Episode 17: Brick Building Full of Lies
Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin talk about checking email under the table to catch up on your 27 high priority tasks, a good time to use the word priority, blowing cycles on meeting with Narnia's stakeholders, and getting tasks out of your dreamcatcher.
Links for this episode:
- BONUS AWESOME: Too Close to the Metal Wallpapers (Chainmail for Manatees)
- ESSAY: Mud Rooms, Red Letters, and Real Priorities | 43 Folders
- ESSAY: GTD: Priorities don't exist in a vacuum | 43 Folders
- ESSAY: First, care. | 43 Folders
- WIKI: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (Importance vs. Urgency)
- WIKI: Alan Lakein (Lakein's question: "What is the best use of my time right now?")
- CONCEPT: GTD & "The Four-Criteria Model for Choosing Actions in the Moment" - Google Books
- ROCKET: Estes 1948 Big Bertha Flying Model Rocket Kit (Amazon.com)
- CONCEPT: Time and motion study - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- WEBB: Cheaper by the Dozen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- SONG: Bacon Ray - Sundays In A Row
- BONUS AWESOME: Cut the bullshit, do the hard work, on your desktop — Ice To The Brim
- CHART: covey quadrants - Google Search
- ROCKET: 001948 - Big Bertha™ - Skill 1 - Kits By Skill Level - Rockets
- VIDEO: Caddyshack: Playing Through ("Over on Briar")
- POEM: "The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot as hypertext
- BOOK: The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound
- BOOK: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (Amazon)
- HOWTO: Getting started with "Getting Things Done" | 43 Folders
- HOWTO: Building a Smarter To-Do List, Part I | 43 Folders
- OAK of a Man: Ken Case — The Omni Group
- OBVIOUS Raymond Carver Joke: "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" (WIKI)
- VIDEO: American Tourister "Gorilla" Commercial (1971)
- DIAGRAM: Anatomy of the Derail: “You shouldn’t be throwing anyone.”
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