I organized meetups for a decade.

Most of them were technical.

One thing I learned is what tends to make a talk good or bad.

Here it is —

Good talks tell a story

Tell a story!

Here is the story most good tech talks tell —

• I had this problem
• I first tried to solve it this way, but it failed
• Then I tried to solve it this way, and I succeeded

Wrap what you want to say in terms of a story

There is something about the human mind that makes us (humans) receptive to stories

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