Episode 96: Compensatory Muscles
Back to Work
5by5
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2012
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:21.3 | This is going to be a good show. |
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