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March 28, 2011
Download MP4 Video of “Scared Shitless”
This is the video of a talk I did last month at Webstock in Wellington, New Zealand.
It’s pretty different from a lot of stuff I’ve done. It’s about being scared.
March 3, 2011 Saturday, June 12th 2010 at Reno-Tahoe WordCamp
A talk for developers and bloggers, urging them to focus more on audience than tech.
Lands somewhere between “Something Something Social Media” and “HOWTO: 149 Surprising Ways to Turbocharge Your Blog With Credibility!“—with, yes, a dollop of “Better.”
September 10, 2010 dConstruct 2010: Merlin Mann - “Kerning, Orgasms & Those Goddamned Japanese Toothpicks” (NSFW)
Download the audio | Huffduff it
Let’s be honest. I don’t go…mmmm…places very often.
I sit in this chair. I go to the Safeway with my daughter. Sometimes, I take the train downtown to get a haircut. I check the mail.
But, by and large, like most nerds, I’m without question, a bit of a shut-in.
Which makes it more than a little ironic that my first trip off the North American continent brought me all the way to Brighton, England’s wonderful dConstruct Conference.
June 3, 2010 Video: Merlin Mann - “Time & Attention Talk (improvised)”
Audio (mp3): “Merlin Mann - ‘Rutgers Time & Attention Talk’”
This is a talk I did at Rutgers in early April. I kinda like it, but for a weird reason. Owing to dire technical problems, I had to start the talk 20 minutes late with no slides. Nothing.
So, I riffed. For one hour and twenty minutes.
November 20, 2009 Phoenix WordCamp 2009 Archives - (Something Something Social Media: The Overdue Minority Report)
My talk at Phoenix WordCamp 2009.
June 19, 2009 MaxFunCon: Merlin Mann on Doing Creative Work; The Sound of Young America | Maximum Fun
Merlin Mann talks about the process of doing creative work, and particularly how to abandon the quest for perfection, get off your butt and get started.
September 15, 2008 Here’s some totally choppy video of a dude named “Marilyn,” talking about How to Blog.
TL;DW? Here’s everything that I know about blogging in one slide:
February 14, 2008 Macworld ‘08: Merlin Mann / “Living with Data”
This was the first edition of a talk that’s already starting to evolve rather quickly. The slides are available at Slideshare.