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Back to Work #2: Picture of a Boat
January 25, 2011 at 2:00pm • Short URL • Wiki Entry
Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin formulate a five-minute warning tactic before discussing the reality of bringing change to your company, some patterns that work for startups, solving the right problem at the right level, why you can’t find the innovation button, and using PathFinder as a Finder replacement.
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- Video: Interview: Chris Wetherell | The Merlin Show
- App Pick: Path Finder 5 by Cocoatech (OS X File Browser/Finder Replacement)
- Workshop: "Sinking your Sailboats: Managing Innovation by Saying True Things" by Merlin @ Webstock 11
- Book: Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt
- Book: Dynamics of Software Development by Jim McCarthy, Denis Gilbert
- Video: Path Finder video demo on MacBreak | 43 Folders
- Book: The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and David Thomas
- Video: Interview: Chris Wetherell, Part 2 | The Merlin Show
- Skunkworks project – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Image: One of Pavlov’s dogs.jpg – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- MacGuffin – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Evan Williams | evhead: Ten Rules for Web Startups 2005
- Cognitive bias – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Quote: "The awful thing about life is this: Everybody has their reasons" (La règle du jeu, 1939)
- Image: "Leave-A-Sign-About-Dog-Poop Guy"
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