While Merlin takes a short sabbatical, Dan is joined by special guest David Sparks to talk about presentations, making your thing, balancing acts, iBooks author, paying for your kids' school with side projects, old man glasses, and more.

Links for this episode:

• 5by5 | Mac Power Users
  Learn about getting the most from your Apple technology with focused topics and workflow guests. Creating Mac Power Users, one geek at a time since 2009.Hosted by David Sparks and Katie Floyd.
• MacSparky
  
• THE WAKE #1 | Vertigo
  
• Presentations — MacSparky
  
• Mind map - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  A mind map is a diagram used to visually organise information. A mind map is often created around a single concept, drawn as an image in the center of a blank landscape page, to which associated representations of ideas such as images, words and parts of words are added. Major ideas are connected directly to the central concept, and other ideas branch out from those.Mind maps can be drawn by hand, either as "rough notes" during a lecture, meeting or planning session, for example, or as higher quality pictures when more time is available.
• Dragon Dictate for Mac - Dragon Dictate speech recognition for the Mac - Nuance | Nuance
  
• David Sparks (MacSparky) on Twitter
  

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