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. In October 2016, Mann began a podcast titled Do By Friday with Alex Cox and Max Temkin. The show continued after Temkin's June 2020 departure. Mann has also appeared as a guest on other podcasts, including the CBC radio show–podcast Spark, The Chronicle of Higher Education'''s ProfHacker, Scruffy Thinking, CMD+SPACE, and various episodes of Dan Benjamin's The Conversation. Videos In early 2009, Mann produced a short video series, Most Days. On February 26, 2007, Mann launched The Merlin Show, a video podcast primarily dedicated to long-form interviews. Mann has also published a long-running series of video shorts named That Phone Guy. Other work Mann has been described as the "inventor" of the Hipster PDA, a paper-based, DIY personal organizer that uses design cues found in David Allen's Getting Things Done. Mann is also known for his work with Quicksilver, a program used for quickly executing actions from the keyboard in Mac OS X. Mann was a member of the Tallahassee, Florida-based indie rock band Bacon Ray from 1994 to 1999. He started a cover song project of Will Oldham's song "I Am a Cinematographer". Personal life Mann started treatment for attention deficit disorder in 2008, something which he says helped his focus. He occasionally talks about his experiences with ADHD on his Back to Work'' podcast on the 5by5 network. Mann resides in San Francisco, California, with his wife and child. References Further reading External links Back to Work podcast You Look Nice Today podcast Kung Fu Grippe personal blog American bloggers American podcasters Video bloggers Living people 1966 births 21st-century American non-fiction writers