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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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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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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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.

Oct 31, 2018 · 10:08 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov
I told some people I helped preparing speaches not to script and memorize. They insisted that’s the only they can do. I was the worst in memorizing (and theb reciting) poems in school, so I am really ill suited to judge them