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mitch wagner of information week summarized merlin mann’s macworld expo presentation up in an article entitled “how to take back your time and attention”:

merlin mann, the self-described “head basket case in charge of productivity on the internet,” provides some tips and tricks for taking back control of your life in a breezy and insightful macworld presentation.

mann himself says that mitch “did an ass-kickingly thorough job of summarizing my talk at macworld”. the part of mitch’s write-up that jumped out at me was this:

this is a particular problem for knowledge workers. (how do you identify knowledge workers? “look for someone with girlie smooth hands who can go to lunch whenever they want,” mann explained.) knowledge workers have huge amounts of freedom in how they work, they aren’t micromanaged, they just have goals to achieve. that freedom is dangerous. “you can find yourself at two in the morning staring at wikipedia covered in pizza crusts,” mann said.

haha, oh shit! i’m a knowledge worker! i always wondered what those were, and now i are one!

seriously, though, check out mitch’s article, it’s awesome.