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