Episode 222: Full-Stack Obsessive

Merlin and Dan use The Aviator as a jumping-off point to talk about OCD as it relates to perfectionism, creativity, and drive in the workplace. They discuss rituals and their consequences, the importance of mise en place, and eliminating disruptive processes.

Also, Merlin invokes the term "workflows".

Links for this episode:

• 5by5 | Back to Work #221: Minimally Viable Interruption
  TOPIC: Time, Stones, and Giving Yourself a BreakJust…give yourself permission to not feel like a dick today. Especially if you think you don't deserve it.
• Outside the Lines: An Artists' Coloring Book for Giant Imaginations: Souris Hong-Porretta: 9780399162084: Amazon.com: Books
  
• Netflix June 2015: What's Coming? What's Going?
  The Aviator (June 1): Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio team up for a sweeping Howard Hughes biopic.
• Stanley Kubrick's Boxes (TV Movie 2008) - IMDb
  
• Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001) - IMDb
  
• Mise en place - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  a French phrase which meant "putting in place", as in set up. It is used in professional kitchens to refer to organising and arranging the ingredients (e.g., cuts of meat, relishes, sauces, par-cooked items, spices, freshly chopped vegetables, and other components) that a cook will require for the menu items that are expected to be prepared during a shift.
• For A More Ordered Life, Organize Like A Chef : The Salt : NPR
  The system that makes kitchens go is called mise-en-place, or, literally, "put in place." It's a French phrase that means to gather and arrange the ingredients and tools needed for cooking.
• Ratatouille (2007) - IMDb
  
• Johnny Carson: The First King Of Late Night - Esquire
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• How It All Began: A Brief History of the Kitchen Brigade - Food - The Austin Chronicle
  

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