Introducing Instapaper 4.0 for iPad and iPhone The lede here is that my pal, Marco, has just released the stellar new 4.0 version of his Instapaper suite. This is fantastic news, and–as if you ...
1. Nothing wrecks your living room decor quite like a giant, rented hospital bed. The one my Dad laid in for a couple months in the fall of 1974 was an alarmingly stiff and sturdy affair, the frame o...
Episode #11: Johnny Heuristic Download MP3 | Huffduff It Back to Work #11: Johnny Heuristic - 5by5 on Huffduffer Merlin Mann joins Dan Benjamin to talk about futureproofing your passion by finding yo...
Merlin Mann - "Scared Shitless: How I (Mostly) Learned to Love Being Afraid of Pretty Much Everything" Download MP4 Video of "Scared Shitless" This is the video of a talk I did last m...
MPU 046: Workflows with Merlin Mann II « Mac Power Users Download MP3 Huffduff It I have the life that I have because Ive made a lot of weird decisions, and theyve worked out well. Not gonna lie to y...
So, yeah. Ill be speaking at Webstock pretty soon. Which is insanely intimidating. I think I may have my topic. ”Fear” was written by Merlin Mann for 43Folders.com and was originally posted on Februa...
[jump to video] Long story (not very) short? One night in 2003--after killing it in front of audience of about 30 lucky people in Oakland--The Long Winters needed a place to crash, and my wife and I ...
5by5 Live Before Christ was a corporal, Dan Benjamin was already a bit of a hero to me. Since the early aughts–long before his insanely great 5by5.tv podcast network–Dan’s Hivelogic...
Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford Commencement Address No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven dont want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever ...
In a classic bit from an early Seinfeld, Jerry and Elaine are at the airport, trying to pick up the rental car that Jerry had reserved. As usual, things go poorly and get awkward fast: Seinfeld ...
Being a Parable for the Edification of Independents Seeking Independence THE PARABLE THE OSTENSIBLE CUSTOMER enters a deli and saunters up to the counter. The deli is tended by its ra...
A couple weeks ago, my pals at Twitter were kind enough to invite me in to visit with their (rapidly growing) team. The topic was meetings, so I used it as an opportunity to publicly premiere a talk ...
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a s...
dConstruct 2010: Merlin Mann - “Kerning, Orgasms & Those Goddamned Japanese Toothpicks” (NSFW) ME - Kerning, Orgasms And Those Goddamned Japanese Toothpicks on Huffduffer Download the...
On May 16, 2010, at 10:02 AM, “Xx” wrote: You mentioned you gave a talk at Rutgers about future proofing your passion. Is this available as a podcast? I’d love to listen!...
Video: Merlin Mann - “Time & Attention Talk (improvised)” Audio (mp3): “Merlin Mann - ‘Rutgers Time & Attention Talk’R 21; This is a talk I did at Ru...
After almost a year of hand-wringing, fretting, and occasionally even writing the odd string of English words, I’ve finally started turning into the home stretch with the first draf...
Daring Fireball: An Ode to DiskWarrior, SuperDuper, and Dropbox Hard drives are fragile. Read as much as you can bear to about how they work, how incredibly precisely they must operate in order ...
I’ll have a more proper Monthly Pimp on-deck here soon, but – time being of the essence here – I wanted to make sure and extend an invitation for something I’ll be doing in to...
Asked and answered by the wonderful Frank Chimero: Anonymous asked: ‘How do you maintain focus (on work, dreams, goals, life)?’ You do one thing at a time. You might be amazed how ma...
Mark Pilgrim on The Setup I’m a three-time (soon to be four-time) published author. When aspiring authors learn this, they invariably ask what word processor I use. It doesn’t fuckin...
Forgive the site some hiccups over the next few days. After what feels like decades of neglect (read: ugh, book), I’m happy to say I’ll be returning to occasional 43f posting this we...
How to Write a Book ”How to Write a Book” was written by Merlin Mann for 43Folders.com and was originally posted on February 01, 2010. Except as noted, it's ©2009 Merlin Mann and licensed for re...
Notational Velocity - Version 2.0β2 Release Notes Two of the best things on my Mac now sync programmatically and without the need for either spit or baling wire— that means syncing wi...
43 Folders - Interview with “Linchpin” author, Seth Godin (audio mp3, free on iTunes) I talk with Seth Godin, whose new book, Linchpin (Kindle, Hardcover, Worldcat, ISBN), comes out ...
Seth’s Blog: What Matters Now: get the free ebook A few months ago, Seth Godin asked about 70 people to talk about a word or phrase related to their own idea of What Matters Now. He collec...
I honor any project to write something — especially to write a long piece of fiction. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do but, like most people, I have always been too scared to...
Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are (For Now) - Vimeo [NSFW] Here’s a video I made about a video I made. Consequently, it’s also about writing a book, fake self-h...
MaxFunCon: Merlin Mann on Doing Creative Work (via TSoYA) Here’s the audio from a short talk I presented a few weeks ago at Jesse Thorn’s awesome1 MaxFunCon in Lake Arrowhead, CA. The tal...
n/a ”” was written by for 43Folders.com and was originally posted on December 31, 1969. Except as noted, it's ©2009 Merlin Mann and licensed for reuse under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. "Why a footer?"
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