Back to Work

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• Scotch-Mount™ Extreme Double-Sided Mounting Tape | 3M United States
  
• Community (TV series) - Wikipedia
  
• Magneto | Marvel Database | Fandom
  
• Story Structure 101: Super Basic Shit | Channel 101 Wiki | Fandom
  
• (10) Blade Runner 2049 Cells Interlinked Scene 1080p - YouTube
  
• Matter
  
• List of James Bond films - Wikipedia
  

DISCUSSED: Nicholson movies; Synology yums and yucks; difficulties of shows about music; upcoming rabbit rabbit plans.

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• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest What’s Up With the Epigraph? | Shmoop
  
• 1962–1966 - Wikipedia
  a/k/a "The Red Album"
  

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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• Reconcilable Differences #162: A Pile of Bed - Relay FM
  Remembering various animal actors, enumerating genres that need a name, considering the philosophies behind "bag in a bag," and contrasting college with the ordinary crucibles of post-adolescent life.
  

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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• Gordon Solie - Wikipedia
  
• Final Cut Pro - Wikipedia
  
• 2022 Mac Pro Rumored to Use Intel's Ice Lake Xeon W-3300 Chips - MacRumors
  
• System Of A Down - Chop Suey! (Official Video) - YouTube
  
• Descript | All-in-one audio/video editing, as easy as a doc.
  All-in-one audio
  

Find the tool you need—but, keep asking yourself, "Soooooo…now what?"

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• The paradox of abundance – Jon Udell
  
• Could Gen Z Free the World From Email? - The New York Times
  
• Difference Between Temples, Synagogues & Shuls | JewishBoston
  
• School Lunches, P-Hacking and the Original “Pizzagate” — Maintenance Phase — Overcast
  
• 469. The U.S. Is Just Different — So Let’s Stop Pretending We’re Not — Freakonomics Radio — Overcast
  
• Tony Buzan | Inventor of Mind Mapping
  
• How To Mind Map With Tony Buzan (Using 3 Simple Rules) | MindMaps Unleashed
  
• AmazonSmile : Cambridge Limited Business Notebook, Legal Ruled, 8-1/2" x 11", Top Bound, Action Planner, Black (06092) : Wirebound Notebooks : Office Products
  
• Wild Animals: Chimp Uses Twig to Fish for Termites - YouTube
  

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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• Could Gen Z Free the World From Email? - The New York Times
  “It’s actually crazy how outdated it is.” People born after AOL Mail was invented seem to prefer to communicate in almost any other way.
  

DISCUSSED: Dan begins a journey into new worlds of voice control and home automation.

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• Run Farther, Faster: tips from Endure author Alex Hutchinson.
  To run farther and faster, you must first train your mind.
  

DISCUSSED: Some ups and downs of living the smart speaker lifestyle.

Also: the dramatis personae of The Land of Make Believe; feeding the demon dogs; and learning to be careful with the words we put in front of other words.

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• I Midwest Hate Myself | Do By Friday
  This week’s challenge: explore smart lighting.
  

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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• BusyCal - The Best Calendar App for Mac
  
• Flexibits | Fantastical | The calendar and tasks app you won't be able to live without.
  
• He Layeth on High - YouTube
  

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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• Most Days on Vimeo
  I'm Merlin, and I'm making a video most days. Sometimes.