Longtime readers (George, mom) will know that I have a giant internet crush on Merlin Mann, who most people outside of Tallahassee first heard about through his productivity-themed website 43folders, then through his Inbox Zero e-mail talk at Google, and most recently as a podcaster on shows such as Back to Work, Roderick on the Line, and You Look Nice Today: A Journal of Emotional Hygiene. (How big a crush? I invited him for a 3-talk visit back in the day.) Merlin usually says that he’s interested in time and attention, and in creative work; for me, he’s most helpful in talking through that anxiety endemic to most “knowledge work”: what is my job? what should I be doing next? will my job be disrupted or unbundled?
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