Post #3249138
2026-06-03 17:17 UTC
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@davidfetter@kolektiva.social 2026-06-03 19:01
@bittner@hachyderm.io @feoh@oldbytes.space You're on the right track. If, as a presenter, you're reading your slides or so much as tempting your audience to do so, you are not doing your job correctly. The audience should not have to read anything at all while you're presenting unless you have the skill to guide them into and then back out of that process. Given the utter contempt that too many techie presenters have for the existence of the craft of presentation, let alone its praxis, you may once in your whole life be present at a presentation where this actually works. More likely, you will not.
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange 2026-06-04 10:45
@bittner@hachyderm.io @feoh@oldbytes.space The practice of sharing slides after the event is to blame for a lot of this. A conference slide deck now has to serve two purposes: Backdrop for the speaker.Something that works for people who download it later and read it. You can put a lot of things in speaker notes, but they don't show up if they do a PDF export.