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This is part of the Kernel Recipes 2025 blog series.

This blog series has covered why public speaking is important, ways and means, building bridges from your audience to where they need to go, who owns your words, telling stories, knowing your destination, use of humor, and speaking on short notice.

But if you would rather learn about what I actually did rather than what I advise you to do, please see here.

I close this series by reiterating the value and ubiquity of Toastmasters and the usefulness of both dry runs and reviewing videos of your past talks.

Best of everything in your presentations!

Acknowledgments

And last, but definitely not least, a big “thank you” (in chronological order) to Anne Nicolas, Willy Tarreau, Steven Rostedt, Gregory Price, and Michael Opendacker for their careful review of early versions of this series.