Metadata
- Author: Benn Stancil
- Full Title:: A Gambler’s Guide to Giving Talks
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Talk tips,
- URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/a-gamblers-guide-to-giving-talks
- Finished date:: 2023-06-03
Highlights
A daring talk that flops and a cautious talk that safely sticks to all the comfortable best practices are equally ignored. But stick the landing on something bold, and the upside is unbounded (View Highlight)
Most people don’t go to talks to learn (View Highlight)
The constantly changing slides made his presentation feel fast, even though he was talking at a relatively moderate clip (View Highlight)
Blink, and the joke might be gone. And finally, the internal references and callbacks gave the talk a sense of dazzling cohesion, like an episode of Arrested Development (View Highlight)
Better presentations rhyme off the beat. Slide transitions happen in the middle of sentences, without warning (View Highlight)
A riskier suggestion: Include jokes, and it’s fine if they’re obscure. (View Highlight)