How Not To Shoot Yourself In The Foot With A Bullet (Point) By Anthony Baxter Google MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference 2009. Lightning Talk 2 June 2009.

1. How Not To Shoot Yourself In
The Foot With A Bullet (Point)
@anthonybaxter

2. a meta-talk

3. may contain half-baked ideas

4. a boring talk is a bad talk

5. what makes a talk boring?

6. traditional slides don’t help

7. slides != paper

8. it's a “talk”, not a “reading”

9. ● reading the bullet points -> not paying
attention to your talk
● fast or impatient readers will be reading
ahead of you
● audience gets bored
– they can see what you're going to say
– they know they can drift off for a while
● if you absolutely must do slides in this
format, don't just read the bullet points
out

10. death to bad clipart

12. what are slides for?

13. emphasis

14. and punchlines

15. free-flowing talk

16. life's pretty fast

17. pay attention

18. you might miss something

19. how to do this?

20. practice

21. know your material

22. practice again

23. timing is trickier

24. go watch stand-up comedy

25. and practice again

26. conclusion

27. steal any of these ideas

28. i did

29. (thanks larry)

30. say no to bullet points