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Patrick Winston: How to Speak (2018) [video](youtube.com)
397 points by tosh | 72 comments
YouTube video of MIT professor Patrick Winston's 2018 lecture on how to speak and present effectively; the capture shows a reCAPTCHA page instead.
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Start presentations on the second slide(tidyfirst.substack.com)
390 points by andyjohnson0 | 137 comments
Kent Beck's Substack post advising presenters to start on the second slide (in media res) to grab audience attention, deferring background material.