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin analyze what's really going wrong when we get bad customer service. Spoiler: The brand is only as sound as its day-to-day implementation.
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\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about impossible trade-offs and the benefits of remembering this is actually your life.
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\n\nBack to Work\")BACKTOWORK\" for 30% off)SLEEP\")Merlin and Dan talk about Library Elf, app launchers like Quicksilver and Alfred, Stanley Kubrick, pushing people to create greatness, not knowing what you like until you see it, the typefaces of Moon, and more.
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\n\nSLEEP”)BACKTOWORK214”)TOPIC: Why We Have Doors.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about internet nostalgia, hacking vs. whacking, and why we have doors for a reason.
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\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk more about sleep and how self-quantization can goose your mindfulness.
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\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin do a deep dive on building better sleep habits with a focus on the paradoxes and planning of daily activities that can make all the difference.
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\n\nBACKTOWORK” to get your extended 30 day trial)FEAR”)TOPIC: Isolation and Identity
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about civility, identity, Florida, and how you can't unsee Idiocracy.
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\n\nBack to Work\")BACKTOWORK\" to get your extended 30 day trial)BACKTOWORK114\")TOPIC: The Attention Stack
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about—what?—maybe the attention stack. How what we pay attention to (and, yes spend our time on) can't help but affect how we see, think, feel, and decide.
\n\nNot happy with any of those things? Start working your way down the stack.
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\n\nFEAR”)TOPIC: The thoughts we think. And think. And think.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about anxiety, compulsive thoughts, and how to at least crack an air hole in a big problem.
\n\nWay of the future.
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\n\nFEAR\")BACKTOWORK114\")TOPIC: Consistency, Change, and Counting-Down
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin return to the evergreen topic of new year's resolutions. Remember: in the main, you are what you've already done a lot.
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TOPIC: Christmas and Control
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin meander through holiday matters, including the Winter Warlock-like impotence of having your electric meter blow up on Christmas Eve Eve.
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TOPIC: Enough.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin meander around the meaning of, \"enough,\" pondering the deep existential pit we dig for ourselves and maybe how to get out of it.
\n\nMerry Christmas. Get your head out of your ass.
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\n\nGROCERYLIST\")BACKTOWORK12\" for 30% off)TOPIC: Criticism and Its Discontents
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about criticism, people who don't like you, and how much to let each have anything to do with the work you produce.
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\n\nBACKTOWORK1213\")TOPIC: Gooseneck Options
\n\nThis week, with Dan re-sick and Merlin full of beans, the boys do a deep dive on hand washing, purpose-built bathroom activity gadgets, and the benefits of arming our children.
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TOPIC: Perfectionism and Procrastination
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about why the classic meanings of perfectionism mostly miss the mark; it's less about being scared to finish and more about being terrified to start.
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\n\nBACKTOWORK11\" for 30% off)BACKTOWORK1113\" for 25% off any package)TOPIC: Going Mobile-er.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin are very sick, so they talk about being sick. Then, they talk about what it would take to move to using just an iPad Air on the road.
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\n\nnice\")TOPIC: Grab bag
\n\nThis week, Dan takes a minute to sit down with Merlin to talk about bathroom GIFs, Marvel movies, private school ejection, and a new interview with Merlin that is very very long.
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\n\nBACKTOWORK11\" for 30% off everything)BACKTOWORK1113\" for 25% off any package)TOPIC: Perception and Perspective.
\n\nIn their second ever live, face-to-face episode, Dan and Merlin talk about goats, noise gate, and taking a step back for a better view of where you are.
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\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about preparation.
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\n\nBACKTOWORK11\" for 30% off everything)BACKTOWORK1113\" for 25% off any package)TOPIC: Traveling Like a Gentleman.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin revisit the travails of air travel. How to prepare, how to survive--and how to be a better and more mindful person along the way.
\n\nAlso, some timely discussion of this morning's Apple product announcements.
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\n\nBACKTOWORK10\" for 30% off)GOBLIN\" for 10% off)TOPIC: Learning the Wheres and Whens of Productivity
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about learning from how you work to improve your basic productivity infrastructure, with specific attention to using Perspectives in OmniFocus.
\n\nWhether it's consolidating shopping lists, eliminating task rot, or leveraging geolocation, there are innumerable tricks for lightly tweaking a system in powerful, non-fiddly ways.
\n\nAlso: learn Dan's Unified Field Theory of Grocery Shopping.
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\n\nThis week, Merlin is joined by Bionic co-host, Matt Alexander. They discuss ““technology ecosystems,”” life as a self-described trans-atlantic, tech scenes that thrive and don't, dating someone from Florida (and her Mum), and getting back into Marvel comics.
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\n\nBACKTOWORK)GOBLIN for 10% off)TOPIC: Grab Bag, plus Tasks vs. Calendar Items
\n\nThis week Dan and Merlin administer an epic grab bag episode, chockablock with new app, book, podcast, and music suggestions.
\n\nAlso, a return to the evergreen topic of where stuff goes. How to decide whether a given thing goes on a calendar, a todo list, reference files, or an alarm. Great ninja stuff.
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\n\nbacktowork for 15-day free trial plus 10% off your lifetime account)TOPIC: Informal Background Self-Quantization
\n\nThis week Dan & Merlin discuss the merits of self-quantization. Which is fancy way of saying, \"Merlin got a new Fitbit.\"
\n\nWhy is anecdotal self-reporting a sucker's bet? What are the benefits of making your life a little video game? And, why is Merlin's scale accessing APIs via the internet?
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\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the surprisingly complicated topic of email introductions.
\n\nWho emails whom? Who gets cc'd and for how long? How much homework are we making (or accepting)? And, thorniest of all, how do you ““introduce”” someone you'd reeeeeeally rather not introduce?
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\n\nBACKTOWORK9\" for 30% off)BACKTOWORK9\" for 25% off any package)BATMAN\" for 20% off)TOPIC: Fear of Your Own TODO List
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin cover a topic suggested by listener, @jeff_nordstedt: not wanting to look at your todo list.
\n\nFrom capture to completion, there are a million ways to fall off the path. The boys take a deep dive on what those ways might be as well as how to get yourself straightened out and, as you say, back to work.
\n\nHonestly. It's why people hate TODO lists. Well. That and the odor.
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\n\ndan\" for three-day delivery)BATMAN\" for 20% off)TOPIC: Joss Whedon GTD; Meeting Redux
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about getting specific with your productivity and why every meeting needs an agenda.
\n\nNow, take a drink.
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\n
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\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin cover a range of topics related to expertise, experience, professional repetition, and management, culminating in a tour of Merlin's current email filtering strategy.
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\n\nBACKTOWORK8” for 25% off any package)HOWARDCHICKEN” for 10% off)TOPIC: How many keys do you really need?
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin return to the question, \"What do you want ten times more of?\" and weigh the risks and benefits of increasing the amount of complexity in your life.
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\n\nBACKTOWORK8” for 30% off any package)HOWARDCHICKEN” for 10% off)TOPIC: Fraud vs. Failure
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin dive into what makes us feel like frauds and what makes us feel like failures.
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TOPIC: Power, Yelling, and Airport Kung Fu
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin continue their discussion of power and how it does or doesn't work.
\n\nDo real leaders actually talk like the douchebags, serial entrepreneurs, and screamy travelers struggling to imitate them? Not really. That's one way you can tell they're leaders.
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\n\nBACKTOWORK8” for 30% off any package)HOWARDCHICKEN” for 10% off)TOPIC: Delays
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about delays, agency, power, and why yelling at people about your problems rarely helps anyone.
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Recorded live at Meltdown Comics in Hollywood on June 6, 2013.
\n
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\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about 3½ kinds of lists that can change your game.
\n\nMerlin knows a lot about Productivity.
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\n\nBACKTOWORK7” for 30% off any package)LITTLEKNIVES” for 10% off)TOPIC: Time Awareness & Scope Wormholes
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about why we (and Frank) are terrible at estimating time, as well as what we can do to get better at it.
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TOPIC: Employers, Bosses, Leaders, and Managers
\n\nThis week—in what may easily turn into a multi-episode arc—Dan and Merlin talk about bosses.
\n\nWhether we're looking at it from up or down, management is tricky business. The question is, what makes a boss a good manager, and what makes a good manager a great leader?
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TOPIC: How many Saturdays do you get?
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about time. Its scarcity, its passing, its tyranny, and its possibilities.
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\n\nLITTLEKNIVES\" for 10% off)btw\" for 10% off)TOPIC: There are Only Two Prices: Free and What It Costs
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin return to the classic lineup and some classic topics, including knowing your value, learning what to charge, and realizing what you can live with.
\n\nAlso: jury duty, traveling, bathrooms, the sliding scale of suffering, and what-have you.
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\n\nBMO\" for an additional 10% off)TOPIC: The Chinese Symbol for 'Pants' Inside of The Chinese Symbol for 'Jury Duty.'
\n\nThis week, Dan's away, so Merlin goes solo, taking a break from jury duty to talk about the opportunities that can be hiding inside change, inconvenience, and tumult.
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\n\nDANSENTME6 and get 30% off any package)TOPIC: First Meeting, Gifts, and Grifts
\n\nThis week—after 122 episodes, plus almost a decade of internet pal-dom—Dan and Merlin finally meet and record in a room together for the first time.
\n\nWith only passing nods to the nominal topic of \"gifts,\" Dan and Merlin mostly get to know each other.
\n\nWhy is Dan staring so penetratingly at Merlin? Does Dan think Merlin is fat as well as old? Why does Dan keep looking at his phone? Does that look clean to you? Whose show is it, really? Is John Siracusa slender or sickly? Why can't I show you the sole of my shoe? Should we stand up? Who am I thinking of? Is it hot in here or is it just me? Which one am I?
\n\nAlso, bathrooms.
\n\nInarguably, a Very Important Episode™.
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TOPIC: Loyalty, Altruism, Reality Check, or Extortion?
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about what we talk about when we talk about \"loyalty.\"
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TOPIC: Dan's Recent Bathroom Incident, et al.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin exhale. Don't search for secret doors.
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This week, Dan and Merlin discuss how to use a public restroom.
\n\nThere's some other stuff, too. But, yeah. Mostly Dan and Merlin discuss how to use a public restroom.
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TOPIC: What would you do differently if you had a \"safety net?\"
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin congratulate their pal, Marco, on the acquisition of a company he helped co-found.
\n\nWhich leads to the nominal topic: what kind of safety net would you need to feel secure, do the things you'd like, and mostly banish the more persistent cumulonimbus clouds of your own anxiety?
\n\nMany angles are explored. Why was Elvis unhappy? How is habitual Schadenfreude and automatic bile ensmallening our culture? Can we ever be—let alone feel—truly secure? And, how much of our old selves do we end up lugging along inside every suitcase we carry?
\n\nPretty great episode. Especially if you like the ones where Merlin gets all mad. Those are usually good ones.
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TOPIC: Macintosh Nostalgia and Utter Apple ID Madness.
\n\nThis week, after an entirely appropriate amount of very important follow-up, Dan and Merlin talk about Susan Kare's original Mac icons, why they're not going to be appearing on John Siracusa's t-shirt, plus the litany of completely monkeyballs problems that now has Merlin ready to literally shoot his Apple ID in the back of the head, mob-style.
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TOPIC: Toward an (Admittedly Dubious) Unified Field Theory of Creativity
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin consider a framework for understanding the basic modes and focal lengths involved in producing creative work.
\n\nWhy and how do we get so hung up and frustrated about getting good at what we do? Why's it so hard to take an abstract idea for making something great, then end up feeling pathologically stymied when we struggle to actually make it?
\n\nThe boys return to the classic topic of expertise, especially the frustrating ironies that separate the pro from the amateur from the, as they say, \"failure.\"
\n\nAlso under consideration is Roger Von Oech's fascinating modal, character-based approach to making stuff—acknowledging the very different work of the Explorer, Artist, Judge, and Warrior. But, critically, also striving to keep those characters in the right order and on the right parts of the right task at the right time. Then, knowing when to change things up.
\n\nFinally, there's a bit of discussion on Merlin's squirrely obsession with focal length—to not only choose the right mode at the right time, but to stay open to the idea of alternately zooming way out and way in at each step of the process. Accepting the benefits and trade-offs of switching between your macro and fish-eye lenses.
\n\nIt's a really good episode—at least way better than it sounds. And, the hosts agree that, until you find a better model for understanding How to Make Stuff, you could do a lot worse than giving this admittedly Byzantine method a spin for yourself.
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TOPIC: Offices, and when to get out of them.
\n\nThis week—in what will surely be remembered as the greatest Back to Work episode of all time—Dan and Merlin eventually talk about working at a desk and when to take it someplace else.
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TOPIC: Quit & Analyze, and Marvel Character Speculation.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about Dan's \"Quit & Analyze\" episode, then proceed into a very useful conversation about which characters from the Marvel Universe they're each most like.
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You know the type.Those time-wasting, rudderless, repetitious, zombie meetings where \"deep dives,\" \"drill downs,\" and \"face time\" often mean much is debated, little is accomplished, and everybody leaves feeling broken--AND, often as not, late for their next meeting.In the premiere of this all-new presentation, Merlin Mann attacks Bad Meeting Culture with the same brand of practical, funny, and thought-provoking advice that his popular Inbox Zero talks brought to the topic of email.\n[SLIDES] BROKEN MEETINGS (and how you'll fix them)[ESSAY] Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (by Paul Graham; 2009)When you're operating on the maker's schedule, meetings are a disaster. A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in. Plus you have to remember to go to the meeting. That's no problem for someone on the manager's schedule. There's always something coming on the next hour\nDrafts - Agile TortoiseWhat’s New in Drafts 3.0Extend Drafts with ready-to-install Actions from the Action Directory! ?Drafts is a different kind of note taking app. In Drafts, text comes first – open the app and get a new, blank draft. Don’t get bogged down in a timeline to tweet or post to Facebook and App.net. Don’t tap through multiple screens to compose an email or SMS. Don’t navigate folders, create files and name them just to jot down a note or create a todo. Drafts is available for both iPhone and iPad.\nMushroom War - The Adventure Time Wiki. Mathematical!The Mushroom War (usually referred to as the Great Mushroom War) is the cause of the post-apocalyptic condition of the Land of Ooo. Not much is known about the war at the moment, but the inclusion of \"mushroom\" in the title is probably referring to the mushroom shaped explosion generated by atomic weapons. If so, then it is likely that the Land of Ooo and the creatures who inhabit it were created from the nuclear fallout that irradiated the land. The Mushroom War is most likely started by mankind being at war with one another, but on a nuclear scale (such as during the Cold War or the end of WWII).\nThe Enchiridion (book) - The Adventure Time Wiki. Mathematical!The Enchiridion (which translates to \"The Handbook\" or \"The Manual\") was an ancient book with codes of conduct, guidelines, and other helpful information for heroes. The book had great power which allowed it to tear open worm holes between dimensions in the multiverse. It was destroyed by Finn in \"The Lich\" in order to stop the Lich from gaining access to the multiverse (although, the Lich still made it. See \"The Lich\" for more details.)\nAmazon.com: The Adventure Time Encyclopaedia (Encyclopedia): Inhabitants, Lore, Spells, and Ancient Crypt Warnings of the Land of Ooo Circa 19.56 B.G.E. - 501 A.G.E.What time is it? Adventure Time?! Explore the magical world of Ooo with Jake the dog and Finn the human, along with the Ice King, Princess Bubblegum, Marceline the Vampire Queen, and all your favorite Adventure Time characters, in this first official guide to Cartoon Network?s hit animated series.Written and compiled by the Lord of Evil himself, The Adventure Time Encyclopaedia matches the playful, subversive tone of the series, detailing everything anyone will ever need to know about the postapocalyptic land of Ooo and its inhabitants?secret lore and spells, fun places you should visit and places where you will probably die, whom to marry and whom not to marry, how to make friends and how to destroy your enemies?plus hand-written marginalia by Finn, Jake, and Marceline. An indispensable companion to the show, this side-splittingly funny love letter to Adventure Time is sure to appeal to fans of all ages. Heck yeah!\n[GUIDE] Success! Install 10.8 on old unsupported Mac - MacRumors ForumsHi, Welcome. First of all. What is \"MLPostFactor\" you might ask. Well. As we all know, Apple has dropped OSX Mountain Lion support for older generation of Macs (2006~2008 Macs). The goal of the project is to support all those \"drop out\" Macs. So we designed this app to do just that. Read more @ Post \nBilly - The Adventure Time Wiki. Mathematical!Billy was a character who first appears in \"His Hero.\" Billy is Finn and Jake's idol and the most powerful hero seen in the series. Thus, the two are immense fans of him.\nThe Lich (episode) - The Adventure Time Wiki. Mathematical!Finn is led by Billy on a quest to save the world and beyond from the Lich.\nImage Comics | East of West #1\"OUT OF THE WASTELAND\"The things that divide us are stronger than the things that unite us. A Sci-Fi Western set in a dystopian America where all hope for the future rests in the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse...who just happen to be trying to kill the President of the United States. One of the most exciting new books of the year, this is EAST OF WEST, a brand new, ongoing, monthly comic from the award-winning team of Marvel's FF, JONATHAN HICKMAN and NICK DRAGOTTA.\nEast of West Digital Comics - Comics by comiXologyThe things that divide us are stronger than the things that unite us. A Sci-Fi Western set in a dystopian America where all hope for the future rests in the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse...who just happen to be trying to kill the President of the United States. One of the most exciting new books of the year, this is EAST OF WEST, a brand new, ongoing, monthly comic from the award-winning team of Marvel's FF, JONATHAN HICKMAN and NICK DRAGOTTA.\nTwitter / trammell: Watching @hotdogsladies' talk ...Watching @hotdogsladies' talk \"Broken Meetings (and how you'll fix them)\". Again. It's the best. http://vimeo.com/15579561 \nPasswords for the Manly ManGenerating passwords so strong and secure they rise like the phoenix.\nTwitter / hotdogsladies: After a mere 30 hours in LA, ...After a mere 30 hours in LA, I’m already awesome at casually scoping out someone more important to talk to.\n\nActually…could you excuse me?\n\nAmazon.com: The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) (0785342835953): Frederick P. Brooks Jr.: BooksFew books on software project management have been as influential and timeless as The Mythical Man-Month. With a blend of software engineering facts and thought-provoking opinions, Fred Brooks offers insight for anyone managing complex projects. These essays draw from his experience as project manager for the IBM System/360 computer family and then for OS/360, its massive software system. Now, 20 years after the initial publication of his book, Brooks has revisited his original ideas and added new thoughts and advice, both for readers already familiar with his work and for readers discovering it for the first time.\nThe Mythical Man-Month - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBrooks' observations are based on his experiences at IBM while managing the development of OS/360. He had added more programmers to a project falling behind schedule, a decision that he would later counter-intuitively conclude to have delayed the project even further. He also made the mistake of asserting that one project — writing an ALGOL compiler — would require six months, regardless of the number of workers involved (it required longer). The tendency for managers to repeat such errors in project development led Brooks to quip that his book is called \"The Bible of Software Engineering\", because \"everybody quotes it, some people read it, and a few people go by it.\" The book is widely regarded as a classic on the human elements of software engineering.\nQPR: Quotidian Public Radio - QPR: Quotidian Public Radio - “Commentary by Anton...Commentator Anton Cantrusku has been thinking about technology, communication, and the future of books.\nEnd-of-life (product) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaEnd-of-life (EOL) is a term used with respect to a product supplied to customers, indicating that the product is in the end of its useful lifetime and a vendor will no longer be marketing, selling, or sustaining a particular product and may also be limiting or ending support for the product. In the specific case of product sales, the term end-of-sale (EOS) has also been used. The term lifetime, after the last production date, depends on the product and is related to a customer's expected product lifetime. Different lifetime examples include toys from fast food chains (weeks or months), cars (10 years), and mobile phones (3 years).\nDiceware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDiceware is a method for creating passphrases, passwords, and other cryptographic variables using an ordinary die from a pair of dice as a hardware random number generator. For each word in the passphrase, five rolls of the die are required. The numbers from 1 to 6 that come up in the rolls are assembled as a five digit number, e.g. 43146. That number is then used to look up a word in a word list. In the English list 43146 corresponds to munch.\n[PHOTO] kung fu grippe - \"Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley in _Alien_ - Riddley Scott 1979\"Sigourney Weaver in…uhhhhh…_a space helmet_. \n\nReally very special.\n[VIDEO] Merlin Mann - \"Steampunk DIY\"As you may know, I'm an ardent fan of \"steampunk.\" Here's a DIY project I recently completed.\n\nDr. Nick (The Simpsons) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDr. Nick Riviera, usually referred to as Dr. Nick, is a recurring fictional character in the American animated sitcom The Simpsons. He is voiced by Hank Azaria, and first appeared in the episode \"Bart Gets Hit by a Car\". Dr. Nick is an inept quack physician, and a satire of incompetent medical professionals. Dr. Nick is known for his exclamation of \"Hi, everybody!\" upon entering a scene, which is immediately followed by the other characters present with, \"Hi, Dr. Nick!\", with one exception: in \"Who Shot Mr. Burns?\", Mr. Burns replies with \"Ho, mersimp son!\", but with the same inflection as the usual greeting.\n\nPain & Gain (2013)A trio of bodybuilders in Florida get caught up in an extortion ring and a kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong. \nThis week's episode of Back to Work is kindly sponsored by Shutterstock (use code \"BACKTOWORK4\" for 30% off).","content_html":"TOPIC: Fixing the Culture of Meetings
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin address the problems with meetings, and how we can each choose to improve them.
\n\nTen quick ideas?
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TOPIC: Quicksilver and the OS X App Launcher Landscape
\n\nThis week, Dan triumphantly returns from two weeks of crippling illness. So, the boys ease their way back into the groove with a grab bag of great follow-up, some Adventure Time talk, and a longer discussion of popular OS X App launchers, including Quicksilver 1.0, LaunchBar, and Alfred 2.
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TOPIC: Drafts for iOS, and Who You Want to Be
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin cover two very different topics.
\n\nFirst, there's a detailed discussion of one of Merlin's favorite iOS apps, Drafts, including a deep dive on the app's extraordinary interactions with everything from Twitter to calendars to Dropbox.
\n\nSecond, Dan and Merlin have an A-plus conversation on the hardest question you’ll ask yourself this week: “Is this who I want to be?”
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TOPIC: Choosing Your Forks.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about some of the deeper and more slippery issues behind changes in our career and life.
\n\nIn particular, how do we go from a vague tickle to that feeling of full-blown intolerability that can end up driving a change? Are we looking backward at what we should be doing as we slavishly catalog our many petty aggrievements? Or, do we take two giant steps back and apply a cooler eye to what we really want to do next?
\n\nEven before we find our forks in the road, how can we know a big decision might or should be coming our way? And, how do we stay current on that never-ending need to accept and plan for the changes we never could have anticipated?
\n\nIt's tough at 23, it's super-hard at 30, and, brother, is it ever murder at 50.
\n\nSure, it's a little fruity, but, yeah: you need to write the story you really want to live. Rather than just cobbling together a flattering post-mortem on how you magically ended up where you are.
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BACKTOWORK3\" for 30% off)CASH\" for an additional 10% off).TOPIC: Memory.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin try to tackle the complexities of memory.
\n\nWhy do we remember things from childhood with unimpeachable detail, but then forget our own phone number or PIN code? How can the same person remember the name of everyone he's ever met, and then space a phone call a couple hours after it was scheduled? Why do we remember and why do we forget?
\n\nUnsurprisingly, few concrete answers appear, but there's plenty of lively conversation on savant syndrome, tactical memory aides, and the precise location of Merlin's pills.
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TOPIC: Stupidity.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin tackle stupidity. And, brother, there sure are a whole lot of flavors of stupid.
\n\nAre we really talking about being clueless, unaware, dumb, absent-minded, or just plain-old ignorant? Because they're actually pretty different animals.
\n\nWhether you're dropping your library book in the mailbox, leaving your iPad at home, following baseless medical advice, or doing whatever Dan did with his garage door (don't worry: the car is fine), it's really helpful to understand where your real problem really lives.
\n\nFrom a tactical standpoint, try some useful failsafes, rituals, and habits. But, at a higher level, learn to develop the curiosity to keep evolving. Stay open to how you might be wrong by always seeking out the smartest person you can find who disagrees with you.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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TOPIC: Not So Much
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin eschew ““topic”” to freely discuss razors, beef, They Might Be Giants, prolapse, Genesis, dogs, Spider-Man (and -Womyn), pretender marteenies, truck butt, the lonely plaster casts of our youth, blind harmonicists, those awesome blue IKEA bags, ceviche, E.L.O., Goldenberg's Peanut Chews, bumping, hypoglycemia, how Merlin named his daughter, Hyman Roth, endive, and, of course, The Big Lebowski.
\n\nThen, they go and blow it all by unintentionally having a really useful discussion about Merlin's three key elements of optimal and sustainable workflows.
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TOPIC: Shaving a Yak
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about The Hierarchy of Fiddling. When does self-improvement silently shade into navel-gazing, and how do we realize that it's happening?
\n\nSome fixes mean applying a fast change that produces outsized results (a true \"life hack\"). But, most of our more circuitous excursions into the world of ““productivity”” lead straight into a recursive black hole of lost time, sheer frustration, and soul-sucking existential onanism (let's call that one a \"life whack\").
\n\nLearn how to live with your dirty debit card, just satisfice with your dish-washing skills, and quit trying to solve non-problems with non-solutions.
\n\nYes, learn the key commands, but, don't feel like you need to learn all the key commands. Iterate with mindful sanity.
\n\nAnd, like it says on the tin: always focus on how you'll get back to work.
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\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about compression. What happens when we don't account for how long something really takes to do? And, worse still, what if we don't think about what has to happen before we can even start it?
\n\nIf you find you're stressed-out, over-scheduled, under-resourced—and not particularly loving the things you're making—there's a pretty good chance you've become a victim of your own compression.
\n\nAcknowledge and understand the problem, and then learn how to avoid the classic pitfalls by falling in love with your calendar all over again.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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\n\n5BY5\" at checkout and receive 50% off your first month)BENDIS\" for an additional 10% off)TOPIC: Duplicates, duplicates, duplicates.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin conclude their discussion of media management by focusing on dealing with duplicates. Just so many duplicates.
\n\nMusic, Photos, Contacts, and Finder files. It's all thorny business, but a canny combination of backup, cool apps, and paranoid discretion can make your digital life more manageable and fun.
\n\nAlso, some handy tips on sharing files, hosting media, and finding a digital home for your comic collection.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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TOPIC: Cool stuff Merlin loves.
\n\nThis week, Merlin is delirious and may be in a fugue state, so he and Dan talk about a bunch of cool apps and gadgets--stuff that Merlin likes and really recommends.
\n\nSpecial attention goes to Drafts for iOS, the Logitech K760 Bluetooth keyboard, Verbatim's Tuff 'n Tiny USB drive, Cortex Camera for iOS, Cobook Address Book, with many more suggestions along the way, including handy tips based on how Merlin uses each.
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TOPIC: Modern Media Management: Metadata and Smart Playlists
\n\nThis week Dan and Merlin continue their 3-part series on Modern Media Management: handling your iTunes Library, iOS Devices, and iTunes Match without making yourself crazy.
\n\nIn this episode, the focus is on fixing audio metadata, with a big discussion of the awesome MusicBrainz and Picard.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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TOPIC: Modern Media Management: iTunes Match
\n\nThis week Dan and Merlin begin a 3-part series on Modern Media Management: handling your iTunes Library, iOS Devices, and iTunes Match without making yourself crazy.
\n\nIn this episode, they cover setting up and using iTunes Match, being safe and paranoid, what to do after you get the iTunes ping, some smart playlists that will help you exclude kwanzaa music, find stuff you don't want to listen to, and maintain your sanity.
\n\nNext episode they'll discuss wrangling metadata and smart playlists. Then in the last episode of the series, they'll cover managing the libraries on your devices and some grab bag stuff.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
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TOPIC: Creative Costumes vs. Pushing Out Product
\n\nThis week Dan and Merlin talk about how the legends and mythologies around creative people and beautiful losers can become such a destructive MacGuffin for us aspiring civilians.
\n\nGetting gakked out on Hunter S. Thompson's cocaine and buying Sylvia Plath's oven are unlikely to take you anyplace useful, interesting, or…creative.
\n\nAlso: \"BRIANMICHAELBENDIS!\"
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TOPIC: Those New Years When We're Not Actually Resolved.
\n\nThis week, Merlin and Dan step back from resolutions and shooting yourself in the face with a wrist rocket to talk about what you're actually trying to change.
\n\nYou're failing and feeling bad and eating a whole bag of cookies because you're resolving to be someone you're not (yet). What are you really trying to address? Are you being honest with yourself? Where do you actually start?
\n\nFind the real reasons, build a real infrastructure, and build yourself a real habit.
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TOPIC: Yes. The caller is there.
\n\nThis week, in celebration of their hundredth episode, Dan and Merlin do the first call-in episode of Back to Work.
\n\nA bevy of the beloved jackals and nerds ask questions about GTD, creative autonomy, sleep and energy, interpersonal work communications, moving up at work, self-publishing, finding your rabbi, Marines, X-Men, and more.
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TOPIC: Troubleshooting for Saner GTD
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin wrap up their epic summer crossover series on David Allen's book Getting Things Done, focusing on the trouble spots, hang-ups, and occasional rat holes that people often encounter in implementing and maintaining their GTD system.
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\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin continue their discussion of David Allen's Getting Things Done system.
\n\nLearning how to leverage GTD's modality to firewall time for guilt-free creative work.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by Ting ($50 off your first device), Squarespace, and The Omni Group.
","summary":"TOPIC: Working \"Getting Things Done\" to stay current, complete, and creative.","date_published":"2012-12-18T16:15:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/0f03daf6-13b4-4b31-b58d-eb93dc719c68.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":46404702,"duration_in_seconds":5765}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/97","title":"Episode 97: Pope of the Office","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/97","content_text":"TOPIC: Using GTD to sanely and intelligently decide what to do, and when, and where.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin continue their discussion of David Allen's Getting Things Done system.\n\nHopping over the basic workflow and setup (you'll definitely need the book for that), this is all about doing—leveraging the horizontal and vertical axes of GTD to intuitively choose exactly the right task at any given moment.\n\nRegardless of interruptions, regardless of unexpected change, and regardless of what you're mindfully not doing.\n\nDavid Allen calls GTD, \"The Art of Stress-Free Productivity,\" and this is the episode where you'll find out how having put this system in place can yield astronomical improvements in how your actual things get done.\n\nAlso included: a teaser for January's \"iTunes management\" series, plus recommendations for the three best comic series Merlin read this week.\n\nLinks for this episode:Getting Things Done - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaGetting Things Done is a book by productivity consultant David Allen that describes the method/procedure that he created with the same title name, often referred to simply as GTD.\nThe Getting Things Done method rests on the idea that a person needs to move tasks out of the mind by recording them externally, so the mind is free from the job of remembering the tasks that need to be completed. One can then concentrate on performing the tasks, instead of remembering.\n\nGetting things done : the art of stress-free productivity (Book, 2001) [WorldCat.org]Trigger List - 43FoldersWikiGettingThingsDone - MineZone WikiAmazon.com: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (9780142000281): David Allen: BooksFrom core principles to proven tricks, Getting Things Done can transform the way you work, showing you how to pick up the pace without wearing yourself down.\n\nGetting started with \"Getting Things Done\" | 43 FoldersDavid Allen, Getting Things Done® and GTD®About GTD | David Allen, Getting Things Done® and GTD®GTD® is the shorthand brand for \"Getting Things Done®,\" the groundbreaking work-life management system by David Allen that provides concrete solutions for transforming overwhelm and uncertainty into an integrated system of stress-free productivity.\n\ngtd workflow map pdf - Google Search[SPONSOR] PDFpen: Mac and iOS - Edit, Sign, and Correct PDFsPDFpen: Mac PDF Editor - Edit, Sign, and Correct PDFs - PDFpen is a powerful Mac PDF editor: add text, images, and signatures to PDFs, make corrections on a PDF, fill out PDF forms, OCR scanned pages.\n[SPONSOR] Hover - domain name and email management made simpleWelcome to Hover. We simplify domain management. Get yourself a great domain name.\n[GTD Series, Part 1] 5by5 | Back to Work #95: She's Five for a Living**TOPIC**: Intro to David Allen's \"Getting Things Done\" \n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin start a long-overdue three-part _storyline_ on David Allen's book, _Getting Things Done_.\n\nHow do you unwad that giant crapball of _stuff_ you call a life? The answer is simple, but it's not so easy. You need a trusted system in which to collect, process, review, and---yes---**do** all the things that matter. \n\n\n\n\n[GTD Series, Part 2] 5by5 | Back to Work #96: Compensatory MusclesTOPIC: A Better System for Dealing with Life’s “Stuff”\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin continue their discussion of David Allen’s book, Getting Things Done.\n\nPDFPen - Signing a PDF on iOSIndispensable.\nMatt Killmon (killmoms) on TwitterThe very generous gifter of Merlin's \"67 Points of Articulation\" Spider-Man.\n[AUDIO] Productive Talk Compilation: 8-episode podcast with GTD's David Allen | 43 FoldersAs promised, here's the single-file compilation of the Productive Talk podcast interviews I did with David Allen, the author of Getting Things Done. The final version's eight episodes clock in at a considerable one hour and twenty-six minutes, so this should give you plenty to listen to while you're in line at the DMV.\nMoon Knight, Vol. 1: Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev: 9780785151708: Amazon.com: BooksSaga, Vol. 1: Brian K Vaughan, Fiona Staples: 9781607066019: Amazon.com: BooksUltimate Comics Spider-Man, Vol. 1: Brian Michael Bendis, Sara Pichelli: 9780785157137: Amazon.com: BooksUltimate Comics Spider-Man, Vol. 2: Brian Michael Bendis, Chris Samnee, Sara Pichelli, David Marquez: 9780785157144: Amazon.com: Books[SPONSOR] Build a Website - Squarespace 6\nSquarespace is the easiest way for anyone to create an exceptional website. Pages, galleries, blogs, domains, hosting, analytics, 24/7 support - all included.\nX-Men: God Loves, Man Kills: Chris Claremont, Brent Anderson: 9780785157267: Amazon.com: BooksWolverine: Weapon X: Barry Windsor-Smith: 9780785137269: Amazon.com: BooksSecret War: Brian Michael Bendis, Gabriele Dell'Otto: 9780785142287: Amazon.com: BooksScarlet, Book 1: Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev: 9780785152514: Amazon.com: BooksX-Men: Days of Future Past: Chris Claremont, John Byrne: 9780785164531: Amazon.com: BooksSpider-Man: The Complete Clone Saga Epic, Book 1: Tom DeFalco, J. M. Dematteis, Terry Kavanagh, Howard Mackie, Tom Lyle, Liam Sharp, Sal Buscema, John Romita Jr., Phil Gosier, Tom Palmer, Steven Butler, Ron Lim, Mark Bagley: 9780785144625: Amazon.com: BooCaptain America: The First Avenger (2011) - IMDbAfter being deemed unfit for military service, Steve Rogers volunteers for a top secret research project that turns him into Captain America, a superhero dedicated to defending USA ideals.\nSaga Digital Comics - Comics by comiXologyY: THE LAST MAN writer BRIAN K. VAUGHAN returns to comics with red-hot artist FIONA STAPLES for an all-new ONGOING SERIES! Star Wars-style action collides with Game of Thrones-esque drama in this original sci-fi/fantasy epic for mature readers, as new parents Marko and Alana risk everything to raise their child amidst a never-ending galactic war. The adventure begins in a spectacular DOUBLE-SIZED FIRST ISSUE!\nThe Dark Knight Rises (2012) - IMDbEight years on, a new terrorist leader, Bane, overwhelms Gotham's finest, and the Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy.\nX-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) - IMDbThe X-Men must travel in time to change a major historical event that could globally impact on man and mutant kind.\nkung fu grippe - Looking really surprisingly goodEspecially for someone who’s been stuck living in Bane’s wrecked, nightmarish, and amenity-constrained Gotham City for five months.\n\nSo.\n\nUltimate Fantastic Four Vol. 1: The Fantastic: Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Millar, Adam Kubert, John Dell, Danny Miki: 9780785113935: Amazon.com: BooksX-Men: Season One: Dennis Hopeless, Jamie McKelvie: 9780785156451: Amazon.com: BooksFantastic Four: Season One: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, David Marquez: 9780785156413: Amazon.com: BooksAmazon.com: Spider-Man: Season One (9780785158202): Cullen Bunn, Neil Edwards: BooksSecret War: Brian Michael Bendis, Gabriele Dell'Otto: 9780785142287: Amazon.com: BooksDaredevil by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev Omnibus, Vol. 1: Brian Michael Bendis, Lee Weeks, David Mack, Alex Maleev, Manuel Gutierrez, Terry Dodson, Gene Colan, Klaus Janson, John Romita, Joe Quesada: 9780785131120: Amazon.com: BooksAn epic of ambition, betrayal, and comeuppance culminates with the world learning the devil's mask hides a pair of blind eyes! The hero of Hell's Kitchen is assailed as both civilian and super hero by a wave of his worst enemies - including the Owl, Mister Hyde, Bullseye, Typhoid, and the Kingpin of Crime! But it's the heart of the Man Without Fear that gets the real workout with not only the introduction of Milla Donovan - but also the Black Widow, Elektra, and Echo! Who? Echo! Plus: the mystery of Leap-Frog and the trial of the White Tiger! Also featuring Luke Cage and Iron Fist, Jessica Jones, and enough other guest-stars to fill a jury box! Collects Daredevil \nAlex Ross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAlex Maleev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHe first teamed with Bendis on Todd McFarlane's Sam and Twitch series in 2000-2001 before they were recruited for Daredevil. In 2006, Maleev finished his run with Bendis in Daredevil and planned a collaboration with the writer on a new ongoing Spider-Woman series. Bendis and Maleev collaborated once again on the much delayed four part Halo: Uprising miniseries from Marvel Comics. Bendis and Maleev are currently working on a creator owned comic book named Scarlet and on Moon Knight Vol. 4.[2]\nBrian Michael Bendis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBrian Michael Bendis (born August 18, 1967) is an American comic book writer and former artist. He has won critical acclaim (including five Eisner Awards) for his self-published, Image Comics and Marvel Comics work.\nBENDIS! [Tumblr site by Brian Michael Bendis]OmniFocus for Mac - The Omni GroupOmniFocus for iPhone - The Omni GroupnvALT 2.1 - Notational Velocity ForkDrafts for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad on the iTunes App StoreNebulous NotesEpicenter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe epicenter or epicentre is the point on the Earth's surface that is directly above the hypocenter or focus, the point where an earthquake or underground explosion originates. The word derives from the New Latin noun epicentrum, the latinisation of the ancient Greek adjective (epikentros), \"occupying a cardinal point, situated on a centre\", from (epi) \"on, upon, at\" and (kentron) \"centre\".\n\nBaldwin's BeansBaldwin's Beans is a small operation. So small, in fact, that I roast each bag of coffee beans you order, one at a time. I'm picky about my coffee, and you should be, too. I'm in Columbus, Indiana, a town of about 40,000 people with two Starbucks locations and exactly zero options for fresh, locally produced coffee, so I took matters into my own hands and started doing it myself.\n\nJaime Sommers (The Bionic Woman) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBorn in 1949, Jaime is the daughter of James and Ann Sommers. Jaime was raised in Ojai, California, and she showed high potential in the sport of tennis\nEstelle Getty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDoug's AppleScripts for iTunes - dougscripts.comDownload 444 (and counting) free user-contributed AppleScripts for Apple's iTunes that will help make managing your digital music collection easier and more fun!\n\nA Therapeutic Dose of Imodium - The Talk Show - Mule Radio SyndicateVery special guest Merlin Mann joins John Gruber to talk about booze, iTunes 11, and the sorry state of over-the-counter cold medication in the U.S.\n\nMusicBrainz - The Open Music EncyclopediaMusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public.\nMusicBrainz Picard - MusicBrainzMusicBrainz Picard is a cross-platform (Linux/Mac OS X/Windows) application written in Python and is the official MusicBrainz tagger.\n\nRelease group “Revolver” by The Beatles - MusicBrainz5by5 | After Dark #297: After Back to Work #96In which Dan totally schools Merlin on the surprising extent of Spider-Man's powers. \nCollege Level Examination Program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThere are 2,900 colleges which grant CLEP credit. Each institution awards credit to students who meet the college's minimum qualifying score for that exam, which is typically 50, but it does vary by school and exam. The tests are useful for students who have obtained knowledge outside the classroom, such as through independent study, job experience, or cultural interaction.\nEthan SchoonoverEthan Schoonover (ethanschoonover) on TwitterAmazon.com: Puro Caff, 20oz: Kitchen & DiningKobayashi Maru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBeatles Metadata? Fixed! Guru. Productivity... | kung fu grippeSaga #4 So great. | kung fu grippeMoon Knight (2011) Brian Michael Bendis and Alex... | kung fu grippeJean Vander Pyl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[MG01] Good NightTopatoCo: Skullcrusher Mountain ShirtNary a Dude | You Look Nice TodayThis week's episode of Back to Work is very kindly sponsored by Smile's PDFpen, Squarespace, and Hover (use code DANSENTME for 10% off),","content_html":"TOPIC: Using GTD to sanely and intelligently decide what to do, and when, and where.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin continue their discussion of David Allen's Getting Things Done system.
\n\nHopping over the basic workflow and setup (you'll definitely need the book for that), this is all about doing—leveraging the horizontal and vertical axes of GTD to intuitively choose exactly the right task at any given moment.
\n\nRegardless of interruptions, regardless of unexpected change, and regardless of what you're mindfully not doing.
\n\nDavid Allen calls GTD, \"The Art of Stress-Free Productivity,\" and this is the episode where you'll find out how having put this system in place can yield astronomical improvements in how your actual things get done.
\n\nAlso included: a teaser for January's \"iTunes management\" series, plus recommendations for the three best comic series Merlin read this week.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
TOPIC: A Better System for Dealing with Life’s “Stuff”
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin continue their discussion of David Allen’s book, Getting Things Done.
\n\nSo.
\n\nThis week's episode of Back to Work is very kindly sponsored by Smile's PDFpen, Squarespace, and Hover (use code DANSENTME for 10% off),
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\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin continue their discussion of David Allen's book, Getting Things Done.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's Back to Work is sponsored by Studio Neat and Ting.
","summary":"TOPIC: A Better System for Dealing with Life's \"Stuff\"","date_published":"2012-12-04T15:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/49aba614-4f5b-4af9-a0a4-184034eab501.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":48889262,"duration_in_seconds":6076}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/95","title":"Episode 95: She's Five for a Living","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/95","content_text":"TOPIC: Intro to David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” \n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin start a long-overdue three-part storyline on David Allen’s book, Getting Things Done.[1] \n\nHow do you unwad that giant crapball of stuff you call a life? The answer is simple, but it’s not so easy. You need a trusted system in which to collect, process, review, and—yes—do all the things that matter. \n\nGetting Things Done is inarguably one of the best and most influential self-help books of all time for a good reason: it’s a candid, realistic, and painfully honest way to get out of your hole, and then stay out. \n\nThis week, we start with the philosophical and psychological underpinnings of GTD, as well as the myriad and thorny problems it can help you address. \n\nSo, pick up your own copy of GTD, read it through, then join us for a detailed tour of the system that changed Merlin’s game and helped jumpstart his online career. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n©DavidCo, 2001. ↩\n\n\n\n\n\nLinks for this episode:Amazon.com: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (9780142000281): David Allen: BooksGetting started with \"Getting Things Done\" | 43 FoldersGetting Things Done | 43 FoldersDavid Allen, Getting Things Done® and GTD®About GTD | David Allen, Getting Things Done® and GTD®gtd workflow map pdf - Google SearchNew GTD Workflow Map | D*I*Y Planner[IMG] gtd-workflow.jpg (1051×1630)[VIDEO] David Allen: Getting Things Done - YouTube[SPONSOR] Stock Photos and Royalty-Free Images by Subscription - Shutterstock[SPONSOR] Build a Website - Squarespace 6[SPONSOR] Hover - domain name and email management made simpleAmazon.com: Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard K760 for Mac/iPad/iPhone (920-003884): Computers & AccessoriesClarks Desert Boot - Zappos.com Free Shipping BOTH WaysJamie Phelps (jxpx777) on Twitter[BUY THIS!] Jonathan Coulton & John Roderick - \"One Christmas at a Time\"Song Premiere: John Roderick & Jonathan Coulton - \"The Week In Between\" and \"2600\" :: Featured Audio :: Paste5by5 | The Crossover #1: You Just Got Curatedkung fu grippe • Thanks…Bub Special thanks to my pal, emersunn,...Logitech.com – Logitech® Wireless Solar Keyboard K760 for Mac®, iPad® or iPhone®Danny O'Brien (American football) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFolders Stock Photos, Folders Stock Photography, Folders Stock Images : Shutterstock.comWhite Guys Shaking Hands Stock Photos, White Guys Shaking Hands Stock Photography, White Guys Shaking Hands Stock Images : Shutterstock.comEp. 25: \"Super Train\" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mannchown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaUNIX permissions5by5 | The Talk Show #57: The Banana Window5by5 | Back to Work #49: The Field of CompletionAdmixture | Define Admixture at Dictionary.comComicBookLoverGetting Things Done - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaGetting things done : the art of stress-free productivity (Book, 2001) [WorldCat.org]ISBN.NU: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free ProductivityComic Book Database Software, organize your comic book collection on Windows or Mac OS XWheel (Unix term) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediawheel - The Jargon File v4.4.7A Confederacy of Dunces - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaA Confederacy of Dunces:Amazon:BooksEggs on the Plate Without the Plate - Salvador Dali's oil paintingEntombed (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaOmniFocus for Mac - The Omni GroupShutterstock (coupon code backtowork11), Hover use the code (dansentme for 10% off), Squarespace (use the code broastedbird for an extra 10% off).","content_html":"TOPIC: Intro to David Allen’s “Getting Things Done”
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin start a long-overdue three-part storyline on David Allen’s book, Getting Things Done.[1]
\n\nHow do you unwad that giant crapball of stuff you call a life? The answer is simple, but it’s not so easy. You need a trusted system in which to collect, process, review, and—yes—do all the things that matter.
\n\nGetting Things Done is inarguably one of the best and most influential self-help books of all time for a good reason: it’s a candid, realistic, and painfully honest way to get out of your hole, and then stay out.
\n\nThis week, we start with the philosophical and psychological underpinnings of GTD, as well as the myriad and thorny problems it can help you address.
\n\nSo, pick up your own copy of GTD, read it through, then join us for a detailed tour of the system that changed Merlin’s game and helped jumpstart his online career.
\n\n©DavidCo, 2001. ↩
\nLinks for this episode:
Shutterstock (coupon code backtowork11), Hover use the code (dansentme for 10% off), Squarespace (use the code broastedbird for an extra 10% off).
TOPIC: How to be a proper list-maker
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin discuss the pros and cons of lighting your environment properly, how we fall into bad list making habits and how to solve these issues. Also, Merlin makes some sounds for your enjoyment.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Shutterstock (use code \"dansentme10\" for 30% off), Ting ($50 off your first device for Back to Work listeners), and Squarespace (use code \"broastedbird\" for 10% off).
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\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin continue their purging personal odyssey through the state of Florida. Isolation, education, and a parting admonition not to throw your cap in the air.
\n\nAlso, for the comic nerds, Merlin recommends checking out the exciting new stuff happening with \"Marvel NOW!\"
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's Back to Work is sponsored by Shutterstock (use code \"backtowork11\" for 30% off), Hover (10% off for Back to Work listeners), and Smile's TextExpander.
","summary":"TOPIC: Florida, Education, and Peaking","date_published":"2012-11-13T16:15:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/c38b8e44-8c99-4388-9fdd-8c96037aa3d5.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":46402619,"duration_in_seconds":5765}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/92","title":"Episode 92: The Florida Episode","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/92","content_text":"TOPIC: Florida.\n\nHinted at since Episode 1—and repeatedly threatened nearly every week since—here, at last: The Florida Episode.\n\nThe heat, the driving, the isolation, the driving, the white driveways, the early-bird specials, the menacing parking-lot violence, the driving, the people, the stop lights, the gates, the urology clinics, the driving, the short pants, the driving, and much MUCH more.\n\nIn part one of what will surely be an epic, multi-episode arc, Dan and Merlin finally start coming to terms with their undistinguished youths in the Sunshine State.\n\nLinks for this episode:Google MapsPublix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaWinn-Dixie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFlorida Stock Photos, Florida Stock Photography, Florida Stock Images : Shutterstock.comLaissez-faire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaLittle Boxes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaNew Google Search App With Siri-Like Voice Responses Finally Approved For iOSGuayabera - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaEdward Scissorhands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFlorida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaGulf High SchoolNew College of Florida - Florida's Public Honors College for the Liberal Arts and Sciences - New College of FloridaElfers, Florida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPensacola, FL to Key West, FL - Google Maps (a 13-hour drive)1987 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! (Merlin's in New College's Palm Court)[SPONSOR] Ting - Mobile That Makes Sense[SPONSOR] Stock Photos | Shutterstock: Royalty-Free Subscription Stock Photography & Vector ArtSantería - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaShutterstock (use code \"dansentme10\" for 30% off) and Ting ($50 off your first device for Back to Work listeners).","content_html":"TOPIC: Florida.
\n\nHinted at since Episode 1—and repeatedly threatened nearly every week since—here, at last: The Florida Episode.
\n\nThe heat, the driving, the isolation, the driving, the white driveways, the early-bird specials, the menacing parking-lot violence, the driving, the people, the stop lights, the gates, the urology clinics, the driving, the short pants, the driving, and much MUCH more.
\n\nIn part one of what will surely be an epic, multi-episode arc, Dan and Merlin finally start coming to terms with their undistinguished youths in the Sunshine State.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Shutterstock (use code \"dansentme10\" for 30% off) and Ting ($50 off your first device for Back to Work listeners).
","summary":"TOPIC: Florida.","date_published":"2012-11-06T21:15:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/335fe25c-eb09-4bf5-a9cc-bfed411018d3.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":37860363,"duration_in_seconds":4697}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/91","title":"Episode 91: Compiling Stallman From Source","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/91","content_text":"TOPIC: The tech you want, and the tech you can live with.\n\nOn our second Last Show Ever™, Merlin and Dan talk about parenting, Gatsby hats, note taking and sharing, the Techno-Organic virus, and more.\n\nLinks for this episode:kung fu grippe • Features: Our Gatsby Summer Afternoon - Nested...Our Gatsby Group | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Mr. Mann & the Girls | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Techno-organic virus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaWarlock (New Mutants) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSnapseed | Snap it. Tweak it. Love it. Share it.Nebulous NotesSponsored by Squarespace and Hover. Use code \"DANSENTME\" for 10% off.","content_html":"TOPIC: The tech you want, and the tech you can live with.
\n\nOn our second Last Show Ever™, Merlin and Dan talk about parenting, Gatsby hats, note taking and sharing, the Techno-Organic virus, and more.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Squarespace and Hover. Use code \"DANSENTME\" for 10% off.
","summary":"TOPIC: The tech you want, and the tech you can live with.","date_published":"2012-10-30T11:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/698d2405-3f82-4bab-a77c-110c0d21b2cc.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":34261122,"duration_in_seconds":4247}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/90","title":"Episode 90: Quit!™","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/90","content_text":"TOPIC: Sleep and How to Get It\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about sleep—why we need it, why most of us don't get enough of it, and why we all strain to find a million excuses for perpetually walking around like a sad zombie.\n\nChock-a-block with painful personal anecdotes, horrible cautionary tales, and scary hand-waving about Recent Medical Science, your hosts make their best case for taking your own sleep more seriously. Now.\n\nAlso, loaded with tips on how to sleep better, with a heavy emphasis on a wonderful iOS app called, \"Sleep Cycle.\"\n\nPretty good for our last episode. (Guys, we were kidding! KIDDING!)\n\nLinks for this episode:Turn your iPhone into a cough button - Brett TerpstraMonte Cristo sandwich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSleep Cycle alarm clockf.lux: software to make your life betterDan Benjamin vs Sarlacc PitThe Walking Dead,Book One (Book 1): Robert Kirkman,Tony Moore,Charlie Adlard,Cliff Rathburn: 9781582406190: Amazon.com: BooksMarvel Now | Comics | Marvel.comWatchmen: Alan Moore,Dave Gibbons: 9780930289232: Amazon.com: Bookskung fu grippe • \"Watchmen\" Credit Shotkung fu grippe - \"Continuity Stickler\"The Mattress Scam | How to Buy a MattressCat Power - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPodcast Survivor: Back to Work #88 - So Many Reasons To Cry | Radio SurvivorFalling Down (1993)Blue Dog Coalition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaNaming convention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaIcelandic name - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaNetwork Naming SchemesStudio Neat — CosmonautThe Employee's Guide to Reduction in ForceHarvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta [1997] - I'm Not Sick But I'm Not Well! - YouTubeDeadpool - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaM. Emmet Walsh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - \"no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.\"How Lack of Sleep Is Killing You - National - The Atlantic WireYou Can't Do Your Job if You Don't Sleep - Tony Schwartz - Harvard Business ReviewSleep - RadiolabInternal Time: The Science of Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired | Brain PickingsHow Little Sleep Can You Get Away With? - NYTimes.comBBC News - The myth of the eight-hour sleepSleep, Sleep, Sleep! How artificial lighting and cortisol impact zzz’sNew 'Light' On Fascinating Rhythms Of Circadian ClockHow to Naturally Reset Your Sleep Cycle in One Night | Wise BreadThe Truth About Sleep & Productivity | Inc.comIn Which We Sleepwalk At Our Convenience - Home - This Recording'Power naps' may boost right-brain activity - CNN.comRethinking Sleep - NYTimes.comNeuroLogica Blog » Sleep and WeightDan’s Plan | Eat Move Sleep Blog | Social jet-lag: The difference between the social clock and the biological clockSales engineering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Silence of the Lambs (1991)Heaven and Hell in Jewish Tradition - My Jewish LearningOrange & Green | Flickr - Photo Sharing! [Merlin at 190 lbs.]Pinboard: bookmarks for merlinmann tagged 'eatsleeplove' [Merlin's eating & sleeping bookmarks]Twitter / hotdogsladies: “Oh! Were you noticing my ...A Love Supreme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediafamily circus not me - Google SearchWalter Hudson (1944–1991) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThis week's episode of Back to Work is kindly sponsored by Ting.","content_html":"TOPIC: Sleep and How to Get It
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about sleep—why we need it, why most of us don't get enough of it, and why we all strain to find a million excuses for perpetually walking around like a sad zombie.
\n\nChock-a-block with painful personal anecdotes, horrible cautionary tales, and scary hand-waving about Recent Medical Science, your hosts make their best case for taking your own sleep more seriously. Now.
\n\nAlso, loaded with tips on how to sleep better, with a heavy emphasis on a wonderful iOS app called, \"Sleep Cycle.\"
\n\nPretty good for our last episode. (Guys, we were kidding! KIDDING!)
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is kindly sponsored by Ting.
","summary":"TOPIC: Sleep and How to Get It","date_published":"2012-10-23T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/adc6df40-2702-4812-92cd-72c6295ac96e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":41243108,"duration_in_seconds":5120}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/89","title":"Episode 89: Burlap Sack Full of Oranges","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/89","content_text":"TOPIC: Programming Your Kid's Danger Room.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin discuss the parenthood racket: the advice and expectations, the doubt and the fear, the assessment, the concentric circles, the snow cones.\n\nParenting means programming a Danger Room that teaches you and the kid to handle the hovering, the hitting, the losing, and the play structure.\n\nLinks for this episode:Shmuel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe name is Bond. | Flickr - Photo Sharing!At the playground (ya know?)Hippie | Flickr - Photo Sharing!The Author at Work | Flickr - Photo Sharing![SPONSOR] iOS Engineering - Mutual Mobile[SPONSOR] Build a Website - Squarespace 6[SPONSOR] Stock Photos and Royalty-Free Images by Subscription - Shutterstock[SPONSOR] Hover - domain name and email management made simpleEp. 51: \"In Pursuit of an Errant Leaf\" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin MannTwitter / danbenjamin: GF dining in NYC at L'Asso ...Hop 'n Play Kids Indoor Playground in Tanforan Shopping Center (San Bruno, CA)\"The Shining\" - Production Script5by5 | Build and Analyze #99: The Podcast5by5 | Hypercritical #89: Lazy SundayDanger Room - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDanger Room - Marvel Universe Wiki: The definitive online source for Marvel super hero bios.x-men \"danger room\" - Google Image SearchFiddler on the Roof - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaGlengarry Glen Ross speech - YouTubeThis week's episode of Back to Work is kindly sponsored by Hover, Mutual Mobile, Shutterstock, and Squarespace.","content_html":"TOPIC: Programming Your Kid's Danger Room.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin discuss the parenthood racket: the advice and expectations, the doubt and the fear, the assessment, the concentric circles, the snow cones.
\n\nParenting means programming a Danger Room that teaches you and the kid to handle the hovering, the hitting, the losing, and the play structure.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is kindly sponsored by Hover, Mutual Mobile, Shutterstock, and Squarespace.
","summary":"TOPIC: Programming Your Kid's Danger Room.","date_published":"2012-10-16T13:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/0325be22-4d1f-4c74-a29b-fe01ffdb9797.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":44047007,"duration_in_seconds":5470}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/88","title":"Episode 88: So Many Reasons to Cry","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/88","content_text":"TOPIC: Finding Grit.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin return to a popular topic from last week: grit.\n\nWhy is it we stick with some things but totally abandon so many others? Why'd Merlin give up on learning \"Little Brown Jug\" on the trombone, then double-down on nailing \"Pinball Wizard\" on guitar? How come Dan got so good at programming, but can't kick a damned football to save his life? Is there a framework for understanding why we remember hit points, don't travel, can't draw, and forget why every good boy deserves fudge?\n\nAlong the way, Merlin accidentally—grudgingly—reveals that he actually knows things about sportsball, Dan breaks down the exhilarating rewards of immediate feedback, and both hosts wonder how Mariano Rivera can keep his cool after giving up a two-run homer.\n\nAlso, there's a pseudo-interesting rathole on why Merlin may or may not start spending more time with App.net.\n\nLinks for this episode:New Squarespace 6 Template: DovetailNew Squarespace 6 Template: FiveCharacter Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification: Christopher Peterson,Martin Seligman: 9780195167016: Amazon.com: BooksSalad days - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaYour Nice New OutfitJeff Dee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFive rejected names for Austin BBQ restaurants | 5ivesRe-Creating my Art from S3: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks by Jeff Dee — KickstarterHoratio Alger, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMariano Rivera - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaChateaubriand steak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaGiant-Size X-MannNew X-Men,Vol. 1: Grant Morrison,Frank Quitely,Ethan Van Sciver,Leinil Francis Yu,Igor Kordey,Tom Derenick: 9780785132516: Amazon.com: BooksJason Sweeney (sween) on Twitterrob corddry (robcorddry) on Twitterhotdogsladies on App.net[video] The Simpsons - \"I Have A Ham Radio\"Amazon.com: I Can Do That Games Curious George Hide and Seek Zoo: Toys & Games[SPONSOR] Smile Software[SPONSOR] Shutterstock[SPONSOR] SquarespaceOscar Wilde's 1895 MartyrdomLittle Brown Jug (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDrawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive,4th Edition: Betty Edwards: 9781585429202: Amazon.com: BooksDreyfus model of skill acquisition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMoonrise Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDeus ex machina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThis week's episode of Back to Work is kindly sponsored by Smile Software, Shutterstock and Squarespace.","content_html":"TOPIC: Finding Grit.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin return to a popular topic from last week: grit.
\n\nWhy is it we stick with some things but totally abandon so many others? Why'd Merlin give up on learning \"Little Brown Jug\" on the trombone, then double-down on nailing \"Pinball Wizard\" on guitar? How come Dan got so good at programming, but can't kick a damned football to save his life? Is there a framework for understanding why we remember hit points, don't travel, can't draw, and forget why every good boy deserves fudge?
\n\nAlong the way, Merlin accidentally—grudgingly—reveals that he actually knows things about sportsball, Dan breaks down the exhilarating rewards of immediate feedback, and both hosts wonder how Mariano Rivera can keep his cool after giving up a two-run homer.
\n\nAlso, there's a pseudo-interesting rathole on why Merlin may or may not start spending more time with App.net.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is kindly sponsored by Smile Software, Shutterstock and Squarespace.
","summary":"TOPIC: Finding Grit.","date_published":"2012-10-09T09:30:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/e9bfea1c-99d8-4bd8-865a-5e4ce4224033.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":53563933,"duration_in_seconds":6660}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/87","title":"Episode 87: Nothing to Declare But My Coconuts","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/87","content_text":"TOPIC: Grit, Confidence, and Intuition.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin begin a conversation on what researchers and educators are learning about why students of all ages do or don't succeed. Yes, it's about intelligence and other cognitive skills, but it's also about tenacity, courage, self-restraint, and resolve.\n\nIt's really about grit.\n\nSee our show notes for lots of links to the stuff that inspired our topic, but definitely tune in for Merlin's slight addendum to the formula: mixing in our growing confidence in our own intuition.\n\nLinks for this episode:Back to School | This American LifeWhat if the Secret to Success Is Failure? - NYTimes.comkung fu grippe • [MP3] Back to School | This American Life ...TwitterHow Children Succeed: Grit,Curiosity,and the Hidden Power of Character: Paul Tough: 9780547564654: Amazon.com: BooksPaul Tough - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaWhat Makes a Good Teacher? - NYTimes.com‘How Children Succeed,’ by Paul Tough - NYTimes.comAmazon.com: Seven (Single Disc Edition): Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, John C. McGinley, Darius Khondji, David Fincher, Arnold Kopelson, Phyllis Carlyle, Gianni Nunnari, Dan Kolsrud, Anne Kopelson, Andrew Kevin Walker: Movies & TVAmazon.com: Seven: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, John C. McGinley: Amazon Instant VideoGeneral Educational Development - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaGrit (personality trait) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaTeams - Back to WorkEXCLUSIVE - Waffle House grill cook cheat sheet | Flickr - Photo Sharing!The J-Walk Blog: Waffle House Code Cracked[SPONSOR] Igloo Software (Check out our **amazing** \"Back to Work\" community)Grit, character and academic success: thoughtlessness, part 3 « Granted, but…Response: An Interview With Paul Tough On Character & Schools - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo - Education Week Teacher'Children Succeed' With Character, Not Test Scores : NPRHow Children Succeed book excerpt: What the most boring test in the world tells us about motivation and IQ. - Slate MagazineWhy kids need to fail to succeed in school - The Globe and MailThe Future of Self-Improvement, Part I: Grit Is More Important Than Talent :: Articles :: 99UThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde - Project GutenbergLady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde - Project GutenbergThe Importance of Being Earnest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaI have nothing to declare but my geniusSleep Cycle Alarm Clock for iOSYour Nice New OutfitYour Nice New Outfit: ArchiveYour Nice New Outfit | Jean 1977Your Nice New Outfit | Kitty and LockheedGiant-Size X-MannMonday is D day for bags, a dime apiece - SFGatefastball special - Google SearchFastball Special - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDock Ellis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSe7en (1995) - IMDbAggressive S.F. panhandlers, tourist complaints up - SFGateOscar Wilde's 1895 MartyrdomYour Nice New OutfitYummy, Yummy X-Men | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Structured ProcrastinationHere's The Thing: Chris Rock - WNYCThis week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by Igloo Software. Check out our amazing B2W community site!","content_html":"TOPIC: Grit, Confidence, and Intuition.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin begin a conversation on what researchers and educators are learning about why students of all ages do or don't succeed. Yes, it's about intelligence and other cognitive skills, but it's also about tenacity, courage, self-restraint, and resolve.
\n\nIt's really about grit.
\n\nSee our show notes for lots of links to the stuff that inspired our topic, but definitely tune in for Merlin's slight addendum to the formula: mixing in our growing confidence in our own intuition.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by Igloo Software. Check out our amazing B2W community site!
","summary":"TOPIC: Grit, Confidence, and Intuition. ","date_published":"2012-10-02T14:30:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/20617453-4479-4e24-8f6f-6a30f726cafc.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":44108454,"duration_in_seconds":5478}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/86","title":"Episode 86: The Talmud of Claremont","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/86","content_text":"TOPIC: Anxious about the Change\n\nThis week Merlin updates Dan about his schedule changes. They're going to come, but it's probably the anxiety, not the change, that is the problem. Take heart, it may be the change that you need.\n\nWhile you're at it, take the opportunity to plan your buffers and ramp up times. Your schedule will work better, your vacation may be less stressful, your pie will stay alive.\n\nBonus: Dan and Merlin's comic book recommendations for new readers.\n\nLinks for this episode:Squarespace Service Updates - Service BlogSquarespace Developer CenterHome - Back to WorkWiki - Back to Workkung fu grippe • Just in terms of a little background. Catching...Now, don't take this the wrong way...Back to School | This American LifeWhat if the Secret to Success Is Failure? - NYTimes.comFeedburner, Reader and Google's PrioritiesAstonishing X-Men Vol. 1: Gifted: Joss Whedon,John Cassaday: 9780785115311: Amazon.com: BooksAstonishing X-Men Vol. 1: Gifted - Comics by comiXologyMerlin’s Squarespace 6 Blog — Merlin MannManage your Video Collection with iTunes | iFlicksTMDb — The Movie DatabaseOnline TV Database - An open directory of television shows for HTPC softwareBENDIS!High-fructose corn syrup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaTwitter / pablosquirrel: @hotdogsladies @danbenjamin ...kung fu grippe • [MP3] Back to School | This American Life ...As Children’s Freedom Has Declined, So Has Their Creativity | Psychology TodayManage your Video Collection with iTunes | iFlicksMaker's Schedule, Manager's ScheduleAmerican Vampire Vol. 1: Scott Snyder,Stephen King,Rafael Albuquereque: 9781401229740: Amazon.com: BooksAmerican Vampire Vol. 2: Scott Snyder,Rafael Albuquereque: 9781401230708: Amazon.com: BooksAmerican Vampire Vol. 3: Scott Snyder,Rafael Albuquereque: 9781401233334: Amazon.com: BooksAmerican Vampire Vol. 4: Scott Snyder,Rafael Albuquereque: 9781401237189: Amazon.com: BooksScott Snyder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaComic Book DB - The Comic Book Database[SPONSOR] Squarespace (10% off with offer code, \"`dingus`\") [SPONSOR] Shutterstock [SPONSOR] Igloo Software (Check out the amazing \"Back to Work\" community)Nominate the ONE comic for a new comic nerd. - Back to WorkTwitter / hotdogsladies: Just for reference, the connector ...The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)Caddyshack (1980) - Memorable quotesCaddyShack Cinderella Story - YouTubeBinary BonsaiMusicBrainz Picard - MusicBrainzMusicBrainz - The Open Music EncyclopediaAwayFind - Mobile notifications for priority messages. The email management solution for Gmail and Exchange.Guided by Voices - MusicBrainzGrant Shellen: \"It's not a successful @hotdogsladies encounter unless you walk away with an inflammatory index card: instagr.am/p/P95M-7HR74/ \"Amazon.com: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: Nintendo Wii: Video GamesDiscography - Hi, How Are You?Steenbeck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThis week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by Igloo Software, Shutterstock and Squarespace.","content_html":"TOPIC: Anxious about the Change
\n\nThis week Merlin updates Dan about his schedule changes. They're going to come, but it's probably the anxiety, not the change, that is the problem. Take heart, it may be the change that you need.
\n\nWhile you're at it, take the opportunity to plan your buffers and ramp up times. Your schedule will work better, your vacation may be less stressful, your pie will stay alive.
\n\nBonus: Dan and Merlin's comic book recommendations for new readers.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by Igloo Software, Shutterstock and Squarespace.
","summary":"TOPIC: Anxious about the Change","date_published":"2012-09-25T13:15:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/61b2766f-28be-466c-bd27-c6319e371398.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":49492384,"duration_in_seconds":6151}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/85","title":"Episode 85: Schrödinger's Soap Holder","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/85","content_text":"TOPIC: One Operational Paper Towel; One Safety Paper Towel.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin discuss how to use a public restroom.\n\nThere's some other stuff, too. But, yeah. Mostly Dan and Merlin discuss how to use a public restroom.\n\nLinks for this episode:Flickr: The 5by5 PoolRoderick on the Line • Roderick on the Line Ep. 48 Trailer - “Wherever...Twitter / nebulousapps: Just submitted Nebulous Notes ...Nebulous Notes 6.0 Features - Pastebin.comSandwich Videolonelysandwichchit - WiktionaryDyson Airblade™ hand dryerThe Aviator towel scene - YouTubeHoward Hughes - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - YouTubeHow to Use a Public Restroom: 12 steps - wikiHowCleanliness and Hygiene in Public Restrooms - Tork Experts on Designing Spaces - YouTubeBathroom Hygeine Guide, Tips About Bathroom Germs, Bathroom Cleanliness TipPublic toilet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaKick procrastination's ass: Run a dash | 43 FoldersThe Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play: Neil Fiore: 9781585425525: Amazon.com: BooksEat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time: Brian Tracy: 9781576754221: Amazon.com: BooksGetting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity: David Allen: 9780142000281: Amazon.com: BooksGanging your mosquito tasks | 43 FoldersTwitter / hotdogsladies: @velorg Are you a ...Infectious Disease Special Edition - Neckties for Physicians: Rethinking the PracticeExcel Hand Dryer | Hand Dryers | XLERATORAdam Lisagor (lonelysandwich) on TwitterScott Simpson (scottsimpson) on TwitterThis week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by Igloo Software and Shutterstock.","content_html":"TOPIC: One Operational Paper Towel; One Safety Paper Towel.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin discuss how to use a public restroom.
\n\nThere's some other stuff, too. But, yeah. Mostly Dan and Merlin discuss how to use a public restroom.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by Igloo Software and Shutterstock.
","summary":"TOPIC: How to use a public restroom.","date_published":"2012-09-18T12:30:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/d9d58ece-f488-4c79-ba57-33dfda113eb4.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":39776716,"duration_in_seconds":4937}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/84","title":"Episode 84: Every Genie is an Actuary","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/84","content_text":"TOPIC: Superpowers, Madness, and the Pursuit of Interesting Problems\n\nDan and Merlin talk about the superpowers you have and can't control as well as the demons and drivers that our heroes have and can't control. How sometimes we find ourselves craving the screaming in someone else's head. Because, we surely do love and revere our Beautiful Losers and Genius Lunatics.\n\nEntered into evidence: Hunter S. Thompson, The Incredible Hulk, Sylvia Plath, Brian Wilson, Nightcrawler, Van Gogh, Syd Barrett, Tom Waits, Robert Lowell, Howard Hughes, and Corporate Stooges (n.b.: Dan said that; not Merlin).\n\nThe upshot? Try not to get too obsessed with someone else's ether in the convertible or, for that matter, the cake in your own conference room.\n\nGet excited about constantly releasing that \"better version of yourself\"—and make the world a happy beneficiary of your own particular madness.\n\nLinks for this episode:[SPONSOR] PDFpen for iPad: PDF Editing Software for Mac iOSEfficiency Ninja Part 3: A Tablet, a Stylus, a Man, and a Plan | GeekDad | Wired.comHow to Transfer Kids' Activity Books to the iPad (GeekDad Wayback Machine) | GeekDad | Wired.com5by5 | Back to Work #31: You Can Polish AC/DC All Day LongScratching an itch through the scalp to the brain : The New Yorkerkung fu grippe • Way of the future. Way of the future.Amazon.com: The Aviator (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition): Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Willem Dafoe, Stanley DeSantis, Alan Alda, Kelli Garner, Edward Herrmann, Ian Holm, Danny Huston, Jude Law, Frances CoAmazon.com: The Aviator [Blu-ray]: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Stanley de Santis, Sam Hennings, Edward Herrmann, Ian Holm, Vincent Laresca, J.C. MacKenzie, Frances Conroy, Brent Spiner, Alan Alda, DannAmazon.com: The Aviator: Leonardo Dicaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly: Amazon Instant VideoThe Aviator (2004 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHoward Hughes: His Life and Madness: Donald L. Barlett,James B. Steele: 9780393326024: Amazon.com: BooksUltra Man Intro - YouTubeActuary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaALL THAT JAZZ. Show time - YouTube[SPONSOR] Squarespace (10% off with offer code, \"`dingus`\") The Aviator ending scene (\"The way of the FUTURE.\") - YouTubekung fu grippe • “That’s What You Do.” Viz. Ibid. Bless you,...Synecdoche, New York (2008)God Only Knows - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThere Will Be Some Changes Made - YouTubeHell's Angels (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaTom Waits - Rockpalast 1977 02 Invitation To The Blues - YouTubeTom Waits - Invitation to the blues - YouTubeThe Mountain Goats - \"Cubs in Five\"Syd Barrett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRobert Lowell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRal Partha Enterprises - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia5by5 | Mac Power Users #102: Workflows with Jim DalrympleDan at Ultraman-watching AgeThis week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by Smile Software, and Squarespace.\n\nSmile's PDFpen is a powerful Mac PDF editor at an affordable price: add text, images, and signatures, make corrections, fill out forms, edit images, OCR scanned pages and more\n\nSign up for Squarespace today to get an extra 10% off any new account with the offer code \"soold\" (as in, \"Merlin looks sooooooo old!\"). Watch Merlin's new Squarespace 6 site get built in real time (including screencasts) at http://merlinm.com/s6.","content_html":"TOPIC: Superpowers, Madness, and the Pursuit of Interesting Problems
\n\nDan and Merlin talk about the superpowers you have and can't control as well as the demons and drivers that our heroes have and can't control. How sometimes we find ourselves craving the screaming in someone else's head. Because, we surely do love and revere our Beautiful Losers and Genius Lunatics.
\n\nEntered into evidence: Hunter S. Thompson, The Incredible Hulk, Sylvia Plath, Brian Wilson, Nightcrawler, Van Gogh, Syd Barrett, Tom Waits, Robert Lowell, Howard Hughes, and Corporate Stooges (n.b.: Dan said that; not Merlin).
\n\nThe upshot? Try not to get too obsessed with someone else's ether in the convertible or, for that matter, the cake in your own conference room.
\n\nGet excited about constantly releasing that \"better version of yourself\"—and make the world a happy beneficiary of your own particular madness.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by Smile Software, and Squarespace.
\n\nSmile's PDFpen is a powerful Mac PDF editor at an affordable price: add text, images, and signatures, make corrections, fill out forms, edit images, OCR scanned pages and more
\n\nSign up for Squarespace today to get an extra 10% off any new account with the offer code \"soold\" (as in, \"Merlin looks sooooooo old!\"). Watch Merlin's new Squarespace 6 site get built in real time (including screencasts) at http://merlinm.com/s6.
TOPIC: Obsessions, Compulsions, Obsessions, and Compulsions. Also, Obsessions—and Compulsions.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin lick the doorknob five times, tap their heads with their shoes, and ponder the problem of obsessions and compulsions.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by Ting.
","summary":"TOPIC: Obsessions, Compulsions, Obsessions, and Compulsions. Also, Obsessions—and Compulsions.","date_published":"2012-09-04T12:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/efd82fc5-f426-4af2-8c85-d8ebb9569548.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":44756065,"duration_in_seconds":5559}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/82","title":"Episode 82: Blue Food in Your Refrigerator","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/82","content_text":"TOPIC: Capture, Contracts, and Mapping the Territory.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about keeping an honest calendar and ensuring you regularly review your \"contracts\" with yourself.\n\nChock-a-block with practical COM-ponents for making sure your map is up to date with the territory.\n\n¿Spanish question marks? ¡Si!\n\nZibba-zabba! Fax my gal!\n\nLinks for this episode:[SPONSOR] Squarespace (10% off with offer code, \"`soold`\") Merlin’s Squarespace 6 Blog — Merlin Mann[Screencast] Ep. 03: Blocks Intro — Merlin’s Squarespace 6 Blog — Merlin MannQ: What would you like to see here? — Merlin’s Squarespace 6 Blog — Merlin MannTwitter / hotdogsladies: Offer—mail me a SASE and ...Back to Work Starter Pack — Merlin MannI…uh…have plenty to spare. - mlkshkGarden Gnome | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Rondo Hatton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediakung fu grippe • Hooooly shit. Looks like a few people want them...kung fu grippe • rotl: For serious scholarship only. Two hundred...Timeboxing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAmazon.com: Aveda Self Control Hair Styling Stick, 2.6 oz (75 g): Beauty[SPONSOR] Ting - Mobile That Makes SenseFugue state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia5by5 | Back to Work #61: I Handed Him My LukeInverted question and exclamation marks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAmazon.com: Tap Bell -Desk Bell - Nickle Plated, Black base: Sports & OutdoorsBack to GTD: Do a fast \"mind-sweep\" | 43 FoldersGarden Gnome | Flickr - Photo Sharing!John Roderick: A Night on the Town - a set on FlickrGetting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity: David Allen: 9780142000281: Amazon.com: BooksDay One | A simple JournalApp Store - DSLR Camera Remote Professional Edition[43f] Philip K. Dick: \"There's the First Law of Kipple... 'Kipple drives out nonkipple.'\"Map–territory relation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (\"The map is not the territory\")Two Cats Comic Book Store - Two Cats Comic Book StoreJohn Forbes Nash, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRecipes « World Aeropress ChampionshipThis week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by Ting and Squarespace.\n\nSign up for Squarespace today to get an extra 10% off any new account with the offer code \"soold\" (as in, \"Merlin looks sooooooo old!\"). Watch Merlin's new Squarespace 6 site get built in real time (including screencasts) at http://merlinm.com/s6.","content_html":"TOPIC: Capture, Contracts, and Mapping the Territory.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about keeping an honest calendar and ensuring you regularly review your \"contracts\" with yourself.
\n\nChock-a-block with practical COM-ponents for making sure your map is up to date with the territory.
\n\n¿Spanish question marks? ¡Si!
\n\nZibba-zabba! Fax my gal!
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by Ting and Squarespace.
\n\nSign up for Squarespace today to get an extra 10% off any new account with the offer code \"soold\" (as in, \"Merlin looks sooooooo old!\"). Watch Merlin's new Squarespace 6 site get built in real time (including screencasts) at http://merlinm.com/s6.
TOPIC: Honesty and Sociopathy Go to Work
\n\nMerlin and Dan talk about the cultural divide between you and your work. Coping with work is a little like being a sociopath so you better make sure you're taking away the right lessons and being honest about the right things. Anything else is a little dishonest.
\n\nYou don't need to quit your job, but you made want to at least resign your certainty.
\n\nNice!™
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by 1Password, Smile Software, and Squarespace.
\n\nSign up for Squarespace today to get an extra 10% off any new account with the offer code \"soold\" (as in, \"Merlin looks sooooooo old!\"). Watch Merlin's new Squarespace 6 site get built in real time (including screencasts) at http://merlinm.com/s6.
TOPIC: Kicking and Screaming
\n\nMerlin has been dragged kicking and screaming into at least two things this week. Sometimes, that works out, and sometimes it doesn't. But, how many of those things do we need? How many can you sign up for? How often do you see Beast coming down the hall?
\n\nThere aren't that many things you have to do, but how can you see it coming? Well, you know where your cumin is and you haven't checked your MySpace this week. How's that for complicated?
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by 1Password, Igloo Software, and Squarespace.
","summary":"TOPIC: Kicking and Screaming","date_published":"2012-08-13T14:45:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/f5eb81fa-4edf-4bf2-9610-58f8f5ac17db.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":43328111,"duration_in_seconds":5381}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/79","title":"Episode 79: Mayor Pro Tem of Hoboville","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/79","content_text":"TOPIC: Adapting to the Danger Room of Life\n\nDan and Merlin talk about how the protagonist of your story handles change in personal and work environments.\n\nHow do you respond in the face of change you haven't anticipated or isn't conducive to who you want to be? What is the worst that could happen? Who can help you except you?\n\nLinks for this episode:kung fu grippe • I’m The Old One I love this photo. [via]Merlin’s Awkward Hair Odyssey - a set on Flickrbadtz & me - march '99 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!FL Driver's License; Summer, 1991 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Manhattan, 1989 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!5by5 | Hypercritical #79: Grandpa Uncle Joe[BUY THIS!] Back to Work 'That's Fine for Merlin' T-Shirtkung fu grippe • Sweet Dreams (I love you, Alex Hardy)Twitter / danbenjamin: In the box http://t.co/NAAGyX9EAvalanche (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCognitive bias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMeriln Mann - Indie Writer, Speaker, and BroadcasterPro tempore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[SPONSOR] Squarespace (10% off with offer code, \"`soold`\") Amazon.com: Astonishing X-Men Vol. 1: Gifted (9780785115311): Joss Whedon, John Cassaday: BooksGenosha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDanger Room - Marvel Universe Wiki: The definitive online source for Marvel super hero bios.Amazon.com: Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting (9780060391683): Robert McKee: BooksMagical thinking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia5by5 | The Comic Shack #7: Snakt!Kobayashi Maru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia'Rubric' - Part 4 of 'Glassworks' - Philip Glass - YouTubeTony Robbins firewalking injuries: Why doesn’t everyone who walks on hot coals get burned? - Slate MagazineNearly Two Dozen Injured at Tony Robbins Seminar - NYTimes.comCharles Whitman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediakung fu grippe • the-x-gene: X-Men Season One by Dennis Hopeless...kung fu grippe • “I am the walrus?” Part of me thinks it ought to...kung fu grippe • Li’l ByrneList of Sanrio characters (Badtz-Maru)Squarespace 6 Template Tool - Squarespace PluginsSquarespace PluginsPeakRead Me — PeakI'm Waiting for the Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAngst - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThis week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by Squarespace. Visit Squarespace.com today to get an extra 10% off any new account with the offer code \"soold\" (as in, \"Merlin looks sooooooo old!\")\n\nAnd, watch Merlin's new Squarespace site get built in real time at http://merlinm.com.\n\nScreencasts of the process coming soon.","content_html":"TOPIC: Adapting to the Danger Room of Life
\n\nDan and Merlin talk about how the protagonist of your story handles change in personal and work environments.
\n\nHow do you respond in the face of change you haven't anticipated or isn't conducive to who you want to be? What is the worst that could happen? Who can help you except you?
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by Squarespace. Visit Squarespace.com today to get an extra 10% off any new account with the offer code \"soold\" (as in, \"Merlin looks sooooooo old!\")
And, watch Merlin's new Squarespace site get built in real time at http://merlinm.com.
\n\nScreencasts of the process coming soon.
","summary":"TOPIC: Adapting to the Danger Room of Life","date_published":"2012-08-06T14:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/f70c91fe-1db0-4e7a-918e-a280057c3664.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":40780446,"duration_in_seconds":5062}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/78","title":"Episode 78: Scream, Poop, and Run","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/78","content_text":"TOPIC: Gut Churn, Pointing Arrows, and Recognizing Change\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk at length about a recent article by Radiolab's Jad Abumrad, called, \"The Terrors & Occasional Virtues of Not Knowing What You’re Doing.\"\n\nFrom the genesis of Radiolab through casting about for what comes next, Jad's article reads like a Greatest Hits of Back to Work. Just terrific.\n\nIt all comes down to working through the times you don't know what you're doing and making, then accepting that—even once you do know—you still have to push through change and evolution.\n\nWorking through the fear to make something awesome? Well. That's Fine for Jad Abumrad.\n\nLinks for this episode:Transom » Jad AbumradBehaves So Strangely - RadiolabPodcasts - RadiolabHome - RadiolabJad Abumrad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaProtools-Screen-Shot.png 1,677×1,020 pixelsBehaves So Strangely - RadiolabBinary BonsaiMerlin Mann's WishlistOfficial Squarespace 6 Templates and ThemesBack to Work That's Fine for Merlin T-Shirt | 5by5Jad Abumrad (JadAbumrad) on TwitterAmazon.com: Radio: An Illustrated Guide (9780967967103): Jessica Abel, Ira Glass: BooksRetraction | This American LifeIra Glass on Storytelling, part 1 of 4 - YouTubeIra Glass on Working Through the Suck | 43 Folderskung fu grippe • I’m The Old One I love this photo. [via]People - Oliver Sacks - RadiolabRadiolab (Radiolab) on TwitterTransom » Radiolab: An Appreciation by Ira Glass“There are some people who don’t wait.” Robert Krulwich on the future of journalism | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover MagazineThe 'Decline Effect' and Scientific Truth - On The Mediakung fu grippe • John Cleese - “A Lecture on Creativity” ...WAR GAMES Gen. Beringer SPARK PLUG - YouTube[SPONSOR] Squarespace (10% off with offer code, \"`yourshow`\") Rosacea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAmazon.com: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life (9780743235266): Twyla Tharp: BooksAmazon.com: Sennheiser HD-280 PRO Headphones: ElectronicsMerlin Mann's WishlistThis week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by Squarespace. Visit Squarespace.com today to get an extra 10% off any new account with the offer code \"yourshow\".","content_html":"TOPIC: Gut Churn, Pointing Arrows, and Recognizing Change
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk at length about a recent article by Radiolab's Jad Abumrad, called, \"The Terrors & Occasional Virtues of Not Knowing What You’re Doing.\"
\n\nFrom the genesis of Radiolab through casting about for what comes next, Jad's article reads like a Greatest Hits of Back to Work. Just terrific.
\n\nIt all comes down to working through the times you don't know what you're doing and making, then accepting that—even once you do know—you still have to push through change and evolution.
\n\nWorking through the fear to make something awesome? Well. That's Fine for Jad Abumrad.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by Squarespace. Visit Squarespace.com today to get an extra 10% off any new account with the offer code \"yourshow\".
TOPIC: Motivation, Hardware Stores, and Fighting the Last War
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about motivation—how it changes, how it doesn't, and how it can be fueled by anxiety and cognitive dissonance.
\n\nThere is also discussion of Merlin's pear tart problem, the challenge of the engineering triangle, and, yeah, a new t-shirt That's Fine for Merlin.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by Squarespace and Docusign.
","summary":"TOPIC: Motivation, Hardware Stores, and Fighting the Last War","date_published":"2012-07-23T13:45:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/548979d2-251f-40c4-b220-05db42cece60.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":41562191,"duration_in_seconds":5143}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/76","title":"Episode 76: The Avatar of Dorian Gray","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/76","content_text":"TOPICS: Better Meat & Working Backwards\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the many strategic and tactical benefits of reverse-engineering your next project.\n\nThere is also extensive discussion of choosing, preparing, and cooking meat.\n\nIt's not food until is sounds like food and it smells like food.\n\nLinks for this episode:5by5 | The Incomparable #98: Obscure References and Sadness[SPONSOR] TextExpander: Mac Typing Shortcut Utility Saves You Time!TextExpander: bit.ly with authentication - Brett TerpstraTextExpander 4.0 Fill-In Feature on VimeoHow to Tell If That Steak is DoneAmazon.com: Jaccard Supertendermatic 48-Blade Tenderizer: Home & KitchenNetflix's lost year: The inside story of the price-hike train wreck | Internet & Media - CNET NewsThe Finger Test to Check the Doneness of Meat | Simply RecipesAmazon.com: Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food (9780596805883): Jeff Potter: BooksCooking For Engineers - Step by Step Recipes and Food for the Analytically MindedCode Library - Squarespace Code LibraryTwitter / hotdogsladies: @MailChimp @markdicristinaAmazon.com: The Complete Meat Cookbook (9780618135127): Bruce Aidells, Denis Kelly: BooksAmazon.com: Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House (9780684814650): Cheryl Mendelson, Harry Bates: Books[SPONSOR] Squarespace (10% off with offer code, \"`yourshow`\") Amazon.com: Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men Volume 4 (Marvel Masterworks (Numbered)) (9780785158691): Chris Claremont, John Byrne, George Perez: BooksAmazon.com: Little Owl Lost (9780763650223): Chris Haughton: Bookskung fu grippe - (Phoenix at Comic-Con. Sigh.)Fernet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[Merlin's MailChimp visitor badge]Flat iron steak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia5by5 | After Dark #193: Grillin' with Marco and DanThe Picture of Dorian Gray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - Project GutenbergEp. 13: \"Then There Was Pump Chili\" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin MannTextExpander Shortcuts (per Back to Work e76) — Gist2011/12 Creative Mornings with Ben Chestnut on VimeoScreencast on TextExpander 3 fill-in snippets (by Merlin)PURE Solutions: Hypoallergenic Hotel Rooms, Purifiers, BeddingGuerras Deli & Meats, San Francisco Deli, Bay Area Deli, Steak, Beef, Pork, Veal, Lamb, Sausages, Poultry, online deli orderingHome :: EmpireStateSouth.comNPR.org » Delicious Turkey Tips From Food ScientistsFarm Egg - \"ESS pepperoni, crisp carolina gold rice, corn puree, beech mushrooms, lambs quarter\"Interpunct - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPrime Rib or Standing Rib Roast - Recipe File - Cooking For EngineersThis week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by two of our favorite friends, Smile and Squarespace.\n\nPick up Smile's TextExpander 4 with awesome new fill-in features. And, visit Squarespace.com today to get an extra 10% off any new account with the offer code \"yourshow\".","content_html":"TOPICS: Better Meat & Working Backwards
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the many strategic and tactical benefits of reverse-engineering your next project.
\n\nThere is also extensive discussion of choosing, preparing, and cooking meat.
\n\nIt's not food until is sounds like food and it smells like food.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by two of our favorite friends, Smile and Squarespace.
\n\nPick up Smile's TextExpander 4 with awesome new fill-in features. And, visit Squarespace.com today to get an extra 10% off any new account with the offer code \"yourshow\".
TOPIC: Feeling Stuck in the Middle
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about a topic suggested by listener, @toddsandends: what happens when you're stuck enforcing rules you don't agree with?
\n\nWhether you're a security guard, an RA, a SysAdmin, a character on The Wire, or pretty much anybody else, sometimes there's just stuff you gotta do. Even when you think it's a terrible idea.
\n\nSo, who's allowed to corrupt you, what's it worth, and how long is that going to be okay with you?
\n\nAs ever, work is a lot of work.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by our good friends at Squarespace. Get an extra 10% off your new account with offer code \"yourshow\".
TOPIC: How Much Honesty Can We Stand?
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about how ridiculously complex \"Honesty\" can be. Do \"Candor,\" \"Transparency,\" \"Frankness,\" and all those other Capital Letter Nouns mean the same thing?
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by our good friends at Squarespace. Get an extra 10% off your new account with offer code \"yourshow\".
TOPIC: Aspects of Letting Go
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about two very different viewports into doing what you want to do and being who you want to be.
\n\nThere's the non-fiddly value you earn from getting junk out of your head and into a place you trust (in this instance, OmniFocus location-based contexts).
\n\nThen, there's the \"what the cuss?\" situation faced by listener, \"Evan,\" who's struggling with a work conundrum that's hard on the office freezer and his feelings.
\n\nHow do you move toward doing the right thing in the face of a lot of wrong? And, how do you take care of the piddly crap that's made your brain such a messy white board?
\n\nAlso, there's our new t-shirts, some boot scoots, lots of tickles, plus, that total tool who pushed Shlomo out. Don't even get Merlin started. Literally.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by Squarespace, Igloo Software, Smile Software.
","summary":"TOPIC: Aspects of Letting Go","date_published":"2012-06-25T17:30:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/bd653bdb-df0c-44c0-9dd6-80c106748e5d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":48570953,"duration_in_seconds":6019}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/72","title":"Episode 72: Rocky Balboa Moment","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/72","content_text":"TOPIC: Confidence, Courage, and the Problem with Thinking\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about why we may or may not feel confident to do stuff. How do other people seem to get it so easily, and where do they find the courage?\n\nWell. You walk through The Forum, you check the mics, and you never let thinking get in your way.\n\nToo much thinking? UNACCEPTABLE!\n\nDungeon. Seven years. No trials.\n\nLinks for this episode:Dalrympled (Dan)Dalrympled (Merlin)solipschtick — By this point in my life, I’d also had enough...Me & YouTwitter / hotdogsladies: All of you. Dungeon. SevenHerb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - A Taste of Honey (1967)_HQ - YouTubeTandoor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDesigner drug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaToilets in Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediakung fu grippe - Accomplished entirely with that Peter Jackson...Biblical Mount Sinai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaTom Baker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPresentation ZenThe Mosquito Coast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediakung fu grippe - Inspire yourself…every day!!!!!Amazon.com: Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft PowerPoint to Create Presentations that Inform, Motivate, and Inspire (Business Skills) (English and English Edition) (9780735627352): Cliff Atkinson: BooksFake AmazonToastmasters International - HomeChafing-dish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSterno - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaChrome Web Store - TemplateLEMON GRAB UNACCEPTABLE - YouTubeCaltrop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaToto - Washlet S400Glassboard: Know who you're sharing with.The Fantastic Mr. Fox: You Cussing With Me - Movie Trailers - Video Detectivekung fu grippe - “You Cussing With Me?” (Fantastic Mr. Fox)[SPONSOR] Squarespace (10% off with offer code, \"`laydown`\") [SPONSOR] MailChimpkung fu grippe - x-mann: Yeah. I went there.5by5 | 5by5 Specials #7: Dan Benjamin Guests on Episode #111 of The Bro ShowAmazon.com: Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter) (9780321811981): Garr Reynolds: BooksBath Salts: Deep in the Heart of America's New Drug Nightmare | SPINoubliettekung fu grippe - Nerds of the Cornkung fu grippe - “So.”kung fu grippe - jxpx1138, shreddingMakebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now) | 43 FoldersAmazonCritical précis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediakung fu grippe - The Mandrill Thing For Joel Benjamin and family.This week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by Squarespace and MailChimp.","content_html":"TOPIC: Confidence, Courage, and the Problem with Thinking
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about why we may or may not feel confident to do stuff. How do other people seem to get it so easily, and where do they find the courage?
\n\nWell. You walk through The Forum, you check the mics, and you never let thinking get in your way.
\n\nToo much thinking? UNACCEPTABLE!
\n\nDungeon. Seven years. No trials.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by Squarespace and MailChimp.
","summary":"TOPIC: Confidence, Courage, and the Problem with Thinking","date_published":"2012-06-18T15:30:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/e85aa018-ade5-44ed-b1fe-0ae7a5bf209c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":42199372,"duration_in_seconds":5222}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/71","title":"Episode 71: Sorry to Lose You as a Son","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/71","content_text":"TOPIC: The Problem with Passive-Aggression. If that's okay with you.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin apologize if they've made you unhappy with an episode about passive-aggressiveness, wussy non-communication, and non-apology apologies. But, maybe, that'll just have to be okay with them.\n\nBut, could you PLEASE take your tuna out of the fridge, pick up after your dog, make more coffee, change the toilet paper roll, and help with taking trash to the curb?\n\nThank You In Advance For Your Cooperation!\n— The Management\n\nLinks for this episode:kung fu grippe - Q: What’s my next X-Men? Obviously, a lot of you...Twitter / defunkt: Soon: http://t.co/ufqZ8FiZPassive–aggressive behavior - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPassiveAggressiveNotes.comDays of Future Past - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDays of Future Passed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMultiverse (Marvel Comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaEarth-616 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPDFpen for iPad: PDF Editing Software for Mac iOSBULK Bag! Issue #05kung fu grippe - The Avengers - “Hulk smashes Loki” I can watch...Five power tools of the unintentionally creepy guy | 5ivesLeave-A-Sign-About-Dog-Poop Guy | Flickr - Photo Sharing!5by5 | Back to Work #57: Start with Anger, End with a Signkung fu grippe - FIN Sigh. Finished #137 last night, drawing The...The Silent Treatment | PassiveAggressiveNotes.com[SPONSOR] MailChimp[SPONSOR] Squarespace (10% off with offer code, \"`laydown`\") [SPONSOR] Smile (save $15 on PDFpen or PDFpenPro)IMG: Original \"twttr\" logo Twitter / rsa: \"I have decided that @lonelysandwich, @scottsimpson and @hotdogsladies need to start a podcast. The absence of said podcast is a crime.\"This week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by MailChimp, Smile, and Squarespace.","content_html":"TOPIC: The Problem with Passive-Aggression. If that's okay with you.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin apologize if they've made you unhappy with an episode about passive-aggressiveness, wussy non-communication, and non-apology apologies. But, maybe, that'll just have to be okay with them.
\n\nBut, could you PLEASE take your tuna out of the fridge, pick up after your dog, make more coffee, change the toilet paper roll, and help with taking trash to the curb?
\n\nThank You In Advance For Your Cooperation!
\n— The Management
Links for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by MailChimp, Smile, and Squarespace.
","summary":"TOPIC: The Problem with Passive-Aggression. If that's okay with you.","date_published":"2012-06-11T12:30:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/9577c9f5-58a3-4d8a-a20e-5923f4c544cc.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":48275460,"duration_in_seconds":5982}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/70","title":"Episode 70: Expectation Zero","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/70","content_text":"TOPIC: Recalibrating Expectations\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk more about struggling with expectations. Everybody's expectations. Including yours.\n\nWhy it's worth recalibrating your own expectations, managing others' expectations, and accepting the impossibility of knowing—let alone meeting—the expectations of the entire world.\n\nBecause, that's monkeyballs.\n\nWe also learn that Merlin likes his buttons touched very gently.\n\nLinks for this episode:Language Log » “Factlets”Back To Work - Igloo SoftwareHearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediakung fu grippe - Back to Work: “Like Patty Hearst in a Closet” ...Back to Work (b2wshow) on TwitterAmazon.com: Apocalypse Now (Apocalypse Now / Apocalypse Now Redux / Hearts of Darkness) (Three-Disc Full Disclosure Edition) [Blu-ray]: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Francis Ford Coppola: Movies & TVAmazon.com: Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions) (9780486264646): Joseph Conrad, Stanley Appelbaum: Books[SPONSOR] Igloo Software[SPONSOR] MailChimpDruthers, CA | You Look Nice TodayEp. 34: \"A Sh*t Barge Full of Long Pigs\" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mannkung fu grippe - “Now, I have cloud hair.” ASTONISHING X-MEN...Sign-up for Back to Work's BULK Bag! Newsletter5ives | Merlin's Lists of Five Things5by5 | Build and Analyze #80: Please, Go to StarbucksChris Elliott as Brando on Letterman - Banana dance - YouTubeVIDEO: \"I swallowed a bug.\" —Marlon Brando (1976)kung fu grippe - In Which Merlin Buys Some DollsTwitterThis week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by our friends at Igloo Software and MailChimp.","content_html":"TOPIC: Recalibrating Expectations
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk more about struggling with expectations. Everybody's expectations. Including yours.
\n\nWhy it's worth recalibrating your own expectations, managing others' expectations, and accepting the impossibility of knowing—let alone meeting—the expectations of the entire world.
\n\nBecause, that's monkeyballs.
\n\nWe also learn that Merlin likes his buttons touched very gently.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This week's episode of Back to Work is sponsored by our friends at Igloo Software and MailChimp.
","summary":"TOPIC: Recalibrating Expectations","date_published":"2012-06-05T14:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/38fe4a40-116b-4c27-bb02-a8c33f1c76ea.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":41546934,"duration_in_seconds":5141}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/69","title":"Episode 69: Seven Dwarfs of Bad Emotion","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/69","content_text":"TOPIC: Boogers and Expectations\n\nAre you making perfect reports when your boss just wants them on time? Are you making crème brûlée when you should be jumping in a trench? Are wangs and boogers causing problems at work?\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk more about expectations – whether you're willing to or not – and the risks of expectations of partners, bosses, and kids.\n\nHow can you handle expectations? There aren't a lot of easy answers. As you'd probably expect.\n\nLinks for this episode:middleclasstool - Blog - Something Something Meth JokePre-Cana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHanlon's razor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaZagg Pepper | We’re super excited to show you our latest and...Found My Place - BlogTales of Wonder - Marvel Masterworks Uncanny X-Men Vol 2 New Ed TPConfessions of a Car Salesman - Print Friendly[SPONSOR] MailChimp [SPONSOR] Squarespace (10% off with offer code, \"`goaheadcaller`\") [SPONSOR} Warby Parker (10% off with discount code, \"`5BY5TV10`\") David Mamet’s Master Class Memo to the Writers of The Unit - Movielinegolden balls. the weirdest split or steal ever! - YouTubePrisoner's dilemma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaGame theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFound My Place - Blog - Song: \"Lost in Space\"Amazon.com: The Uncanny X-Men, Vol. 2 (Marvel Masterworks) (9780785137047): Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum, John Byrne: BooksDiplomacy (game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediakung fu grippe - \"Public libraries rule.\" - In Which _Uncanny X-Men Masterworks Vol. 2_ Arrives!kung fu grippe - \"I Love My Blended Family\" - In Which Merlin Prepares to Read 5 Years of _X-Men_[KFG] You Look Nice Today - “Lot About a Thing Guy”Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls - YouTube'Actors should be treated like cattle.' —Alfred HitchcockThis episode of Back to Work is sponsored by our friends at Warby Parker, MailChimp, and Squarespace.","content_html":"TOPIC: Boogers and Expectations
\n\nAre you making perfect reports when your boss just wants them on time? Are you making crème brûlée when you should be jumping in a trench? Are wangs and boogers causing problems at work?
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk more about expectations – whether you're willing to or not – and the risks of expectations of partners, bosses, and kids.
\n\nHow can you handle expectations? There aren't a lot of easy answers. As you'd probably expect.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This episode of Back to Work is sponsored by our friends at Warby Parker, MailChimp, and Squarespace.
","summary":"TOPIC: Boogers and Expectations","date_published":"2012-05-29T16:30:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/18cb5d28-a043-4f09-90eb-a15cb6c42fee.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":47106638,"duration_in_seconds":5836}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/68","title":"Episode 68: The Black Queen is Killing Me","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/68","content_text":"TOPIC: Incentive, Inspiration, and Motivation\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin are inspired to talk about the incentive and the motivation to make something.\n\nInspiration is marketed as something you're missing, but it has a short expiration date, and if you're more scared than uninspired then it doesn't matter how many pieces of candy you're offered. And what do you do if selling bottled water cozies affects your intrinsic motivation to make them?\n\nWell. It's complicated. As usual.\n\nLinks for this episode:Replication studies: Bad copy : Nature News & CommentThe Coffee Collective Blog: Updated Aeropress brewing methodLetters of Note: It has never got easierkung fu grippe • “La la laaaaaaaa…” (Sneaky Peek of next Squarespace song)[SPONSOR] PDFpen from Smile: A Proud Sponsor of Back To WorkSign-up for Back to Work's BULK Bag! Newsletter 5by5 | 5by5 Specials #6: Regarding The Talk Show5by5 Radio iOS AppAmazon.com: AeroPress Coffee and Espresso Maker with Bonus 350 Micro Filters: Kitchen & DiningNerd BoyfriendnvALT 2.2 Public Beta - Brett TerpstraMarked - smart tools for smart writersMarked 1.5 Sneak Peak - Brett Terpstrattscoff (Brett Terpstra) on GithubSimpsons - Sideshow bob steps on rakes - YouTubeBulk Bag at Amy's Ice Creams | Flickr - Photo Sharing!marvel comics - Why can't adamantium cut through vibranium? - Science Fiction and FantasyAdamantium - Marvel Comics DatabaseDignan (Character)VIDEO: Roxanna & Adam - \"The Aristocrats\" on VimeoPinboard: global tag page for eatsleeploveJamie Phelps (jxpx777) on TwitterBlog - jxpx777.com—Personal website of Jamie Phelps [SPONSOR] Email Marketing and Email List Manager | MailChimp Get Previous Issues of Back to Work's \"BULK Bag!\" NewsletterHearts of SpaceCEOs and the Candle Problem - A Mad Hemorrhage Blog | Nature Publishing GroupThe Smiths - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaNerd Boyfriend - Pacino and WalkenAeroPress “Ritual” on VimeoThe Dark Phoenix Saga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediakung fu grippe • \"The Black Queen\"Jean Grey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAmazon.com: Uncanny X-Men Omnibus (v. 1) (9780785121015): Chris Claremont, Len Wein, Dave Cockrum, John Byrne: BooksAmazon.com: X-Men: Dark Phoenix Saga (9780785164210): Chris Claremont, Jo Duffy, John Byrne, Mike Collins, John Buscema, Jerry Bingham: BooksIntellivision® TV Commercial: Major League Baseball - YouTubeParis Review - The Art of Fiction No. 21, Ernest HemingwayInterviews, Writers, Quotes, Fiction, Poetry - Paris ReviewMeat is Murder by the Smiths (Album Version) - YouTubeThe Smiths - Reel Around the Fountain - Live - YouTubeThe Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - YouTubeThe Smiths - This Charming Man - YouTubeNVAlt Tips « MacdrifterSimplicity Is BlissgridwriternvALT 2.1 - Notational Velocity ForkVoodooPad: New Stuff in VoodooPad 5My Bodyguard (1980) - IMDbThis episode of Back to Work is sponsored by our friends at Smile and MailChimp.","content_html":"TOPIC: Incentive, Inspiration, and Motivation
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin are inspired to talk about the incentive and the motivation to make something.
\n\nInspiration is marketed as something you're missing, but it has a short expiration date, and if you're more scared than uninspired then it doesn't matter how many pieces of candy you're offered. And what do you do if selling bottled water cozies affects your intrinsic motivation to make them?
\n\nWell. It's complicated. As usual.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This episode of Back to Work is sponsored by our friends at Smile and MailChimp.
","summary":"TOPIC: Incentive, Inspiration, and Motivation","date_published":"2012-05-21T16:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/b7f5a58b-07f1-498e-813a-9e791ecbb9da.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":36067916,"duration_in_seconds":4456}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/67","title":"Episode 67: Ad Hoc Bra","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/67","content_text":"TOPIC: Trying On The Change\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin (who might not have mentioned he didn't sleep much) discuss the balance between placing nickel bets versus going all-in—or at least thinking all-in.\n\nYou might be talking yourself into stasis or change, but if you don't really try it on first, you may find out the techno and combat boots are nothing compared to living under incontinent grackles.\n\nLinks for this episode:kung fu grippe • Example Portraiture (Tanforan Mall) Hm. Hm. ...kung fu grippe • 3rdmartini: Taco night was apparently a success....Found My Place - BlogIt's a Wonderful Life - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPictures & Photos from It's a Wonderful Life - IMDbits-a-wonderful-life_592x299.jpg 592×299 pixels\"And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is. :-)\"New TextMate Bundle, Edit Templates and Campaigns | MailChimp Email Marketing BlogThe surprisingly complicated legacy of Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee - GrantlandHofstadter's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCommon Grackle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBullseye | Maximum FunCleric (Dungeons & Dragons) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaYa Blew It... - YouTubeTim and Eric's Awsome Show Great Job- Mr.Henderson - YouTubeMarsEdit 3 - Desktop blog editing for the Mac.Amazon.com: American Vampire Vol. 1 (9781401229740): Scott Snyder, Stephen King, Rafael Albuquereque: BooksAmazon.com: American Vampire Vol. 2 (9781401230708): Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquereque: BooksAmazon.com: American Vampire Vol. 3 (9781401233334): Scott Snyder: BooksAmazon.com: American Vampire Vol. 4 (9781401237189): Scott Snyder, Rafael Alburqurqe: Books[SPONSOR] Email Marketing and Email List Manager | MailChimp [SPONSOR] Build a Website - Create a Blog - Squarespace (Extra 10% off with offer code, \"`goaheadcaller`\") Sign-up for Back to Work's BULK Bag! Newsletter Found My Place - Blog - Song: \"Just Fine\"CHRONIC JET-LAG INCREASES MORTALITY IN AGED MICECircadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders: Part I, Basic Principles, Shift Work and Jet Lag DisordersAn American Academy of Sleep Medicine ReviewExperimental ‘Jet Lag’ Inhibits Adult Neurogenesis and Produces Long-Term Cognitive Deficits in Female HamstersThis episode of Back to Work is sponsored by our friends at MailChimp and Squarespace.","content_html":"TOPIC: Trying On The Change
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin (who might not have mentioned he didn't sleep much) discuss the balance between placing nickel bets versus going all-in—or at least thinking all-in.
\n\nYou might be talking yourself into stasis or change, but if you don't really try it on first, you may find out the techno and combat boots are nothing compared to living under incontinent grackles.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This episode of Back to Work is sponsored by our friends at MailChimp and Squarespace.
","summary":"TOPIC: Trying On The Change","date_published":"2012-05-15T15:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/cc2ad48c-854d-4876-9512-f6f38cbf09de.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":39016181,"duration_in_seconds":4825}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/66","title":"Episode 66: Horseradish on My Raccoon","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/66","content_text":"TOPIC: The Pete Campbell Problem\n\nEver notice how you never really \"arrive?\" Or, have you ever noticed that right when you think you've \"arrived,\" you don't stay arrived for very long—but now have a whole big bunch of new stuff to do? Yeah, us too.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about expectations, the wrong kinds of ambition, and the unquenchable lust for prestige and respect. Good practitioners practice, great leaders lead, and crummy managers just get their fingers all brown from digging around in your chocolate bag.\n\nHow to see yourself more as your team does—and less as That Guy who deserves more everything.\n\nBecause there will always be more \"everything.\"\n\nLinks for this episode:Found My Place - Blog - Song: \"Staying Up\"I loved Merlin Mann’s song Staying Up so much I...Orchestra hit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Arrival (1996) - IMDbMad Men's Pete Campbell: An interview with Vincent Kartheiser - Slate Magazine[SPONSOR] Email Marketing and Email List Manager | MailChimp[SPONSOR] Build a Website - Create a Blog - Squarespace (Extra 10% off with offer code, \"`goaheadcaller`\")Sign-up for Back to Work's BULK Bag! NewsletterPiriformis muscle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaVanishing twin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAmazon.com: Apple Magic Trackpad: ElectronicsSrirachaTapatio Hot SauceBeaverton Foods - Beaver Brand Mustards, Horseradish, Mayo, Tartar, Coctail Sauce and More!The Dark Phoenix Saga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediakung fu grippe: \"SCOTT! JEAN!\"UnderscorefunkDesign (underscorefunk) on TwitterUnderscorefunk DesignNew Order - True Faith - YouTubeNew Order - Thieves Like Us - YouTubeNew Order - Bizarre Love Triangle Music Video - YouTubeFireballed.org - The Anti-FireballNew Order - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaNew Order live, 1984, 'Temptation' - YouTubeCos Cob, Connecticut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPete Campbell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediakung fu grippe • With success comes a level of sadness. You think,...Patton Oswalt – \"You Are Allowed 20 Birthday Parties\"Buddhism Plain and Simple: Steve Hagen: 9780767903325: Amazon.com: BooksAmazon.com: Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre (9780878301171): Keith Johnstone: BooksThis episode of Back to Work is sponsored by our friends at Squarespace and MailChimp.","content_html":"TOPIC: The Pete Campbell Problem
\n\nEver notice how you never really \"arrive?\" Or, have you ever noticed that right when you think you've \"arrived,\" you don't stay arrived for very long—but now have a whole big bunch of new stuff to do? Yeah, us too.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about expectations, the wrong kinds of ambition, and the unquenchable lust for prestige and respect. Good practitioners practice, great leaders lead, and crummy managers just get their fingers all brown from digging around in your chocolate bag.
\n\nHow to see yourself more as your team does—and less as That Guy who deserves more everything.
\n\nBecause there will always be more \"everything.\"
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This episode of Back to Work is sponsored by our friends at Squarespace and MailChimp.
","summary":"TOPIC: The Pete Campbell Problem","date_published":"2012-05-07T16:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/28ecb819-8ccc-4176-a4d2-1c1d64b6610f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":40428480,"duration_in_seconds":5001}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/65","title":"Episode 65: A Light Dusting of Life","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/65","content_text":"TOPIC: Stressing Out About Stress\n\nDan and Merlin talk about what happens when stress meets stress, anxiety feeds anxiety, and 10 guys maybe try to jump you in the woods.\n\nWhich kinds of stress are simply unavoidable? Which ones are addictive? Which ones can be tolerated? And, yes, which kinds of stresses can be vanquished by firing your boss?\n\nLinks for this episode:FoundMyPlace.net (Merlin's Music Project with Squarespace)[SPONSOR] Email Marketing and Email List Manager | MailChimpSign-up for Back to Work's BULK Bag! NewsletterAeroPress “Ritual” on Vimeo[SPONSOR] Build a Website - Create a Blog - SquarespacePricing - SquarespaceAmazon.com: Das Keyboard Model S Professional Mechanical Keyboard: ElectronicsThe Stenciled Approach | You Look Nice TodayMN 82: Ratthapala SuttaDorothy Parker: \"If all the girls attending it were laid end to end…\"Dorothy C. Fisher: \"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.\"Prayer (Direct petitions to God) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAmazon.com: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? (9780449208397): Erma Bombeck: BooksThe Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank: Erma Bombeck: 9780345471727: Amazon.com: BooksThe World's Greatest Joke - \"One penguin says, 'You look like you're wearing a tuxedo.…'\"The Special Pig Joke - \"OK, Fred. So just tell me. How did he get the wooden leg?\"The Aristocrats (joke) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Aristocrats (2005)Gruber's Das Keyboard | Flickr - Photo Sharing! [1]Gruber's Das Keyboard | Flickr - Photo Sharing! [2]Ratatouille (2007)Ed Gein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaGregg shorthand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPincer movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[Weltanschauung] World view - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[MP3] \"Obstacle Race\" by Merlin MannFree Custom Domain Names — The Official Squarespace Blogkung fu grippe • Sickening. It’s like replacing a supermodel with...The Super Hero Squad Show - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaTwitter / @hotdogsladies: \"My 'z' key broke.\"This episode of Back to Work is sponsored by our friends at MailChimp and Squarespace.","content_html":"TOPIC: Stressing Out About Stress
\n\nDan and Merlin talk about what happens when stress meets stress, anxiety feeds anxiety, and 10 guys maybe try to jump you in the woods.
\n\nWhich kinds of stress are simply unavoidable? Which ones are addictive? Which ones can be tolerated? And, yes, which kinds of stresses can be vanquished by firing your boss?
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This episode of Back to Work is sponsored by our friends at MailChimp and Squarespace.
","summary":"TOPIC: Stressing Out About Stress","date_published":"2012-05-03T13:45:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/98cc4b09-d23f-4e24-9db2-cf1834d8e9fc.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":43974444,"duration_in_seconds":5444}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/64","title":"Episode 64: Frozen Poster","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/64","content_text":"TOPIC: The Surprising Problems of \"Doing What You Love\"\n\nMerlin has some follow up on Agency: be in control of what you give away and why you charge what you charge, and Dan is interested in what happens when you stop loving what you love when you do it as a job.\n\nThere are no guarantees, so don't mistake the Federalist Papers for Constitutional Law, and if you miss the signs you shouldn't be sailing, you'll just end up vomiting in your bucket hat.\n\nYou're not going suddenly arrive and do what you love. You get there through course correction: look back at all the ugly birdhouses and look ahead for the next step toward building a home.\n\nLinks for this episode:Mad Men's Pete Campbell: An interview with Vincent KartheiserTwitter / @danbenjamin: At last, the Bulk Bag at @ ...The Unofficial 5by5 SoundboardMicah's tumblog - It’s the post that @danbenjamin and @hotdogsladies...Greenview Studios - Journal - Back to WorkAmazon.com: Apogee JAM Studio Quality Guitar Input for iPad, iPhone and Mac: Electronicsbucket hats, Accessories at Zappos.com[SPONSOR] MailChimp[SPONSOR] SquarespacePlease don't let me hit the ground. on VimeoThe Man Who Broke Atlantic City - Magazine - The AtlanticWelcome to Amy's Ice CreamsAmy's Ice Creams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia100-sided die - Google SearchZocchihedron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediakung fu grippe • “I want some ‘book bag.’” It’s “BULK Bag,”...Prolost - Blog - Chasing WildebeestsChasing Wildebeests - Scruffy - Scruffy | ThinkingCherryPy — A Minimalist Python Web FrameworkSubscribe to Back to Work's \"BULK Bag!\" Newsletterhorace greeley - Google SearchCranking | 43 FoldersHow Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia43f Podcast: John Gruber & Merlin Mann's Blogging Panel at SxSW | 43 FoldersEp. 29: \"Eventually My Scabs Healed\" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin MannHarry Nilsson - Me and my Arrow - YouTube\"You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way\"Dollar Shave ClubPhineas and Ferb Agent P PJ Pal for Boys | PJ Pals | Disney StoreJudy Garland - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - YouTubeGalette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThis episode of Back to Work is sponsored by our friends at MailChimp and Squarespace.","content_html":"TOPIC: The Surprising Problems of \"Doing What You Love\"
\n\nMerlin has some follow up on Agency: be in control of what you give away and why you charge what you charge, and Dan is interested in what happens when you stop loving what you love when you do it as a job.
\n\nThere are no guarantees, so don't mistake the Federalist Papers for Constitutional Law, and if you miss the signs you shouldn't be sailing, you'll just end up vomiting in your bucket hat.
\n\nYou're not going suddenly arrive and do what you love. You get there through course correction: look back at all the ugly birdhouses and look ahead for the next step toward building a home.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
This episode of Back to Work is sponsored by our friends at MailChimp and Squarespace.
","summary":"TOPIC: The Surprising Problems of \"Doing What You Love\"","date_published":"2012-04-23T14:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/feaa669f-2d26-4977-87d6-395011db810d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":47765632,"duration_in_seconds":5918}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/63","title":"Episode 63: Bold with the Scissors","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/63","content_text":"TOPIC: Agency, Independence, and Outing Your Makebelieve \"Partners.\"\n\nDan and Merlin return to the topic of agency.\n\nWho's allowed to speak and act on your behalf? And, what happens when you discover people who've unilaterally decided by fiat to speak and act on your behalf?\n\nWell. If your work (and your business) matters to you, you tell them to knock it off.\n\nHow to reclaim your own stuff, set your own terms, and fire all the non-silent non-partners of the lucrative Free Compliment Industry.\n\nLinks for this episode:Workshops | Squarespace Workshops - archive - Beyond the BlogWorkshops | Squarespace Workshops - archive - Building a PortfolioSimplifed Plans and Pricing — The Official Squarespace Blog[SPONSOR] Squarespace.com. Use offer code `turnsout` for 10% off. [SPONSOR] TextExpander: Mac Typing Shortcut Utility Saves You Time!iTextEditors - iPhone and iPad text/code editors and writing tools compared\"If you think it's fancy to expect permission to sell stupid shit people said, just wait until you start saying stupid shit worth selling.\"5by5 | Back to Work #12: Chewie's Medal is Not CanonicalFree as in \"Me\" | 43 FoldersGiant Steps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHenry's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAmazon.com: Sodastream Fountain Jet Soda Maker Starter Kit: Kitchen & DiningAmazon.com: A Confederacy of Dunces (9780802130204): John Kennedy Toole, Walker Percy: Books5by5 | After Dark #143: After Back to Work #63Merlin's Frequently Asked Questions - Merlin MannSponsored this week by our pals at Squarespace and Smile. Please visit the show notes for this episode to find links, tips, and special offers.","content_html":"TOPIC: Agency, Independence, and Outing Your Makebelieve \"Partners.\"
\n\nDan and Merlin return to the topic of agency.
\n\nWho's allowed to speak and act on your behalf? And, what happens when you discover people who've unilaterally decided by fiat to speak and act on your behalf?
\n\nWell. If your work (and your business) matters to you, you tell them to knock it off.
\n\nHow to reclaim your own stuff, set your own terms, and fire all the non-silent non-partners of the lucrative Free Compliment Industry.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored this week by our pals at Squarespace and Smile. Please visit the show notes for this episode to find links, tips, and special offers.
","summary":"TOPIC: Agency, Independence, and Outing Your Makebelieve \"Partners.\"","date_published":"2012-04-16T16:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/24e0ad1d-5452-4d67-b20a-a1dd463ba8d3.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":38987904,"duration_in_seconds":4821}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/62","title":"Episode 62: Cultural Molasses","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/62","content_text":"TOPIC: Karmasucks, No-Sayers, and Black and White Thinking\n\nDan and Merlin consider the karmasucks and black and white thinking that lead to inertia and a culture of derision.\n\nAnyone can laugh at an agenda, and it only takes one turd in the punchbowl to ruin the party, so don't ask permission, ask yes or no questions, and keep your judge behind your explorer.\n\nLinks for this episode:Why isn't that Buddha statue fat?Monty Python - \"Election Night Special\" - YouTubePhineas and Ferb - \"My Nemesis\" - YouTubeWaldorf education - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCreative Think - Roger von OechAmazon.com: A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative (9780446404662): Roger von Oech: BooksAmazon.com: A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, and Warrior to Be More Creative: Explore similar itemsJonathan Coulton with John Roderick - \"Nemeses\" - YouTube[SPONSOR] Squarespace.com. Use offer code `turnsout` for 10% off.It's About Time! - Phineas and Ferb Wiki - Your Guide to Phineas and FerbMy Nemesis - Phineas and Ferb Wiki - Your Guide to Phineas and FerbDAYTUMFalse dilemma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSplitting (psychology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBorderline personality disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCreative Prob-solving (KISP)Spicynodes : Fostering creativityGrace Hopper: \"It's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission.\"\"Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade.\"\"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!\"VIDEO: \"John Cleese - A Lecture on Creativity\" (Do **NOT** miss!)\"Bill Cosby: Himself\" - Part OneBill Cosby: Himself (1983)Ep. 14: \"Big City Apology\" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin MannTim & Eric - \"Gravy Robbers Training Video\" (with Zach Galifianakis)Tim & Eric - \"Gravy Robbers!\" - YouTubeElection Night Special - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPrimer (2004)DAYTUM: Merlin's Running Sodastream StatsMitchell & Webb - \"That's Numberwang!\"Sponsored by Squarespace. Use offer code, turnsout for 10% off.","content_html":"TOPIC: Karmasucks, No-Sayers, and Black and White Thinking
\n\nDan and Merlin consider the karmasucks and black and white thinking that lead to inertia and a culture of derision.
\n\nAnyone can laugh at an agenda, and it only takes one turd in the punchbowl to ruin the party, so don't ask permission, ask yes or no questions, and keep your judge behind your explorer.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Squarespace. Use offer code, turnsout for 10% off.
Dan and Merlin talk about Dancing Han Solo, going to college in Florida, and developing smarter patterns for Getting Things Diaried.
\n\nWhether you're calling collect, person-to-person, or station-to-station, it's time to get serious, get realistic, and just get it on the calendar.
\n\nSend the invite, work those Telephone Thursdays, and make that call E6W (\"Every 6 Weeks\"). Pick the system that supports your intentions. Then use it.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Dan and Merlin consider how to rethink your work as a platform. It's not just a job, or just a career, or (God forbid) just a brand--it's about deciding when you need to take your time and attention pro.
\n\nHow the stuff you've made and done can be leveraged into the next things you'd like to make and do; how to find the orthogonal angles and unexpected branches; how to learn what you need to learn; and how to take your work so seriously that you'll dare a quick dip in the douche pool.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Byword, a Simple Text Editor for Mac and iOS
","summary":"TOPIC: Learning to treat your work as a platform.","date_published":"2012-03-26T15:30:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/174408ab-c543-40af-b82d-a5df00fea96a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":34261120,"duration_in_seconds":4230}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/59","title":"Episode 59: Brains All the Way Down","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/59","content_text":"This week, Dan and Merlin tackle the problem of changing cultures at work. It's not a snapshot, it's not a kitchen table, and it may actually have surprisingly little to do with you.\n\nWhich is complicated.\n\nLinks for this episode:App Store - Flow Powered by AmazonRL Classic for iPhone, iPod touch (4th generation), iPad 2 Wi-Fi, iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G, iPad (3rd generation) and iPad Wi-Fi + 4G on the iTunes App StoreStealth Mountain (stealthmountain) on Twitterttscoff/Brett-s-TextExpander-SnippetsTE-snippets | TextExpander snippets beter the bullitsTE-snippets | TextExpander snippets beter the bullits[SPONSOR] TextExpander: Mac Typing Shortcut Utility Saves You Time!TextExpander: Mac Typing Shortcut Utility Saves You Time!TextExpander Tools - Brett Terpstradrdrang/te-url-snippetsdrdrang/tedist[SPONSOR] Squarespace (30% off 3 months with `buttonitup`)[SPONSOR] Byword • A Simple Text Editor for Mac and iOSfsck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[img] X-Men & Amazon FlowUse “Mobile Documents” Folder To Sync Files with iCloud Across MacsEternal September - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaApplejack Project PageRadius 81/110 - All thisLaurelhurst Market Restaurant and Butcher Shop Portland, ORVideo: Merlin's Time & Attention Talk (Improvised Rutgers Edition) | 43 FoldersSponsored by Byword, Squarespace, and Smile.","content_html":"This week, Dan and Merlin tackle the problem of changing cultures at work. It's not a snapshot, it's not a kitchen table, and it may actually have surprisingly little to do with you.
\n\nWhich is complicated.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Byword, Squarespace, and Smile.
","summary":"TOPIC: How work culture's like children.","date_published":"2012-03-19T17:45:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/875bfb50-ad1a-4841-bca2-3c11d5028b64.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":58787968,"duration_in_seconds":7296}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/58","title":"Episode 58: Girl with the QR Tattoo","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/58","content_text":"TOPIC: Changing Inputs\n\nDan turns Merlin's technical difficulties into a discussion of discovering and paying attention to things that have a high ROI.\n\nIt's not about who you think you are, or the latest and loudest thing. You'll miss something even if you follow 1000 blogs, so remember who you really are.\n\nLa pregunta: ¿Que hacer?\n\nLinks for this episode:Squarespace Food Truck (@ SxSW, Mar 9-17)[PDF] Squarespace-Food-Truck-MenuBrightkite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaTime Management, Productivity, & Project Tracking Software (Mac/PC) | RescueTimeSpirited Away - drikin.com - the Mac wayHibari: A Mac Twitter client with keyword filtering, muting, inline saved search results, inline conversations, tweet lookup, and moreThe Beatles in Hamburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRazzledazzle | You Look Nice TodayMarked: MultiMarkdown preview, everywhereNoodlesoft | HazelLearn more about Labs features - Google Calendar HelpAwayFind - Mobile notifications for priority messages. The email management solution for Gmail and Exchange.OtherInbox | Save your inbox for real peopleSuperDuper!OmniFocus for Mac - Products - The Omni GroupYour Outboard Brain Knows AllMy Blog, My Outboard Brain - O'Reilly MediaOne Foot Tsunami by Paul KafasisThe PresurferkickingbearGmail - Priority Inbox – mailMakebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now) | 43 FoldersDreyfus model of skill acquisition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple opinion and news | The LoopTip of the tongue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFlow (psychology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFile:Challenge vs skill.svg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAmazon.com: Unix in a Nutshell, Fourth Edition (9780596100292): Arnold Robbins: Bookskung fu grippe • tedfromtheinternet: On a recent 5by5 AD, Dan and...AppleJack Project PageSponsored by Squarespace.com (30% off 3 months, with offer code, buttonitup)","content_html":"TOPIC: Changing Inputs
\n\nDan turns Merlin's technical difficulties into a discussion of discovering and paying attention to things that have a high ROI.
\n\nIt's not about who you think you are, or the latest and loudest thing. You'll miss something even if you follow 1000 blogs, so remember who you really are.
\n\nLa pregunta: ¿Que hacer?
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Squarespace.com (30% off 3 months, with offer code, buttonitup)
Merlin and Dan talk about successful lawn care secrets and getting angry over dog poop, paper towels, duck crossings, and the Dark Side.
\n\nNo one ever saw the error of their ways because they saw a note from Management. Instead of counting piles and grabbing coals, maybe act a little more like Mr. Rogers.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
buttonitup)Merlin and Dan talk about your attachment to old coffee cups, Captain America glasses, and Grandma's underwear cabinet—all the physical (and emotional) clutter that keeps you from making the things you love and having the life you want. The Kipple.
\n\nSee: it's not a red snapper problem, it's an emotional problem. So, quit being scared of your fridge, or your inbox, or your todo list. Just suck it up, buy some contractor bags, and never organize another thing that's not worth keeping.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by TinyLetter and Shopify.
","summary":"TOPIC: The Cost of Clutter","date_published":"2012-02-28T16:45:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/9709177a-29e8-4c4d-a12f-5130e8bc2f0b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":42365056,"duration_in_seconds":5243}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/55","title":"Episode 55: The Pickles Never Touch","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/55","content_text":"This week Dan and Merlin ponder why there's so much variability in the quality of our work. \n\nWhether we're making code, scrubbing toilets, or stinking up the Arby's, what explains our individual drive to do something better?\n\nLinks for this episode:Features - SquarespaceSponsored by 1Password and Squarespace.","content_html":"This week Dan and Merlin ponder why there's so much variability in the quality of our work.
\n\nWhether we're making code, scrubbing toilets, or stinking up the Arby's, what explains our individual drive to do something better?
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by 1Password and Squarespace.
","summary":"TOPIC: Agency, Dignity, and Why We Work.","date_published":"2012-02-21T17:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/00950de3-77a2-4d88-8a77-58ee35e85845.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":52234368,"duration_in_seconds":6477}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/54","title":"Episode 54: Freemium Mason","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/54","content_text":"Merlin and Dan talk about returning to paleo, the nature of wieners and discouragement, crown vic habits and anxiety addiction.\n\nYou won't beat it without a cocktail of grit and care with just the right amount of sacrifice.\n\nLinks for this episode:BRYCE DOT VCHot dog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia5by5 | 5by5 Specials #4: KindacriticalStudio Neat — WelcomeMy Family’s Experiment in Extreme Schooling - NYTimes.comWhat if the Secret to Success Is Failure? - NYTimes.comBear CSS - Helping you build a solid stylesheet foundation based on your markupCreators of Daily Challenge - MeYou HealthQuills Coffee - Welcome to Quills CoffeeQuit Touching My Toilet PaperPortland Hotel | Downtown Portland Oregon Hotels | Courtyard by Marriott HotelStu Maschwitz (5tu) on TwitterProlost - BlogIMDb - Stuart T. MaschwitzSimon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action - YouTubeHot Pockets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaLaurelhurst Market Restaurant and Butcher Shop Portland, ORThe Paleo Diet: A Link PrimerLo-Carb Chicago Dog | Flickr - Photo Sharing!United Airlines - Airline Tickets, Airline Reservations, Flight AirfareSponsored by Smile and Squarespace.","content_html":"Merlin and Dan talk about returning to paleo, the nature of wieners and discouragement, crown vic habits and anxiety addiction.
\n\nYou won't beat it without a cocktail of grit and care with just the right amount of sacrifice.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Smile and Squarespace.
","summary":"TOPIC: Grit and Care and Sacrifice","date_published":"2012-02-16T16:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/0601b97f-56cc-4e88-bfb1-8a5b121376a8.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":46033024,"duration_in_seconds":5702}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/53","title":"Episode 53: The Wages of Security","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/53","content_text":"In the most average episode ever, Merlin and Dan talk physical and digital work environments so you can get going in the right direction and don't have to spend all day on it.\n\nAnd, when do you know you don't want 10 times more of something and what do you do about it? There's no guarantee of security, even if you show up sober, so start acting like an entrepreneur and choose what you want 10 times more of.\n\nLinks for this episode:An Unfortunate Little Man - Merlin MannSlideshow 2.0 - Blog - The Official Squarespace BlogTop 10 Programming FontsSolarized - Ethan Schoonoverdeplorableword/textmate-solarized - GitHubfilmgirl/TextMate-Themes - GitHubAppearance Manager - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaByword • A Simple Text Editor for Macoctothorpe - WiktionaryCalepinMerlin’s Calepin ThingeePelican — Pelican v2 documentationPygments — Python syntax highlighterSanta's Village artifacts | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Slideshow 2.0 - Blog - The Official Squarespace Blogkung fu grippe • An Unfortunate Little Man For today’s Back to...kung fu grippeAwkward Stock PhotosHibari: A Mac Twitter client with keyword filtering, muting, inline saved search results, inline conversations, tweet lookup, and moreCD-i - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaVIDEO: Mitchell & Webb - \"A New Führer\"The Front Linekung fu grippe • “Yet, here we are.” Same way, if you’re caught...Rabbit #2 | Flickr - Photo Sharing![SPONSOR] Squarespace.com - 15% off 6 months with code `bulkbag`Five terrible fake “Morning Zoo” teams | 5ivesLife Without Gluten: Perspectives | KQED Public Media for Northern CASci-Fi Hi-Fi - \"How to form a stampede of engineers at Tumblr HQ.\"The compleat Menlo/Vera Sans comparison - All thisAmazon.com: The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety (Vintage) (9780307741202): Alan W. Watts: BooksM+ OUTLINE FONTS | DESIGNScared Shitless | 43 Foldersviolasong | Hibari design philosophySponsored by Squarespace.","content_html":"In the most average episode ever, Merlin and Dan talk physical and digital work environments so you can get going in the right direction and don't have to spend all day on it.
\n\nAnd, when do you know you don't want 10 times more of something and what do you do about it? There's no guarantee of security, even if you show up sober, so start acting like an entrepreneur and choose what you want 10 times more of.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Squarespace.
","summary":"TOPIC: Work Environments and 10x More","date_published":"2012-02-07T15:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/66da04e3-f4b6-4dcf-a53b-a058dcfb464b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":56356074,"duration_in_seconds":6957}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/52","title":"Episode 52: Walk the Coastline, Bitches","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/52","content_text":"TOPIC: The Hidden Cost is the True Cost\n\nMerlin is back from MacWorldPipeiWorld to talk with Dan about the True Cost of iceberg lettuce, an anchor tenant, 20 minutes of your time, and how much of your life you're going to eat sand.\n\nYou don't have a TARDIS to make it back to pick up your kid or make it to Built to Spill so walk the coastline.\n\nLinks for this episode:Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis: Natalie Portman from Comedy Deathray, Between Two Ferns, Natalie Portman, Zach Galifianakis, Scott Aukerman, and BJPorterBetween Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: Conan O'Brien & Andy Richter from Between Two Ferns, Andy Richter, Conan O'Brien, Zach Galifianakis, Comedy Deathray, Scott Aukerman, and BJPorterMandy Patinkin - IMDbAlien Nation (1988) - IMDbMerlin Mann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediasnopes.com: Handyman's Invoice5by5 | After Dark #75: PamphletMichael Wolfe's answer to Engineering Management: Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3? - QuoraThat design is money! A better ATM experience from Wells FargoHow Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFractal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSponsored by Squarespace.","content_html":"TOPIC: The Hidden Cost is the True Cost
\n\nMerlin is back from MacWorldPipeiWorld to talk with Dan about the True Cost of iceberg lettuce, an anchor tenant, 20 minutes of your time, and how much of your life you're going to eat sand.
\n\nYou don't have a TARDIS to make it back to pick up your kid or make it to Built to Spill so walk the coastline.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Squarespace.
","summary":"TOPIC: The Hidden Cost is the True Cost","date_published":"2012-01-31T15:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/1844bf47-0e9a-4204-b570-ffacb98e597f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":36987008,"duration_in_seconds":4571}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/51","title":"Episode 51: Living Inside the Nonsense","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/51","content_text":"TOPIC: Slipping on Dates, Sliding on Days\n\nMerlin and Dan talk about managing projects, scheduling calls, and being home when you scheduled a party. It SEEMS SO SIMPLE but then Jeannie has to go to Guam and slipping is your SOP.\n\nThe way out of this quagmire is to admit you can't get out of it. You can't change a culture of slipping with a poster or a fairy princess. You have to fix the slides if you want to fix the slips.\n\nLinks for this episode:Google Web FontsAgile Online StoreSponsored by 1Password and Squarespace.","content_html":"TOPIC: Slipping on Dates, Sliding on Days
\n\nMerlin and Dan talk about managing projects, scheduling calls, and being home when you scheduled a party. It SEEMS SO SIMPLE but then Jeannie has to go to Guam and slipping is your SOP.
\n\nThe way out of this quagmire is to admit you can't get out of it. You can't change a culture of slipping with a poster or a fairy princess. You have to fix the slides if you want to fix the slips.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by 1Password and Squarespace.
","summary":"TOPIC: Slipping on Dates, Sliding on Days","date_published":"2012-01-24T15:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/ff726388-a520-443a-9757-24148b1ad377.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":40032384,"duration_in_seconds":4952}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/50","title":"Episode 50: The Pork Soup Paradox","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/50","content_text":"TOPIC: What to do if you fear a layoff.\n\nMerlin and Dan talk about rumors of layoffs—when the fear gets you, and you start filing in the narrative with a panther, even if you're developing the best-of-breed cereal portal or have been in the newspaper's Accounts Payable department for 20 years.\n\nWhat do you do at the fork in the road? Do you interview with The Bobs? Do you just grow up and ask what the hell's happening? Do you try to pray away the hurricane?\n\nOr, do you just get tragically okay with being 10 times more terrified for 10 more years?\n\nYes: there are lessons from The Wire.\n\nLinks for this episode:Amazon.com: The DV Rebel's Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap (9780321413642): Stu Maschwitz: BooksStu Maschwitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaProlost - BlogNoble savage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Wire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Industry Standard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Big Lebowski (1998) - IMDb5by5 | 5by5 at the Movies #1: GoodfellasRodgers Forge Snow Journal: Curbside Lawn Chairs and Parking Wars - Towson, MD PatchGorf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaArcadeCab- MAME cabinet plans and related information5by5 | Back to Work #49: The Field of Completion5by5 | Back to Work #1: Alligator in the Bathroomcn_image.size.s-guantanamo-bay.jpg (630×427)\"If anyone wants me, I’ll be in my autographed Batgirl photo with the Big Lebowski reference. \"Chasing Wildebeests - Scruffy - Scruffy | ThinkingOffice Space (1999) - IMDbAmazon.com: Marpac SleepMate 980A Electro-Mechanical Sound Conditioner: Health & Personal CareColors of noise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaX-Men Vol 1 110 - Marvel Comics DatabaseSponsored by Smile and Squarespace.","content_html":"TOPIC: What to do if you fear a layoff.
\n\nMerlin and Dan talk about rumors of layoffs—when the fear gets you, and you start filing in the narrative with a panther, even if you're developing the best-of-breed cereal portal or have been in the newspaper's Accounts Payable department for 20 years.
\n\nWhat do you do at the fork in the road? Do you interview with The Bobs? Do you just grow up and ask what the hell's happening? Do you try to pray away the hurricane?
\n\nOr, do you just get tragically okay with being 10 times more terrified for 10 more years?
\n\nYes: there are lessons from The Wire.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Smile and Squarespace.
","summary":"TOPIC: What to do if you fear a layoff.","date_published":"2012-01-17T21:30:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/25e00c43-4341-480e-8caa-963d5fb3ce46.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":40761472,"duration_in_seconds":5043}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/49","title":"Episode 49: The Field of Completion","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/49","content_text":"John Gruber joins Merlin to talk about blog engines, Lego, bias, credibility, the project triangle, and (duh) Star Wars. \n\nLinks for this episode:Project triangle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaStar Wars Vintage KENNER Commercial - Death Star - YouTubeThe Phantom Edit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaStar Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Edit » Fanedit.org – Home of the faneditsstar wars despecialized - Google SearchBehind the Scenes of Harmy's Star Wars \"Despecialized Edition\" - Screened5by5 | The Talk Show #57: The Banana Window5by5 | The Talk Show #71: HashcowLegacy Tobacco Documents Library: About the Collectionsre: agreements between Stallone and Asso... (hlm56b00)Amazon.com: Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy (9780439882828): Matthew Reinhart: BooksAmazon.com: Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives (9781931498715): George Lakoff, Howard Dean, Don Hazen: BooksEco - \"Writings: IBM vs. Mac\"43f Podcast: John Gruber & Merlin Mann's Blogging Panel at SxSW | 43 Folderskung fu grippe • Star Wars Pop-Up Book Per Back to Work #49. ...Bullshit – Marco.orgSponsored by Harvest and Rackspace.","content_html":"John Gruber joins Merlin to talk about blog engines, Lego, bias, credibility, the project triangle, and (duh) Star Wars.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Harvest and Rackspace.
","summary":"","date_published":"2012-01-10T09:45:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/6e39ef24-bf47-4bcb-aebc-3fec63a8f27e.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":48928896,"duration_in_seconds":6064}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/48","title":"Episode 48: An Abrupt Existential Jerk","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/48","content_text":"TOPIC: How habits get made. \n\nDan and Merlin are back for 2012 to discuss how habits are like little hairs or inertia or homeostasis or something. How we build habits, how they get built for us, and what we can learn about habits from making our daily coffee.\n\nLinks for this episode:Shutting Down My Porno Site | Pat DryburghAmazon.com: Thinking, Fast and Slow (9780374275631): Daniel Kahneman: BooksAvailability heuristicTurn your key, sir!Photic sneeze reflexkung fu grippe • annicka: zombiesenelghetto: Black Flag,...HomeostasisAmazon.com: Cuisinart DCC-1200 Brew Central 12-Cup Programmable Coffeemaker, Black/Brushed Metal: Kitchen & DiningFood drives: Charities need your money, not your random old food. - Slate MagazineBetterAmazon.com: Sakura IDenti-Pen Permanent Dual-Point Pen, Black: Arts, Crafts & SewingAmazon.com: uni-ball Gel RT Micro Point Retractable Pens, 12 Blue Ink Pens(69035): Office ProductsAmazon.com: uni-ball Deluxe Fine Point Roller Ball Pens, 12 Black Ink Pens (60052): Office ProductsJetPens.com - Japanese Pens and StationeryThinking, Fast and Slow - FT.comThis explains so much. | MetaFilterThe Forehead Ticket Trick | 43 FoldersUseful Landmines - 43FoldersWikiDaniel Kahneman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[SPONSOR] Squarespace.com (use code `bigweek` for 30% off 3 months)Between the Lines - Features - Los Angeles magazineAntonio Gramsci - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCategory:Cognitive biases - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaGolden Gate Bridge: Construction InformationBig Miracle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSponsored by Squarespace and Sponsor 5by5.","content_html":"TOPIC: How habits get made.
\n\nDan and Merlin are back for 2012 to discuss how habits are like little hairs or inertia or homeostasis or something. How we build habits, how they get built for us, and what we can learn about habits from making our daily coffee.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Squarespace and Sponsor 5by5.
","summary":"TOPIC: How habits get made. ","date_published":"2012-01-03T18:45:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/1c6db804-ae0d-4d2d-b8d6-9b32b61fdf4a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":37664896,"duration_in_seconds":4656}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/47","title":"Episode 47: Utter Failure & Hotel Steak","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/47","content_text":"TOPIC: Resolving to skip the New Year's resolutions.\n\nIn the last episode of 2011, Merlin and Dan talk about fresh starts and modest changes rather than rehearsing for sucking. You don't need a calendar to tell you to change. Whether you want to give up nail biting, onanism, or drinking a gallon of vodka a day, you need a plan and a tolerance for failure. Plus, a little care never hurts.\n\nHow to do it? Keep it small, keep it time-limited, keep it action-oriented.\n\nHappy New Year, jackals. We love you.\n\nLinks for this episode:Neven Mrgan's tumbl - \"Focused dabbling\"5by5 | The Talk Show #72: H.R. FluffypuffLooking back at our fresh starts & modest changes | 43 FoldersFight with kniveskung fu grippe - Blue-Sky SolutioneeringFive cues that Robert Plant is ready to have sexual intercourse with you « 5ivesTwitter - \"GoDaddy's the insane roommate…\"Ep. 14: \"Big City Apology\" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin MannSaturday Night Live: \"Kings of Catchphrase Comedy Tour Vol. 2\"Fresh Start: The Email DMZ | 43 Folderskung fu grippe • Fresh Start: The Email DMZ | 43 Folders Per B2W...iTunes - TV Shows - Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Remastered Editionlivin' the dream · A Step-by-Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddyAmazon.com: Horton Hears A Who! (9780394800783): Dr. Seuss: BooksExtensible Provisioning Protocol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSodastream | Turn Water Into Fresh Sparkling Water And SodaWater intoxication - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaOnan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSponsored by Squarespace and Sponsor 5by5.","content_html":"TOPIC: Resolving to skip the New Year's resolutions.
\n\nIn the last episode of 2011, Merlin and Dan talk about fresh starts and modest changes rather than rehearsing for sucking. You don't need a calendar to tell you to change. Whether you want to give up nail biting, onanism, or drinking a gallon of vodka a day, you need a plan and a tolerance for failure. Plus, a little care never hurts.
\n\nHow to do it? Keep it small, keep it time-limited, keep it action-oriented.
\n\nHappy New Year, jackals. We love you.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Squarespace and Sponsor 5by5.
","summary":"TOPIC: Resolving to skip the New Year's resolutions.","date_published":"2011-12-27T19:45:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/7eb4c5fd-8070-4a3f-8ab2-3236a68bb19c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":31230080,"duration_in_seconds":3851}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/46","title":"Episode 46: Not Counting the Mezzanine","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/46","content_text":"Topic: The Meta-Distractions of \"Minimalism\"\n\nThis week, Merlin and Dan get all \"Zen\" about bias and minimalism. Your background won't get any blacker, so stop burning cycles arguing on the internet or worrying about what other people think or how minimal you are. It's not about the bird skeletons, lion skins or barefoot girls. Unless that's what works. Just make sure it really works. \n\nLinks for this episode:kung fu grippe • Meet Thorstenson Finlandson[SPONSOR] Squarespace (30% off 3 months with code `fineformerlin`)[SPONSOR] 1Password (40% off everything for B2W listeners)The Hudsucker Proxy - \"Thorstenson Finlandson\"Fresh Starts & Modest Changes | 43 Folderskung fu grippe • 43 Simple Ways To Simplify Your LifeLarry Wall [Wikipedia]Marked: MultiMarkdown preview, everywhereRay Bradbury's Desk - mlkshkA man, a ball, a hoop, a bench (and an alleged thread)… TELLER! - Las Vegas WeeklyAmazon.com: Zen Flesh Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings (9780804831864): Paul Reps, Nyogen Senzaki: BooksAmazon.com: Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center (9781582432540): Michael Downing: Bookskung fu grippe • when love breaks downkung fu grippe • Non-Canonical So.Twitter / @TJLuoma: After 14 years of putting ...Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 21, Ernest HemingwayVIDEO - môr mnml - Merlin's Minimalist Workspace VIDEO - Penn & Teller's Bullet Catch Illusion (amazing!)kung fu grippe - Intro to RockpileMacBreak: Minimize distractions on your Mac | 43 FoldersMacGuffin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaM-OF.lux: software to make your life betterAmazon.com: Histoire De Babar Le Petit Elephant (9782010025198): Jean de Brunhoff, Jean Brunhoff: Bookskung fu grippe - \"Please Read\"Dem Bones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSatori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMusic Jokes, U2Is it safe to use baby powder on my baby? | BabyCenterThe View from Nowhere: Questions and Answers » PressthinkTwitter: \"Turns Out…\"Zazen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia5by5 | The Talk Show #71: HashcowOn The Verge, Episode 002: John Gruber | The VergeOfficial Gmail Blog: 2 hidden ways to get more from your Gmail addressDuran Duran - Planet Earth - YouTubeIMG: \"Some Hot Chick Typing in Her Underwear\"Amazon.com: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (9781590308493): Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick: BooksIMG: kung fu grippe • Minimally ZenVIDEO: Delta Rhythm Boys - \"Dem Bones\"kung fu grippe • ‘sda’ TextExpander saves you countless...Sponsored by 1Password, Squarespace, and Stitcher.","content_html":"Topic: The Meta-Distractions of \"Minimalism\"
\n\nThis week, Merlin and Dan get all \"Zen\" about bias and minimalism. Your background won't get any blacker, so stop burning cycles arguing on the internet or worrying about what other people think or how minimal you are. It's not about the bird skeletons, lion skins or barefoot girls. Unless that's what works. Just make sure it really works.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by 1Password, Squarespace, and Stitcher.
","summary":"Topic: The Meta-Distractions of \"Minimalism\"","date_published":"2011-12-20T17:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/ff2f04f3-cba3-482f-ade6-749ae66b3d92.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":40435840,"duration_in_seconds":5002}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/45","title":"Episode 45: Finagling the Tree Bag","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/45","content_text":"Topic: The Narcissism of Small Differences\n\nThis week, Merlin has a quiz for Dan to determine whether Ben Franklin, \"The Immigrant Song,\" or Quantum Mechanics has the most cultural impact--as well as his teasing out Dan's go-to for uninstalling Android apps.\n\nPaying attention to the same degree you care goes nicely with keeping a sense of humor. Especially about those small differences regarding couch cushions, pink spaceships, and Sgt. Pepper's.\n\nThe answers are Moby Dick, Julian calendars, ZoSo, chigger bites, and--yes--The Greater Nerd Theory.\n\nLinks for this episode:Benjamin Franklin's daily schedule | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Twitter / @joelhousman: @hotdogsladies @danbenjami ...Niels Bohr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia5by5 | The Talk Show #70: Pre-Lit5by5 | Back to Work #39: A Source of Rice with VelocityMerlin's Essay: BetterNarcissism of small differences - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaZoSo - Google Searchkung fu grippe • Easily, the best edition of this very important...Amazon.com: How the West Was Won: Led Zeppelin: MusicLarry Wall QuotesMcSweeney’s Internet Tendency: List: E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone.My Faith in Nerds: Stronger Than Any Gelatinous Cube | 43 FoldersElvis Presley - \"Too Much\" [worst. guitar solo. ever.]Led Zeppelin - \"Heartbreaker\" (live) [Slamming version; asinine guitar solo][SPONSOR] Smile Software (20% off with code `lastchance`)[SPONSOR] Squarespace (30% off 3 months with code `fineformerlin`)All My Love (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSponsored by Sponsor 5by5, Smile, and Squarespace.","content_html":"Topic: The Narcissism of Small Differences
\n\nThis week, Merlin has a quiz for Dan to determine whether Ben Franklin, \"The Immigrant Song,\" or Quantum Mechanics has the most cultural impact--as well as his teasing out Dan's go-to for uninstalling Android apps.
\n\nPaying attention to the same degree you care goes nicely with keeping a sense of humor. Especially about those small differences regarding couch cushions, pink spaceships, and Sgt. Pepper's.
\n\nThe answers are Moby Dick, Julian calendars, ZoSo, chigger bites, and--yes--The Greater Nerd Theory.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Sponsor 5by5, Smile, and Squarespace.
","summary":"Topic: The Narcissism of Small Differences","date_published":"2011-12-13T17:45:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/7354c908-c694-4ada-a5c4-d6516dc1ce0b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":33915008,"duration_in_seconds":4187}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/44","title":"Episode 44: Circuitous Bridge of My Own Design","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/44","content_text":"Topic: Moving from dumb nouns to awesome verbs.\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the problem with Capital Letter Nouns; how real and specific verbs will always trounce Excellence, Effectiveness, and Mission Statements--even in the Best-of-Breed Pursuance of Five-Nines Quality Across The Enterprise.\n\nThey also look at transitive and intransitive flavors of \"feasance,\" finding your keyboard's Excellence Key, opting-in for The Johnson Treatment, lancing that actionable boil, and (as ever) shooting the obvious fish in the obvious barrel.\n\nLinks for this episode:Merlin Loves 1Password on Vimeo5by5 Illustrated[SPONSOR] Squarespace (offer code: `fineformerlin`)[SPONSOR] 1Password (40% off everything for B2W listeners)Capgras delusion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSix Sigma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaUrban Dictionary: johnson rodAntiques, Collectibles, Shows, Clothing, Food, By the Bay, Alameda Point Antiques Faire and Michaans AuctionsCapital Letter Nouns v. lower-case verbs | 43 FoldersMission statement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAgile software development - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMarsEdit 3 - Desktop blog editing for the Mac.malfeasance legal definition of malfeasance. malfeasance synonyms by the Free Online Law Dictionary.App Store - Squarespace for iOSTexas Instruments TI-99/4A - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAmazon.com: The Uncanny X-Men: An Origin Story (9781423142997): Rich Thomas, Storybook Art Group: BooksAmazon.com: Uncanny X-Men Omnibus (v. 1) (9780785121015): Chris Claremont, Len Wein, Dave Cockrum, John Byrne: Books5by5 | The Conversation #27: Missionless StatementsIMAGE: Merlin's Giant X-Men OmnibusAmazon.com: Extreme Programming Pocket Guide (9780596004859): chromatic: BooksIMAGE: Merlin's New FramesFrakintosh - \"Hi.\"5by5 | Back to Work #2: Picture of a BoatSanta Claus Is Comin' to Town (TV special) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaWelcome to BrettTerpstra.com, home of Brett Terpstra and his nerderyFor your enjoyment and potentially limited usefulness - Blog -5by5 Illustratedkung fu grippe • “Remember…” Dan has confirmed that this handsome...Sponsored by 1Password, Sponsor 5by5, and Squarespace.","content_html":"Topic: Moving from dumb nouns to awesome verbs.
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin talk about the problem with Capital Letter Nouns; how real and specific verbs will always trounce Excellence, Effectiveness, and Mission Statements--even in the Best-of-Breed Pursuance of Five-Nines Quality Across The Enterprise.
\n\nThey also look at transitive and intransitive flavors of \"feasance,\" finding your keyboard's Excellence Key, opting-in for The Johnson Treatment, lancing that actionable boil, and (as ever) shooting the obvious fish in the obvious barrel.
Links for this episode:
Sponsored by 1Password, Sponsor 5by5, and Squarespace.
","summary":"Topic: Moving from dumb nouns to awesome verbs.","date_published":"2011-12-07T07:30:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/fe9cdddc-e82a-4d30-ac42-1fc2021484a9.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":35920000,"duration_in_seconds":4438}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/43","title":"Episode 43: I Return Null","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/43","content_text":"Topic: Asking questions in order to find better questions\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin pick up their discussion of asking better questions and how sometimes the point of asking a question isn't to get an answer, but to get another, even better question.\n\nHow do you do this? Blundell Chains, hypotheses, the clackity noise, and iteration.\n\nLinks for this episode:[SPONSOR] TextExpander (coupon code: LASTCHANCE)[SPONSOR] Squarespace (offer code: `fineformerlin`)5by5 | Back to Work #42: Coconut HeadphonesAdam Lisagor – interview by Merlin MannVisual Customization | Squarespace Help & SupportAdvanced Customization | Squarespace Help & SupportRoderick on the Line - Merlin's new podcast Dan won't listen to.kung fu grippe - Check out TextExpander’s new “Fill” functionality....Amazon.com: The Essential Don Murray: Lessons from America's Greatest Writing Teacher (9780867096002): Donald M. Murray, Thomas Newkirk, Lisa C. Miller: BooksAmazon.com: A Writer's Coach: The Complete Guide to Writing Strategies That Work (9781400078691): Jack R. Hart: BooksAmazon.com: Spot Bakes a Cake (9780399227011): Eric Hill: Bookskung fu grippe - I got the “Spot” cake No words.The Man Who Sold the World (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHüsker Dü - \"New Day Rising\"kung fu grippe - Return of Humanity Horse Still brutal. ...JYI.org :: The Psychology of TimeMore of Jack Hart’s practical writing tips for authors, from A Writer’s Coach: The Complete Guide to Writing Strategies That WorkGetting Into the Writing Game, With Words of Advice From a Coach | Special English | Learning Englishkung fu grippe - Appreciating Donald Murraykung fu grippe - Making the Clackity Noisekung fu grippe - Questions, questions 43 Folders - “Makebelieve...Video: Merlin's Time & Attention Talk (Improvised Rutgers Edition) | 43 FoldersExamples - Squarespacekung fu grippe - Sample Blundell Chain Super-useful. (Featured...Sponsored by Sponsor 5by5, Smile, and Squarespace.","content_html":"Topic: Asking questions in order to find better questions
\n\nThis week, Dan and Merlin pick up their discussion of asking better questions and how sometimes the point of asking a question isn't to get an answer, but to get another, even better question.
\n\nHow do you do this? Blundell Chains, hypotheses, the clackity noise, and iteration.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Sponsor 5by5, Smile, and Squarespace.
","summary":"Topic: Asking questions in order to find better questions","date_published":"2011-11-30T08:30:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/bfc679e4-2a68-4677-ac77-e48cfb3bb36c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":28899692,"duration_in_seconds":3525}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/42","title":"Episode 42: Coconut Headphones","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/42","content_text":"This week Dan and Merlin talk about asking good questions instead of massaging your real problem until it fits the comforting solution you found on the cover of a magazine.\n\nLinks for this episode:Macworld Check your music's iCloud Status | Music and AudioMacSparky - Blog - Macworld 2012 - Rob Corddry and a Magic Show The Mountain Goats - \"This Year\" (2005)Lyrics: The Mountain Goats - \"This Year\"[SPONSOR}: Squarespace.com (offer code = `soangry`)Publication bias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAs Dutch Research Scandal Unfolds, Social Psychologists Question Themselves - Research - The Chronicle of Higher EducationThinking, Fast and Slow - FT.comArrow’s other theorem « Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social ScienceHow to upgrade tracks to iTunes Match, fast | MacworldFive terrible fake AC/DC songs about how hard it is to be in a band « 5ivesEarth-616 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediakung fu grippe: \"…And Snacks\"Jack ChengGive Me Something To ReadLongreads: The best long-form stories on the webfile-drawer effect - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.comMagical thinking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCargo cult - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCold reading - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaOfficial Web Site of The Secret and The PowerThe Secret (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaGhost in the Machine (The Police album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaLies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science - Atlantic MobileSophie's Choice (1982)The Greatest Salesman in the World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaZig Ziglar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCategory:Self-help books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediakung fu grippe - Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg by Richard Hugo ...Bank of America hires Malcolm Gladwell to attract small business clients | The Raw StoryA Very Old Man with Enormous Wings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAndré Breton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaGomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia5by5 | After Dark #60: After Back To Work #42VIDEO: Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now) [43 Folders]kung fu grippe - Questions, questions 43 Folders - “Makebelieve...kung fu grippeSponsored by Sponsor 5by5, Reinvigorate, and Squarespace.","content_html":"This week Dan and Merlin talk about asking good questions instead of massaging your real problem until it fits the comforting solution you found on the cover of a magazine.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Sponsor 5by5, Reinvigorate, and Squarespace.
","summary":"This week Dan and Merlin talk about asking good questions instead of massaging your real problem until it fits the comforting solution you found on the cover of a magazine.\n","date_published":"2011-11-22T16:45:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/eff35f8c-8627-4cdf-be9d-7676b02c480b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":36931712,"duration_in_seconds":4564}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/41","title":"Episode 41: Carpal Tunnel Diem","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/41","content_text":"Dan and Merlin talk more about why we get stuck and how might re-think getting \"unstuck.\" Looking at process over product, remembering how you got here, and getting clear about what you're really trying to make.\n\nMerlin also has some updates and tips for your iTunes Matching and your Google searching.\n\nLinks for this episode:The Great Style Revival - Blog - The Official Squarespace BlogSearch using your terms, verbatim - Inside SearchCaptain Beefheart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia5by5 | Hypercritical #42: The Wrong GuyThe Metamorphosis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaElizabeth Gilbert's official websiteKeyBindings: new, improvedMarked scripts: nvALT, Evernote, MarsEdit, Scrivener - Brett TerpstraElizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity | Video on TED.comSestina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBallpark Seating Chart | SFGiants.com: BallparkCastilian Spanish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[SPONSOR] Squarespace.comOne Hundred Years of Solitude - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAbout a little thing called 750 WordsAmazon.com: Captain Beefheart: The Biography (9780815411901): Mike Barnes: BooksThe Stranger (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAmazon.com: Steve Jobs (9781451648539): Walter Isaacson: BooksThinking, Fast and Slow - FT.comIMG: Smart Playlist for troubleshooting iTunes Match errorsHow to write a book, part 2 « Scott Berkun(Planet Money) The Giant Pool of Money | This American LifeCheck your music's iCloud Status | MacworldAmazon.com: Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction (0790145196705): Steve McConnell: BooksAmazon.com: Led Zeppelin III: Led Zeppelin: MP3 DownloadsAmazon.com: The Uncanny X-Men: An Origin Story (9781423142997): Rich Thomas, Storybook Art Group: BooksAmazon.com: Uncanny X-Men Omnibus (v. 1) (9780785121015): Chris Claremont, Len Wein, Dave Cockrum, John Byrne: BooksPocket Full of Kryptonite - Spin Doctors | AllMusicFingertips - TMBW: The They Might Be Giants Knowledge BaseMacworld '12 - \"40 OS X Tips in 40 Minutes\" - David Sparks, Brett Terpstra, Merlin MannDusty Rhodes (wrestler) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaChampionship Wrestling from Florida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediakung fu grippe - Making the Clackity NoiseAnti-pattern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSponsored by Reinvigorate, Sponsor 5by5, and Squarespace.","content_html":"Dan and Merlin talk more about why we get stuck and how might re-think getting \"unstuck.\" Looking at process over product, remembering how you got here, and getting clear about what you're really trying to make.
\n\nMerlin also has some updates and tips for your iTunes Matching and your Google searching.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Reinvigorate, Sponsor 5by5, and Squarespace.
","summary":"Dan and Merlin talk more about why we get stuck and how might re-think getting \"unstuck.\" Looking at process over product, remembering how you got here, and getting clear about what you're really trying to make. \n\nMerlin also has some updates and tips ","date_published":"2011-11-15T18:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/dbe5c29f-8481-497e-adc0-3893932644c3.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":39663744,"duration_in_seconds":4906}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/40","title":"Episode 40: Dirty South Is Off the Menu","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/40","content_text":"Dan and Merlin talk about what it means for Google to change the meaning of \"plus,\" and how it might bolster the production of \"stuff and needy.\"\n\nThey also consider options for \"getting unstuck\" with a creative project—how, sometimes, the constraints can help a lot more than the options.\n\nLinks for this episode:Code Library - Squarespace Code Library[SPONSOR] Squarespace.com (offer code: `soangry`)Sponsored by Squarespace.","content_html":"Dan and Merlin talk about what it means for Google to change the meaning of \"plus,\" and how it might bolster the production of \"stuff and needy.\"
\n\nThey also consider options for \"getting unstuck\" with a creative project—how, sometimes, the constraints can help a lot more than the options.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Squarespace.
","summary":"Dan and Merlin talk about what it means for Google to change the meaning of \"plus,\" and how it might bolster the production of \"stuff and needy.\"\n\nThey also consider options for \"getting unstuck\" with a creative project—how, sometimes, the constraints c","date_published":"2011-11-08T20:15:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/32b3e9eb-ab10-4c0b-b784-e17c4d825176.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":48300160,"duration_in_seconds":5985}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/39-episode-39","title":"Episode 39: A Source of Rice with Velocity","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/39","content_text":"On strength and tolerance.\n\nDan and Merlin talk about the many facets of strength, including the complexity of knowing what to be strong about, to whom, and when.\n\nIt's about way more than nailing the \"clean and jerk\" or yelling at Sips-His-Coffee-Really-Loud Guy. It's also about accepting all the things they just can't stand about you.\n\nAlso covered: the inescapability of Italian disco, maintaining an unassailable lawn, confronting skinny ladies in heels, negotiating D-minus hip-hop, and finding the will to spelunk all the way down the personal productivity stack.\n\nLinks for this episode:GarageBand for iOS goes universal, adds new features | Macworld@hotdogsladies: \"Watched a homeless guy throw fried rice at a pigeon for an hour. Would've left sooner but having an audience made them both try WAY harder.\"Ted (ted) on TwitterRoderick On The Line - a set on Flickr (Ted's awesome Roderick on the Line art)Giorgio Moroder ? Chase (theme from Midnight Express) - YouTubeGiorgio Moroder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaGiorgio Moroder Discography at DiscogsClean and jerk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPriapism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAbilify Side Effects | Drugs.comParrhesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSlaughterhouse-Five: \"Vy you? Vy anybody?\"kung fu grippe - Plastic Dim Sum Thingee (from the artist’s...[SPONSOR] Squarespace (use coupon code: `soangry`)Prolapse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCelebration, Florida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaLil Wayne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMetallica - Fade to Black (1985)Sponsored by Bare Bones and MailChimp.","content_html":"On strength and tolerance.
\n\nDan and Merlin talk about the many facets of strength, including the complexity of knowing what to be strong about, to whom, and when.
\n\nIt's about way more than nailing the \"clean and jerk\" or yelling at Sips-His-Coffee-Really-Loud Guy. It's also about accepting all the things they just can't stand about you.
\n\nAlso covered: the inescapability of Italian disco, maintaining an unassailable lawn, confronting skinny ladies in heels, negotiating D-minus hip-hop, and finding the will to spelunk all the way down the personal productivity stack.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Bare Bones and MailChimp.
","summary":"On strength and tolerance.\n\nDan and Merlin talk about the many facets of strength, including the complexity of knowing what to be strong about, to whom, and when.\n\nIt's about way more than nailing the \"clean and jerk\" or yelling at Sips-His-Coffee-Rea","date_published":"2011-11-01T17:15:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/e10b4557-31f1-4070-a495-5ce7406f326a.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":38996096,"duration_in_seconds":4822}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/38-sorry-you-can-t-have-a-candle","title":"Episode 38: Sorry. You Can't Have a Candle.","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/38","content_text":"On improving presentation culture.\n\nDan and Merlin talk about bombing the deck, advancing the slides, and striving to improve the self-perpetuating bad culture of presentations.\n\nSlide?!?\n\n(Also, kid germs in the spaghetti, meeting the angry corn guy, and moving closer to the metal with our Showbot hero.)\n\nLinks for this episode:Jeremy Mack (mutewinter) on TwitterKurtis Beavers IllustrationTurtle Log | A Programmer BlogAnapanasati - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[SPONSOR] Squarespace.com (use coupon code `merlinlovesus`)In which Crabby learns The Angry Dancing Corn is called, \"Cornzilla\" | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Amazon.com: Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft PowerPoint to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire (Bpg-Other) (9780735620520): Cliff Atkinson: BooksAmazon.com: Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (9780321525659): Garr Reynolds: Bookskung fu grippe - No pressure or anything.kung fu grippe - Prepping my “slides”Cedilla - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia43f Podcast: John Gruber & Merlin Mann's Blogging Panel at SxSWVideo: Merlin's Time & Attention Talk (Improvised Rutgers Edition)Scared ShitlessSeth Godin: Quieting the Lizard Brain on Vimeo[Merlin's Remote] Targus Multimedia Presentation Remote | AMP09USApp Store - Presentation ClockHow I Made My Presentations a Little Betterkung fu grippe - How my weird brain works If you’re curious—and...Sample: Presenter ModeVideo: Merlin's Macworld '09 Talk, \"Toward Patterns for Creativity\" - Merlin's Media - Video, Audio, Photos and More - Merlin Mann2 types of stories \"1. Hero goes on a journey 2. Stranger comes to town.\"The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaWebstock '11: Tom Coates - Everything the Network Touches on VimeoAmazon.com: A Writer's Coach: An Editor's Guide to Words That Work (9780375423277): Jack R. Hart: BooksViddler.com - Merlin Mann - Worst Website Ever - SXSW 2008 - Uploaded by rooreynoldsBusiness is Rockin | Stock Photo | iStockphoto.comCountryman Associates, Inc.Presentation ZenSponsored by Squarespace and TinyLetter.","content_html":"On improving presentation culture.
\n\nDan and Merlin talk about bombing the deck, advancing the slides, and striving to improve the self-perpetuating bad culture of presentations.
\n\nSlide?!?
\n\n(Also, kid germs in the spaghetti, meeting the angry corn guy, and moving closer to the metal with our Showbot hero.)
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Squarespace and TinyLetter.
","summary":"On improving presentation culture.\n\nDan and Merlin talk about bombing the deck, advancing the slides, and striving to improve the self-perpetuating bad culture of presentations.\n\nSlide?!?\n\n(Also, kid germs in the spaghetti, meeting the angry corn gu","date_published":"2011-10-25T15:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/1f93c2d3-d8ee-4c7f-bc08-90ab40fb2169.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":38520960,"duration_in_seconds":4763}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/37-never-not-everywhere","title":"Episode 37: It's Never Not Everywhere","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/37","content_text":"This week, Merlin loves and hates iCloud while loving and REALLY loving Dropbox. He and Dan observe angry corn, discuss emailing files to yourself, wonder what to do with an ugly photo, and explore Mr. Noodle's brother, Mr. Noodle.\n\nLinks for this episode:Apple - iCloud stores your content and pushes it to your devices.TextExpander: Mac Typing Shortcut Utility Saves You Time!The SetupDropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup - ForbesDropDAV: HomeInstapaper 4: Deciding to Read | 43 FoldersThe Combine 2011 - EventbeeSponsored by Sponsor 5by5, Smile, and Squarespace.","content_html":"This week, Merlin loves and hates iCloud while loving and REALLY loving Dropbox. He and Dan observe angry corn, discuss emailing files to yourself, wonder what to do with an ugly photo, and explore Mr. Noodle's brother, Mr. Noodle.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Sponsor 5by5, Smile, and Squarespace.
","summary":"This week, Merlin loves and hates iCloud while loving and REALLY loving Dropbox. He and Dan observe angry corn, discuss emailing files to yourself, wonder what to do with an ugly photo, and explore Mr. Noodle's brother, Mr. Noodle.","date_published":"2011-10-18T16:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/35cafbfd-9e63-4df2-99a6-88a13a4a9d20.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":59938944,"duration_in_seconds":7440}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/36-episode-36","title":"Episode 36: Writing on the Wind","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/36","content_text":"Merlin Mann talks with Dan Benjamin about his dogged obsession with the flexibility of index cards—for propping up tables, giving very small cuts, and getting babies hygienically removed. Then, there is much talk of graphing your focal length against your time and attention.\n\nLinks for this episode:The Dan Patrick Show | Official Home43f Podcast: John Gruber & Merlin Mann's Blogging Panel at SxSW | 43 Folderskickingbear» Blog Archive » About SteveAnne Lamott on index cards | 43 FoldersRichard Stallman Eats Something From His Foot - YouTubeNew Podcast: \"Roderick on the Line\" - John Roderick and Merlin MannScared Shitless | 43 FoldersGeena Davis - The Fly - YouTubeIntroducing the Hipster PDA | 43 FoldersMole (unit) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediakung fu grippe - Synecdoche, New York - Official Trailer I...This explains everything | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Armand Van Helden - Hear My Name - YouTubegladwell dot com - the social life of paperMake Magazine: \"Death to Paper! Long Live Paper!\"Video: Merlin's Macworld '09 Talk, \"Toward Patterns for Creativity\" - Merlin's Media - Video, Audio, Photos and More - Merlin MannSteve Jobs: a personal remembranceDaring Fireball: Universe Dented, Grass UnderfootA Strange Sort of Prison, a Strange Sort of FreedomPassenger 57 (1992) - IMDbHype Williams videography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAmazon: \"The Creative Habit\" by Twyla Tharpe[SPONSOR] - Squarespace - Build a Website, Create a Blog (coupon code: \"`MerlinLovesUs`\")[SPONSOR] - Byword • A Simple Text Editor for Mac[SPONSOR] - Byword on the Mac App StoreStallman: \"Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.\"[SPONSOR] - Adding an Audio Podcast | Squarespace Help & Support5by5 | 5by5 Specials #2: Thank You, Steve JobsJoe Mande - R.I.P. The Andy Rooney GameMy Neighbor, Steve Jobs - Palo Alto, CA PatchWhat if the Secret to Success Is Failure? - NYTimes.comFocal length - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaShould I Email Marco Arment? — Please don't email me.43 Folders: Thanks, SteveNo One Needs Permission to Be Awesome | 43 FoldersClassic Hype Williams Video: \"Woo Hah!! Got You All In Check\" by Busta RhymesMarked: MultiMarkdown preview, everywherenvALT 2.1 - Notational Velocity ForkMarkdown Service Tools - Brett Terpstra5by5 | The Talk Show #60: I Tip ProfuselySponsored by Sponsor 5by5, Byword, and Squarespace.","content_html":"Merlin Mann talks with Dan Benjamin about his dogged obsession with the flexibility of index cards—for propping up tables, giving very small cuts, and getting babies hygienically removed. Then, there is much talk of graphing your focal length against your time and attention.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Sponsor 5by5, Byword, and Squarespace.
","summary":"Merlin Mann talks with Dan Benjamin about his dogged obsession with the flexibility of index cards—for propping up tables, giving very small cuts, and getting babies hygienically removed. Then, there is much talk of graphing your focal length against your","date_published":"2011-10-11T21:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/66d85fc7-5643-4c01-98e2-37cd3cef1bf6.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":39676032,"duration_in_seconds":4907}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/35","title":"Episode 35: Why My Pants Were On Fire","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/35","content_text":"How to handle job interviews.\n\nMerlin and Dan can't solve the problem of interviews being dumb, but Merlin will tell you what is wrong with you, how long you'll have to wait for your resume to get you a job, how Larry Wall interviews for a Perl job, and whether or not the answer is always Yes, like they were just telling Stephen (yes, Hawking).\n\nLinks for this episode:Seduction community - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMerlin's Talk: \"With All Due Respect to the Seduction Community\"Larry Wall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaTwitter / @hotdogsladies: \"You guys know if there's any Monopoly Guy/Sir Topham Hatt slash fiction?\"Cold Stone Creamery Ice Cream CateringBlackjack ClassroomSerial position effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAmazon.com: What Color Is Your Parachute? 2011: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers (9781580082709): Richard N. Bolles: BooksJobHuntersBible.com:Résumé of Merlin Mann (10/2000)Alexandre Dumas, père - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAlexandre Dumas, fils - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCategory:Candy bars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRésumé of Dan Benjamin (06/2001)Awesome B2W-related sketchbook drawing. So great.kung fu grippe - You stay classy, MarriottKeyBinding madness - Brett TerpstraSiracusa said so. - Actual quotes, complaints, and wise sayings from John Siracusa as heard on 5by5's entertaining Hypercritical broadcast.Sales Representative at 5by5 Studios ~ Authentic JobsGood Will Hunting - Funny Job Interview (Ben Affleck) - YouTubeViddler.com - Merlin Mann - Worst Website Ever - SXSW 2008 - Uploaded by rooreynoldsQuote Details: Woody Allen: Eighty percent of success... - The Quotations PageAphasia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaTumblrSponsored by Sourcebits and Sifter.","content_html":"How to handle job interviews.
\n\nMerlin and Dan can't solve the problem of interviews being dumb, but Merlin will tell you what is wrong with you, how long you'll have to wait for your resume to get you a job, how Larry Wall interviews for a Perl job, and whether or not the answer is always Yes, like they were just telling Stephen (yes, Hawking).
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Sourcebits and Sifter.
","summary":"How to handle job interviews. \n\nMerlin and Dan can't solve the problem of interviews being dumb, but Merlin will tell you what is wrong with you, how long you'll have to wait for your resume to get you a job, how Larry Wall interviews for a Perl job, an","date_published":"2011-09-27T16:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/1c117fe8-0ce5-44cb-8630-e21cca24d765.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":45799552,"duration_in_seconds":5673}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/34-rectangular-door-conspiracy","title":"Episode 34: Rectangular Door Conspiracy","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/34","content_text":"How to say \"no.\"\n\nMerlin talks with Dan about saying No to toilet paper diamonds, mints on pillows, and things you don't have the wallet for instead of saying Yes to a crate of bananas you don't have enough information about or giving a qualified Yes to planning Christmas parties you don't have any interest in.\n\nLinks for this episode:THE SHINING (1979) analysis by Rob AgerAmazon.com: Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy (9780385531733): Martin Lindstrom: Books5by5 | Hypercritical #34: Pride in CraftsmanshipCognitive dissonance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHow Whole Foods \"Primes\" You To Shop | Fast CompanySponsored by HelpSpot and Rackspace.","content_html":"How to say \"no.\"
\n\nMerlin talks with Dan about saying No to toilet paper diamonds, mints on pillows, and things you don't have the wallet for instead of saying Yes to a crate of bananas you don't have enough information about or giving a qualified Yes to planning Christmas parties you don't have any interest in.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by HelpSpot and Rackspace.
","summary":"How to say \"no.\"\n\nMerlin talks with Dan about saying No to toilet paper diamonds, mints on pillows, and things you don't have the wallet for instead of saying Yes to a crate of bananas you don't have enough information about or giving a qualified Yes to","date_published":"2011-09-20T16:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/5cd517ab-e43d-400f-96ce-947427d7c841.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":31408256,"duration_in_seconds":3874}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/33","title":"Episode 33: The Hypocrite You Can Live With","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/33","content_text":"Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin have a totally natural emotional reaction to the unreasonable demands they place on themselves after reading The Spongebob Report. Maybe they wouldn't have offended non-ex-Marines if they had just taken some time and consulted their Manager of Expectations.\n\nLinks for this episode:kung fu grippe - [Probably the Greatest Keynote Slide of All Time]Dan Benjammin' (danbenjammin) on TwitterEddie Van Halen: The Complete 1978 Interviews[Dan] with the Les Paul (circa 1991) | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Is SpongeBob SquarePants Bad for Children? - NYTimes.comkung fu grippe - [\"the visual equivalent of being told you’re eating human flesh\"]Macramé - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaGuided by Voices - Game of Pricks (Amoeba Records) - YouTubeAshton Kutcher's Lady in Her PantiesHypercritical #33 [Jay-Sir on Markdown and why he doesn't use it]Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science - Magazine - The Atlanticsnopes.com: Microwaving Plastic Releases Cancer-Causing AgentsFAQs: Using Plastics in the MicrowaveTech Myth: Is it Safe to Microwave Plastic? | Apartment Therapy UnplggdChancre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAwayFind - Mobile notifications for priority messages. The email management solution for Gmail and Exchange.Gesneriaceae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCaillou: Games, Coloring and Activities | PBS KIDSDesigning With Web Standards, 3rd EditionWon’t somebody please think of the gerbils? [dive into mark]Blueprint: A CSS Framework | Spend your time innovating, not replicatingThe Effects of Fast-Paced CartoonsNickelodeon Responds to Study Claiming ‘SpongeBob’ Hinders Preschoolers’ Attention Spans - ABC NewsDorf on Golf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDorf On Golf 1 of 3 - YouTubeBuild and Analyze #42 [Dan explains 'The Double Speed Bit'] Don Draper: \"No. You do not 'COVER' for me; you MANAGE people's expectations.\"Sponsored by Campaign Monitor and Shopify.","content_html":"Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin have a totally natural emotional reaction to the unreasonable demands they place on themselves after reading The Spongebob Report. Maybe they wouldn't have offended non-ex-Marines if they had just taken some time and consulted their Manager of Expectations.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Campaign Monitor and Shopify.
","summary":"Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin have a totally natural emotional reaction to the unreasonable demands they place on themselves after reading The Spongebob Report. Maybe they wouldn't have offended non-ex-Marines if they had just taken some time and consulted","date_published":"2011-09-13T16:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/3181d1c4-cb23-42b1-b7b7-f59ab9f6d15d.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":34779264,"duration_in_seconds":4295}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/32","title":"Episode 32: The Beertruck Scenario","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/32","content_text":"Merlin and Dan talk about Dan's sabbatical, hotdogs, services, triggers, Quicksilver, Launchbar, and why there's no 'I' in 'ordnance.'\n\nSponsored by MailChimp and Smile.","content_html":"Merlin and Dan talk about Dan's sabbatical, hotdogs, services, triggers, Quicksilver, Launchbar, and why there's no 'I' in 'ordnance.'
\n\nSponsored by MailChimp and Smile.
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","summary":"With Dan on sabbatical, Merlin is joined by Jonathan Coulton to talk about traveling, horn sections, and Jonathan’s new album, \"Artificial Heart.\"","date_published":"2011-08-23T10:45:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/dcf11847-47e0-4416-8f3e-c1602aaf366b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":29515904,"duration_in_seconds":3637}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/29","title":"Episode 29: I Download FLAC","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/29","content_text":"With Dan on sabbatical, Merlin is joined by TV’s Rob Corddry (Children’s Hospital, The Daily Show, Hot Tub Time Machine) to talk about Getting Things Done, writing, fear, and finding success as a blood-soaked clown.\n\nLinks for this episode:Who Are You in Sex and the City? from Naked Babies and Jordan_MorrisRob Corddry Has A Broner from Funny Or Die, Rob Corddry, and BradX Lossless Decoder: Lossless audio decoder for Mac OS XHowardStern.com - Official site of The Howard Stern ShowHoward Stern denies 'Super 8' bootleg | Inside Movies | EW.comYouTube Blog: Broadcast YourselfAdult Swim Presents: Childrens Hospital Season 3Productive Talk Compilation: 8-episode podcast with GTD's David Allen | 43 FoldersBruce Seeds (bruceseeds) on Twitter [Thanks for help finding that SPY article!]PDF: \"Celebrity Refuseniks\" - _Spy_ March 1993Amazon.com: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (9780142000281): David Allen: Books[SPONSOR] Email Marketing and Email List Manager | MailChimp[SPONSOR] Website Builder - Build a Website, Create a Blog - Squarespace[SPONSOR] Wufoo: Online Form Builder - Create Web Forms & SurveysBloody Clowns, Sex, and Sickness: Childrens Hospital Premieres on Adult Swim Sunday - Page 3 - Blogcritics VideoAmazon.com: Let It Beard: Boston Spaceships: MusicAmazon.com: Bakesale: Sebadoh: MusicThelonious Monk - Monk's Dream - YouTubeBuild and Analyze #35: Fair and Balanced - 5by5Fluxtumblr - Guided By Voices \"Empties Crushed and Fired Away\"Ladies? | Flickr - Photo Sharing!BigChampagne - Online Media MeasurementFX Networks - Louie - Full Episodes and Exclusive VideoHairless Whisper - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 06/10/03 - Video Clip | Comedy CentralFlotsametrics and the Floating World: ExcerptChildrens Hospital Gets Renewed for Season 4 - News - TV.comblackrimglasses.comLake Bell - IMDbMPU 050: Workflows with David Wain « Mac Power UsersRob Corddry - IMDbDavid Wain - IMDbJonathan Stern - IMDbLostpedia - The Lost EncyclopediaOccam's razor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJ.J. Abrams - Lostpedia - The Lost EncyclopediaDamon Lindelof - Lostpedia - The Lost EncyclopediaBrian K. Vaughan - Lostpedia - The Lost EncyclopediaRob Corddry on Getting Things Done as an ActorThe Winner (TV Series 2007) - IMDbHarold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) - IMDbRob Corddry's Boston - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 07/27/04 - Video Clip | Comedy CentralSponsored by MailChimp, Squarespace, and Wufoo.","content_html":"With Dan on sabbatical, Merlin is joined by TV’s Rob Corddry (Children’s Hospital, The Daily Show, Hot Tub Time Machine) to talk about Getting Things Done, writing, fear, and finding success as a blood-soaked clown.
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","summary":"With Dan on sabbatical, TV's Rob Corddry talks with Merlin about Getting Things Done, writing, fear, and finding success as a blood-soaked clown.","date_published":"2011-08-16T17:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/368a4fbb-79dc-46ab-92e4-e1bdc1672adb.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":40038528,"duration_in_seconds":4953}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/28","title":"Episode 28: One Little Red Egg","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/28","content_text":"Dan and Merlin talk about kid stuff, including the threat of Hot Wheels® donation, the inevitability of skinned knees, the nefariousness of the hospital gift basket, plus an important way every Dad has to go pro.\n\nLinks for this episode:Wherein I go a touch more insane | dooce®30 Years Ago Today: The Day the Middle Class Died | MichaelMoore.comWoodcarving: What is your secret? « Outside the CaveAmazon.com: Naked Consumer: How Our Private Lives Become Public Commodities (9780140233032): Erik Larson: BooksPrepping. - mlkshkNeurosis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAmazon.com: The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two (Revised and Updated Edition) (9780316778008): William Sears, Martha Sears, Robert Sears, James Sears: BooksCurb Your Enthusiasm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBob Einstein - IMDbWelcome to Amy's Ice CreamsShabbos goy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[Sponsor] Sponsor: Smile SoftwareTextExpander: Mac Typing Shortcut Utility Saves You Time![Sponsor] Build a Website - Create a Blog - Squarespace[Sponsor] Wufoo: Online Form Builder - Create Web Forms & SurveysTheodor Herzl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSandwich VideoBreathless (1960 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHysteria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSponsored by Smile, Squarespace, and Wufoo.","content_html":"Dan and Merlin talk about kid stuff, including the threat of Hot Wheels® donation, the inevitability of skinned knees, the nefariousness of the hospital gift basket, plus an important way every Dad has to go pro.
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","summary":"Merlin and Dan discuss the shameful state of film school, the realities of Ape Law, Merlin's rock opera, and the subliminal downside of Spongebob's big promotion.","date_published":"2011-08-02T16:30:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/080e711f-bebc-4acd-b741-ae5251f47b0f.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":41136256,"duration_in_seconds":5090}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/26","title":"Episode 26: Spaghetti Guy Hits Close to Home","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/26","content_text":"This week Wutang Dan and The MZA bring the ruckus to finding a job, selling your Mustang, and putting your house on the market: remember that you can't negotiate with reality, Merlin can't do anything to make you love him, enthusiasm is irreplaceable, and you've got to find your position of strength. Protect ya neck!\n\nLinks for this episode:A Sandwich, A Wallet, and Elizabeth Taylor's Cousin | 43 FoldersFlow: Task Management and Online Collaboration for TeamsWufoo: Online Form Builder - Create Web Forms & SurveysBuild a Website - Create a Blog - Squarespacepony interior - Google SearchFord Mustang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaKat Von D - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAmazon.com: What Color Is Your Parachute? 2011: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers (9781580082709): Richard N. Bolles: BooksBack to Work #24: The Daddy for your Destiny - 5by5Back to Work #23: Failure is ALWAYS an Option - 5by5The Marketplace of IdeasSin-eater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFolk devil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSponsored by Flow, Squarespace, and Wufoo.","content_html":"This week Wutang Dan and The MZA bring the ruckus to finding a job, selling your Mustang, and putting your house on the market: remember that you can't negotiate with reality, Merlin can't do anything to make you love him, enthusiasm is irreplaceable, and you've got to find your position of strength. Protect ya neck!
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","summary":"This week Wutang Dan and The MZA bring the ruckus to finding a job, selling your Mustang, and putting your house on the market: remember that you can't negotiate with reality, Merlin can't do anything to make you love him, enthusiasm is irreplaceable, and","date_published":"2011-07-29T17:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/e6a1ede7-35dd-48a0-8b7f-6d09f4967eb0.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":45068416,"duration_in_seconds":5581}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/25","title":"Episode 25: My Food Court of Functionality","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/25","content_text":"Dan and Merlin talk about nerds getting problems and about using Markdown in BBEdit, Textmate or any text app because you need to find tools that remove friction, not distractions.\n\nLinks for this episode:OS X Lion and the state of the new 1Password extension (Updated) | Agile BlogDaring Fireball: MarkdownMultiMarkdownAnd now it’s all this (Blog of \"Dr Drang\")Welcome to BrettTerpstra.com, home of Brett Terpstra and his nerderyMacromedia HomeSite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCoeliac disease - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBuild and Analyze #34: My Best Dan Benjamin Impression - 5by5TextMate — The Missing Editor for Mac OS XBare Bones Software | BBEdit 10 is here!Posting style - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaText files and me IV - BBEdit and TextMate - All thisProjects - Brett TerpstranvALT 2.0 - Notational Velocity ForkBlogsmith Blogging Bundle for TextmateMarkdown Service Tools - Brett TerpstraSodastream | Turn Water Into Fresh Sparkling Water And SodaTextMate Manual » BundlesByword • A Simple Text Editor for MacUntitled-1.jpgTextMate Blog » Introduction to scopesByword MultiMarkdown GuideThink of Microsoft Word as the internetScott Schwartz - IMDbMPU 046: Workflows with Merlin Mann II « Mac Power UsersSponsored by OmniPlan 2 and Harvest.","content_html":"Dan and Merlin talk about nerds getting problems and about using Markdown in BBEdit, Textmate or any text app because you need to find tools that remove friction, not distractions.
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Sponsored by iStockphoto and MailChimp.
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\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Harvest and Sound Studio 4.
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\n\nSponsored by Rackspace and Shopify.
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\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by FreshBooks and OmniGroup: OmniFocus.
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\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Webtrends and MailChimp.
","summary":"Merlin Mann joins Dan Benjamin to talk about problems that are impossible, problems that are boring, problems that you're scared of, and why you need to differentiate between fear and anxiety so you can be scared of something interesting.","date_published":"2011-05-03T15:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/48d38dd1-eeae-415e-81db-f9e1d3d3f2fb.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":33278874,"duration_in_seconds":4073}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/13","title":"Episode 13: The Kid's Great","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/13","content_text":"Dan and Merlin talk about \"Cranking\" - Merlin's latest post at 43folders.com.\n\nLinks for this episode:Cranking | 43 Folders100% New Zealand BaconNetflix: Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run: 30th Anniversary Edition: Wings for Wheels: The Making of Born to RunNetflix: Cyrano de Bergerac» Chip Scanlan | Poynter.Male Answer SyndromeNetflix - Watch Louis C.K.: Chewed Up Amazon.com: The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing - Richard HugoBruce Springsteen - \"Thunder Road\" - London, 1975YouTube: Cyrano de Bergerac Theatre SceneThe Poetry of Project Management, by Jeffrey Veen \"May I mambo dogface to the banana patch?\" - kung fu grippe After Dark #18: After Back To Work 013 - 5by5 Sponsored by Worldview and Intuit.","content_html":"Dan and Merlin talk about \"Cranking\" - Merlin's latest post at 43folders.com.
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Sponsored by Worldview and Intuit.
","summary":"Dan and Merlin talk about \"Cranking\" - Merlin's latest post at 43folders.com.","date_published":"2011-04-26T11:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/522dc324-2532-4b4d-bd58-9b10c49832e3.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":44000319,"duration_in_seconds":5413}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/12","title":"Episode 12: Chewie's Medal is Not Canonical","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/12","content_text":"Merlin Mann has some \"followup\" before he and Dan Benjamin discuss entrusting your agency to others, how to reclaim it, and picking the right balance between expertise and challenge instead of fixing your metadata.\n\nLinks for this episode:The ASC -- American Cinematographer: Post Focus:002: Interview: Jonathan Coulton | The Merlin ShowDon't Run DOS - 30 Seconds with Phone Guy - Merlin MannKinda My Idea - 30 Seconds with Phone Guy - Merlin Mann_Inbox Zero_ cover - Merlin's Mockup ANH:R Change List | Star Wars Revisited NewsCsikszentmihalyi: Challenge vs Skill.jpegIn The Life Of...The Beatles: Purple Chick Discographykung fu grippe - RE: Chewie's MedalWIKIP: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (That \"Flow\" Guy)Video: John Roderick on String Art Owls, Copper Pipe, and Bono's Boss | 43 Folders Of Sawdust and Mistakes - kung fu grippe Sponsored by Audible and MailChimp.","content_html":"Merlin Mann has some \"followup\" before he and Dan Benjamin discuss entrusting your agency to others, how to reclaim it, and picking the right balance between expertise and challenge instead of fixing your metadata.
\n\nLinks for this episode:
Sponsored by Audible and MailChimp.
","summary":"Merlin Mann has some \"followup\" before he and Dan Benjamin discuss entrusting your agency to others, how to reclaim it, and picking the right balance between expertise and challenge instead of fixing your metadata.","date_published":"2011-04-19T14:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/6d038a79-9dac-4dd7-9e74-0cffdcad2cb8.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":31749986,"duration_in_seconds":3882}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/11","title":"Episode 11: Johnny Heuristic","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/11","content_text":"Merlin Mann joins Dan Benjamin to talk about futureproofing your passion by finding your obsession and voice, putting away your buggy whip and evolving, spreading your chips out across safe and risky investments, and taking smarter chances.\n\nLinks for this episode:The Pipeline #49: Philip Elmer-DeWitt - 5by5Sponsored by Shopify and King of the Apps.","content_html":"Merlin Mann joins Dan Benjamin to talk about futureproofing your passion by finding your obsession and voice, putting away your buggy whip and evolving, spreading your chips out across safe and risky investments, and taking smarter chances.
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Sponsored by Shopify and King of the Apps.
","summary":"Merlin Mann joins Dan Benjamin to talk about evolution, investing in roulette, taking smarter chances and futureproofing your passion.","date_published":"2011-04-12T14:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/2f9db95c-193a-4c4a-9113-0a04f1f95986.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":38232192,"duration_in_seconds":4727}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/10","title":"Episode 10: At Last the 'Inspiration' Show","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/10","content_text":"Dan and Merlin try to remove the airquotes from \"inspiration\" by talking about what it's great for (shipping better and more interesting stuff), what it's terrible for (getting started). Also covered: Dan's Old Testament name(s), part of Merlin's body that was once believed to be inspired by air, the problem with Some Hot Chick Typing in Her Underwear, TKTKTK writing tips, plus Batgirl. Always with the Batgirl.\n\nLinks for this episode:Music Thing: Practice in front of a bush: Captain Beefheart's rules for guitaristsSalvador Dali Museum (thedali.org) / The official site of the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, featuring a comprehensive collection of works by Salvador Dali.750 WordsTime Management, Productivity, & Project Tracking Software (Mac/PC) | RescueTimeLetters of NoteTSoYA: \"With All Due Respect to the Seduction Community…\" (Merlin Mann on Doing Creative Work)Amazon.com: MERLIN D MANN: WishlistWriter's Block 1 by =ScherbiusKick procrastination's ass: Run a dash | 43 FoldersProcrastination hack: '(10+2)*5' | 43 FoldersAt Last the 1948 Show - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHack your way out of writer's block | 43 FoldersFresh Starts & Modest Changes | 43 FoldersMPU 046: Workflows with Merlin Mann II « Mac Power UsersWebstock 2011 - Merlin Mann -\" Scared Shitless: How I (Mostly) Learned to Love Being Afraid of Pretty Much Everything\" [Merlin cries like a hobo pussy. Happy now?]“Distraction,” Simplicity, and Running Toward Shitstorms | 43 Folders\"Some Hot Chick Typing in Her Underwear\" (Now re-Tumblr-d 8656 times. KILL ME. —mdm) Wu Tang Clan - \"Triumph\" - In which Inspectah Deck drops the SINGLE GREATEST VERSE in hip-hop history [~00:00:36-00:01:25] Foo Fighters - \"Everlong\" Kraftwerk - \"Autobahn\" The Wrens - \"Everyone Choose Sides\" R.E.M. - \"Moon River\" & \"Pretty Persuasion\" (Live, 1984) Captain Beefheart on Letterman (ca. 1982) Blogsmith Bundle - Brett Terpstra Markdown Service Tools - Brett Terpstra Sponsored by Sound Studio 4 and Worldview.","content_html":"Dan and Merlin try to remove the airquotes from \"inspiration\" by talking about what it's great for (shipping better and more interesting stuff), what it's terrible for (getting started). Also covered: Dan's Old Testament name(s), part of Merlin's body that was once believed to be inspired by air, the problem with Some Hot Chick Typing in Her Underwear, TKTKTK writing tips, plus Batgirl. Always with the Batgirl.
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","summary":"Dan and Merlin improvise topics this week and get from Synechode, NY to dopamine, being scared and being safe, believing your thoughts and coloring your dreams, and solving problems by moving your hands instead of thinking.","date_published":"2011-03-22T14:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/ca6ba73b-defa-4ecf-b62e-8a10aacd7efe.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":34774906,"duration_in_seconds":4260}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/8","title":"Episode 8: Little Velvet Hands","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/8","content_text":"This week, Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin eighty-six their restaurant jobs—emptying grease traps, handling logs of meat, and sharing what they learned by bringing mostly bad food to America's table. Dan burns velvet hands, Merlin's Mom gives the guy with the coupon a kung fu, and old people want a monkey dish of sauce before they boost all your Sweet'N Low.\n\nLinks for this episode:43F Podcast: The Perfect Apostrophe | 43 FoldersSponsored by Sourcebits and Audible.","content_html":"This week, Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin eighty-six their restaurant jobs—emptying grease traps, handling logs of meat, and sharing what they learned by bringing mostly bad food to America's table. Dan burns velvet hands, Merlin's Mom gives the guy with the coupon a kung fu, and old people want a monkey dish of sauce before they boost all your Sweet'N Low.
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","summary":"This week, Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin eighty-six their restaurant jobs—emptying grease traps, handling logs of meat, and sharing what they learned by bringing mostly bad food to America's table. Dan burns velvet hands, Merlin's Mom gives the guy with th","date_published":"2011-03-15T14:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/cf881ebf-beee-4d79-bbb9-692317c65427.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":35500160,"duration_in_seconds":4385}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/7","title":"Episode 7: Vocational Wheel","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/7","content_text":"Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin relate to Richard–a listener in the middle of a quarter life crisis working jobs he doesn't like–with stories from their pasts, suggestions to combat the cascade of seriousness, and some first steps for breaking out of the vocational wheel.\n\nLinks for this episode:Quarter-life crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSaturn return - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaArtist's DatesThe Artist's WayMorning PagesWCA: \"Paul's Case\"Amazon.com: Writing Down the Bones eBook: Natalie Goldberg, Staughton Lynd: Kindle StoreNATALIE GOLDBERGMaking the Clackity Noise - kung fu grippeThe Artist's WayWhere Is the Ham? | You Look Nice TodayFL Driver's License; Summer, 1991 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Excerpts from Natalie Goldberg/Writing Down the Bones and Wild MindDoodle: easy schedulingdaybooksAmazon.com: The Essential Don Murray: Lessons from America's Greatest Writing Teacher (9780867096002): Donald M. Murray, Thomas Newkirk, Lisa C. Miller: BooksVachina | You Look Nice TodayWriting sensible email messages | 43 Folders Idiocracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mind Tools - Management Training, Leadership Training and Career Training How to Make a Mind Map® Appreciating Donald Murray (a/k/a, “Quit trying... - kung fu grippe YouTube - Idiocracy (2006) [trailer] Baron Karza - Google Image Search [SWEET Micronauts]\"Sounds like pops and buzzes from here\" [ERRATA] Melrin Regrets the Error: Back to Work, s01e07Vinyl Fever to close its doors this weekend Sponsored by FreshBooks and Rackspace.","content_html":"Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin relate to Richard–a listener in the middle of a quarter life crisis working jobs he doesn't like–with stories from their pasts, suggestions to combat the cascade of seriousness, and some first steps for breaking out of the vocational wheel.
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","summary":"Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin relate to Richard–a listener in the middle of a quarter life crisis working jobs he doesn't like–with stories from their pasts, suggestions to combat the cascade of seriousness, and some first steps for breaking out of the voc","date_published":"2011-03-08T12:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/2c3f9608-ec99-42c0-96e3-b8bcf5955d98.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":40289153,"duration_in_seconds":4949}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/6","title":"Episode 6: Expectational Debt","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/6","content_text":"Merlin Mann is back from Webstock and ready to recap with Dan Benjamin, which leads back to caring first, performance and fear, meditation, hypnotherapy, and why you really need the hard answer instead just more tips.\n\nLinks for this episode:The Conversation #27: Missionless Statements - 5by5MacSparky - Blog - Mac Power Users - Workflows with Merlin MannIntroducing the Hipster PDA | 43 FoldersMacGuffin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAmazon.com: Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers) (9781934356050): Andy Hunt: BooksAmazon.com: The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (0785342616224): Andrew Hunt, David Thomas: BooksBack to GTD: Do a fast \"mind-sweep\" | 43 FoldersBOOK: \"Creating Flow with OmniFocus,\" by Kourosh Dini, M.D. (HIGHLY recommended by Merlin)Hivelogic - The Paleo Diet: A Link PrimerAUDIO: Quotidian Public Radio - \"The 14-Second Work Year\"VIDEO: Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now) | 43 Folders PHOTO: \"We Look Nice Today\" by lonelysandwich - kung fu grippe Clear and Present Danger (1994)Amazon.com: The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play (9781585425525): Neil Fiore: Books Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology : The New Yorker Sponsored by MailChimp and CodeConf 2011.","content_html":"Merlin Mann is back from Webstock and ready to recap with Dan Benjamin, which leads back to caring first, performance and fear, meditation, hypnotherapy, and why you really need the hard answer instead just more tips.
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Sponsored by MailChimp and CodeConf 2011.
","summary":"Merlin Mann is back from Webstock and ready to recap with Dan Benjamin, which leads back to caring first, performance and fear, meditation, hypnotherapy, and why you really need the hard answer instead just more tips.","date_published":"2011-03-01T12:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/917ac257-3a4b-48d8-a043-415e1036b9a8.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":31257285,"duration_in_seconds":3820}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/5","title":"Episode 5: Chigger Bites on the Bus Driver","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/5","content_text":"Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin talk about the black art of paying attention to the right things, how lamps are no substitute, that it's hard whether you’re working from home or a cube, being honest about your expertise before looking for independence, and the need to move past inspiration.\n\nLinks for this episode:Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaTheory of Forms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDreyfus model of skill acquisition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Software Integrity Blog » Blog Archive » The Dreyfus Model - Back In The Spotlight? Sponsored by Shopify and King of the Apps.","content_html":"Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin talk about the black art of paying attention to the right things, how lamps are no substitute, that it's hard whether you’re working from home or a cube, being honest about your expertise before looking for independence, and the need to move past inspiration.
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","summary":"Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin talk about the black art of paying attention to the right things, how lamps are no substitute, that it's hard whether you’re working from home or a cube, being honest about your expertise before looking for independence, and t","date_published":"2011-02-15T15:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/2dbf5b0c-8d2f-4730-9350-9c3ff472ce6c.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":38882569,"duration_in_seconds":4773}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/4","title":"Episode 4: Failing with Style","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/4","content_text":"Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin talk about trying to change other people, how things really aren’t that bad, balancing fear or being driven by fear, leaving capacity for when you get The Pitch, procrastination (eventually), and giving yourself permission to fail in an interesting way. You’re not gonna get black lung from a spreadsheet.\n\nLinks for this episode:Why Wesabe Lost to Mint - Marc Hedlund's blogViktor Frankl - Wikipedia (\"…finding meaning in all forms of existence…\")Sponsored by MailChimp and Sourcebits.","content_html":"Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin talk about trying to change other people, how things really aren’t that bad, balancing fear or being driven by fear, leaving capacity for when you get The Pitch, procrastination (eventually), and giving yourself permission to fail in an interesting way. You’re not gonna get black lung from a spreadsheet.
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","summary":"Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin talk about trying to change other people, how things really aren’t that bad, balancing fear or being driven by fear, leaving capacity for when you get The Pitch, procrastination (eventually), and giving yourself permission to ","date_published":"2011-02-08T13:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/138691f8-0be2-4911-929e-bec2eaf20c4b.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":30995589,"duration_in_seconds":3787}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/3","title":"Episode 3: The Second Arrow","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/3","content_text":"Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin discuss ADD, Buddhism, mindfulness, concentration, and insight.\n\nLinks for this episode:Best of WikipediaMindfulness In Plain EnglishMindfulness in Plain English [Amazon]Red Barber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaWebstock 2011 — 14th-18th February 2011Amazon.com: The Wisdom of Insecurity (9780394704685): Alan W. Watts: BooksBacon Ray - \"Tomfoolery\" 7-inch (1995) [DL B2W's theme song, \"Plica Plica\"]Anne Lamott: Put the puppy back on the paper | 43 Folders Hillbilly Excel - 30 Seconds with Phone Guy - \"It's all buttoned up…\"Book: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life [MDM: \"...book with brown and green cover...\"]Merlin @ Webstock 2011: Keynote + Two New WorkshopsHüsker Dü - Zen Arcade (Side 2 of 4) [\"Punch it!\"]Webstock 2011 will be the mostest bestest scientifically proven amazingest conference ever. In the history of the world. Fact.","content_html":"Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin discuss ADD, Buddhism, mindfulness, concentration, and insight.
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Webstock 2011 will be the mostest bestest scientifically proven amazingest conference ever. In the history of the world. Fact.
","summary":"Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin discuss ADD, Buddhism, mindfulness, concentration, and insight.","date_published":"2011-02-01T12:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/3ac3046d-56e7-4958-befc-96a18db51461.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":36336314,"duration_in_seconds":4254}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/2","title":"Episode 2: Picture of a Boat","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/2","content_text":"Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin formulate a five-minute warning tactic before discussing the reality of bringing change to your company, some patterns that work for startups, solving the right problem at the right level, why you can’t find the innovation button, and using PathFinder as a Finder replacement.\n\nLinks for this episode:Video: Interview: Chris Wetherell | The Merlin ShowVideo: Interview: Chris Wetherell, Part 2 | The Merlin ShowBook: The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and David ThomasVideo: Path Finder video demo on MacBreak | 43 FoldersBook: Dynamics of Software Development by Jim McCarthy, Denis GilbertBook: Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy HuntWorkshop: \"Sinking your Sailboats: Managing Innovation by Saying True Things\" by Merlin @ Webstock 11App Pick: Path Finder 5 by Cocoatech (OS X File Browser/Finder Replacement)Skunkworks project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Image: One of Pavlov's dogs.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia MacGuffin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Evan Williams | evhead: Ten Rules for Web Startups [2005]Cognitive bias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaQuote: \"The awful thing about life is this: Everybody has their reasons\" (La règle du jeu, 1939) Image: \"Leave-A-Sign-About-Dog-Poop Guy\" This episode is sponsored by The Omni Group, makers of fine Mac and iOS apps like OmniFocus, OmniGraffle, and OmniOutliner.","content_html":"Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin formulate a five-minute warning tactic before discussing the reality of bringing change to your company, some patterns that work for startups, solving the right problem at the right level, why you can’t find the innovation button, and using PathFinder as a Finder replacement.
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This episode is sponsored by The Omni Group, makers of fine Mac and iOS apps like OmniFocus, OmniGraffle, and OmniOutliner.
","summary":"Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin formulate a five-minute warning tactic before discussing the reality of bringing change to your company, some patterns that work for startups, solving the right problem at the right level, why you can’t find the innovation but","date_published":"2011-01-25T13:00:00.000-06:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/316b04e9-2b1f-4ccb-98f1-28fe023874a8/44fa1f9d-e919-40a7-8dc5-241db4e3c4c4.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":35281468,"duration_in_seconds":4122}]},{"id":"http://5by5.tv/b2w/1","title":"Episode 1: Alligator in the Bathroom","url":"https://www.backtowork.limo/1","content_text":"In the inaugural episode of Back to Work, Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin discuss why they’re doing this show, getting back to work instead of buying berets, the lizard brain, and compare the Shadow of the Mouse to San Francisco, and eventually get to some practical tips for removing friction.\n\nLinks for this episode:Welcome to BrettTerpstra.com, home of Brett Terpstra and his nerderycarlhuda/janus - GitHubpractically efficient — technology, workflows, lifeMacSparky - BlogThe Brooks ReviewAnd now it’s all thisDan Rodney's List of Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts & Keystrokes43f Podcast: John Gruber & Merlin Mann's Blogging Panel at SxSW | 43 Folderswaffle software · ThisServiceOne Thing Wellhtml2text: THE ASCIINATOR (aka html2txt)The Conversation #27: Missionless Statements - 5by5Smash into Vim [Screencast]Sponsored by Postmark and Rackspace.","content_html":"In the inaugural episode of Back to Work, Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin discuss why they’re doing this show, getting back to work instead of buying berets, the lizard brain, and compare the Shadow of the Mouse to San Francisco, and eventually get to some practical tips for removing friction.
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