Day: September 6, 2019

Smart Advice from Smart People

Vintage Links 006: Presentation Structure, Date Nights, Shuffling Cards, and Blogging

Every Friday I go through my well over-stocked folder of blog posts, articles, and other online produce that’s been marked “To Read” and clear out a handful. The best of them–aka those that still seem interesting or useful here in 2019–get posted here (and you can see the previous instalments using the Vintage Links tag). At some point I should find a version of that intro that I like and repeat it for every future instalment, but today is not that day. THE SECRET STRUCTURE OF GREAT TALKS (Nancy Duerte, 2011) Watch it here I spend a lot of time talking to people about writing–both now, and back in my dayjob at the writers centre–and about 50% of the gig is trying to get people excited about their own work and trying new ideas out (Heck, it’s 50% of the gig in regular blogging as well). This talk may have originated in 2011, but it floated through my feed in