Merlin Mann on Getting Things Done, Opportunity Cost and Sunk Cost Fallacy
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
Erik Fisher
4.5 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2013
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Merlin Mann is an Independent Writer, Speaker, and Broadcaster at MerlinMann.com and Cohost of Back to Work Podcast on the 5 by 5 Podcast Network with Dan Benjamin.
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Covered in this episode:
- Different definitions of the word ‘productivity’
- Merlin’s superhero origin story as a productivity student
- The creation of 43Folders, the transition from then to today
- Getting Things Done by David Allen ©DavidCo, 2001.
- GTD Series on B2W: #95 – #96 – #97 – #98 – #99
- Erik’s call in question on Back to Work episode #100 – Go Ahead, Caller.
- Merlin’s interview with David Allen
- Erik’s interview with David Allen
- What Inbox Zero started as, and what it really means
- Chasing the right zero
- Merlin’s Inbox Zero talk at Google
- Moving items in our Inbox(s) from unknown to undefined to incomplete to complete
- Opportunity cost
- Sunk cost fallacy
- The real prologue to how Back to Work began
- Sven Fechner at SimplicityBliss.com
- Brett Terpstra
- Practically efficient
- Mac Power Users Podcast
- Macdrifter.com
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| 1:09.6 | slash referral to post your job for free. Hello and welcome back to another episode of Beyond the To Do List. I am your host |
| 1:36.2 | Eric Fisher. This is the show where we talk to the people behind the |
| 1:39.7 | productivity. This week's interesting because we delve into a little bit of my productivity superhero origin story by talking to somebody who has influenced that a bit and their own superhero origin story. I'm talking with Merlin Man of |
| 1:56.3 | 43 folders and the podcast Back to Work of which I am a fan and we talk about his initial interest into productivity that caused the creation of the site 43 folders. |
| 2:10.0 | We talk about him coining the term in box zero. Yes, he did that for better or for worse. |
| 2:16.5 | We talk about what that meant when he created it and what it has somewhat come to mean and honestly what it really is. We also touch on |
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