Cute animals dying in a broken up spaceship would have got the message through.
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:52 AM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > > The challenger could have been saved if there had been cute animals in the > powerpoint? > I'm pretty sure I'm not buying that. > > > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "Josh Berry" <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, Jul 5, 2012 9:22 am > Subject: [The Java Posse] Re: Animals in talks > To: <[email protected]> > > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Jon Kiparsky <[email protected]> > wrote: > > this, they're often right. Unless the picture is relevant, leave it out. > In > > fact, you can generally improve a presentation by orders of magnitude by > > getting rid of the powerpoint and just saying what you have to say. > > Eliminating distraction helps both you and the audience focus on your > talk. > > Same thing with jokes - I can assure you, no matter who you are, that > comedy > > is a lot harder than you think it is, and you're not as good at it as you > > think you are. If you have something to say, say it. If it's worth > saying, > > that's all you need. > > I don't know. I find the tension between "just say it" and "comedy is > harder than you think" interesting. Not to mention the falsity of > your statement. Consider, the engineers "simply said" that the > Challenger was likely to have problems. > > I have no argument against Tufte when he says that Powerpoint is > horrible. My gripe is this idea that public speaking doesn't have an > art to it. If you want to be able to convincingly tell people things, > you will have to practice. There is an art to the practice. This is > no different than public discourse on the internet, and it doesn't > take much searching (specifically my posts) to find that not everyone > is effective at it. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
