Comments on: The Productivity Show #34 – Kyle McFarlin (Visual Strategist)

By: Tony Goodson

Tony Goodson — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:33:07 +0000

Grrrr, don’t get me going about the MarcC comment. I held on to it before publishing it, for a while, and didn’t want to get into a flame war.
My suggestion to Marc, is to edit the show himself, and I’d love to have him on the show, to see how he goes!! It’s big thing in blogging and podcasting, on how much editing to do, to the point where you stop writing or recording. Just Do It. And publish it, errors and all.

I’ve spent two days, on the next show, perfecting the sound. In the end, I’ve given up, and published it, as best I can, with the time allowing. Kill the Perfectionist.

I hadn’t noticed Kyle’s “You Knows” until it was pointed out. I guess we each have our filters and Marc’s is “You Knows”.

You wouldn’t say Bill Gates is the best presenter in the world, but many hang on his words.

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By: Walter Terry

Walter Terry — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:54:57 +0000

Good interview, Tony. I thought you did a fine job of extracting the pith of what McFarlin offers for us mappers and productivity geeks.

You know, no disrespect to the guy complaining about McFarlane’s conversational peccadilloes, but let’s face it — if you’re counting the number of things you can’t stand when an expert is giving you valuable, FREE insight — then you’re paying attention to the wrong things.

I call this the King Of The Squirrels Syndrome. I write more about this on my blog at http://roicopy.com/2008/01/24/a-million-dollars-or-king-of-the-squirrels/ .

Here’s my point: while grammar perfectionists are fond of citing the “rules,” when their copy is tested against mine (or another grammar heathen’s), the conversation tone version is always the winner.

So you tell me, is grammar more important than the communication? The results say not.

By: Kyle McFarlin

Kyle McFarlin — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:03:13 +0000

Hi Marc C,

YOU KNOW, you are right: I uttered too many ‘You Know’s’ during the interview. Kind of like counting the number of times the ‘F’ word is uttered in Pacino’s Scarface. I’ll do my best to avoid using the same phrase over and over in the future, or at least vary it with 3 or 4 at the very least.

Thanks for the helpful feedback Marc.

By: johnwin

johnwin — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:53:54 +0000

Fantastic podcast. This and #32 have been among the best ever by the PPP people. Great work.

And the Visual Strat. Solution is very interesting – well worth the d/load if you are a Mind Mapper.

By: MarcC

MarcC — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:46:17 +0000

Please edit out all the hundreds of exceedingly annoying repetitions of the brainless phrase “you know” from the interview audio. No, I don’t know–that is why I started out to listen to the interview. I gave up after about the 200th repetition of phrase, “you know”. Sorry. Might have been a good interview, but I won’t ever know. :-(

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