Brands Create Customers (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Merlin Mann has announced that he’s “shifting gears” at his famed 43 Folders personal productivity site. In effect, he’s reinventing the 43 Folders brand. The site is changing from a brand of personal productivity to a brand of personal creativity. It’s brand deliverable is changing from improving one’s core efficiency to improving one’s creative output—and [...]
The Big Lead (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Less is more?: “Mann has promised fewer, better posts and rolled out a new mission statement: “43 Folders is Merlin Mann’s website about finding the time and attention to do your best creative work.” The further irony here is that Mann’s less-is-more strategy may prove to be more profitable. The usability guru Jakob Nielsen has [...]
tonari no shibafu (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
The Wire as a model for creating enduring work, by Merlin Mann.
Physorg (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
When Merlin Mann is on the go and needs to access his computer information he steps into the cloud. Mann, a 41-year-old technology blogger, is one of thousands of Americans who are shunning packaged software in favor of programs served up as services available on the Internet.
43 Folders (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Important While this article about The Wire deliberately contains as few actual spoilers about the show as possible, it does contains many links to pages with information that will tell you critical spoiler information about the stories and fates of the show’s characters. The article also contains language and links that are very much not safe for work. Please proceed with caution on all fronts. In...
Laughing Squid (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Strongbad of Homestar Runner answers his 200th email, with intro music by They Might Be Giants. Related PostsEFF Fundraiser & Pay To Send Email DebateSubscribe To Laughing Squid Via EmailInbox Zero, Merlin Mann’s Action-Based System For EmailLaughing Squid Blog Posts Via EmailBacn, Email That Is Not Spam or Personal EmailThis is a blog post from Laughing [...]
HD BizBlog (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Merlin Mann gets right to the heart of my own current plans: kung fu grippe - Better And, to be honest, I don’t have a specific agenda for what I want to do all that differently, apart from what I’m already trying to do every day: * identify and destroy small-return bullshit; [...]
Cass Knits! (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Image via Wikipedia There, I said the worst thing first. I mean, I try to roll with the punches, and I have been known to let fly an expletive or two, but I rarely get told “don’t be a dick”, and it has certainly never happened repeatedly. Before I had even finished my first [...]
Climb to the Stars (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
[fr]De plus en plus de blogs semblent prendre la route du "multi-auteurs, revenu pub" -- et j'en suis attristée. Merlin Mann, auteur du célèbre 43 Folders, fait machine arrière, et reprend possession de son blog. Ça me fait chaud au coeur.[en]I was very happy to read this post by Merlin Mann titled Time, Attention, and [...]
Kidney Notes (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
How To Blog View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: advice blogging ) And the talk itself, here .
Travelin' Librarian (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
How To Blog View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: advice ) Find your voice, speak intelligently to the people you respect, and get better. This presentation covers everything I know about producing the kind of work that I enjoy and that I strive to make. NB: I'll eventually replace this upload with an annotated version, so apologies in advance if comments and what have you disappear...
kadavy.net (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
I just read a very important post by Merlin Mann. He very humbly and candidly spoke about how something that he had created so genuinely became a marionette to control his actions. He started writing a blog. A real blog. about the stuff that interested him, and it became huge. It started to make money, [...]
Preshrunk (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
I’m actually really psyched that Sandwich agreed to do this. For those of you that don’t know him, Adam is one third of the podcasting super team at You Look Nice Today. Along with Merlin Mann and Scott Simpson, Adam takes part in an almost weekly “journal of emotional hygiene” that is often [...]
Gadgetopia (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
What Makes for a Good Blog? : When Merlin Mann published this post, two separate people wrote me and told me that it reminded them of Gadgetopia. I put off reading this list, because I think I was afraid that I wouldn’t measure up. I’ve met Merlin , and I have a lot of respect for him, so I was afraid of the prospect that his observations would somehow mean that Gadgetopia wasn’t “good.” But, after...
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
So, despite magically disappearing for a while (beyond my mortal senses), I did manage to track Merlin for a few minutes to catch up with him. Observations? He is really nice: Merlin’s a genuinely nice guy. That’s the vibe that I got. He seemed to care about the people around him, and was quite giving — [...]
