Tell Your Technical Story
summary
Starts from concrete habits: record a conversation, give the transcript back, and use what people actually say as your talk; stop overediting and tell the messy project stories that show problem, puzzle, outcome. Uses examples from Cold War submarine reporting, an ADHD workaround that improved drafting, and coaching runs at CPPCON and Bloomberg. Advises removing slides to force plain explanation, applying the rule of three – beginning middle end, and keeping a crib sheet of questions and answers.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and Career Background
- 0:34Discovering the Power of Storytelling
- 1:01Cold War Submarines and ADHD Insights
- 1:44Coaching Engineers to Communicate
- 2:26How to Build a Talk from Conversation
- 3:00Letting Go of Perfection and Overediting
- 3:42Asking the Right Questions
- 4:10Embracing Simplicity and Authenticity
- 4:30Encouragement for Engineers Who Want to Speak
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