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She seems like a really nice and smart lady, and this is a topic I'm really curious about and want to get better at, but her speech/presentation itself didn't w

She seems like a really nice and smart lady, and this is a topic I'm really curious about and want to get better at, but her speech/presentation itself didn't work for me at all. Completely failed to grab my attention, I started speeding up the video, and then skimming, and finally ran out of patience and closed it without having learned anything new. Getting to the point quickly, skipping to the most valuable and insightful points, and talking in such a way that grabs people's attention and gets them excited to hear what you have to say are essential public speaking skills, but very hard to learn. The most captivating public speakers can speak with cadence and energy that makes every sentence entertaining, makes it impossible to stop listening (for great examples, see Max Landis' Superman pitches on youtube, or Dan Harmon's Harmontown podcast, or any good stand up comedian). I really wish I could learn to do THAT.

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athrowaway12 4y ago
What I took away from their presentation: 1. They are very smart because they work on ML compilers (what are those?), but for some reason decided to work on public speaking now. 2. Something about presentations and delivery. "The medium is the message" (Skipped ahead) 3. Here are some PowerPoint templates that are good (Skipped ahead) 4. The end. (Skipped back) 5. Here are some cool code editor templates, carbon, etc. They even have the MacOS 3 dots. (Skipped forward) 6. Color palette of slides, where to get slides (Gave up) Where was the section about how to convey valuable information to the audience? And make arguments and how to reason? I'm just curious: to them, what is the value in a presentation? Why is their job valuable and worth doing? These were the burning questions I had and must have skipped over the answers to.
astura 4y ago
This is someone that is very bad at public speaking trying to teach public speaking skills. Truly bizarre.

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athrowaway12 4y ago

What I took away from their presentation: 1. They are very smart because they work on ML compilers (what are those?), but for some reason decided to work on public speaking now. 2. Something about presentations and delivery. "The medium is the message" (Skipped ahead) 3. Here are some PowerPoint templates that are good (Skipped ahead) 4. The end. (Skipped back) 5. Here are some cool code editor templates, carbon, etc. They even have the MacOS 3 dots. (Skipped forward) 6. Color palette of slides, where to get slides (Gave up) Where was the section about how to convey valuable information to the audience? And make arguments and how to reason? I'm just curious: to them, what is the value in a presentation? Why is their job valuable and worth doing? These were the burning questions I had and must have skipped over the answers to.

astura 4y ago

This is someone that is very bad at public speaking trying to teach public speaking skills. Truly bizarre.