How Not To Shoot Yourself In The Foot With A Bullet (Point) By Anthony Baxter Google

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How Not To Shoot Yourself In The Foot With A Bullet (Point) By Anthony Baxter Google MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference 2009. Lightning Talk 2 June 2009.

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How Not To Shoot Yourself In The Foot With A Bullet (Point)

@anthonybaxter

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a meta-talk

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may contain half-baked ideas

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a boring talk is a bad talk

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what makes a talk boring?

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traditional slides don’t help

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slides != paper

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it's a “talk”, not a “reading”

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● reading the bullet points -> not paying attention to your talk

● fast or impatient readers will be reading ahead of you

● audience gets bored– they can see what you're going to say

– they know they can drift off for a while

● if you absolutely must do slides in this format, don't just read the bullet points out

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death to bad clipart

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what are slides for?

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emphasis

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and punchlines

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free-flowing talk

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life's pretty fast

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pay attention

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you might miss something

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how to do this?

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practice

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know your material

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practice again

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timing is trickier

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go watch stand-up comedy

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and practice again

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conclusion

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steal any of these ideas

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i did

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(thanks larry)

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say no to bullet points