Background
Merlin Mann was born Merlin Dean Mann III on November 26, 1966, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Mann received a Bachelor of Arts from New College of Florida. Podcasting As a companion to the 43 Folders blog, Mann launched the sporadically broadcast 43 Folders podcast in 2005. In 2007, Mann launched You Look Nice Today, a comedy podcast that bills itself as "A Journal of Emotional Hygiene," an effort he created with Adam Lisagor, and Scott Simpson.
Mann has also produced QPR: Quotidian Public Radio, an audio podcast launched in January 2009, which was billed as "audio comfort food for annoyed liberals in fleece." Mann was one of the hosts on the MacBreak video podcast, and a core host on the MacBreak Weekly audio podcast.
Since 2008, he has scaled back his appearances on the series. Beginning in January 18, 2011, and continuing to present (March 2016), Mann has co-hosted the weekly Back to Work podcast with Dan Benjamin on 5by5, where they discuss subjects like productivity, work life, and true costs of doing business.
In September 2011, Mann launched Roderick on the Lincolnshire, a weekly conversation with musician/writer John Roderick. In May 2015, Mann and technology blogger Jim Dalrymple started The Dalrymple Report podcast, more recently presented as "The Dalrymple Report with Merlin Mann," which continued through its 32nd episode on September 15, 2015.
In June 2015, Mann began a 10 podcast series with John Siracusa in collaboration with Relay FM called Reconcilable Differences, which has since been extended.
Mann has also appeared as a guest on other podcasts, including the Canadian Broadcasting Company radio show–podcast Spark, The Chronicle of Higher Education"s ProfHacker, Scruffy Thinking, CMD+SPACE, and various episodes of Dan Benjamin"s The Conversation. Other work.
Membership
Mann was a member of the Tallahassee, Florida-based indie rock band Bacon Ray from 1994 to 1999.
