Merlin Mann is an Independent Writer, Speaker, and Broadcaster at MerlinMann.com and Cohost of Back to Work Podcast on the 5 by 5 Podcast Network with Dan Benjamin. You can find Merlin’s previous appearance on this podcast here.

Covered in this episode:

• Back to Work Episode 153: ‘Anxiety’s a Goat‘
• Getting Things Done by David Allen ©DavidCo, 2001.
• The unknown inboxes out there that we don’t know about that keep us up at night
• The inboxes we have accepted
• Being sober about acknowledging the known inboxes we have in our lives
• Interruptions vs. Distractions
• How thoughts effect our feelings and vice versa
• The real inbox zero: What percentage of your brain is somewhere you don’t want it to be right now.
• Calendars 5
• Fantastical
• Omnifocus
• Mailbox
• Awayfind
• Sanebox
• Unroll.me

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