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Mark Taw on ProcrastinationMerlin Mann | Jan 19 2005Mark's article gets to the core problems that cause people to get derailed, distracted, and perpetually off-target. read more »8 Comments
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The Beauty of the Recurring TaskMerlin Mann | Jan 18 2005Handy way to "set it and forget it." read more »POSTED IN:
Patching your personal suckMerlin Mann | Jan 15 200550 Strategies for Making Yourself Work is a terrifically useful and very entertaining list of hacks, tricks, ciphers, and fake rules for helping yourself write. Or more specifically, it helps you get unstuck, unblocked, and out of that hated procrastinating mire. It’s actually a much better version of my “Hack Your Way out of Writer’s Block” that I somehow missed in putting my ideas together. I have to say, I’m really pleased to have discovered this article today, because it comports with some stuff I’ve been thinking about a lot lately and with the approach that sums up my feeling about “43 Folders-esque” ideas: in order to find what works for you, it helps to understand why the old stuff doesn’t. By now, everybody knows that I swiped the basic idea for 43 Folders from my pal, hero, and personal muse, Danny O’Brien. His work on the original Life Hacks presentation was centered around research into why some people, especially those overachieving alpha geeks, seem to get so much more accomplished over the same 24 hours we mortals start with each day. Some of them, like Rael, just seem preternaturally organized and focused. Others, like Cory, are blessed with an ungodly gift for effective multi-tasking. But many of the other productive nerds, as you soon realize, have just gotten really good at identifying their weaknesses and developing the compensatory psychic muscle needed to shore up their vulnerabilities. Forgetful? Write stuff down. Easily distracted? Set timers. Saddled with pointless interruptions? Leave the office. Find the bad code in your system and eliminate the bugs. Find the fastest, easiest, most elegant solution that could possibly work. Can it really be that simple? read more »POSTED IN:
RSS of Public Library Check-outs and Requests Available for SFMerlin Mann | Jan 14 2005ELF adds the San Francisco Public Library to its system. read more »POSTED IN:
Jeremy Wagstaff's Moleskine RemaindersMerlin Mann | Jan 14 2005Jeremy Wagstaff has posted some quotes I’d sent about paper, notebooks, and the Moleskine phenomenon. Although I hadn’t intended it as an actual essay, it more or less works together. read more »POSTED IN:
H2G2 on the MoleskineMerlin Mann | Jan 12 2005Great Moleskine factoids and gentle myth-debunking, as well as further evidence that you're allowed to pronounce it as though you're doing a Sylvia Poggioli impression. read more »POSTED IN:
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