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ER said I am Katie I'm also known as

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glazunt on the Internet you may remember

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these slides from yesterday I had five

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minutes then I have half an hour now so

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I will be speaking slower and breathing

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it will be great I work in developer

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relations which is a fancy name for

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engineers that go out into the real

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world and talk to humans

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well we did and then this thing happened

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uh but I have been paid to give talks

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before and now I would like you to get

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some of my knowledge for free

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in my role I have to give a lot of

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presentations and hopefully by the end

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of this you might be interested in

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giving a presentation yourself and if

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yesterday was any consolation this one

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will be a little bit more detailed I

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will have time this time to answer

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questions at the end either during while

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we're recording hello people online or

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afterwards in the hallway or during the

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Sprints or on Discord or by messenger

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pigeon that is fine

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the very first thing I have to say about

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giving a presentation is that you might

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freak out

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are you worried about the idea of having

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to stand up in front of a crowd and

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speaking on purpose

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here's the secret everyone freaks out

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even the most experienced speakers get

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butterflies before an event giving a

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presentation in front of a crowd is

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intimidating you are literally the

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center of attention all the lights and

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eyes are on you facing an audience of

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any size can be very vulnerable but once

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you get going get through the first

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10-15 seconds of your speaking you start

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to become the star of the show and you

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can deliver your amazing message but

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what if they

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you might think

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and to remember

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but for your talk for a reason not to

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see you crash and burn but to learn

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something from you it's easy to let the

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Panic of potential disappointment get

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the better of you to mess up your demo

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to misspeak or lose your place or repeat

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yourself or lose your place and repeat

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yourself but your audience won't care

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about that

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they will see your talk as successful if

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they leave Having learned something

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people are going to remember your talk

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for you not necessarily your slides

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slides are a mechanism to help you tell

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your story and reinforce the points you

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want to make and help guide your content

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you could give a presentation on the

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most important thing in the world but if

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you deliver it flatly in a monotone

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voice and are being uninterested then

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people won't be interested in what you

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have to say

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you can't give a talk without slides but

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you can't give a talk without talking

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except for that one time when the person

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had a deck that was all just chicken

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chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken

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but I'm not a lecturer I'm not teaching

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in a way you are though

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there are two things that people can

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they will learn something they didn't

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already know or they are reinforced with

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something they already knew by hearing

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you presented it validates their

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perception on the same topic

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and now the most important thing about

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presenting to an audience they do not

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care what you did

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you wrote a million lines of code in a

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you create widgets that help synergize

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the fiscal prudencies at fubarakov they

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care about why why did you do the thing

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our users were having issues with

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reliability on our platform so when

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introduced a new type of testing

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strategy to help validate deployments we

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were never going to solve our rapidly

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scaling problem so we created a code

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generator that spat out millions of

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loans that solved our problem and kept

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our users happy the why is what gets you

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out of bed in the morning you don't go

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to work to code you go to work to solve

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problems

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what you made isn't as important as how

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you made it there is a long tradition of

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Storytelling in human society from Ghost

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Stories to fairy tales morality plays

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and Ted Talks there's entertainment in a

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story but there's lessons there too it's

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great to hear an amazing orator or even

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better for a specially technical

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presentations it is essential to

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additionally have a takeaway how did you

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do the thing how can people try your

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thing out at their desk on Monday

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one of my pet peeves is going to a

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technical presentation seeing this

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amazing new thing and not knowing how I

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can try the thing myself your talk needs

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to have a call to action try this thing

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consider using X read my blog learn

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about this project find out more

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you could condense that call to action

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in a toot or a blog post but there is

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power in a story and the journey and to

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give a presentation you need a stage but

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here's the thing this is a conference

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they have an open cfp you could present

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a talk at this next year there is

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entirely separate series of talks I

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could give about how to Market yourself

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as a speaker how to write a proposal for

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an event what events are out there but

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there is this conference there was

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lightning talks open earlier there are

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going to be other talks and of

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conferences in the future once you have

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your idea and a potential event you're

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aiming for you now need to bring the

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content which brings me to slides you do

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not have to have them but I like to have

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them they are very important for keeping

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me on track because otherwise I would

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end up talking forever one time my

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audience didn't notice that my slides

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weren't progressing because my talk kept

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going on like it was intentional but it

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wasn't fun times

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now we get to the part of the

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presentation where I am going to making

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suggestions at you these are opinions

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guided based on my own experience but

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also some pretty well done guidelines

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but also the wisdom of some sages and

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mentors that I've had over the years if

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you already have opinions and things

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that work for you great go do that but

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if you're just starting out here are

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some common best practices these are

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generally suited towards technical

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community events outside of those venues

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your mileage may vary do not try to do

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these at like a scientific conference

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you may not get as much uh benefit out

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of them also a kind reminder if you

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notice anyone at this event who hasn't

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given a talk yet or has given a talk

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are in the room and you have not yet

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presented do not edit your slides to

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suit what I'm going to say please

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you don't want to do that you will be

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better suited if you take these in mind

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some things to do these slides are in

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green because they are the good things

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hear you speak not the repeated Mouse

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story depending on the story you want to

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tell you may want to give yourself some

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breathing room to expand based on the

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audience so think of your slides more as

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or learn this one weird trick you will

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be presenting for some time and people

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will not remember your entire

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presentation word for word so they can

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only take away a subset of your talk so

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make sure your point is memorable is it

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moments so that people can take pictures

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technical knowledge of your audience try

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building you know everything about it

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general scope of your audience but not

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their proficiency take a moment to bring

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sure it fits the people in the room

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jokes have been changed yes

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to see are your speaker notes speaker

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notes are super helpful to help you

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remember what you want to say at a

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particular time you can do full

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transcripts or bullet points whatever

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will help you remember what you want to

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say and if you find these slides online

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afterwards there's a little secret

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hidden message in my speaker notes right

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now that you will have to find yourself

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and you've got to practice your talk

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this is the bit that I hate the most but

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you've got to practice your talk I know

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it sucks but you've got to practice and

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you've got to time it if you're speaking

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for 30 minutes is that 30 slides is it

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45 slides you won't know until you've

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timed it and you've got to practice

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again I'm sorry it sucks you have to

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know what works and what doesn't for you

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it also helps to make sure that you

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don't have any accidental tongue

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twisters that your flow works and that

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you have at least tried to say the words

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out loud before you say them out loud in

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front of other humans

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but you do not have to be speaking the

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entire time either you use pauses after

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important points to help them sink in

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there is a difference between breathing

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and taking breaks between content it is

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useful to continue to breathe during

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your presentation

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something I should have done yesterday I

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like to make sure I have a drink on

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stage and reminders to drink

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things to avoid these are in red do not

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do these things

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avoid walls of text on a slide

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this is a perfect example because none

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of you are listening to what I'm saying

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right now you're trying to read all of

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this

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walls of text like this are distracting

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because they are going to be read faster

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by your audience than you could ever

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speak them

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if I could add a feature to all slide

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software it would be a little pop-up

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that says hi it looks like you've

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accidentally added your speaker notes to

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your slide let me help you move that

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a lot of times when you see blocks of

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words

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it's stuff that's important but it could

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also be used in a different context

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you are on a stage you have been

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selected to speak you do not need to

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validate why you are in front of your

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audience to your audience and take up

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five minutes of your valuable 30 minutes

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you have to speak

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and it also goes into the what that

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doesn't matter it's the why and the how

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I could have spent the first five

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minutes telling you all about my my

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entire long history in open source and

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whatever but also I was introduced very

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succinctly with some of the top level

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stuff you only have a limited time and

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you want to respect your audience so get

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to the stuff that matters

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and if you have less words on the screen

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it means that you can make sure that

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they are visible the old adage would be

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can you see everything on the slides

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from the back of the room nowadays that

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plus can you read these slides on zoom

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over a 3g connection on a mobile phone

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for reference apart from this slide no

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text on this deck is smaller than 20

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points

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if you have a demo do not fake it we can

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tell it is very easy to spot a fake and

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if your demo crashes it proves you're

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really doing it and your audience will

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empathize with you

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one of the best talks I've ever seen had

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a demo that went sideways after the

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speaker having already gone through

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hours of AP aav problems was presenting

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on the second available borrowed laptop

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with live debugging with the audience

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the interaction and everything that went

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on made it one of the best presentations

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I've ever seen

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it was also a talk about having to write

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a virus in the second borrowed laptop

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was immediately reset and wiped

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afterwards

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I've also given a talk where my code

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samples intentionally work on my machine

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when but fails when I try to put it up

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to the cloud it's a talk about debugging

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about the narrative is around seeing

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that error happen getting really

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confused and then following that error

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through the system to work out how to

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debug it but it's really important to

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practice to know that I will

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intentionally getting the specific bug I

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want and not every other possible bug

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again this is all based on if what

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you're talking about has the ability to

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have a demo

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do not use memes

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does anyone know what this is

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if anyone wants to throw up their hand

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if they know the context of this

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there is one hand this is the unpopular

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opinion puffin

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this is a meme that people use when they

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have an unpopular opinion

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if you did not know that you would have

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been highly confused until I referenced

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it

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they distract people from your content

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it all goes back to the Assumption thing

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memes make sense to the people that know

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memes but if people aren't date aren't

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up to date with the latest memes if

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they've dropped off of social media

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because every social media platform is

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on fire or they don't get the underlying

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reference then you have things on your

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slides that are actively going to

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distract and confuse your audience the

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same goes with animations or gifs or

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GIFs anything you have on the slide is

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going to draw attention so what do you

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want your audience to focus on you or

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the animation

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even if it's not a meme having things

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like a cute cat picture might help you

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brighten your deck but it won't provide

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any substance unless you want to go meta

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and have cat pictures as part of your

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demo input I have gotten away with that

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once and only once

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do not read your slides out loud that's

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what blog posts are for you are on a

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stage you're allowed to perform

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if you read from a script you can end up

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sounding monotone having read only the

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words you prepared earlier but do not

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adapt to your audience you can be

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monotone and you can be perceived as

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nothing more than a text-to-speech

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program be book

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now even though you should be performing

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there is such a thing as overdoing it

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if you are co-presenting do not try to

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fake banter between yourselves it is

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really hard to pull off

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if you're presenting with someone else

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there are better ways to be able to hand

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over between each other it can be a

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single word and in flexion it could be

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nothing because you've practiced and you

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know exactly when your changeovers are

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I have a workshop that I give where we

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share different ways to respond to

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problems and one of the specific parts

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of it is noted as a pantomime

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but it's 40 minutes into an hour-long

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Workshop so it's a good time to get a

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little bit silly and bring up the energy

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and otherwise very important customer

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facing presentation

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it helps bring up the energy before the

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final stretch but it's also a good

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example of some of our Concepts in

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practice

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and it's always really well rehearsed

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well it's always rehearsed

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well speaking of things that are awkward

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you do not have to take questions live

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set your expectations with the audience

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on how you want to interact answering

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potentially complex questions on the fly

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in front of a crowd is a completely

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different set of skills to giving a

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presentation based on prepared content

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some speakers invite the raising of

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hands throughout but they are capable of

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handling that

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if you want to make sure you can do your

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entire talk without having to suddenly

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break flow just go and do your talk you

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don't have to call it out specifically

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but if you do get a hand raised a simple

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I'll answer questions later thank you

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will suffice

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and depending on the event you're

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speaking at you may also get asked

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before you get on stage if you do want

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to have a live q a and it's okay to say

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no it's a real skill to be able to be

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bombarded with potentially interesting

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and complicated questions on the Fly

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the one thing I don't miss from

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pre-pandemic in-person events were those

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people who thought they were very clever

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trying to trick the presenter with

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questions trying to prove that they knew

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more than the presenter or people that

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go I have a question it's actually more

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of a comment

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as an attendee it's good to ask

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questions that will help clarify

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something if you are literally needing

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clarification or to help highlight the

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speaker's work

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this is very good but also you have only

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heard 30 minutes of what the speaker has

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to say it is entirely possible they know

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a whole bunch more that they couldn't

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fit into their presentation they would

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love to chat with you in the hallway

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afterwards

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in the hallway afterwards is more of a

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short thing of let us go and have this

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conversation later when we're not

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recording and taking everyone else's

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time I actively want to talk to you but

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let us change the context in which we

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talk it makes it more comfortable for

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everyone involved

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don't use tlas they can be extremely

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distracting when used without context

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oh tlas are three letter acronyms

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they suck at the best of times but again

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it harks back to audience presumptions a

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python audience may know that gill

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stands for uh Global something but

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people don't know your acronyms unless

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you tell them if you need to use

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acronyms introduce the term at the start

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of your presentation with the full term

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and then the acronym teach people how to

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pronounce your acronym as a gift or GIF

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and then if anything else you've taught

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your audience about the acronym

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but Katie I hear you lament it's just

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too hard there's so much to do well yes

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you cannot make a 15-minute presentation

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in 15 minutes more like 15 hours you

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have to set aside time to prepare your

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talk you have to set aside time to

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practice your talk and this all takes

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time

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there's a really bad Trope of speakers

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finishing their talk the night before or

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writing it on the plane

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explain to these things that we used to

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use to be able to tr anyway

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I used to try to make sure that my

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slides were ready and locked before I

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even started traveling to an event for

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complex topics there are always going to

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be things you want to add but it's

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better to ensure that you don't change

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things last minute for example if you

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are speaking later today or soon don't

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change your slides based on what you're

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learning now that is a thing that I have

556
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done before and it cost me dearly

557
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some speakers can pull this off but if

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you're just getting started you do not

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have their preparation and practice

560
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but key what is my Plantation is

561
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boring

562
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people have chosen to attend your talk

563
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to hear what you have to say but you are

564
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never going to enrapture 100 of the

565
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audience I apologize if you are

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currently looking at your phones or

567
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laptops I'm not speaking directly at you

568
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I'm reading from my notes

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you can only speak to those people who

570
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are engaged if say on a video call you

571
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notice that someone isn't paying

572
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attention there could be any number of

573
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reasons they might be taking notes they

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might be responding to something just

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out of view they may have forgotten to

576
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go camera off in an in-person audience

577
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that person might be trying to sort out

578
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some problems happening at the

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conference happening at home or they

580
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might be taking notes or they might be

581
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playing Baldur's Gate streaming from

582
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their stream deck or something but there

583
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are always going to be people that

584
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aren't going to give the energy back

585
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that you're giving but focus on those

586
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people who are those who are nodding

587
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along those who are giving eye contact

588
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find those people in the audience and

589
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talk to them

590
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but Katie I don't know what to say you

591
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always have something to say how many

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people in this room right now have a

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co-worker in the audience

594
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okay that's two heads everyone else has

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a different employer so that is

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literally an entire job's worth of

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differences that you have your

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experience is unique and you have a

599
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different why you need to share but you

600
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may end up using the same tools multiple

601
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people in the room may use Pi test or

602
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unit test may use playwright may use any

603
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number of things but the way you're

604
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using them is going to be different

605
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if you do work together if you work on

606
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separate teams you work on different

607
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things maybe there's some weird trick

608
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that you want to share internally that

609
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is something you could talk about oh but

610
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if you mean I don't know how to make the

611
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words into the slides well let me help

612
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you with an easy eight-step plan for how

613
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to write your next presentation pick

614
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your name main point

615
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what is the thing you want to get across

616
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sorting all my socks was wasting time so

617
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I fixed it by buying all of the same

618
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memory leaks made our product unusable

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so we did X about it

620
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step two make a rough outline it could

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be something like introduce yourself and

622
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frame what you're going to say share

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your motivation your why how did you

624
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solve the thing have a demo optional

625
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extra things you did what you learned by

626
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working on this problem things that you

627
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found could be useful for your audience

628
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and a call to action a Linker takeaway

629
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this is just a starting point but it

630
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helps you to start build a structure

631
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around the content you want to present

632
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next write a script put your thoughts

633
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down make the words into paragraphs into

634
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blocks and then start putting those

635
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together into a script

636
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this helps you you to give something to

637
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read from as you practice but it also

638
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helps you formulate what works and what

639
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doesn't but much like a raft rough draft

640
00:24:03,780 --> 00:24:07,679
may not be used you may not use your

641
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full written script in your final

642
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presentation this is all preparation

643
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take that script and now slice it up

644
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into things that make sense you may want

645
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to swap these things around where you

646
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want to have a continuous narrative but

647
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once you start chopping these things up

648
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you start to see that they form things

649
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that look like oh this could be a slide

650
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and then you can put those slides

651
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together and you can make visuals to

652
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make book back with those slides

653
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and then you've got to read it out loud

654
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to someone else if possible but a

655
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plushie also counts

656
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you really got to practice and get those

657
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tongue twisters out you'll start to get

658
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the Cadence happening work out what you

659
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like and what you don't like and you can

660
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start to perform your content instead of

661
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just reciting it and you've got to time

662
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it use a stopwatch either on your slides

663
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app or on your phone go through it at a

664
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normal Pace if you have a co-presenter

665
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goes through it together I find that

666
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when I present a new talk I end up

667
00:25:01,679 --> 00:25:06,960
speaking much faster in person than when

668
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:09,960
I practice but that's okay ending early

669
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:12,900
is fine going over is not

670
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it is worse the worst thing at all in

671
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the audience to have a talk that's going

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along and making you miss another talk

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people have committed the half hour of

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time for you and they have other things

675
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to do so if you start late or have

676
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technical problems try to adapt listen

677
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to the organizers if they say you have

678
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30 minutes from now that's fine

679
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and again you gotta practice

680
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if you were telling a story at a party

681
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you wouldn't need to but you also aren't

682
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expected to give a half hour polished

683
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monologue at a party with a presentation

684
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you're giving focused technical content

685
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within a fixed time with accompanying

686
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visuals practice to ensure you finish

687
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within the time to respect your audience

688
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I found success with my practices to

689
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record myself with the intention of

690
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sharing it to someone else but never

691
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really do

692
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and that's pretty much all I had except

693
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you've seen this fake out before because

694
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wait one more thing

695
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:11,100
you are not Steve Jobs and neither am I

696
00:26:08,580 --> 00:26:12,360
there is no one more thing this is a

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call back to the time that Steve Jobs

698
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finished a Apple keynote and then in the

699
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Encore introduced the iPhone

700
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you might be tempted to copy this or

701
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other signature moves from other

702
00:26:22,140 --> 00:26:26,820
professional orators they have hundreds

703
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of presentations under their belt

704
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they've practiced and workshopped and

705
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marketed and have their style down if

706
00:26:31,620 --> 00:26:36,419
you try and copy this chances are you'll

707
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come across as lame

708
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or whatever the cool kids say now

709
00:26:38,820 --> 00:26:42,779
dank I don't know

710
00:26:40,860 --> 00:26:45,720
you can give a good presentation without

711
00:26:42,779 --> 00:26:47,220
a gimmick without prizes without slang

712
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:49,799
without trying to match with the cool

713
00:26:47,220 --> 00:26:52,020
kids by just being you

714
00:26:49,799 --> 00:26:53,580
your audience wants you to succeed they

715
00:26:52,020 --> 00:26:56,039
want to learn from you they are your

716
00:26:53,580 --> 00:26:58,380
allies in this and they are really happy

717
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that it's you on stage right now and not

718
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them just be you and all else will

719
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:04,919
follow you've got this

720
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that is actually the end of my slides

721
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thank you very much

722
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[Applause]

723
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there is references on the link on the

724
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slide right now glasnt.com talks and do

725
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we have time for questions 10 minutes or

726
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:26,539
questions yay does anyone have a

727
00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:26,539
question

728
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:31,080
I'm glad I was able to cover everything

729
00:27:28,500 --> 00:27:33,299
thoroughly no one question

730
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:35,279
hello Katie hello

731
00:27:33,299 --> 00:27:37,380
so you talked about talking to the

732
00:27:35,279 --> 00:27:39,480
people in the audience who are engaged

733
00:27:37,380 --> 00:27:43,020
my question is do you have a favorite

734
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:44,940
technique for re-engaging an audience

735
00:27:43,020 --> 00:27:47,179
um if the Energy starts to feel a little

736
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low

737
00:27:47,340 --> 00:27:51,360
did you notice maybe the two times I did

738
00:27:50,039 --> 00:27:52,860
this throughout my talk where I asked

739
00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:54,000
people to raise their hands that's

740
00:27:52,860 --> 00:27:56,340
really good

741
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:58,799
a introverted audience like at a

742
00:27:56,340 --> 00:28:00,600
technical conference may not interact I

743
00:27:58,799 --> 00:28:02,279
have tried to get people to do a

744
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:03,720
sing-along before in New Zealand that

745
00:28:02,279 --> 00:28:05,960
went over just as well as you might

746
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:05,960
think

747
00:28:06,120 --> 00:28:09,840
um

748
00:28:06,779 --> 00:28:12,980
one thing I do have have done on

749
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:16,140
occasion is plant people in the audience

750
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and have them be the people who

751
00:28:16,140 --> 00:28:20,700
interacted the opportune times

752
00:28:18,740 --> 00:28:23,159
unfortunately because this was such a

753
00:28:20,700 --> 00:28:25,260
late scheduled thing I couldn't have my

754
00:28:23,159 --> 00:28:27,600
normal chair squat up the front

755
00:28:25,260 --> 00:28:30,240
but this is something you could also do

756
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:32,700
it's also super fun to have like people

757
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:34,080
you care about right like in these two

758
00:28:32,700 --> 00:28:36,120
seats right there and you just talk to

759
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:37,740
them I mean everyone else in the room is

760
00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:39,240
absolutely important but when it's like

761
00:28:37,740 --> 00:28:40,620
people that you haven't seen for a year

762
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,539
right there and you're just like hi look

763
00:28:40,620 --> 00:28:45,559
at me I'm doing a thing

764
00:28:42,539 --> 00:28:45,559
it's very good

765
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:49,860
any any other questions

766
00:28:47,820 --> 00:28:50,940
I'm also more than happy to talk about

767
00:28:49,860 --> 00:28:54,179
this

768
00:28:50,940 --> 00:28:56,520
any other time as well

769
00:28:54,179 --> 00:29:01,020
I have one one question from which is

770
00:28:56,520 --> 00:29:04,020
what was your first talk like awful

771
00:29:01,020 --> 00:29:06,059
my first talk

772
00:29:04,020 --> 00:29:09,120
was at

773
00:29:06,059 --> 00:29:10,799
a conference nearly 10 years ago the

774
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:13,799
recording is online please for the love

775
00:29:10,799 --> 00:29:16,200
of God do not watch it

776
00:29:13,799 --> 00:29:18,179
My Demo broke

777
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:20,340
um I was trying to live debug on the Fly

778
00:29:18,179 --> 00:29:24,240
I didn't have a point

779
00:29:20,340 --> 00:29:26,520
but I improved from that first time

780
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and was able to make my presentation

781
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:30,299
better more resilient I gave it again

782
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,440
and again I started talking about other

783
00:29:30,299 --> 00:29:35,179
things

784
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:35,179
dot dot dot I read a conference

785
00:29:35,340 --> 00:29:41,000
okay everyone please help me thank Katie

786
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for her wonderful talk

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foreign