About Giving Talks

Lars wants a less demanding way to prepare for giving talks, but he doesn't have the time right now.

Andreas knows a cheat code for public speaking. Lars uses slides like a blunt instrument.

How should you wield your slides? How do you weigh information content against entertainment value? Should you try to reach precisely everyone with your talk? Many slides, or few? Lars has the questions, and some of the answers, at least for himself.

Last but not least, Lars reveals his current way of preparing for talks. It ideally involves getting quite bored.

Links

• Proof of Andreas speaking in public
• Sverok
• Beamer - write your slides in LaTeX
• Lars' Gigcity Elixir talk
• José Valim
• Chris McCord
• Øredev
• Lars' Øredev talk
• Lars Lisbon talk - Lively LiveView
• Code BEAM Berlin
• Jon Carstens
• Null modem
• Erlang clusters
• Wireguard
• Open source summit
• Another brick in the wall