Patrick Winston's long-running MIT lecture on public speaking teaches heuristic rules for talks. It covers how to start, use time and place, boards, props and slides, and how to inform, persuade and finish.

Why Hacker News readers recommend it: HN treats it as the canonical, near-universally recommended lecture on giving talks and presentations.

“drop what you're doing and watch it now”

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