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EliRivers on Jan 14, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Public speaking is tough

As someone in your audience, I beg you, please do not tell me what you're going to tell me, then tell me, then tell me what you just told me.

zenbowman on Jan 15, 2014 [–]

Agreed, this is the lamest kind of presentation. Humans like stories. Tell me a story.

Even the best technical presentations play out like a story. Guy Steele's "Growing a Language" is a classic example.

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