Episode 38: Sorry. You Can't Have a Candle.
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🗓️ 25 October 2011
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
On improving presentation culture.
Dan and Merlin talk about bombing the deck, advancing the slides, and striving to improve the self-perpetuating bad culture of presentations.
Slide?!?
(Also, kid germs in the spaghetti, meeting the angry corn guy, and moving closer to the metal with our Showbot hero.)
Links for this episode:
- Jeremy Mack (mutewinter) on Twitter
- Kurtis Beavers Illustration
- Turtle Log | A Programmer Blog
- Anapanasati - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- [SPONSOR] Squarespace.com (use coupon code `merlinlovesus`)
- In which Crabby learns The Angry Dancing Corn is called, "Cornzilla" | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
- Amazon.com: Beyond Bullet Points: Using Microsoft PowerPoint to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire (Bpg-Other) (9780735620520): Cliff Atkinson: Books
- Amazon.com: Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (9780321525659): Garr Reynolds: Books
- kung fu grippe - No pressure or anything.
- kung fu grippe - Prepping my “slides”
- Cedilla - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- 43f Podcast: John Gruber & Merlin Mann's Blogging Panel at SxSW
- Video: Merlin's Time & Attention Talk (Improvised Rutgers Edition)
- Scared Shitless
- Seth Godin: Quieting the Lizard Brain on Vimeo
- [Merlin's Remote] Targus Multimedia Presentation Remote | AMP09US
- App Store - Presentation Clock
- How I Made My Presentations a Little Better
- kung fu grippe - How my weird brain works If you’re curious—and...
- Sample: Presenter Mode
- Video: Merlin's Macworld '09 Talk, "Toward Patterns for Creativity" - Merlin's Media - Video, Audio, Photos and More - Merlin Mann
- 2 types of stories "1. Hero goes on a journey 2. Stranger comes to town."
- The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Webstock '11: Tom Coates - Everything the Network Touches on Vimeo
- Amazon.com: A Writer's Coach: An Editor's Guide to Words That Work (9780375423277): Jack R. Hart: Books
- Viddler.com - Merlin Mann - Worst Website Ever - SXSW 2008 - Uploaded by rooreynolds
- Business is Rockin | Stock Photo | iStockphoto.com
- Countryman Associates, Inc.
- Presentation Zen
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Marilyn. I don't know how are you? I'm great. How are you? |
| 0:06.8 | Should we go should we go live? Yeah. I'm good and sick. |
| 0:11.2 | Should we go live? Yeah. Well, absolutely. Are you sick? |
| 0:16.6 | A B C. I am sick. Yes, live. What happened to you? Do it. Oh, you don't sound good. |
| 0:23.7 | I'm fine. I'm fine. I got theories. I got theories. Oh, overworking yourself. |
| 0:29.1 | No, that's funny. You actually sound good in a weird way. Sort of like Demi Moore or Demi. |
| 0:37.6 | Yeah, I picked a better mate. What's wrong with Bruce Woods? |
| 0:46.6 | He's the one that plays harmonica, right? Yes. What's his name, bro Bruno? We turn to Bruno. |
| 0:52.0 | Was that the name of his album? That was a fun one. That's probably on iTunes. I'll check. |
| 0:56.8 | It's probably in the cloud already. I just can't get to it. |
| 1:01.2 | I have two, three. Well, first of all, I just came back from a conference. |
| 1:03.5 | And every time I go to a conference, I get sick. It's not in Zoning as the conference. |
| 1:07.2 | You just touch people a lot. You know, they're hearts, but mostly their hands. |
| 1:14.8 | And, you know, I've met, especially in the tech community, not so much at like a consumer |
| 1:21.0 | nonchrepreneur kind of thing, but like a tech thing. I've met a lot of nerds who don't shake hands. |
| 1:26.0 | Mostly because they don't understand connections with other people. |
| 1:28.8 | We're going to do fist bump, blow it up. No, no. They will just stand there and put their hands |
| 1:34.7 | into their very large, very large pants and say, and say, uh, sir, I don't true cats. |
| 1:40.1 | And I go, okay, that's cool. I can't even do the voice. You are really sick. |
| 1:45.2 | I could do it. I just am trying to save it up. I got a lot to talk about today's song. |
| 1:49.6 | Keeping it simple. I use a lot of hand sanitizer. And I try to drink water. |
| 1:56.5 | And I always get sick. I want to come back to the conference. But, um, I, I, uh, I think |
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