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A long guide to giving a short academic talk (2022)

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131 points sebg | 1 comments | 17 Jun 24 08:04 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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datadrivenangel ◴[18 Jun 24 12:51 UTC] No.40717227[source]▶
"Once you write the slides and script, it’s time to practice… a lot."

All great speakers are look great because they practice and iterate on the material and end up with polished presentations that they've given dozens or hundreds of times.

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1. ghaff ◴[18 Jun 24 13:32 UTC] No.40717659[source]▶
I don't present nearly as much as I used to--and I'm mostly not great at doing serious practice runs (as opposed to mentally going through the material)--but I've often observed that my second or third time giving a presentation is usually a bit better than the first.