Why doesn't the speaker want to remember what he might owe other?
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Answer:
Mind of the Speaker - How Do You Feel About Your First Presentation?
Explanation:
The first time we do anything, we're terrified. Asking out that first date, submitting that first patch, reviewing someone else's code for the first time. Surprisingly, how we feel about it (e.g. "OH MY GOD I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING") has very little to do with how well we actually do at it; sometimes we're right and we end up doing terribly, and other times we're wrong and it ends up going well. It's different for each person.
In October of this year (2016), I attended the DevIntersection/AngleBrackets conference in Las Vegas, as I did twice last year. Once again, as I am fascinated with the process involved in speaking for tech conferences, I tracked down as many speakers as would talk to me and asked them three simple questions:
Who are you, and what do you do?
What is the most important thing for a speaker to remember while they are on stage?
What was your first conference-level presentation about, and how did it go?
NOTE: A couple speakers couldn't remember their first conference presentation, so instead I asked them about a particularly memorable one.
This blog post gathers the answers I got to the third question: What was your first conference-level presentation about, and how did it go? The answers I got varied mightily, both in how well they thought the presentation went, and how well they thought it was going to go.
Don't Bother Applying
Let's get the worst out of the way: sometimes you do so bad at your first conference presentation, the conference doesn't want to have you back. Ever.