From Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: "Have a point! It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!" In general, I find most technical and scientific

From Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: "Have a point! It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!" In general, I find most technical and scientific talks are the person gushing about whatever they think is cool, sometimes rushing from topic to topic, and as an audience member, you're like, what is going on, and why is this relevant? All this knowledge in this article is really good. But I think most people kid themselves about how much they can cover, and what is interesting to them might not be interesting to their audience. Although if you know what the takeaways are, you should be able to know that those are relevant for that audience. I love the part about having one thing you're focusing on. It's obvious, until you try to write something, and have a million good sounding ideas.