Present! A Techie's Guide to Public Speaking

Poornima Vijayashanker and Karen Catlin, authors of Present! A Techie's Guide to Public Speaking provided tips, tricks, and methods for public speaking as a techie.

The information in this GHC plenaries talk was very insightful and inspirational for anyone who wants to be better at public speaking. The key takeaway for me was the ultimate "power pose" that you can do before you go out there on stage. A power pose is when you get into the same position an athlete who just won would, or how a superhero poses when he's looking over a city in the roof. That's right. Get into that pose for about two minutes before going out there on stage, and your testosterone will increase while you cortizone increases, setting you up for an amazing speech.

Of course, the normal things that you should do to prepare for your talk still holds. Things like practicing, knowing the audience, storytelling, relating, etc. etc. Another thing I took away from this talk was to limit the use of text in PowerPoint slides!

Finally, of course, I left feeling inspired and pumped!

Download the book at gum.co/present-ebook/ghc