My podcast this week is from the Effective Public Speaking book. I'm finally past the introduction. (Insert maniacal laughter here.)
Enjoy!
The Podcast:
The Transcript:
This is 60 Seconds of Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman for April 11, 2025, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress.
This is from the Effective Public Speaking book.
The speaker's job is to make every presentation valuable. Speakers do that when the audience has all the information they need to solve their problems.
What about people who “steal” your ideas?
Do not worry. People will steal from you.
They will copy your slides and remove anything that identifies you as the author. Worse, they will copy your images and pass them off as their own. (Yes, this has all happened to me.)
Now, we have Large Language Models (LLMs) ingesting all the books they can.
Do any of these people or LLMs give you credit? No.
Instead of worrying about theft, consider this alternative: make your presentation as good as it can be so your audience seeks you out after your presentation. Give your audience everything they need to succeed.
The Video:
The video link.