This week’s Mac Power Users features me talking about the steps I took to set up a small business when I left “the firm” to open my sole practitioner law practice. The last several months have been some of the most exhilarating of my life and I’ve picked up quite a few nerd tricks along the way.

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This week we’ve got twice the fun over at the Mac Power Users.

MPU 270: Workflows with Christina Warren

We’ve wanted Christina for a long time and it was really nice finally talking with her about her work as an Apple journalist and Apple Music. We use the backdrop of the Apple Earnings Call to discuss her workflows.

MPU 271: MPU Live – What’s the Worse Thing That Could Happen?

We talk with Kent Newsome about working in a “locked down” office, we also discuss Amazon’s Echo, listener travel tips, two factor authentication apps, OmniFocus workflows, sharing tasks, referenced photo libraries and answer listener questions on a variety of topics.

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David Wain joins us this week to talk about how he used his Mac to write and produce the Netflix series, Hot Wet American Summer premiering later this month. We also stopped to talk about some other nerdy topics like photo management and Mac utilities. This is a good one.

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In this week’s Mac Power Users, Katie and I take a deep dive in Apple Music to talk about the good, the bad, and the delightful of Apple’s new music offerings.

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This week John Gruber joins us to discuss his workflows. John is the pre-eminent Apple Blogger and has a very fine podcast of his own. In addition to other geeky tips, John shares this AppleScript for grabbing Safari URLs when blogging. There is lots of good stuff in this one.

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This week’s Mac Power Users episode goes off the reservation a bit. I get tons of email from listeners asking for help with task management. Their problems quite often are not about what app to use or what OmniFocus perspective they need. The problems often run deeper. As a result I asked nerd and psychiatrist Kourosh Dini to come on the show and talk about why Task Management is so hard. I think the show came out great.

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This week’s episode of Mac Power Users features an extended interview with Christa Mrgan as she explains the tools and tricks of application interface design.

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This week Merlin Mann returns for his annual visit to Mac Power Users. This is one of my favorite episodes every year. This year we discuss hardware and software updates and if it’s necessary to keep up with the latest and greatest, Merlin’s growing use of iOS over Mac OS, and kids and technology use.

Did you also know we just received a new episode of You Look Nice Today? YLNT involves Merlin, Scott Simpson, and Adam Lisagor recording their often bizarre and always funny conversations, adding a little bit of ukulele-ladden post production, and releasing it to the world.

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I really enjoy our monthly live shows. This past Saturday Katie and I recorded this show with a full chat room. We covered  the benefits of digital meal planning, follow-up on DEVONThink workflows, our favorite RSS feeds, managing small SSDs, resources for a new iPhone user, better fonts for iOS, and my new MacBook.

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