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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