I’ve never actually “written” a talk. I wonder if that’s what takes my public speaking ability to the next level. Very thought provoking, especially because the process Katerina describes is so different from mine. Do you write your talks?
Katerina Biliouri Davidson @biliouriful
7 Feb 2018
Finally I got to write a piece on what I do: write for the ear. medium.com/@biliouriful/writ…
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No. I've never been willing to go the extra Ted effort to write, memorize completely, to be able to improv. My observation is that those who write scripts but don't memorize sound stilted in delivery
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Ya, I feel the same way about it. Though on the other end of the spectrum it's probably hard to tell one someone HAS written and memorized it.
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Replying to @chadfowler @skamille
As that article points out, yes. You’d have to memorize your script and deliver so welll that no one notices you ever had one in the first place.

Feb 7, 2018 · 11:15 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov @chadfowler
Yeah a friend of mine gave a Ted talk and she explained it that way. Which makes for a great talk but sounded like a really huge amount of additional work
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