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TOPIC: The Life You Actually Want.

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about organization, multitasking and new year's resolutions.

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• Amazon.com: ARRIS / Motorola SB6121 SURFboard DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem - Retail Packaging: Electronics
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• deep-dark-fears
  
• The Cost of Continuously Checking Email - HBR
  Suppose each time you ran low on an item in your kitchen—olive oil, bananas, napkins—your instinctive response was to drop everything and race to the store. How much time would you lose? How much money would you squander on gas? What would happen to your productivity?
• In search of lost time: Why is everyone so busy? | The Economist
  THE predictions sounded like promises: in the future, working hours would be short and vacations long. “Our grandchildren”, reckoned John Maynard Keynes in 1930, would work around “three hours a day”—and probably only by choice. Economic progress and technological advances had already shrunk working hours considerably by his day, and there was no reason to believe this trend would not continue. Whizzy cars and ever more time-saving tools and appliances guaranteed more speed and less drudgery in all parts of life. Social psychologists began to fret: whatever would people do with all their free time?
• Amazon.com: Elenco Electronic Snap Circuits, Jr. Kit: Toys & Games
  
• It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff: Peter Walsh: 9780743292658: Amazon.com: Books
  
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity: David Allen: 9780142000281: Amazon.com: Books
  
• It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff: Peter Walsh: 9780743292658: Amazon.com: Books
  
• 5by5 | Back to Work #173: The Best Days End in Tears
  
• Capgras delusion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Five Somewhat Novel Compulsions I had at one time or another | 5ives
  
• Simulation hypothesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?
  
• The Fermi Paradox - Wait But Why
  
• Great Filter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Fermi paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• A time traveller's primer | Ryan North | TEDxUofT - YouTube
  
• Adventure Time #6 - Comics by comiXology
  
• 5by5 Showbot
  
• kolpanic/Achiever · GitHub
  
• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow, the secret to happiness | Talk Video | TED.com
  
• Flow (psychology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: 9780061339202: Amazon.com: Books
  
• deep-dark-fears: deep dark fears | kung fu grippe
  

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