Episode 99: Nobody Wants to Live in a Scaffolding
Back to Work
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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2012
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
TOPIC: Troubleshooting for Saner GTD
This week, Dan and Merlin wrap up their epic summer crossover series on David Allen's book Getting Things Done, focusing on the trouble spots, hang-ups, and occasional rat holes that people often encounter in implementing and maintaining their GTD system.
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- Saga #1 - Comics by comiXology [Get it FREE!!!]
- [Huffduffer MP3] Productive Talk Compilation: 8-episode podcast with GTD's David Allen (2006)
- 5by5 | The Frequency #45: Something of a Hipster Geek
- Does this "next action" belong someplace else? | 43 Folders
- Mental dialogues, yak-shaving & the triumph of the 'mini-review' | 43 Folders
- [SPONSOR] OmniFocus 2 Debut
- [SPONSOR] Email Marketing and Email List Manager | MailChimp
- Productive Talk Compilation: 8-episode podcast with GTD's David Allen | 43 Folders
- Amazon.com: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (9780142000281): David Allen: Books
- Fractal Implementation, or, On the Dangers of David Allen's Finger | 43 Folders
- Back to GTD: Do a fast "mind-sweep" | 43 Folders
- Back to GTD: Simplify your contexts | 43 Folders
- GTD: Priorities don't exist in a vacuum | 43 Folders
- 6 powerful "look into" verbs (+ 1 to avoid) | 43 Folders
- A Year of Getting Things Done: Part 2, The Stuff I Wish I Were Better At | 43 Folders
- 43 Folders: Best of GTD | 43 Folders
- The OmniFocus Setup
- Omni’s Plans for 2013 - Blog - The Omni Group
- Collectorz.com Connect: merlinmann: My Comics
- Complete Marvel Comics Reading Order | Marvel Comics in Order
- Marvel Chronology Project - Main
- Publication history of Marvel comics crossover events - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Ep. 59: "Insufferabilityism" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann
- Anita Ekberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Freshman (1990 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Amazing Spider-Man #669 Amazing Fantasy Comics variant cover by Todd Nauck | Apps | Marvel.com
- Avengers, Vol. 5 #1C [Avengers Babies!]
- Using OmniFocus | Mastering Productivity [GREAT ebook!]
- First Look: Amazing Spider-Man #700 | News | Marvel.com
- Charlene - "I've Never Been To Me" - YouTube
- Anita Ekberg modeling for Milton Greene, 1954 | kung fu grippe
- It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff: Peter Walsh: 9780743292658: Amazon.com: Books
- Paper Snowflakes - Free Instructions
- Getting started with "Getting Things Done" | 43 Folders
- Because buying new running shoes is more fun than actually running | 43 Folders
- Do Stuff — MacSparky
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| 0:00.0 | I need Akbar, she's born in Malmo. |
| 0:04.8 | I think it's pronounced Malamar. |
| 0:07.4 | It's got an umlaut or a diacritical, as you say, over the, oh, which seems superfluous. |
| 0:13.2 | I see. |
| 0:14.2 | Superfluous, unless it's in the New York Times, excuse me, in the New Yorker, does not have |
| 0:18.2 | a, okay, no, we get to start, let's start with this. |
| 0:20.9 | This is a big, there's not a chance in the world that we're going to talk about that. |
| 0:24.6 | Oh, come on. |
| 0:26.1 | I don't want to talk about it. |
| 0:27.1 | Please. |
| 0:28.7 | That, look, that lady's eating boogers for a nickel and I'm lucky to point, we are alive. |
| 0:35.5 | This is all live, terrific, may I, may I, may I just read an excerpt from it? |
| 0:42.2 | No, you absolutely, absolutely no way, may, no, you may not, have I, have I, have I |
| 0:49.1 | spoken directly about this? |
| 0:51.6 | I shan't. |
| 0:52.6 | Okay. |
| 0:53.6 | I was, I mean, it's your show, so I thought it was funny when you made fun of me. |
| 0:57.5 | I enjoyed that. |
| 0:58.5 | That was funny. |
| 0:59.5 | But no, it was, it was stupid. |
| 1:00.5 | I thought it was great. |
| 1:01.9 | Thank you. |
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