My point is: People believe reading from a script is easier. I think that’s not true, at least not if your goal is to deliver a good talk
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Both are very valid, but very different purposes. You could e.g. skip all the text slides while presenting, but include them in the handout/published PDF. Or simply put all the text in the speaker notes and publish them.
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Of course it’s perfectly possible to deliver a fantastic scripted talk, if you’re able and willing to put in the effort. Most likely that’s not the case, so don’t. waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/doing…
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And if I were to add a comment like this to a specific talk, it would (rightly) be considered condescending mansplaining. So my request to experienced women speakers is: Tell other women they’re completely capable to deliver great talks, no need to “read” them.
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The final thing that drives me completely crazy: A disproportionate number of speakers “reading” their talks are women, for completely wrong reasons, likely because they lack the male cowboy attitude, which means their talks will be worse even though they might have been awesome
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Even more annoyingly, I’ve seen speakers read prepared talks from
a script where I’m 100% certain they would have been able to just “wing it” to much better results
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I’ve recently seen more and more conference speakers read from a prepared script. If you ask for my advice as to when this is appropriate, my answer is “never”, with a possible exception for your gramdmother’s 80th birthday
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Dear speaker: If I see you mention that you “write a talk”, my assumption is you will read it instead of presenting, which means you’ll bore your audience to death.
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It probably very much depends on where you’re coming from. If people do too little architecture, and take this as confirmation, I see your point. If you regularly have to deal with astronauts, it’s a breath of fresh air
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The O’Reilly folks have put up a 3 minute teaser from my #OReillySACon keynote talk (watching the full video requires a Safari subscription) oreilly.com/ideas/why-softwa…
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Sehr schöner Artikel meiner Kollegin @sonjaheinen zu Designer-Entwickler-Interaktion: innoq.com/de/articles/2018/1…
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I had a quote from this old @spolsky post in my slides at #OReillySACon today; check it out, it’s just as great as it was 17 years ago joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/2…
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