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Episode 96: Compensatory Muscles


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TOPIC: A Better System for Dealing with Life's "Stuff"

This week, Dan and Merlin continue their discussion of David Allen's book, Getting Things Done.

Links for this episode:

  • Fractal Implementation, or, On the Dangers of David Allen's Finger | 43 Folders
  • Beginner's Mind, Metropolis, and all our unnecessary parts | 43 Folders
  • Amazon.com: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (9780142000281): David Allen: Books
  • Getting started with "Getting Things Done" | 43 Folders
  • Mac App Store - Flycut (Clipboard manager)
  • Theatrical superstitions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  • About GTD | David Allen, Getting Things Done® and GTD®
  • WorldCat.org: The World's Largest Library Catalog
  • kung fu grippe • 67 Points of Articulation. [Merlin's Amazing Spider-Man]
  • Life Hacks: Tech Secrets of Overprolific Alpha Geeks (11 February, 2004)
    Notes from Danny's session at O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference; 11 February, 2004; San Diego, CA
  • [SPONSOR] Ting
  • [SPONSOR] Studio Neat
  • 5by5 | Back to Work #95: She's Five for a Living
  • Trigger List - 43FoldersWiki
  • You can do anything - but not everything. | Fast Company
  • Meet the man who can bring order to your universe | Technology | The Guardian
  • GettingThingsDone - MineZone Wiki
  • [AUDIO] Productive Talk Compilation: 8-episode podcast with GTD's David Allen | 43 Folders
  • Next actions: Both physical AND visible | 43 Folders
  • A Year of Getting Things Done: Part 1, The Good Stuff | 43 Folders
  • A Year of Getting Things Done: Part 2, The Stuff I Wish I Were Better At | 43 Folders
  • Systems, ciphers, and the dirty little secret of self-improvement | 43 Folders
  • Cringe-Busting your TODO list | 43 Folders
  • gtd-workflow.jpg (1051×1630)
  • OmniFocus for Mac - The Omni Group
  • Schrodinger's Conference Bag | You Look Nice Today
  • Ep. 57: "Unfair" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann
  • Knowledge worker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    The term was first coined by Peter Drucker ca. 1959, as one who works primarily with information or one who develops and uses knowledge in the workplace.
  • GTD: Priorities don't exist in a vacuum | 43 Folders
  • Wreck-It Ralph (2012) - IMDb
  • Wreck-It Ralph - Movie Trailers - iTunes
  • Merlin Mann at Google on Time and Attention (Getting Things Done) - YouTube
  • Video: Merlin's Time & Attention Talk (Improvised Rutgers Edition) | 43 Folders
  • This week's Back to Work is sponsored by Studio Neat and Ting.

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