[jbellis]

I saw Paul speak at the first Startup School in 2005, where he literally read his talk on stage from an essay he held in his hand. I saw him again at PyCon 2012, and he's improved a lot. But this article makes me think that he still sees speaking as a kind of poor delivery mechanism for an essay. They're really different beasts.

I wrote a longer article about what goes into good public speaking for a technical audience over here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3721333