
Episode 6: Speaking at Conferences
Soft Skills Engineering
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How to Public Speaking and How to Get Feedback From People
Jameson: I often the first time I give it don't really know what the whole talk is gonna be like until I just go through it all and then I notice weird stuff but having good feedback from people is really good too. Jameson says his worst technical public speaking experience was at a local unconference run by this awesome guy named Mike Moore. He said he failed to prepare because he didn't have a good idea or there's not any good stuff to do machine learning in Ruby so you're just totally unprepared. "I think we get this idea in our head that the audience is just waiting for us to trip up so they can make fun of us" writes Jameson.
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