Video: Merlin's Time & Attention Talk

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.

takin' it back!

I’m about 23 minutes into your presentation. You’re talking about renegotiation. I hit the pause button and thought: “What am I doing?” I think I just had a moment akin to your 3am Bocelli on Wikipedia moment. I’m gonna take my time back and do something…BUT, I’m sure I will finish watching your presentation later, as I did find myself saying: “Uh huh” and nodding quite a bit as I was listening.