Nicole Rust on Nostr: How do you pack a 95K word (nonfiction) book into a 40 minute talk? How many words ...
How do you pack a 95K word (nonfiction) book into a 40 minute talk?
How many words are in 40 minutes? My estimate is 4-5K. That's ~20-fold compression. Something like half of 1 (of 10) chapters in the book.
Obviously you don't just read off the first half of the first chapter. But an outline of all of it is also super unsatisfying; it needs more depth than that. Clearly you present the central thesis and why it matters. But what to support it? This is a problem I've never encountered before. Not yet sure how to wrap my head around it.
Any advice? Any pointers to book talks you love?
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