Important While this article about The Wire deliberately contains as few actual spoilers about the show as possible, it does contain numerous links to pages with information that will tell you critica...
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[what is this?] Heres something I wrote last week forthis sites new About page:43 Folders is Merlin Manns website about finding the time and attention to do your best creative work.Call it a motto, or...
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[what is this?] Four years ago last Monday, I started 43 Folders with a TypePad account and noidea what I was doing.The obsessions that brought me here struck me as fascinating and under-reportedif al...
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Reserve Reading: kung fu grippe - Better In light of some new directions Im taking with my work, 43 Folders is changing focus and approach from being the blog about productivity that many readers may ...
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A very simple guide to leaving here quickly so you can get back to making something awesome.Ask yourselfWhy am I here right now instead of making something cool on my own? Whats the barrier to me star...
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Welcome back, friend. Per what I wrote in your yearbook back in June, I hope you had a nice summer and stayed sweet and cool. You look great. Did you lose weight or something? Somewhere along the way ...
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Right Now: What Are You Doing?Ive started to become a lot pickier about where my attention goes as I observe what it means to my work when it drifts. But, I still have a long way to go. Long way. Like...
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People send me lots of books, so I have to decide rather quickly whether one should be added to the ambitious pile of stuff I already really want to finish reading.On the off chance that you care or f...
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Aza’s Thoughts » Ubiquity In Depth Take a few minutes this week to look at the Ubiquity plugin for Firefox. So far, Ive spent just enough time with it to have my mind blown by the Quicksilver-like int...
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Jason Kottke (via Rex, via TechCrunch) points to a new feature on FriendFeed that allows users to fake follow people:That means you can friend someone but you dont see their updates. That way, it appe...
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My quote of the week comes from a comment by Eideteker in this Metafilter thread on multitasking:Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things youd rather not be doing by doing them ...
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Why a Footer in 43 Folders Feed Items? Weve added a footer to items that appear in the 43 Folders RSS feed. Heres why. The 43 Folders feed is a popular way for people to keep up with whats happening o...
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Psychology Today: The Creative Personality [via delicious.com/huxant, w/a reminder by Jack Shedd]Some days, I cant decide how I feel about Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (say: chick SENT me high). Hes writte...
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My friends at Six Apart recently asked me to make a list ofblogs that I enjoy. I think theyre planning to use it for their new Blogs.com project. Unfortunately, Im late getting it to them (typical), b...
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Last night, I got home from a lovely one-day trip to do some speaking, and I was catching up on a couple emails before I went to bed. One of the messages was a thoughtful note from someone who works i...
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Guest post Guest blogger, Matt Wood, learns how to feed his creative side (without giving it a big gut). —mdm Earlier this summer, I was in the kitchen, trying to cook dinner.I had a pot on the stove ...
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Who Moved My Brain? Revaluing Time & Attention (slideshare.net) Thanks to my pals, Dara and Shawn, Ive been preparing for a return visit with the folks at GoDaddy to deliver a couple talks on Inbo...
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Overcoming Bias: Planning Fallacy Via The Guardian, via Chairman Gruber, comes this post from the new-to-me blog, Overcoming Bias. It discusses theresearch behind a common cognitive bias known as The ...
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Like thousands of people yesterday, I was annoyed and inconvenienced by Gmails unexpected2-hour dirtnap. But, wow. Apparently, it just irrevocably hijacked the whole day for some folks. And even sent ...
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ideas are just a multiplier of execution - OReilly ONLamp Blog Derek Sivers short blog post from 2005 has been making the rounds latelyit came to me via Chairman Gruberand I have to say, I cant stop t...
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