Most people doubt online meeting scan work, but they somehow overlook that most in person meetings don't work either.

It's safe to assume that no matter where you stand, someone would be happy to be in your shoes, just as you'd be happy to be in someone else's.

It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.

The bottleneck is never code or creativity; it's lack of clarity.

No one has died from giving a bad presentation. Well, at least one person did, President William Henry Harrison, but he developed pneumonia after giving the longest inaugural address in U.S. history. The easy lesson from his story: keep it short, or you might die.

My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

When I'm the speaker, I know that special moment [just before speaking] is the only time I will have the entire audience's full attention. Unless an alien spaceship crash-lands on stage midway through the talk, the silence before I begin is the most powerful moment I have. What defines how well I'll do starts with how I use the power of that moment.