  Tuesday, June 02, 2009How to Give a Great Talk
This one's a little off topic, but enough people have asked so that I thought I'd post it here, too. If you want to know how to give a great talk, here are my thoughts following TEDx Tokyo. Enjoy.
Cheers, Barry
posted by Barry at 7:25 AM
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I've been blessed with a variety of interesting jobs: a covert position with the CIA's Directorate of Operations; attorney in an international law firm; in-house counsel at the Osaka headquarters of Matsushita Electric; executive in a Silicon Valley technology startup.
WelcomeThere are a lot of terrific blogs out there on the world of writing, but The Heart of the Matter isn't one of them. HOTM primarily covers politics and language, particularly language as it influences politics, with the occasional post on some miscellaneous subject that catches my attention.Politics, it seems to me, gets about the same level of rational, objective analysis as religion, and can be an equally divisive topic (in fact, I believe scientists will soon use functional magnetic resonance imaging technology to discover that politics and religion occupy the same spot in our brains). It's never been easy to discuss politics dispassionately, but in the age of the ascendency of entertainers like Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Moore, and Bill O'Reilly, trying to get to the heart of the matter is more difficult than ever. This blog aims to be a haven from fulmination, disrespect, polemics, and other attack-style debate. Please, if your aim is to defend your position rather than find the truth, go rent a Michael Moore movie or read a Michael Savage book. They'll provide a laugh and a quick self-righteousness fix and help you avoid the hard work of examining your politics that you'd have to do here. A word on tone. At the risk of stating the obvious, no one's mind has ever been changed by an insult. Calling your political opponents "mentally diseased" or "treasonous" or distorting their statements to fit your diatribe is a great way to sell books, speeches, talk shows, and movies -- that is, to make money, which is the real intent of professional polemicists. But that kind of nonsense never enlightens and it never persuades. Let's not fall victim to it here. Previous Posts
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