OSCON ignite will eventually put up the talk - Cheers, M

On 16 July 2012 23:19, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
> Video & slides, or it didn't happen...
>
> On Jul 17, 2012 6:53 AM, "Martijn Verburg" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> FYI - gave the talk tonight and gave the Posse a Honey Badger shout
>> out - I think folks got the message :-).  Thanks for the send ins
>> folks!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martijn
>>
>> On 5 July 2012 10:36, Ricky Clarkson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > 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.
>> >>
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