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Tips for choosing your topic for the talk

Milda
March 02, 2019

Tips for choosing your topic for the talk

What to talk when you have nothing to talk about

Milda

March 02, 2019
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  1. Milda Glebauskaitė
    Tips for choosing the topic for
    your talk
    [email protected] [email protected]

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  2. I don’t have anything to talk about

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  3. Expert and/or Passionate

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  4. Expert and/or Passionate

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  5. Useful and/or Interesting

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  6. How to actually come up with ideas
    ▪ Look back at yourself

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  7. Do you know
    anything now, that
    you didn’t know a
    year ago?
    https://changelog.com/podcast/225 Sandi Metz

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  8. How to actually come up with ideas
    ▪ Look back at yourself
    ▪ Listen and notice what is interesting to other people

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  9. Ahh, that’s
    interesting
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt4sKoY_Ru8&t=743s Tomer Gabel

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  10. How to actually come up with ideas
    ▪ Look back at yourself
    ▪ Listen and notice what is interesting to other people
    ▪ Look at your normal job - especially failures
    ▪ Look at what other people are talking about

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  11. Just remember
    ▪ Find your audience
    ▪ Make it useful and interesting
    ▪ Find topics in your own work and experience, but also look around
    ▪ Just do it, you’re ready!

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