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2026-07-11 03:42 UTC
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@reyjrar@hachyderm.io 2026-07-11 15:42
@nxskok@cupoftea.social When I first started doing public speaking, the general rule of thumb was 1 hour of preparation for every 1 minute of talk. A 20 minute talk would take about 20 hours to prepare. Over time, that dropped a bit, but not by much. I'm not a world class speaker by any means, but the attendees time means something to me. I want to put in the time ahead of the presentation to make sure they're getting their money's worth out of the conference. I do not want to go to conferences where the majority of the speakers are using AI for slide decks and graphics. It's a signal that they don't care about my time. It's the gym metaphor. In the case of preparing a presentation, the point of the exercise is not to simply pick up the weights and move them once. It's to do that over an over again to build strength. Don't use the fork lift if the point is the process of lifting the weight.