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“I’m okay, the bull is dead”, for presentations. https://www.computerworld.com/article/1702433/i-m-ok-the-bull-is-dead.html https://www.computerworld.com/artic

• HeyLaughingBoy 2y ago
  > “Please, God, kill me now.” Who among us hasn't had that exact reaction?
• asalahli 2y ago
  While I get the point made in the article, I'd prefer being told "I hit a bull with my car. I'm ok, but the car is damaged" first, rather than having fed bits and pieces of info slowly, or worse, having to fish it out. It's understandable for people to not be calm in this situation and struggle to explain things clearly, but it sounds like that wasn't the case here. So if you are calm, do the other person a favor and give a 10-15 second explanation of what happened instead of leaving them guessing.
• Too 2y ago
  Same principles as BLUF, Bottom line up front. Start with the punchline and the impact, then fill in the background that lead up to these events.
• mkl 2y ago
  Big discussion about that last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37087459 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37087459