Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin talk about checking email under the table to catch up on your 27 high priority tasks, a good time to use the word priority, blowing cycles on meeting with Narnia's stakeholders, and getting tasks out of your dreamcatcher.

Links for this episode:

• BONUS AWESOME: Too Close to the Metal Wallpapers (Chainmail for Manatees)
  
• ESSAY: Mud Rooms, Red Letters, and Real Priorities | 43 Folders
  
• ESSAY: GTD: Priorities don't exist in a vacuum | 43 Folders
  
• ESSAY: First, care. | 43 Folders
  
• WIKI: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (Importance vs. Urgency)
  
• WIKI: Alan Lakein (Lakein's question: "What is the best use of my time right now?")
  
• CONCEPT: GTD & "The Four-Criteria Model for Choosing Actions in the Moment" - Google Books
  
• ROCKET: Estes 1948 Big Bertha Flying Model Rocket Kit (Amazon.com)
  
• CONCEPT: Time and motion study - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• WEBB: Cheaper by the Dozen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• SONG: Bacon Ray - Sundays In A Row
  
• BONUS AWESOME: Cut the bullshit, do the hard work, on your desktop — Ice To The Brim
  
• CHART: covey quadrants - Google Search
  
• ROCKET: 001948 - Big Bertha™ - Skill 1 - Kits By Skill Level - Rockets
  
• VIDEO: Caddyshack: Playing Through ("Over on Briar")
  
• POEM: "The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot as hypertext
  
• BOOK: The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound
  
• BOOK: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (Amazon)
  
• HOWTO: Getting started with "Getting Things Done" | 43 Folders
  
• HOWTO: Building a Smarter To-Do List, Part I | 43 Folders
  
• OAK of a Man: Ken Case — The Omni Group
  
• OBVIOUS Raymond Carver Joke: "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" (WIKI)
  
• VIDEO: American Tourister "Gorilla" Commercial (1971)
  
• DIAGRAM: Anatomy of the Derail: “You shouldn’t be throwing anyone.”
  

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