How Not To Shoot Yourself In
The Foot With A Bullet (Point)
@anthonybaxter

a meta-talk

may contain half-baked ideas

a boring talk is a bad talk

what makes a talk boring?

traditional slides don’t help

slides != paper

it's a “talk”, not a “reading”

● reading the bullet points -> not paying
attention to your talk
● fast or impatient readers will be reading
ahead of you
● audience gets bored
– they can see what you're going to say
– they know they can drift off for a while
● if you absolutely must do slides in this
format, don't just read the bullet points
out

death to bad clipart

what are slides for?

emphasis

and punchlines

free-flowing talk

life's pretty fast

pay attention

you might miss something

how to do this?

practice

know your material

practice again

timing is trickier

go watch stand-up comedy

and practice again

conclusion

steal any of these ideas

i did

(thanks larry)

say no to bullet points