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Re:Speaker's Tip: Don't tell the audience you aren't prepared by pg on Thursday October 29, 2009 @05:53PM (#911003)
Announcing a lack of preparation. All PB talks begin with him saying that he hasn't prepared anything; that it doesn't matter anyway, because he doesn't have anything to say; and that in fact no one has anything to say. From which he proceeds to tell you interesting things.
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Re:Speaker's Tip: Don't tell the audience you aren't prepared by DanielBMarkham on Thursday October 29, 2009 @06:00PM (#911021)
What a very strange comment.

I wish I had heard one of these talks.

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Re:Speaker's Tip: Don't tell the audience you aren't prepared by mrduncan on Thursday October 29, 2009 @06:45PM (#911089)
If you haven't seen it yet, here is a highlights video which has a brief portion of Paul's talk as well as links to the justin.tv archived stream.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=910426

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Re:Speaker's Tip: Don't tell the audience you aren't prepared by herdrick on Thursday October 29, 2009 @11:55PM (#911499)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZxP0i9ah8E
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Re:Speaker's Tip: Don't tell the audience you aren't prepared by mrshoe on Thursday October 29, 2009 @05:58PM (#911016)
Ah, so it is the contrast provided by lowering the expectations at the beginning which means they'll be shattered even more thoroughly by the rest of the talk. Makes sense.
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