Episode 38: Sorry. You Can't Have a Candle.

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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