Trying to get better at getting better

Tag: presentation zen

Doing more with less. Or, how to avoid distracting myself

Jan 9, 2012

in Technology

distraction, intention, presentation zen, reading, workspaces

I spend a lot of time online. A lot. And I’m beginning to realise that a lot of that time is spent bouncing around between applications, windows, tabs, etc, just checking up on things. When I get notified that new mail has arrived I have to check it, even though I know that I’ll probably…
Giving good presentations

Jul 30, 2009

in Social media

design, Dick Hardt, garr reynolds, lawrence lessig, lessig, presentation zen, presentations, Seth Godin, TED, youtube

I gave my first conference presentation in June, 2008 and thought that it was terribly boring. I presented the results of my Masters thesis and since I’m quite new to the whole “being an academic” thing, I did it the same way that everyone else was doing it. In other words, I fired up OpenOffice…