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Blog Post	Video: Merlin's Talk, "Toward Patterns for Creativity"	Merlin	0	15 years 40 weeks ago
Blog Post	Eric Idle, on John Cleese's Writing Process	Merlin	0	15 years 40 weeks ago
Blog Post	Ze Frank: Executing and Theoretical Perfection	Merlin	0	15 years 40 weeks ago
Blog Post	Michael Bierut's Notebooks	Merlin	0	15 years 40 weeks ago
Blog Post	On Thumbs, Stars, and Little Men	Merlin	0	15 years 40 weeks ago
Blog Post	Best Mac Ever? Duh. SE/30.	Merlin	0	15 years 40 weeks ago
Blog Post	43f Screencast: Merlin's First Desktop Tour	Merlin	0	15 years 41 weeks ago
Blog Post	Twyla’s Box: It’s Where Everything Goes	Merlin	0	15 years 43 weeks ago
Blog Post	Re-Potting with Resources: What Would You Make?	Merlin	0	15 years 43 weeks ago
Blog Post	Introducing “43 Folders Clips”	Merlin	0	15 years 43 weeks ago
Blog Post	The Problem with “Feeling Creative”	Merlin	0	15 years 44 weeks ago
Blog Post	43 Folders: Time, Attention, and Creative Work	Merlin	0	15 years 48 weeks ago
Blog Post	The High Cost of Pretending	Merlin	0	15 years 48 weeks ago
Blog Post	Real Advice Hurts	Merlin	0	15 years 49 weeks ago
Blog Post	Driving Around the Buffalo	Merlin	0	15 years 49 weeks ago
Blog Post	Photography, and the Tolerance for Courageous Sucking	Merlin	0	15 years 49 weeks ago
Blog Post	The Exile's Return or, Still Waters Run Bleachers	Merlin	0	15 years 49 weeks ago
Blog Post	Sample Chapter from "The Creative Habit"	Merlin	0	15 years 49 weeks ago
Blog Post	Louis C.K. on Starting Over; Carlin's Artful Process	Merlin	0	15 years 50 weeks ago
Blog Post	Twyla Tharp, on Failing Well	Merlin	0	15 years 50 weeks ago
Blog Post	Four Years	Merlin	0	15 years 51 weeks ago
Blog Post	The Wire: Writing Into Your Arc	Merlin	0	16 years 6 weeks ago
Blog Post	43F Recap: Best of Getting Things Done	Merlin	17	16 years 8 weeks ago
Blog Post	43f Program Note: The Week Our Gears Shift	Merlin	0	16 years 9 weeks ago
Page	Lawrence, the Shovelblog Pony	Merlin	0	16 years 9 weeks ago

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