Episode 133: I'm Glad Your Computer Died

TOPIC: How many keys do you really need?

This week, Dan and Merlin return to the question, "What do you want ten times more of?" and weigh the risks and benefits of increasing the amount of complexity in your life.

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• [SPONSOR] Stock Photos, Royalty-Free Images and Vectors - Shutterstock
  
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• Editorial for iPad
  Powerful Markdown Editing and Workflow Automation for iPad
• Editorial for iPad: A Landmark in iOS Text Editors
  If that gets you curious, then read on. I have something wonderful to show you.
• Reinventing iOS Automation: Editorial Review
  Ole Zorn knows how to push the boundaries of iOS. His latest app, Editorial for iPad, redefines the market of text editors for iOS, and, in many ways, sets a new standard for iOS automation and desktop-class apps. Editorial makes me want to work from my iPad.
• BusyCal
  BusyCal supports iCloud, Exchange, Google Calendar, and other CalDAV servers, enabling you to sync and share your calendars with other Macs running BusyCal or the built-in Calendar app on OS X, as well as iPhones and iPads running the built-in Calendar app on iOS.
• Pythonista
  Bring the Zen of Python to iOS.
• 5by5 | The Incomparable #154: Seahorse on Line One
  Do you like stories, love, and life? Then even if you're not a regular comic book reader, you should read "Saga," by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples. (Unless naked robot sex disturbs you, in which case you shouldn't.) We cover the horns and the wings, bad connections on the interstellar cellphone network, seahorse agents, super space high school, a frog with a banjo, the wisdom of hiring a ghost as your babysitter, and much more.
• PopClip Extensions
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• Ep. 81: "It Tastes Like the Forest" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann
  The Problem: Cruising now is part of John’s lifestyle.
• Butterick’s Practical Typography
  
• Butterick’s Practical Typography (Equity Type Face)
  Equity is used for body text in this book. Equity was orig­i­nal­ly de­signed for le­gal writ­ers, but any pro­fes­sion­al writer can benefit from its many conveniences:
• Butterick’s Practical Typography (Concourse Type Face)
  Concourse is the sans serif font used in this book—for headings, side­bars, tech­ni­cal in­struc­tions, and elsewhere.
• Amazon.com: Watchmen Collector's Edition: Ultimate Cut + Graphic Novel [Blu-ray]: Patrick Wilson, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, Carla Gugino, Zack Snyder: Movies & TV
  
• Mac Buyer's Guide: Know When to Buy Your Mac, iPod or iPhone
  This page provides a product summary for each Apple model. The intent is to provide our best recommendations regarding current product cycles, and to provide a summary of currently available rumors for each model.
• The Notorious MSG's Unlikely Formula For Success
  The “umami” craze has turned a much-maligned and misunderstood food additive into an object of obsession for the world’s most innovative chefs. But secret ingredient monosodium glutamate’s biggest secret may be that there was never anything wrong with it at all.
• How To Be Prolific: Guidelines For Getting It Done From Joss Whedon | Co.Create: Creativity \ Culture \ Commerce
  The writer-producer-director who made Much Ado About Nothing while editing The Avengers, and who’ll return to TV this fall with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., knows a bit about “getting things done.” In fact, he cites David Allen’s book of that title as an important guide--even if he never finished reading it.
• Squarespace Commerce Now Available in the UK — The Official Squarespace Blog
  With Stripe’s official launch, we’re thrilled to announce that Squarespace Commerce is now available to everyone in the UK.
• Accidental Tech Podcast: 26: Three Phones Ago
  
• The case for RAID | Ars Technica
  
• Eight Men Out (1988)
  

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