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Tech Talks: You Do Have Something To Say! Why and How To Start
- 1. Tech Talks: You Do Have Something To Say! (Why and How To Start) Florina Muntenescu
- 3. I have nothing to say.
- 5. 14 talks 8 countries, 3 continents
- 6. I have do have something to say!
- 7. WHAT?
- 11. Every time you yell at a computer, that’s a talk! Chiu-Ki Chan (@chiuki)
- 13. Create the talk you wish you could attend
- 16. HOW?
- 17. An abstract is the MVP of your talk. Corey Latislaw (@corey_latislaw)
- 19. Write down your ideas
- 21. Be intentional with your time
- 23. Preparing a talk is an agile process
- 25. WHY?
- 26. LEARN
- 27. Walk the walk to talk the talk
- 29. This is how it should be VS This is what worked for me
- 30. This is how it should be VS This is what worked for me Julia Evans @b0rk
- 33. If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough! Albert Einstein
- 36. Challenge yourself more than you think you’re capable of!
Editor's Notes
- Interview story
- Started talks
- I have smth to say! And so do you, no matter if you’re….
- One of the talks last year - architecture - that was the main concern of our team since we just finished a major refactoring of the app.
- Preparing arch talk -> almost done -> covered what the audience might not know -> Android community -> expectations? -> list of things that were so obvious for me (JUST FOR ME) -> problems that everyone faced -> incorporated in the talk -> feedback - wonderful ------> stop jumping to conclusions!
- Talk -> what you’re doing every day -> problems faced and solutions
- Others faced the same problem Notes for a future self -> you’ll have to solve the same problem again
- Lots of arch talks in the Android community - but what I felt that is missing is something that compares these arch patterns So I did one with that.
- Talk about advantages/disadvantages of a solution/API/technology/tool based on your experience
- Talk about what you’re passionate about! Passion is contagious
- Micro steps: Demos, present a new feature/API to team Organise knowledge sharing events in your company Get used to speaking, flustering Next: Meetups and conferences -> abstracts
- Spend a few hours to write the abstract. If you’re accepted, that’s great. If you fail? So what? Give yourself permission to fail. Then try again! There are many reasons why a talk is rejected, and that’s not always the abstract.
- Decided on a topic -> ideas in the back of my mind. U bahn, gym, brushing my teeth.
- Write them down Google Keep ideas -> some talks, some now Some are seeds for new ideas.
- As a dev, I like to do a lot of things apart from work - be active in the community, do open source and do talks. Time is always a problem. make a calendar
- Pockets of time Create opportunities to work on a talk
- ????Secret weapon Dev - unit test PO - MVP Asking for feedback when you only have a list of stuff to talk about in mind. Then improve. Then repeat
- Preparing a talk is an agile process Every talk - rehearsed If they ask Q, audience will ask the same Q. Include the answers in my talk or prepare them for the Q&A session Who is my audience - community
- You’re not alone! Community is opened. WTM & Android -> amazing Join Slack channels, join meetups Ask for feedback on abstracts and talk.
- Content & delivery Hard & soft skills Comfort zone
- Talking from experience
- GitHub - showcase and playground
- Approached at the end of talk with another solution In return time invested - more knowledge
- sprint demos (non it people) -> concise, easy to grasp terms
- Structure your ideas Challenge - who’s in the audience - everyone understands
- Focus on content vs focus on the audience understanding the content Trains consistency (in examples) and creativity Discussions with peers Interviews Day to day life
- Now - at a point when I’m invited to talk. Happy that I took on this challenge of public speaking - managed to find my voice. And you can too. You can’t find your voice if you don’t use it. Talk about the things you love, passionate
- Challenge yourself more than you think you’re capable of