Episode Description

Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin talk about checking email under the table to catch up on your 27 high priority tasks, a good time to use the word priority, blowing cycles on meeting with Narnia's stakeholders, and getting tasks out of your dreamcatcher.

Episode Information

Initially Released May 27, 2011

Runtime 1:26:14

Episode Page Brick Building Full of Lies

Recurring Topics and Characters

• Priorities
• Better Questions

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Episode Links

• ESSAY: Mud Rooms, Red Letters, and Real Priorities - 43 Folders
• ESSAY: GTD: Priorities don't exist in a vacuum - 43 Folders
• ESSAY: First, care. - 43 Folders
• HOWTO: Getting started with "Getting Things Done" - 43 Folders
• HOWTO: Building a Smarter To-Do List, Part I - 43 Folders
• WIKI: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (Importance vs. Urgency)
• WIKI: Alan Lakein (Lakein's question: "What is the best use of my time right now?")
• CONCEPT: GTD & "The Four-Criteria Model for Choosing Actions in the Moment" - Google Books
• CONCEPT: Time and motion study - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• WEBB: Cheaper by the Dozen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• CHART: covey quadrants - Google Search
• OBVIOUS Raymond Carver Joke: "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" (WIKI)
• OAK of a Man: Ken Case - The Omni Group
• ROCKET: Estes 1948 Big Bertha Flying Model Rocket Kit (Amazon.com)
• ROCKET: 001948 - Big Bertha™ - Skill 1 - Kits By Skill Level - Rockets
• SONG: Bacon Ray - Sundays In A Row
• POEM: "The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot as hypertext
• BOOK: The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound
• VIDEO: American Tourister "Gorilla" Commercial (1971)
• VIDEO: Caddyshack: Playing Through ("Over on Briar")
• BONUS AWESOME: Too Close to the Metal Wallpapers (Chainmail for Manatees)
• BONUS AWESOME: Cut the bullshit, do the hard work, on your desktop - Ice To The Brim
• BOOK: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (Amazon)
• DIAGRAM: Anatomy of the Derail: "You shouldn't be throwing anyone."