Tips for choosing your topic for the talk

What to talk when you have nothing to talk about

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1. Milda Glebauskaitė
   Tips for choosing the topic for
   your talk
   mildag@wix.com twitter@mildagle
   

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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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12. Thank You
    mildag@wix.com twitter@mildagle
    

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