Presentation tip: They Remember the Mistakes more than the Polish
One of the reasons I love going to Mix is getting a chance to watch really world-class technical speakers. As I watched the keynote and a few sessions this year one theme really stood out to me: The audience seems to remember how the speaker handles their mistakes\crashes more than the content of their presentations! Obviously it this is a pretty hard thing for a speaker to prepare for. If you can prepaid for it, then I’d suggest avoiding it all together ;-). So how do you prepare for the unprepareable? It seems to me it is all about attitude. For me, my learning on this started when I arrived a day early for Mix. I had a chance to talk to one of my favorite speaking coach Richard Klees
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