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Re:Speaker's Tip: Don't tell the audience you aren't prepared by paul on Thursday October 29, 2009 @06:58PM (#911102)
In person he claimed to have liked my talk :)

I'm not sure if anyone understood, but the "winging it" was supposed to be a metaphor for startups themselves. You can never be truly prepared.

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Re:Speaker's Tip: Don't tell the audience you aren't prepared by jasonfried on Thursday October 29, 2009 @10:34PM (#911416)
I did love your talk - I thought it was definitely one of the best. I certainly learned a few things.
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Re:Speaker's Tip: Don't tell the audience you aren't prepared by rms on Thursday October 29, 2009 @07:23PM (#911142)
The other thing is that you clearly didn't completely wing it. You had prepared slides, as a start.
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Re:Speaker's Tip: Don't tell the audience you aren't prepared by j_baker on Thursday October 29, 2009 @08:20PM (#911221)
No he didn't. I saw him writing the slides as other presenters were speaking.

(Not that I'm criticizing him. Some of my best projects in school were written the day they were due.)

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Re:Speaker's Tip: Don't tell the audience you aren't prepared by projectileboy on Friday October 30, 2009 @02:09AM (#911603)
Your talks were my favorite parts of both SS08 and SS09. I think many other "unprepared" talks are given by other speakers simply trying to imitate your style (with both less humor and less content).
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