Direct download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_1.mp3
Podcast Summary
- Bart and Pete introduce themselves and explain that everyone should love their podcast.
- Just a couple of dorks at a technology company. Very, very stream of consciousness.
- We don't feel like we have fantastic presentation skills, but we know what makes other presentations suck.
- A Technology expert does not a good presenter make...
- Be careful to not bullshit when you're presenting to your peers -- they'll know when you're faking it.
- Um, yeah. Fillers. Everyone hates them. Why do we do those verbal tics, anyway?
- TED-talk quadcopters have balls. Pete almost broke out laughing while trying to explain about balls on quadcopters.
- Bart has a hyperactive filler detector. "umumumumumum"
- Bill Clinton has one critic: Pete. He hates Clinton's "EXPLOSIVE inhale of breath."
- Whenever Chelsea Clinton talks, Bart believes she's talking directly to him.
- Pete goes into pseudoscience and compares public speaking to a computer doing memory retrieval. He also wishes he could read from a script and not sound like he's reading from a script.
- You should record yourself and listen to yourself.
- Your presentation always goes faster when you're practicing it. You will spend more time presenting than you did in your practice round.
- Review your post-game footage. Learn what you've messed up and work to fix it. Be your own best critic.
- Pete only got two surveys returned from his presentation. He's not sure if most of the people in his presentation at LOPSA-East were asleep. Fill out those presentations, people!
- Steve Jobs was an awesome presenter.
- Technical presentations by technical people can sometimes be a shitshow. You want to make sure your presentation is quality, as if you're giving a testimony at congress.
- Practice with the equipment you'll be using to make sure your technical delivery is as good as your information delivery.
- Bring all of your adapters. ALL OF THEM. You never know what you're plugging your PC into when you're at an "away game."
- Test the equipment you'll be presenting on as soon as possible! Making your crowd wait is totally unprofessional.
- If you're going to "phone it in" please don't wear your company's swag. As a result, Pete is going to wear quora tee shirts everywhere.
- Occasionally conferences have afterparties/Birds-of-a-Feather session that involve ice cream and beer. We find out that Pete goes just for the beer.
- Business networking is another form of presentation -- you have an image to present, not necessarily a technical message. Don't be a drunk idiot or a "brogrammer."
- Does one bad apple really spoil the bunch? Behave yourself lest people think your company has a culture of hiring dicks.
- Don't hide behind the podium -- be mobile! Adam Moskowitz, Tom Limoncelli, Bryan Cantrill are all great at giving presentations and they're all mobile speakers, they move around a lot.
- Bart and Pete realize they're really good at bullshitting for 30 minutes on a microphone.
- Pete says "shit" for the second time on the podcast. Sorry, virgin ears!
- Bart has a takeaway action item of coming up with an awesome intro and outro.
- Bart takes a swipe at dubstep and the next thing you know, Pete's talking about twerking like Miley Cyrus.
- Bart: "Be careful out there!"
- Pete: "Have a wonderful day!"
Things referred to in the post
- Raffaelo D. Andrea "The Astounding Athletic Power of Quadcopters" -- http://www.ted.com/talks/raffaello_d_andrea_the_astounding_athletic_power_of_quadcopters.html
- "Be careful out there" is actually from Hill Street Blues, not Hawaii Five-O.
- Bryan Cantrill from Sun. Not Bryan Carrol. Sorry, Mr. Cantrill!
- It might sound Pete is dumping on LOPSA-East's technology group by talking about "projectors of dubious parentage." This is just a hypothetical example, Pete had zero trouble with his A/V at LOPSA-East and that's because there are kickass volunteers who make it go awesome.
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