Episode 107: Pull Out Your Dingus

TOPIC: Compression

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about compression. What happens when we don't account for how long something really takes to do? And, worse still, what if we don't think about what has to happen before we can even start it?

If you find you're stressed-out, over-scheduled, under-resourced—and not particularly loving the things you're making—there's a pretty good chance you've become a victim of your own compression.

Acknowledge and understand the problem, and then learn how to avoid the classic pitfalls by falling in love with your calendar all over again.

Links for this episode:

• [SPONSOR] Squarespace
  
• [SPONSOR] Harvest
  
• Hofstadter's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Planning fallacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Planning Fallacy - Less Wrong
  
• Overcoming Bias
  
• Oliver Burkeman on why everything takes longer than you think | Life and style | The Guardian
  
• Task Times, The Planning Fallacy, and a Magical 20% | 43 Folders
  
• The Experience and Perception of Time (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2004 Edition)
  
• Time perception - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Timeline of Events in X-Men Comics – 1963-2012 | Comics Back Issues
  
• Comic Book Reading Order | Comics Back Issues
  
• Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman - Penguin Books
  
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• Markdown Service Tools - Brett Terpstra
  
• SearchLink: automated Markdown linking improved - Brett Terpstra
  
• Template · neocotic
  
• Comics Back Issues | Back Issue Reading Orders and Lists
  
• Alien (1979) - IMDb
  
• Homicide: Life on the Street (TV Series 1993–1999) - IMDb
  
• Deadpool (2012) #1 Baby Variant cover by Skottie Young | Apps | Marvel.com
  
• 5by5 | The Pipeline #7: Merlin Mann
  
• 5by5 | Back to Work #5: Chigger Bites on the Bus Driver
  
• Mac OS X Automation: Services Manager
  
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• Civil War: Mark Millar, Steve McNiven: 9780785121787: Amazon.com: Books
  
• The Road to Civil War: Brian Michael Bendis, J. Michael Straczynski, Alex Maleev, Ron Garney, Mike McKone, Tyler Kirkham: Amazon.com: Books
  
• 5by5 | The Comic Shack #26: SuperTeam-Building
  
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• Amazon.com: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Graphic Novel) (9780785145905): Eric Shanower, L. Frank Baum, Skottie Young: Books
  
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• Civil War (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• INTERVIEW: Joe Caramagna Letters The Marvel Universe
  
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• Hoist with your own petard
  
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