A Programmer's Guide to Public Speaking
summary
Claims that public speaking is a solvable engineering problem and gives concrete patterns and drills: using analogies to the human operating system, recycling design patterns like start in the middle and practice while true, telling a beginning/middle/end story, and enforcing posture rules (hands out of pockets, feet planted). Backed by a decade of stand-up/improv/sketch and feedback from 50 people, with actionable hacks to reduce nervous habits and get reps.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:44Every developer can be a great public speaker
- 2:17Donnas first standup gig
- 4:46Humans as machines
- 5:30Bugs
- 8:10Start in the Middle
- 10:19Know Your Audience
- 12:20Telling Stories
- 15:50Looking Confident
- 20:03Practice
- 23:17Be Terrible
- 26:07Conclusion
