Some Thoughts on Public Speaking

Because I have events in the next couple of months that will involve speaking, I decided to pull up my tips from a year ago and review them. (I haven't done any public speaking for a couple of months and I get rusty quickly.) In case anyone else is in the same boat, I'm running the post again here:

Five years ago, public speaking was a dreaded, but necessary, horror for me. You'd have had to shoot me with a tranquilizer dart and prop me up at the lectern to prevent me from looking like I...