Episode 1: Alligator in the Bathroom
Back to Work
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🗓️ 18 January 2011
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
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]
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, given that we had this idea yesterday, I had, I think this is what yesterday afternoon, |
| 0:07.2 | I thought we should call this back to work. |
| 0:08.9 | Love that. |
| 0:09.9 | Now, where did you pull that from that name? |
| 0:14.5 | Like everything good, I think it has at least two meanings. |
| 0:16.7 | I mean, there's always that Ha-Ha, I'm wearing a jerk thing of like, okay, now you've got |
| 0:20.1 | your tips go back to work. |
| 0:21.8 | But what I really like is your boot of stand. |
| 0:24.8 | If you ever want to get back on the path, why you got to do a step back on the path, right? |
| 0:28.2 | That's right. |
| 0:29.2 | And I think, for reasons I think we'll become a parent, I hope we'll become a parent. |
| 0:34.5 | I'm really interested in how you figure out how to get back to the work that means a lot |
| 0:38.9 | to you, right? |
| 0:40.2 | And so we all get to railed, it's who said this, somebody said this, and I love this quote. |
| 0:44.5 | It's not a question of not being scared, it's a question of being scared and not doing it |
| 0:48.7 | anyway. |
| 0:49.7 | I mean, almost everyone has said that, but it's true of your work, too. |
| 0:52.2 | Anytime you're not doing this stuff that matters to you, and there's certainly a lot of stuff |
| 0:56.3 | you'll have to do. |
| 0:57.3 | It's just stuff. |
| 0:58.3 | As Michael Locke calls it, what does it call it, stuff and things. |
| 1:01.9 | But that doesn't mean all of the first pancake. |
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