GeniesLoki

FWIW I liked the one talk by you I attended, and I've generally found you to have interesting insights. This certainly doesn't mean you have anything worth saying at any given conference, or that you're obliged to give talks if you don't want to, I just present it as data.

Yeah, I could believe that you're better at nontechnical talks than technical ones. (Might not be true, but it's at least plausible and I have no evidence to the contrary). OTOH most technical talks are crap. I'm pretty sure if you sunk a bunch of effort into it you could do OK.

But I appreciate "If you put a bunch of effort into it it might not be crap" is not exactly a motivational sentiment.

FWIW all of my good technical talks have been good because some mix of: * Mix in a lot of nontechnical bits and don't sweat the technical details. * Talk about subjects that are intrinsically interesting. * Don't bother to give talks that someone else could give.