This week Dan and Merlin ponder why there’s so much variability in the quality of our work.
Whether we’re making code, scrubbing toilets, or stinking up the Arby’s, what explains our individual drive to do something better?
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5by5 | Back to Work #55: The Pickles Never Touch
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5by5 | Back to Work #54: Freemium Mason
Merlin and Dan talk about returning to paleo, the nature of wieners and discouragement, crown vic habits and anxiety addiction.
You won’t beat it without a cocktail of grit and care with just the right amount of sacrifice.
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5by5 | Back to Work #53: The Wages of Security
In the most average episode ever, Merlin and Dan talk physical and digital work environments so you can get going in the right direction and don’t have to spend all day on it.
And, when do you know you don’t want 10 times more of something and what do you do about it? There’s no guarantee of security, even if you show up sober, so start acting like an entrepreneur and choose what you want 10 times more of.
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5by5 | Back to Work #52: Walk the Coastline, Bitches
TOPIC: The Hidden Cost is the True Cost
Merlin is back from MacWorldPipeiWorld to talk with Dan about the True Cost of iceberg lettuce, an anchor tenant, 20 minutes of your time, and how much of your life you’re going to eat sand.
You don’t have a TARDIS to make it back to pick up your kid or make it to Built to Spill so walk the coastline.
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5by5 | Back to Work #51: Living Inside the Nonsense
TOPIC: Slipping on Dates, Sliding on Days
Merlin and Dan talk about managing projects, scheduling calls, and being home when you scheduled a party. It SEEMS SO SIMPLE but then Jeannie has to go to Guam and slipping is your SOP.
The way out of this quagmire is to admit you can’t get out of it. You can’t change a culture of slipping with a poster or a fairy princess. You have to fix the slides if you want to fix the slips.
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5by5 | Back to Work #50: The Pork Soup Paradox
Merlin and Dan talk about rumors of layoffs—when the fear gets you, and you start filing in the narrative with a panther, even if you’re developing the best-of-breed cereal portal or have been in the newspaper’s Accounts Payable department for 20 years.
What do you do at the fork in the road? Do you interview with The Bobs? Do you just grow up and ask what the hell’s happening? Do you try to pray away the hurricane?
Or, do you just get tragically okay with being 10 times more terrified for 10 more years?
Yes: there are lessons from The Wire.
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After Dark #85: After Back To Work #50
After Back to Work episode 50.
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5by5 | Back to Work #49: The Area of Completion
John Gruber joins Merlin to talk about blog engines, Lego, bias, credibility, the project triangle, and (duh) Star Wars.
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5by5 | Back to Work #48: An Abrupt Existential Jerk
TOPIC: How habits get made.
Dan and Merlin are back for 2012 to discuss how habits are like little hairs or inertia or homeostasis or something. How we build habits, how they get built for us, and what we can learn about habits from making our daily coffee.
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5by5 | Back to Work #47: Utter Failure & Hotel Steak
5by5 - Back to Work #47: Utter Failure & Hotel Steak
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