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Merlin's blogTips on becoming a better listenerMerlin Mann | Jul 10 2006When we meet, you and I, you will see for yourself one of my most humiliating traits. No it's not my acromegaly, my plaid pants, nor my atrocious hairpiece. No, friend, you will be deeply annoyed to hear me ask you to repeat your name at least twice, and possibly five times, during our inaugural conversation. And, in subsequent meetings, even though your face will be forever etched upon my brain (a skill at which I absolutely excel), I will probably call you "Champ," "Chief," or possibly "Tex." Because, yes, I will have completely forgotten your name. And it's not just a bad memory that's to blame here (although, of course, my memory sucks, too) -- I'm convinced it's because I am a terrible listener, and because I suffer intermittent encoding errors at the time data is written to disk, so to speak. In working to improve this socially-crippling liability, in general -- to hear what people are really saying rather than just using the down time to formulate a pseudo-clever response -- I've begun skimming the web for advice. I have these sites and tips to share with you so far, so listen up! read more »33 Comments
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New GTD resources pageMerlin Mann | Jul 10 200652 Reviews » Getting Things Done, Resource Edition 52 Reviews has a handy reference page on popular GTD implementation tools. Although, personally, it looks incomplete to me without Kinkless GTD on there :) . Many of these will be familiar to GTD fans, but there are a few I hadn't seen or that are worthy of a second look: read more »POSTED IN:
456 Berea Street reviews _GTD_Merlin Mann | Jul 6 2006Getting Things Done (Book review) | 456 Berea Street Roger Johansson at 456 Berea Street has a short review of Getting Things Done that nicely captures the book's tactical practicality and the subsequent stress relief it can bring (which happens to be favorites of mine too): read more »POSTED IN:
HOWTO: Flag "penciled-in" events in iCalMerlin Mann | Jul 6 2006As I've mentioned before I like using iCal's invitations to share appointments with people -- especially since this lets them easily respond to let me know whether they 1) will attend, 2) won't attend, or 3) are just "tentative." Unfortunately, there's no analogous tentative flag for the (seemingly endless) number of appointments and event I want to just pencil-in -- you know, those times when you want to make sure to block out time for a call or lunch, but are waiting on confirmation from folks who don't use iCal (or for whom it makes no sense to pester with an invitation). My workaround -- yes, like many of these things -- is really simple. read more »POSTED IN:
43F Podcast: It’s just a cupMerlin Mann | Jul 6 2006
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Megazoomer: Full-screen mode for Cocoa appsMerlin Mann | Jul 5 2006Speaking of full-screen functionality, lots of people have been writing to mention Megazoomer, a free, SIMBL-based bundle that fakes full-screen mode within any Cocoa app, including Safari and Textmate. read more »POSTED IN:
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