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Blog Post	How I Made My Presentations a Little Better	Merlin	20	16 years 51 weeks ago
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Blog Post	"Right Now, What Are You Doing?"	Merlin	0	17 years 1 day ago
Blog Post	Merlin's Review of "It's All Too Much" on Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools	Merlin	5	17 years 2 days ago
Blog Post	Ubiquity: Firefox Gets its Quicksilver On	Merlin	0	17 years 6 days ago
Blog Post	Deciding Whether to Read a Book: Some Wildly Reductive Heuristics	Merlin	0	17 years 1 week ago
Blog Post	Social Networks: The Case for a "Pause" Button	Merlin	0	17 years 1 week ago
Blog Post	What Makes for a Good Blog?	Merlin	0	17 years 1 week ago
Blog Post	Quote of the Week: On Multitasking	Merlin	0	17 years 1 week ago
Blog Post	Closed Doors and Casualties in the "Coup d'attention"	Merlin	0	17 years 1 week ago
Blog Post	Tracking Down the "Embarrassing Memory" Noise	Merlin	26	17 years 1 week ago
Blog Post	Attention & Ambiguity: The Non-Paradox of Creative Work	Merlin	0	17 years 2 weeks ago
Blog Post	Making Time to Make: One Clear Line	Merlin	0	17 years 2 weeks ago
Blog Post	Task Times, The Planning Fallacy, and a Magical 20%	Merlin	0	17 years 3 weeks ago
Blog Post	Gmail Outage or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love GTD Contexts	Merlin	0	17 years 3 weeks ago
Blog Post	Ideas, Execution, and the Rare Auteur	Merlin	0	17 years 3 weeks ago
Blog Post	Berkun's Game-Changer: Disruptive, Breakthrough Essay on Transformative Jargon Utilization.	Merlin	0	17 years 3 weeks ago
Story	Admin: IE Problem is SiteMeter-related	Merlin	0	17 years 3 weeks ago
Blog Post	Foo for Bar: Kicking Ass with Outcome-Based Thinking	Merlin	0	17 years 3 weeks ago
Blog Post	aTV Update Gives AppleTV FTP and USB Drive Support	Merlin	24	17 years 3 weeks ago
Blog Post	Making Time to Make: Bad Correspondence	Merlin	0	17 years 3 weeks ago
Blog Post	Blog Pimping, or: Who Do You Want to Delight?	Merlin	15	17 years 3 weeks ago
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