Merlin Mann
description: an American writer, blogger, and podcaster known for coining the term 'Inbox Zero' and for his focus on productivity techniques.
15 results
Discardia: More Life, Less Stuff
by Dinah Sanders · 7 Oct 2011 · 267pp · 78,857 words
. Really. Symptom #6: Procrastination Solution #6: Bottom Line: Deeds are Better Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging. —Merlin Mann, productivity guru and humorist You have a choice Ah, procrastination: the villain in so many stories of the great adventures we might have had—if
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ideas that will help you build a better relationship with your personal email. Email basics First, a few basic principles (and a thank-you to Merlin Mann and others who have taught me many things about managing email): Start your day with energy, not email. Take a moment to clear your head
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, “Is this more important than what I was planning to do next?” If the answer is no, which it usually is, carry on as planned. Merlin Mann said it beautifully: “Don't let the blur of movement try to replace one elegantly completed task.” Pay for checking email. If you find yourself
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organized does not mean buying more plastic boxes; being organized means you kind of only need this one box ’cause you only save cool stuff. —Merlin Mann The Museum of Me Now that your digital ducks are in a row and you can breathe a little easier, it’s time to tackle
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to offend and most want to win over. Is it clear, concise, and well formatted? Share the good stuff, in the right amount, or, as Merlin Mann put it, “You want to see the web as a party where you bring more beer than you drink.” Connect selectively No matter what the
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.com Lesser, Marc. Less: Accomplishing More by Doing Less. Novato, CA: New World Library, 2009 Lewis, C.S. The Screwtape Letters. New York: Macmillan, 1943 Mann, Merlin. 43 Folders: Time, Attention and Creative Work. http://43folders.com ____. Inbox Zero. http://inboxzero.com Marino, Gordon. “Kierkegaard on the Couch.” Opinionator, The New York
Presentation Zen
by Garr Reynolds · 15 Jan 2012
. Schwertly, Jill Cadarette, Kelli Matthews, Luis Iturriaga, Dr. Aisyah Saad Abdul Rahim, Marty Neumeier, Markuz Wernli Saito, Sangeeta Kumar, Allysson Lucca, Pam Slim, Jed Schmidt, Merlin Mann, and many others. Also, a big thank you to Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt in Stockholm and Phil Waknell and Pierre Morsa in Paris. And, of course
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from a live presentation where he explained the origins of his “Takahashi Method.” Check out his Slideshare link above to see more samples. Inbox Zero Merlin Mann Productivity Guru and Creator of 43 folders www.43folders.com www.merlinmann.com The slides shown here are part of a talk
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Merlin Mann gave in the summer of 2007 at Google’s Tech Talk series. The presentation was about strategies for dealing with high-volume e-mail and
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, working with, 39–42 live talks, 25 logos, 141 Loori, John Daido, 140 Lucas, George, 107 M-O Made to Stick, 78 Maeda, John, 39 Mann, Merlin, 208 McCloud, Scott, 125, 127 McGowan, Tara, 88 McKee, Robert, 85 McLeod, Scott, 194 meaning aptitude, 19 Medina, Dr. John, 254 meditation, 215 Meerheimb, Jasper
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
by Cal Newport · 5 Mar 2024 · 233pp · 65,893 words
2020, I published a long piece for The New Yorker titled “The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done.” It opened on the story of Merlin Mann, a web designer and freelance project manager who found himself in the early 2000s increasingly overwhelmed by his work. It was at this point that
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synchronization methods. When you separate work from the ad hoc conversations that surround it, what you’re left with might not be all that intimidating. Merlin Mann discovered that even highly technical task management systems couldn’t banish the sense of overload increasingly afflicting twenty-first-century office workers. The cure isn
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Los Angeles Times, 73 Lowe’s, 37 Lynch, David, 163 M Mad Max: Fury Road (film), 187 “Man the Hunter” (conference), 119 Manhattan Times, 128 Mann, Merlin, 85–87, 89 manufacturing, 17–22, 62, 101, 139 Marcos, Imelda and Ferdinand, 195 market economy, 218 market value, 38 Martin, George, 196 Marx, Karl
Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
by Tim Harford · 3 Oct 2016 · 349pp · 95,972 words
your documents or your e-mail, because the system will buckle under not only the volume of incoming information but its fundamental contradictions and ambiguities. Merlin Mann, a productivity expert, has skewered the desire to over-organize a list of tasks in a fast-moving world. Imagine you’re making sandwiches in
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http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20203. 2. John Bach McMaster, as quoted ibid., n. 70. 3. Daniel Levitin, The Organized Mind (London: Penguin, 2015). 4. Merlin Mann, “Inbox Zero,” talk delivered at Google Tech Talks, July 23, 2007, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9UjeTMb3Yk. 5. Jorge Luis Borges, “John Wilkins’ Analytical
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5S system, 63–66, 68 target setting by, 153, 154, 157–59, 257–58 workplace designs favored by, 63–73, 82–87 Manhattan Project, 74 Mann, Merlin, 234 Marginal gains, 13 Markowitz, Harry, 167–69 Marshall, Barry, 207–8, 211 Martin, John, 141 Martinez-Firestone, Martha, 53 Maser, Chris, 206, 278n2 Massachusetts
Responsive Web Design
by Ethan Marcotte · 4 Jun 2011 · 114pp · 27,996 words
been penalizing them with extra markup. Meet “mobile first” When you have a free moment (and a stiff drink in hand), I recommend browsing through Merlin Mann’s “Noise to Noise Ratio” Flickr set (http://bkaprt.com/rwd/46/). These screen grabs showcase some of the most content-saturated pages on the
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–137 jQuery Backstretch plugin 58 K Kindle 102–103, 114 Koch, Peter-Paul 98, 117, 140 L League Gothic 82, 84 link 73, 75 M Mann, Merlin 111 margin 27, 29–31, 33–40 Marquis, Mat 131, 140 max-width: 100% 45–53, 59–62 media types 71–74 Meyer, Eric 18
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
by Clay Shirky · 28 Feb 2008 · 313pp · 95,077 words
the curious effect of a group of people all able to overwhelm one another by asking, cumulatively, more questions than they can cumulatively answer. As Merlin Mann, a software usability expert, describes the pattern:Email is such a funny thing. People hand you these single little messages that are no heavier than
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/2003/10/13) describing the tensions among public, private, and secret modes of conversation in social media. Page 94: Email is such a funny thing Merlin Mann offered that description of email at “The Strange Allure (and False Hope) of Email Bankruptcy” (www.43folderscom/2007/05/30/email-bankruptcy-2/. ). Page 99
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Los Angeles Times Lott, Trent Lukashenko, Alexander Luther, Martin Mackinnon, Rebecca Madrid train bombing Mahmoud, Abdel Monem mailing lists. See also discussion groups; e-mail Mann, Merlin Manutius, Aldus many-to-many communications tools mass amateurization McCallum, David McGrath, Nick mean (average) media industry. See also news business broadcast media vs. communications
Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
by Scott Belsky · 31 Mar 2010 · 223pp · 63,484 words
. To achieve long-term goals in the age of always-on technology and free-flowing communication, create windows of time dedicated to uninterrupted project focus. Merlin Mann, founder of the productivity Web site 43folders.com, has called for the need to “make time to make.” It is no surprise that Mann is
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vs. project-centric approaches Long Tail, The (Anderson) love M McPherson, Isaac Maeda, John “Make Something Cool Every Day” project management, see leadership Manet, Edouard Mann, Merlin marketing Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) MBA training Medici Effect, The (Johansson) meetings Action Steps and challenge of circles length of project management regularly scheduled
Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
by Scott Rosenberg · 2 Jan 2006 · 394pp · 118,929 words
a good time doing it.” True geeks have a capacity to geek out on almost anything—even kitchen cleanup. An enthusiast of productivity software named Merlin Mann, who in 2004 started a blog called 43 Folders that quickly became a cult favorite among programmers, once composed a love letter to a book
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.com/2005/06/17/opinion/17 stephenson.htm?ex=1276660800&en=a693ccc4ec008424&ei=5090 &partner=rssuserland&emc=rss. “Some deranged fold of my lizard brain”: Merlin Mann on his 43 Folders blog, September 15, 2004, at http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/15/home-comforts-illustrated-housekeeping-pr0n/. Jennifer Tucker, Abby Mackness
Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
by Jane McGonigal · 20 Jan 2011 · 470pp · 128,328 words
in direct contrast to self-help; it’s meant to be a more collective way of working out solutions and testing them out together. As Merlin Mann, one of the leading life hackers, explains, “Self-help books tend to be about lofty ideas, whereas life hacks are about getting things done and
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cooperation in massively distributed content in strategies for inspiring global cooperation in Luce Foundation Center for American Art Lydians Lyubomirsky, Sonja McDonald’s MacShane, Denis Mann, Merlin Maslow, Abraham massive multiplayer games massively multiplayer collaboration projects massively multiplayer foresight see also forecasting games massively single-player online games phasing in resource building
Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code
by Jeff Atwood · 3 Jul 2012 · 270pp · 64,235 words
honest with yourself — and your stakeholders — about how much you can actually get done under multi-tasking conditions. It’s probably less than you think. Merlin Mann@hotdogsladies “Good thing you’re tagging all those “Low Priority” tasks. God forbid you’d ever lose track of shit that’s not worth doing
Getting Things Done for Hackers
by Lars Wirzenius · 15 Jun 2012 · 32pp · 10,468 words
Getting Real
by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Matthew Linderman and 37 Signals · 1 Jan 2006 · 132pp · 31,976 words
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
by Cal Newport · 5 Jan 2016
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
by Douglas Rushkoff · 21 Mar 2013 · 323pp · 95,939 words
Designing Social Interfaces
by Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone · 30 Sep 2009 · 518pp · 49,555 words