🤔 writing vs speaking

I was just editing the transcript of my "Solving Problems the Clojure Way" talk, and thought: "gods, I speak like a madman", but, when listening to the talk, it sounds fine
our language expectations for speech vs writing are so vastly different
- reading transcribed speech is painful, and the speaker comes off mad
  - so many "um..."s, "you know"s, "like"s, stutters, half sentences, merged thoughts
- listening to written word out load is also painful and way too formal
related thoughts:
- during the Trump era, there were a lot of "insane" Trump speech quotations shared, but, in retrospect, they probably read more insane than they sounded
- this difference is also why natural dialogue is so hard to write when script-writing - once it's on paper/screen, it's processed differently
- when I prepare a talk, I only write conceptual bullet points, so that I can talk naturally about the subject, but have the bullets remind me what order I planned to speak about things in

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