When writing a talk, it may be useful to consider a couple of user personae for your audience to determine if you are going to be saying anything that anyone would be interested in hearing.
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You can almost certainly do an interesting talk about any subject, but the problem is that what you need to tell people about that topic varies drastically based on who they are, and what they're interested in hearing depends both on who they are and how you frame it.
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TO TAKE A COMPLETELY HYPOTHETICAL EXAMPLE, if you're going into a huge amount of detail in your talk you might find that nobody cares, because either: a) They are not at a level of familiarity with the subject where the detail is useful. b) The details are obvious to them.
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Having user personae for your audience would have helped you understand this because you could go through each of them and go "Does Elena the Expert care? No, she's bored. Does Nick the Newbie care? No, he's lost."
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In all honesty, a talk is obviously a bad place to dump a huge amount of detail even without the user personae, because talks are not a good way for people to absorb information, but nobody understands what talks are actually for so it's harder to convince you of that.
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Replying to @DRMacIver
What are they actually for? (Genuine question; I rarely found them so)
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Replying to @Meaningness
Getting people interested, mostly. Speech is a much richer medium for conveying emotion than text, and has a lot more room for spontaneity and fuzziness, so it can be a good way of conveying a very high level sense of the problem space.
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