Oh, he's improved over the years. You should watch his very first presentations, during the Quake era. I think he's taken some speaking lessons to diminish his "uhms". But yeah, he's fearless of the public, which removes his mental blocks. I used to stutter in front of the public, but the one thing that solved it for me was a course, where we had to improvise in front of a camera. At the end, the coach replayed every video back to us. Every participant felt so much cringe that it ironically solved the issue.

I think for a lot of people, their fear of public speaking comes from not having gone through that first time you sound legitimately dumb. For example, saying something obviously flat-out wrong and tripping over your words doing so.

Up until that point, you are terrified of it happening. Once it does and you get past it, everything else seems much easier.

Watching recordings of yourself sounds like a mild form of exposure therapy.

A good approach I think is to put together screen cast demos for work - like with obs studio. After you do that a few times pretty much all your fear of public speaking will tend to go away. It's so easy to do this.

This is a good point - I worked as a sports ref in HS, and let me tell you, you'll be made aware when you screw something up even the smallest bit.

But you know what? You learn to (1) tune it out quick, (2) maintain your confidence, and (3) move on - a skill that's been invaluable for me going forward.

His Joe Rogan podcast is pretty incredible, if you haven’t seen it yet.

I love how he goes everywhere from making cars go faster with compressed air rockets, to getting inspiration from the ductwork in the ceiling. Such a great talk.

Thank you for this comment, didn’t know he had been on Joe Rogan

Rogan was a massive Quake player back in the day