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The problem is while presenting my IQ is 20 points lower. I suppose this holds for many people. There are too many presentations on youtube which spend minutes just fixing typos.

I agree a few seem authentic but soon it just feels like a waste of time — and break in the flow of presentation.

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I'm not sure about the 20 points number, the effect feels much larger. Perhaps if you simultaneously apply a 20% penalty to hand-eye coordination, balance, facial expressions, typing skills, enunciation, penmanship, memory/recall, creativity, etc. you could accurately represent my skill as a human being while presenting.

It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a man in possession of a keyboard is guaranteed to spot spelling errors and trivial errors absolutely last of everyone watching.

I think a nice workaround for this is to use something like a Jupyter Notebook (which also has bash support). You have all the commands pre-entered and you can step through as necessary.

If you need to add something because of an audience question you can just insert a new cell.

It looks live and in my opinion better than faffing in a terminal.

You also have the bonus of being able to provide the notebook to your audience after the talk (or they can follow along with you).

Yeah, I absolutly agree with you there. There’s no doubt in my mind that this is valuable. I’ve had plenty of moments where the brain->finger->keyboard connection just fails under the pressure of a live demo.

> The problem is while presenting my IQ is 20 points lower.

I swear I've said these exact words.

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