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If you have thirty uninterrupted minutes of things to say, is that a meeting? Or is it a lecture/presentation? Is it better to break it up into discrete topics?

Attendees of a meeting will quickly disengage if someone talks for too long. Attendees of a lecture or presentation have different expectations.

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> If you have thirty uninterrupted minutes of things to say, is that a meeting? Or is it a lecture/presentation? Is it better to break it up into discrete topics?

That's the key question that will frame how I schedule my attention and interjections.

The reason I chose the times as seen is because they jive with my personal experience and the content of this article here: https://hbr.org/2015/06/how-to-know-if-you-talk-too-much

Ok, but regardless "too much" heavily depends on context. It can't be that x minutes is the correct amount of time to talk regardless of what you are saying.

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