Back to Work

Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin discuss ADD, Buddhism, mindfulness, concentration, and insight.

Links for this episode:

• Best of Wikipedia
  
• Mindfulness In Plain English
  
• Mindfulness in Plain English [Amazon]
  
• Red Barber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Webstock 2011 — 14th-18th February 2011
  
• Amazon.com: The Wisdom of Insecurity (9780394704685): Alan W. Watts: Books
  
• Bacon 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 Workshops
  
• Hüsker 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.

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.

Links for this episode:

• Video: Interview: Chris Wetherell | The Merlin Show
  
• Video: Interview: Chris Wetherell, Part 2 | The Merlin Show
  
• Book: The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and David Thomas
  
• Video: Path Finder video demo on MacBreak | 43 Folders
  
• Book: Dynamics of Software Development by Jim McCarthy, Denis Gilbert
  
• Book: Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt
  
• Workshop: "Sinking your Sailboats: Managing Innovation by Saying True Things" by Merlin @ Webstock 11
  
• App 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 encyclopedia
  
• Quote: "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.

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.

Links for this episode:

• Welcome to BrettTerpstra.com, home of Brett Terpstra and his nerdery
  
• carlhuda/janus - GitHub
  
• practically efficient — technology, workflows, life
  
• MacSparky - Blog
  
• The Brooks Review
  
• And now it’s all this
  
• Dan Rodney's List of Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts & Keystrokes
  
• 43f Podcast: John Gruber & Merlin Mann's Blogging Panel at SxSW | 43 Folders
  
• waffle software · ThisService
  
• One Thing Well
  
• html2text: THE ASCIINATOR (aka html2txt)
  
• The Conversation #27: Missionless Statements - 5by5
  
• Smash into Vim [Screencast]
  

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