TOPIC: Offices, and when to get out of them.
This week—in what will surely be remembered as the greatest Back to Work episode of all time—Dan and Merlin eventually talk about working at a desk and when to take it someplace else.
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5by5 | Back to Work #117: The Flu Shots of Siracusa County
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5by5 | The Frequency #124: Unlike Scoble, I take a Shower
Dan and Haddie are joined by Tom Merritt, host of Tech News Today on TWiT.
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5by5 | Back to Work #115: Invitation to a Blame Party
TOPIC: Fixing the Culture of Meetings
This week, Dan and Merlin address the problems with meetings, and how we can each choose to improve them.
Ten quick ideas?
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5by5 | The Frequency #105: I’m Wearing Horseshoes
Dan and Haddie discuss Mailbox being bought by Dropbox, North Korea blames US and allies for cyber attacks, and where to watch the Angry Birds Toons.
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5by5 | The Frequency #94: A British Take Over
On this very special episode of the Frequency Myke Hurley and Anna Debenham step in for Dan and Haddie. They discuss a selection of the day’s news, explain some Britishisms and try to solve the ‘Great Tea Debate’ once and for all.
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5by5 | The Crossover #7: We Met at a Tequila Bar
Dan is joined by Jim Dalrymple and Merlin Mann. They talk about intense heat, hotels, writing, the evolution of the link blog, advertising online, guitars, and more.
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5by5 | Back to Work #102: Hunter Ready to Write
TOPIC: Creative Costumes vs. Pushing Out Product
This week Dan and Merlin talk about how the legends and mythologies around creative people and beautiful losers can become such a destructive MacGuffin for us aspiring civilians.
Getting gakked out on Hunter S. Thompson’s cocaine and buying Sylvia Plath’s oven are unlikely to take you anyplace useful, interesting, or…creative.
Also: "BRIANMICHAELBENDIS!"
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5by5 | Back to Work #97: Pope of the Office
TOPIC: Using GTD to sanely and intelligently decide what to do, and when, and where.
This week, Dan and Merlin continue their discussion of David Allen’s Getting Things Done system.
Hopping over the basic workflow and setup (you’ll definitely need the book for that), this is all about doing—leveraging the horizontal and vertical axes of GTD to intuitively choose exactly the right task at any given moment.
Regardless of interruptions, regardless of unexpected change, and regardless of what you’re mindfully not doing.
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5by5 | The Frequency #1: Space Crickets
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5by5 | The Pipeline #7: Merlin Mann
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