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Merlin Mann is an independent writer, broadcaster, and raconteur who is best known as the creator of 43Folders.com, a Technorati Top 100 blog that attracts over 9,000,000 page views a year.

Merlin’s fresh and engaging take on personal productivity and the challenges of modern knowledge work has made him the best-known and most trusted voice in the field of what’s come to be called “life hacks.” His practical and encouraging advice has helped thousands of professionals to regain their time and attention — to make better decisions, both in the moment and at a strategic level.

Merlin was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and raised on Florida’s humid Suncoast. In his senior year of high school, Merlin dropped his 1st period BASIC class so he could strum Major7 chords in the school’s stage band. Somewhere in this is a story that should tell you much of what you need to know about him.

Merlin’s writing has been carried in fine periodicals like WIRED, Make Magazine, Popular Science, and Macworld. Merlin’s popular website and blog, 43Folders.com, has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Magazine, The Economist, The NBC Nightly News, Time Magazine, and many more national and international media outlets.

Merlin is a sought-after speaker and presenter who’s received rave reviews for delivering his energetic productivity talks at companies like Apple, Google, Yahoo!, Adobe, and Xerox PARC, as well as appearing at a variety of technology conferences, including Macworld San Francisco, South By Southwest, the Mac OS X Conference, and O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference.