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Video: Merlin's Time & Attention Talk

Submitted by Merlin on February 14, 2008 - 8:39am.

Macworld ‘08: Merlin Mann / “Living with Data”

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This was the first edition of a talk that’s already starting to evolve rather quickly. The slides are available at Slideshare, and you can yoink yourself an embeddable version right here:

Notes:

Last month, I premiered a new presentation at Macworld San Francisco 2008 called “Living with Data” (previously). Since this talk was part of the “Vision” track, I used the opportunity to start gathering some threads around the idea of time and attention that had been floating around my head for a while (I think you can see the genesis of some of this stuff in my IDEO visit).

The IDG folks were kind enough to post a movie of my slides + the audio. Unfortunately a lot of folks were having trouble getting to the page (it doesn’t appear to have a permalink), so here’s a Flash version you can watch from right here.

Thanks to Paul Kent and Kathy Moran at IDG for being such wonderful hosts. And very special thanks to Mike Monteiro (and his now-famous meeting tokens) for inspiring the talk in the first place.

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Great talk, Merlin

Submitted by twinsploitation on February 14, 2008 - 4:38pm.
I just finished listening to your preso, and, in a subsequent move, shut off Mail.app for the night. Just a quick note: We seem to be moving in some serial universe. I left Tallahassee for San Francisco and returned just as you left Tallahassee for San Francisco. I apparently filled several of your old jobs along the way (with nefarious individuals like Pete Butler and Alan Hanstein, not to drop names) and was bequeathed many of your old websites. I keep telling those guys that one day, before I die, I want to actually meet you. Don't know when it's going to happen, but a guy can dream, right? Congrats on the new baby girl, too!