How I Prepare to Speak

Roberto Alsina

Be asked to speak
Be unsure about it for a few days
Be asked if you are going to move your ass and do it already
Think title
Send proposal at deadline +/- 48 hours
Spend the next week or two thinking of cancelling
Figure out what the title means
Spend the next N-1 weeks until the conference with a constant dialog in your head about what you should talk about
Turn that constant unorganized dialog into a little story
Write down the story headings in slides
Attend the conference
Sit in the back while you polish slides
Start talking
Show slides
Stop talking

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