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The Price of the Hallway Track

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  • Because the lack of butts in seats also means a lack of energy, and a lack of energy means a worse talk. The content will be mostly the same, but a speaker who doesn’t feel good on stage is less fun to watch than one who enjoys themselves. (View Highlight)
  • It’s positively soul-crushing to put all your love into a talk for weeks and months and then present it to an (almost) empty room.
    And it doesn’t just suck for the speaker. In case you’re a sociopath and don’t care1: it also sucks for the audience both in the talk and later on YouTube. Because the lack of butts in seats also means a lack of energy, and a lack of energy means a worse talk. The content will be mostly the same, but a speaker who doesn’t feel good on stage is less fun to watch than one who enjoys themselves. (View Highlight)
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