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    Back to Work

    Back to Work is an award winning talk show with Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin discussing productivity, communication, work, barriers, constraints, tools, and more.

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    Episode 133: I'm Glad Your Computer Died Aug 20, 2013
    Show notes

    TOPIC: How many keys do you really need?

    This week, Dan and Merlin return to the question, "What do you want ten times more of?" and weigh the risks and benefits of increasing the amount of complexity in your life.

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    • [SPONSOR] Stock Photos, Royalty-Free Images and Vectors - Shutterstock
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    • Editorial for iPad
      Powerful Markdown Editing and Workflow Automation for iPad
    • Editorial for iPad: A Landmark in iOS Text Editors
      If that gets you curious, then read on. I have something wonderful to show you.
    • Reinventing iOS Automation: Editorial Review
      Ole Zorn knows how to push the boundaries of iOS. His latest app, Editorial for iPad, redefines the market of text editors for iOS, and, in many ways, sets a new standard for iOS automation and desktop-class apps. Editorial makes me want to work from my iPad.
    • BusyCal
      BusyCal supports iCloud, Exchange, Google Calendar, and other CalDAV servers, enabling you to sync and share your calendars with other Macs running BusyCal or the built-in Calendar app on OS X, as well as iPhones and iPads running the built-in Calendar app on iOS.
    • Pythonista
      Bring the Zen of Python to iOS.
    • 5by5 | The Incomparable #154: Seahorse on Line One
      Do you like stories, love, and life? Then even if you're not a regular comic book reader, you should read "Saga," by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples. (Unless naked robot sex disturbs you, in which case you shouldn't.) We cover the horns and the wings, bad connections on the interstellar cellphone network, seahorse agents, super space high school, a frog with a banjo, the wisdom of hiring a ghost as your babysitter, and much more.
    • PopClip Extensions
      Add extra actions using PopClip extensions.Download extensions from this page, then double click to install.
    • Ep. 81: "It Tastes Like the Forest" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann
      The Problem: Cruising now is part of John’s lifestyle.
    • Butterick’s Practical Typography
    • Butterick’s Practical Typography (Equity Type Face)
      Equity is used for body text in this book. Equity was orig­i­nal­ly de­signed for le­gal writ­ers, but any pro­fes­sion­al writer can benefit from its many conveniences:
    • Butterick’s Practical Typography (Concourse Type Face)
      Concourse is the sans serif font used in this book—for headings, side­bars, tech­ni­cal in­struc­tions, and elsewhere.
    • Amazon.com: Watchmen Collector's Edition: Ultimate Cut + Graphic Novel [Blu-ray]: Patrick Wilson, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, Carla Gugino, Zack Snyder: Movies & TV
    • Mac Buyer's Guide: Know When to Buy Your Mac, iPod or iPhone
      This page provides a product summary for each Apple model. The intent is to provide our best recommendations regarding current product cycles, and to provide a summary of currently available rumors for each model.
    • The Notorious MSG's Unlikely Formula For Success
      The “umami” craze has turned a much-maligned and misunderstood food additive into an object of obsession for the world’s most innovative chefs. But secret ingredient monosodium glutamate’s biggest secret may be that there was never anything wrong with it at all.
    • How To Be Prolific: Guidelines For Getting It Done From Joss Whedon | Co.Create: Creativity \ Culture \ Commerce
      The writer-producer-director who made Much Ado About Nothing while editing The Avengers, and who’ll return to TV this fall with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., knows a bit about “getting things done.” In fact, he cites David Allen’s book of that title as an important guide--even if he never finished reading it.
    • Squarespace Commerce Now Available in the UK — The Official Squarespace Blog
      With Stripe’s official launch, we’re thrilled to announce that Squarespace Commerce is now available to everyone in the UK.
    • Accidental Tech Podcast: 26: Three Phones Ago
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    Episode 132: C+ Objective Stack Aug 13, 2013
    Show notes

    TOPIC: Fraud vs. Failure

    This week, Dan and Merlin dive into what makes us feel like frauds and what makes us feel like failures.

    Links for this episode:

    • [SPONSOR] Build a Website — Squarespace
    • Batman: Year One - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      "Year One", later referred to as "Batman: Year One", is an American comic book story arc written by Frank Miller, illustrated by David Mazzucchelli, colored by Richmond Lewis, and lettered by Todd Klein. It originally appeared in issues
    • Watchmen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      Watchmen is a graphic novel by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins. It was serialized as a limited series by DC Comics in 1986 and 1987, and collected in 1987. Watchmen originated from a story proposal Moore submitted to DC featuring superhero characters that the company had acquired from Charlton Comics. As Moore's proposed story would have left many of the characters unusable for future stories, managing editor Dick Giordano convinced Moore to create original characters instead.
    • Batman: The Killing Joke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      Batman: The Killing Joke is a one-shot superhero graphic novel written by Alan Moore and drawn by Brian Bolland. Published by DC Comics in 1988, it has remained in print since then, and has also been reprinted as part of the trade paperback DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore.
    • Sid and Nancy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      Sid and Nancy (also known as Sid and Nancy: Love Kills[1]) is a 1986 British biopic directed by Alex Cox. The film portrays the life of Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman), bassist of the seminal punk rock band the Sex Pistols, and his relationship with girlfriend Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb).
    • Batman: The Long Halloween - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      Batman: The Long Halloween is a 13-issue comic book limited series written by Jeph Loeb with art by Tim Sale. It was originally published by DC Comics in 1996 and 1997.[1] It was inspired by the three Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Specials by the same creative team. The entire series has been collected in both trade paperback, and as part of the DC Comics Absolute Editions. The series' success led to Loeb and Sale to reteam for two sequels, Batman: Dark Victory and Catwoman: When in Rome, which parallels the events in Dark Victory.
    • Hush (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      Hush is a fictional character, a comic book supervillain who appears in comic books published by DC Comics. He was usually an enemy of Batman. Created by writer Jeph Loeb and artist Jim Lee, the character first appeared in Batman
    • The Dark Knight Returns - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      The Dark Knight Returns is a 1986 four-issue comic book miniseries starring Batman, written by Frank Miller, illustrated by Miller and Klaus Jason, and published by DC Comics. When the series was collected into a single volume later that year, the story title for the first issue was applied to the entire series. The Dark Knight Returns tells the story of Bruce Wayne, who at 55 years old returns from retirement to fight crime and faces opposition from the Gotham City police force and the United States government.
    • Maus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      Maus is a graphic novel completed in 1991 by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman. It depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The book uses postmodern techniques—most strikingly in its depiction of races of humans as different kinds of animals, with Jews as mice, Germans as cats and non-Jewish Poles as pigs. Maus has been described as memoir, biography, history, fiction, autobiography, or a mix of genres. In 1992 it became the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize.
    • How I Self-Published My Book — Shawn Blanc
      On today’s episode of Shawn Today, I talked about this in great detail, and perhaps sometime I’ll write about it more here as well. But in short, the launch day was incredibly emotional for me. I was nervous, of course. But I also woke up feeling like a fraud, before I had even shipped the book. I felt fearful that people would consider the content of my book and the interviews to be not worth paying for, and yet here I was charging $29.
    • Let Us Now Praise Famous Walgreens - Let’s Make Mistakes - Mule Radio Syndicate
      Merlin Mann joins Mike and Jessie to talk about the differences between Walgreen’s they’ve known, and why everyone is always trying to email everyone else. Merlin says bespoke.
    • Vince Gilligan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      Vince Gilligan (born February 10, 1967) is an American writer, director, and producer. He is best known as the creator of the highly acclaimed television series Breaking Bad, and has also worked on the hit series The X-Files and The Lone Gunmen.
    • Impostor syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      The impostor syndrome, sometimes called impostor phenomenon or fraud syndrome, is a psychological phenomenon in which people are unable to internalize their accomplishments. Despite external evidence of their competence, those with the syndrome remain convinced that they are frauds and do not deserve the success they have achieved. Proof of success is dismissed as luck, timing, or as a result of deceiving others into thinking they are more intelligent and competent than they believe themselves to be.
    • 5by5 | The Cocktail Napkin #21: Creative Modality
      Merlin Mann and I cover a lot of territory, from creative failure to creative modality and how being in the wrong mode at the wrong time might bring on that failure.
    • Throat Nut and the Long Chocolate - The Shakes - Mule Radio Syndicate
      Merlin Mann joins us as a live beta test of having guests on the show. We think it went pretty well. Except for Quinn’s throat peanut that kept her choking off-mic for half the show.We revisit “creative wives”, dicsuss Lead Tickets, Battle Royale, and spaghetti night.
    • Halftone 2 - Comic Maker for iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPad 2 Wi-Fi, iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G, iPad (3rd generation), iPad Wi-Fi + 4G, iPad (4th generation), iPad Wi-Fi + Cellular (4th generation), iPad mini and iPad mini Wi-Fi + Cellular on the iTunes App
      Halftone 2 is an Apple Editors' Choice app that makes it easy to become a superhero in your own comic!
    • Vince Gilligan, episode #16 of By The Way, In Conversation with Jeff Garlin on Earwolf
      Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan sits down to chat with Jeff about writing comedy scripts in college, what lead to his first TV job working on The X-Files, why he uses an old laptop that cannot access the internet, and his phone conversation with Sherwood Schwartz, the creator of Gilligan’s Island. Plus, Vince comes prepared with a question for Jeff regarding his Baywatch past.
    • Watchmen - “You’re locked in here with ME.” ... | kung fu grippe

    This week’s episode of Back to Work is kindly sponsored by Squarespace (use offer code “HOWARDCHICKEN” for 10% off)

    Episode 131: The Peacock Dance of Men Aug 07, 2013
    Show notes

    TOPIC: Power, Yelling, and Airport Kung Fu

    This week, Dan and Merlin continue their discussion of power and how it does or doesn't work.

    Do real leaders actually talk like the douchebags, serial entrepreneurs, and screamy travelers struggling to imitate them? Not really. That's one way you can tell they're leaders.

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    • [SPONSOR] Stock Photos, Royalty-Free Images and Vectors - Shutterstock
    • [SPONSOR] Build a Website — Squarespace
    • Pint Of Code — Back to Belgium
    • Squarespace for Restaurants — The Official Squarespace Blog
    • Introducing Donations, Service Products, and Form/Product Integrations — The Official Squarespace Blog
    • Let Us Now Praise Famous Walgreens - Let’s Make Mistakes - Mule Radio Syndicate
      Merlin Mann joins Mike and Jessie to talk about the differences between Walgreen’s they’ve known, and why everyone is always trying to email everyone else. Merlin says bespoke.
    • New Template: Marquee - Squarespace Plugins
      Squarespace’s latest template, Marquee, helps tell your story in a dynamic, engaging, and fun way. Amplify the narrative of your website and giving your visitors a memorable viewing experience through stunning, full-screen imagery.
    • b2w-131 : Shutterstock Stock Photography
    • Déjà vu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      Déjà vu, from French, literally "already seen", is the phenomenon of having the strong sensation that an event or experience currently being experienced has been experienced in the past, whether it has actually happened or not.
    • Jamais vu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      Often described as the opposite of déjà vu, jamais vu involves a sense of eeriness and the observer's impression of seeing the situation for the first time, despite rationally knowing that he or she has been in the situation before.
    • 5by5 | Bionic #51: United Queendom
      Matt and Myke do not know what they have done here. There was some discussion about Moto X and some other small topics—but it's mixed in between absolute insanity. Enjoy!
    • 5by5 | Bionic
      Bionic is a show dedicated to the analysis of competing technological and media ecosystems. With a specific view toward the mobile landscape, your two co-hosts bring years of Apple experience to a new world of context and insight.
    • Wolverine & the X-Men (2011 - Present) | Comic Books | Comics | Marvel.com
    • Wolverine & the X-Men, Vol. 1:Amazon:Books
    • New X-Men Omnibus:Amazon:Books
    • Avengers: The Enemy Within Vol 1 1 - Marvel Comics Database
    • Avengers: The Enemy Within (2013) #1 | Comics | Marvel.com
    • Digital Baubles: For some reason I couldn’t reblog my own post, so I’m cutting and... | kung fu grippe
    • The Vitamin Myth: Why We Think We Need Supplements - Atlantic Mobile
    • NPR.org » Boston Hopes Red Sox Owner Can Turn Around 'Globe'
    • [AUDIO] "Technobabler"
      Per today’s B2W. Merlin's sketch for a new dance song. It’s a start.

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    Episode 130: Cobb Salad Lawyer Jul 30, 2013
    Show notes

    TOPIC: Delays

    This week, Dan and Merlin talk about delays, agency, power, and why yelling at people about your problems rarely helps anyone.

    Links for this episode:

    • Yad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      A yad, literally, "hand," is a Jewish ritual pointer, popularly known as a Torah pointer, used by the reader to follow the text during the Torah reading from the parchment Torah scrolls. Beyond its practical usage, the yad ensures that the parchment is not touched during the reading. There are several reasons for this: handling the parchment renders one ritually impure and the often-fragile parchment is easily damaged. Moreover, the vellum parchment does not absorb ink so touching the scroll with fingers will damage the lettering.[1] While not required when chanting from the Torah, it is used frequently and is considered a hidur mitzvah ("embellishment of the commandment" of reading the Torah).
    • This Week in Tech 416 | TWiT.TV
    • New Music Videos | Watch Shows Online | Entertainment News & Celeb Gossip - MuchMusic.com
    • Nerdist Comics Panel #4: Wolverine: Season One « Nerdist
      Comics Edition #4: Celebrating the release of Wolverine: Season One, written by Ben Acker & Ben Blacker. Adam Beechen hosts, Wolverine creator Len Wein weighs in, and NWP Comics Edition co-host Heath Corson wears a tuxedo.

      Recorded live at Meltdown Comics in Hollywood on June 6, 2013.

    • Ep. 78: "Driving Lesson Costume" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann
      The Problem: I can text more picture.
    • Hawkeye Digital Comics - Comics by comiXology
      The breakout star of this summer's blockbuster AVENGERS film and self-made hero Hawkeye fights for justice! He's out to prove himself as one of Earth's Mightiest Heroes!
    • One more superhero costume infographic for...
      One more superhero costume infographic for HalloweenCostumes.com, completing the trilogy that began with Iron Man and Superman.
    • SFO - San Francisco International Airport - Home Page
    • My TSA - "Search Results For: NITROGEN"
      "Item Not Found"
    • Pizza is My Business
      Art by David Aja
    • Feed the Animals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    • BusyCal

    • Igloo Software

    • Shutterstock (use discount code “backtowork7” for 30% off any package)

    Episode 129: Putting Your Meat by the Pool Jul 23, 2013
    Show notes

    TOPIC: Lists

    This week, Dan and Merlin talk about 3½ kinds of lists that can change your game.

    Merlin knows a lot about Productivity.

    Links for this episode:

    • Interstate (typeface) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      Interstate is a digital typeface designed by Tobias Frere-Jones in the period 1993–1999, and licensed by Font Bureau. The typeface is closely related to the FHWA Series fonts, a signage alphabet drawn for the United States Federal Highway Administration in 1949.
    • Brother's Little Helper/Quotes - Simpsons Wiki
      'Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! You can't just go ““OFF”” Focusyn!'
    • Shiksa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    • Pastebot — Command Copy & Paste for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store
      Pastebot is a powerful new clipboard manager that stores text and images copied from your iPhone/iPod Touch. Copy something you want to save, run Pastebot and it automatically gets imported for you to access later.
    • Goodfellas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a film adaptation of the 1986 non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scorsese. The film follows the rise and fall of Lucchese crime family associates Henry Hill and his friends over a period from 1955 to 1980.
    • 5by5 | 5by5 at the Movies #1: Goodfellas
      Dan Benjamin and John Siracusa discuss Goodfellas.
    • Goodfellas - Tommy's mother's house - YouTube
    • The Keep on the Borderlands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      The Keep on the Borderlands is a Dungeons
    • Little Printer | BERG Cloud
      Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip from friends. Use your smartphone to set up subscriptions and Little Printer will gather them together to create a timely, beautiful miniature newspaper.
    • Mac Buyer's Guide: Know When to Buy Your Mac, iPod or iPhone
      This page provides a product summary for each Apple model. The intent is to provide our best recommendations regarding current product cycles, and to provide a summary of currently available rumors for each model.
    • The Rogues Gallery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      The Rogues Gallery was a supplement listing hundreds of pre-generated non-player characters for use by the Dungeon Master, including characters from all the standard first edition AD
    • GROGNARDIA: Retrospective: The Rogues Gallery
    • One Year of Squarespace 6 — The Official Squarespace Blog
      One year ago today we launched Squarespace 6, a culmination of our best thinking in content management and site publishing coalesced over eight years of running Squarespace. This launch resulted in a period of growth like we’ve never seen before: The number of customers using Squarespace 6 surpassed the number of Squarespace 5 customers within nine months of launch. That’s only nine months to exceed what initially took eight years to create. Consider us exceptionally proud.
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    • Pastebot — Tapbots
      Pastebot is a powerful clipboard manager that stores text & images copied from your iPhone/iPod Touch. Organize, apply filters to, and copy clippings to be pasted or sent to other apps. Don’t just use Copy & Paste. Command it!
    • Amazon.com: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (9780142000281): David Allen: Books
    • Boys' Life magazine
    • Admiral Farragut Academy | Private School For Boarding And Day Students
    • Focusyn - Simpsons Wiki
      It was given to Bart Simpson when it became apparent that he had ADD.
    • Brother's Little Helper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      In the episode, Bart floods the school gymnasium, which prompts the school's principal Seymour Skinner to diagnose Bart with ADHD. Bart is prescribed a psychostimulant drug called Focusyn (a parody of Ritalin), and initially starts paying more attention to his studies. After a while however, Bart starts turning psychotic and is convinced that Major League Baseball is watching over the people of Springfield.

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    • Smile’s PDFPen
    • Squarespace (use code “LITTLEKNIVES” for 10% off)
    Episode 128: Eating Scones in the Closet Jul 19, 2013
    Show notes

    TOPIC: Time Awareness & Scope Wormholes

    This week, Dan and Merlin talk about why we (and Frank) are terrible at estimating time, as well as what we can do to get better at it.

    Links for this episode:

    • [SPONSOR] Transporter
      Transporter (use code "btw" for 10% off)
    • 5by5 | Back to Work #107: Pull Out Your Dingus
      This week, Dan and Merlin talk about compression. What happens when we don't account for how long something really takes to do? And, worse still, what if we don't think about what has to happen before we can even start it?
    • Parasites in cat poop | barfblog
      Each year in the United States, cats deposit about 1.2 million metric tons of feces into the environment, and that poop is carrying with it what may be a vast and underappreciated public health problem, say scientists July 9 in the journal Trends in Parasitology, a Cell Press publication.
    • Can Washroom Soap Can Make You Sick? - Blog About Infographics and Data Visualization - Cool Infographics
    • Battle Royale (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      Battle Royale is a 2000 Japanese action thriller film adapted from the 1999 novel of the same name by Koushun Takami. It is the final film directed by Kinji Fukasaku, the screenplay written by his son Kenta, and stars Takeshi Kitano. The film tells the story of Shuya Nanahara, a high-school student struggling with the death of his father, who is forced by the government to compete in a deadly game where the students must kill each other in order to win. The film aroused both domestic and international controversy and was either banned outright or deliberately excluded from distribution in several countries.
    • Battle Royale (2000)
      In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
    • Hofstadter's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      Hofstadter's Law was a part of Douglas Hofstadter's 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. The law is a statement regarding the difficulty of accurately estimating the time it will take to complete tasks of any substantial complexity.[2] It is often cited amongst programmers, especially in discussions of techniques to improve productivity, such as The Mythical Man-Month or extreme programming.[3] The recursive nature of the law is a reflection of the universal experience of difficulty experienced in estimating complex tasks despite all best efforts, including knowing that the task is complex.
    • The Mythical Man-Month - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a book on software engineering and project management by Fred Brooks, whose central theme is that "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later". This idea is known as Brooks' law, and is presented along with the second-system effect and advocacy of prototyping.
    • Second-system effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      The second-system effect (also known as second-system syndrome) refers to the tendency of small, elegant, and successful systems to have elephantine, feature-laden monstrosities as their successors due to inflated expectations.[1]
    • Planning fallacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      The planning fallacy is a tendency for people and organizations to underestimate how long they will need to complete a task, even when they have experience of similar tasks over-running. The term was first proposed in a 1979 paper by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky.[1][2] Since then the effect has been found for predictions of a wide variety of tasks, including tax form completion, school work, furniture assembly, computer programming and origami.[1][3] In 2003, Lovallo and Kahneman proposed an expanded definition as the tendency to underestimate the time, costs, and risks of future actions and at the same time overestimate the benefits of the same actions. According to this definition, the planning fallacy results in not only time overruns, but also cost overruns and benefit shortfalls.[4] The bias only affects predictions about one's own tasks
    • Task Times, The Planning Fallacy, and a Magical 20% | 43 Folders
      Although it's no inoculation against the (apparently immutable nature of) Hofstadter's Law -- and you'll still end up short most of the time -- it can help you do one thing much better: manage expectations. Because you're a project manager, not a magician. Magicians get cooler hats.
    • Optimism bias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      The optimism bias (also known as unrealistic or comparative optimism) is a bias that causes a person to believe that they are less at risk of experiencing a negative event compared to others. There are four factors that cause a person to be optimistically biased: their desired end state, their cognitive mechanisms, the information they have about themselves versus others, and overall mood.[1] The optimistic bias is seen in a number of situations. For example: people believing that they are less at risk of being a crime victim,[2] smokers believing that they are less likely to contract lung cancer or disease than other smokers, first-time bungee jumpers believing that they are less at risk of an injury than other jumpers,[3] or traders who think they are less exposed to losses in the markets.[4]
    • Harnessing your interstitial time | 43 Folders
      Rather than always seeing these changes as an intractable liability, try to look at them as opportunities to liberate unexpected pockets of time and focus. While literally non-stop interruptions are likely to make any of us nutty, a slight adjustment to your planning and outlook can lead to fast gains in productivity and a much-improved attitude about your working environment.
    • Amazon.com: Samsung SE-506BB/TSBD 6X USB2.0 External Slim Blu-ray Writer Drive (Black): Computers & Accessories
      This sleek Samsung SE-506BB/TSBD External Slimline USB Blu-ray Writer gets all the power it needs from a USB connection so there is no hassle of power cables. The Samsung Blu-ray RW is also supported on both PC and Mac systems. The Samsung SE-506BB/TSBD External Slimline USB Blu-ray Writer can also function on your multimedia Television if it has a USB input, so you can watch Blu-ray and DVD's on your own TV!
    • Apple - Logic Pro X - What’s new in Logic Pro X.
      Logic Pro X introduces an advanced yet intuitive new interface designed for pro musicians, a ton of inspiring new plug-ins and sounds, and more powerful tools that keep the creative process flowing.
    • 5by5 | The Frequency #134: Did We Meet This Woman?
      Haddie and Dan discuss cleanliness of cats and bathrooms along with the exit of Tim Stevens of Engadget, how men's clothes should fit, Instagram finally getting web embeds, and more.
    • Kitties Litter Playgrounds, Spreading Harmful Parasites : Shots - Health News : NPR
      These oocysts are easily transmitted to humans, and researchers have explored their possible link to various mental health problems, including schizophrenia. More recently, studies of school-age children show a correlation between testing positive for T. gondii and having difficulty in school.
    • One Year of Squarespace 6 — The Official Squarespace Blog
      One year ago today we launched Squarespace 6, a culmination of our best thinking in content management and site publishing coalesced over eight years of running Squarespace. This launch resulted in a period of growth like we’ve never seen before: The number of customers using Squarespace 6 surpassed the number of Squarespace 5 customers within nine months of launch. That’s only nine months to exceed what initially took eight years to create. Consider us exceptionally proud.
    • Bee and PuppyCat Part 1 on Cartoon Hangover - YouTube
    • Release early, release often - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      Release early, release often (also: time-based releases, sometimes abbreviated RERO) is a software development philosophy that emphasizes the importance of early and frequent releases in creating a tight feedback loop between developers and testers or users, contrary to a feature-based release strategy.
    • 5by5 | Back to Work #51: Living Inside the Nonsense
      Merlin and Dan talk about managing projects, scheduling calls, and being home when you scheduled a party. It SEEMS SO SIMPLE but then Jeannie has to go to Guam and slipping is your SOP.

    This week's episode of Back to Work is kindly sponsored by Transporter (use code "btw" for 10% off)

    Episode 127: Loki Situation Jul 09, 2013
    Show notes

    TOPIC: Employers, Bosses, Leaders, and Managers

    This week—in what may easily turn into a multi-episode arc—Dan and Merlin talk about bosses.

    Whether we're looking at it from up or down, management is tricky business. The question is, what makes a boss a good manager, and what makes a good manager a great leader?

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    • [SPONSOR] Build a Website — Squarespace
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    • So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love: Cal Newport: 9781455509126: Amazon.com: Books
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    Episode 126: Howard Chicken Jul 03, 2013
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    TOPIC: How many Saturdays do you get?

    This week, Dan and Merlin talk about time. Its scarcity, its passing, its tyranny, and its possibilities.

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    Episode 125: Hakuna Potato Jun 28, 2013
    Show notes

    TOPIC: There are Only Two Prices: Free and What It Costs

    This week, Dan and Merlin return to the classic lineup and some classic topics, including knowing your value, learning what to charge, and realizing what you can live with.

    Also: jury duty, traveling, bathrooms, the sliding scale of suffering, and what-have you.

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      Artist David Aja returns to the most critically acclaimed comic of 2012, as ace archer Clint Barton faces the digital doomsday of - DVR-Mageddon! Then: Cherry's got a gun. And she looks good in it. And Hawkeye gets very, very distracted. Plus: Valentine's Day with the heartthrob of the Marvel Universe? This will be...confusing. Marvel architect Matt Fraction continues his exciting, adventurous reinvention of the arrowed Avenger!
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    Episode 124: The Tuesday Afternoon Version of Me Jun 23, 2013
    Show notes

    TOPIC: The Chinese Symbol for 'Pants' Inside of The Chinese Symbol for 'Jury Duty.'

    This week, Dan's away, so Merlin goes solo, taking a break from jury duty to talk about the opportunities that can be hiding inside change, inconvenience, and tumult.

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      In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice. Not only is the cliché flawed-preexisting passions are rare and have little to do with how most people end up loving their work-but it can also be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping.
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      This week—after 122 episodes, plus almost a decade of internet pal-dom—Dan and Merlin finally meet and record in a room together for the first time.
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      Any formal verbal statement made during a trial by a judge to advise and caution the jury on their duty as jurors, on the admissibility or nonadmissibility of evidence, or on the purpose for which any evidence admitted may be considered by them. A reprimand directed by the court to an attorney appearing before it cautioning the attorney about the unacceptability of his or her conduct before the court. If the attorney continues to act in the same way, ignoring the admonition, the judge will find him or her in Contempt of court, punishable by a fine, imprisonment, or both. In criminal prosecution, before the court receives and records the plea of the accused, a statement made by a judge informing the accused on the effect and consequences of a plea of guilty to criminal charges.
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