https://diode.zone/videos/watch/d7b835b7-f11f-443f-b405-fe04f9c287fc Episode 0041 of Will's Guide to Programming Languages, Programming, Computation, and What-Have-You. Will's Skills, Part I Will's Thoughts on Giving a Talk, Part 1 Give a lot of talks!public speaking, teaching, leading groups, talks to small groups, etc., all count, Internet changes things--this YouTube series, for example, Let your own style come throughthere are almost no rules in giving a talk don't go over time!, the slides are not a talk, a talk is a live performance, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs for Talksshow at least one person in the audience something awe inspiring or beautiful, convey the key concepts clearly, clearly express the motivation/context as often as tolerable, make sure the audience can see you (or slides/Emacs), make sure the audience can hear you, show up where you need to be, at the right time, ======================================== Original video: https://youtu.be/gW3BaplbT8g, Originally published: 2024-02-11 Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:40:31 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://diode.zone https://diode.zone/lazy-static/avatars/61b689b7-84d5-43c7-9fa8-e63a7fd1d952.png https://diode.zone/videos/watch/d7b835b7-f11f-443f-b405-fe04f9c287fc All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://diode.zone/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.