{"id":95,"date":"2008-05-31T20:09:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T00:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/?p=95"},"modified":"2008-05-31T20:09:25","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T00:09:25","slug":"its-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/2008\/05\/31\/its-boring\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Boring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading a book called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=0321525655%26tag=cyberspacepeo-20%26lcode=sp1%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/Presentation-Zen-Simple-Design-Delivery\/dp\/0321525655%253FSubscriptionId=1KDHEGDEXZNBKYAEECR2\">Presentation Zen<\/a>. It is highly regarded, well-reviewed, and recommended by lots of people. So far it&#8217;s boring. Now to be fair I am only about 30 pages in to it. But I&#8217;m having trouble continuing. Now last night I read a novel of about 360 pages in just over 4 hours so it&#8217;s not like I have a reading attention span problem. It&#8217;s just that I want more from a book.<br \/>\nI have no doubt that the author gives a great presentation. I really don&#8217;t doubt that I can learn a lot from the book. But I wonder if I could learn more faster from listening to the author give a talk on the subject. Just because someone is good at doing something doesn&#8217;t mean they are good at writing about it. Different skills are involved. A book is not just a talk written down. There is a different art to telling a story in written form from spoken.<br \/>\nOh well. I&#8217;m going to read the book &#8211; its really for work &#8211; but I&#8217;ll do it is small chunks.<br \/>\nSpeaking of books. A good book that is closely related to presentations that gives ideas that work for written work as well as spoken is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=1400064287%26tag=cyberspacepeo-20%26lcode=sp1%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/Made-Stick-Ideas-Survive-Others\/dp\/1400064287%253FSubscriptionId=1KDHEGDEXZNBKYAEECR2\">Made To Stick<\/a>. That one held my interest and I really learned a lot from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading a book called Presentation Zen. It is highly regarded, well-reviewed, and recommended by lots of people. So far it&#8217;s boring. Now to be fair I am only about 30 pages in to it. But I&#8217;m having trouble continuing. Now last night I read a novel of about 360 pages in just over 4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}