My first time standing up and talking about something for an hour tomorrow. "Knowledge sharing" as if I don't do enough one on one...

Why must you have to do this shit to get promoted? Why can't managers trust that your good at what you do without the public cock sucking?

Back to my introverted rock for a while.

Growing as a developer sometimes is about more than just code.

That being said, good luck! I'm sure you'll be great once you get going.

The last time I had to give a lunch and learn talk, I stayed up all night with anxiety and insomnia. Luckily I pulled it together and it went fine, but you're definitely not alone!

It's not that hard brother. Make reference to Open Source, speak your heart out. Good luck with that!

I've been a speaker for the past 7 yrs. Best advice I can give you is to go up there like you've got nothing to lose. I started out as a complete introvert and this is the best way I found to deal with the anxiety. You'll find that most of not all in the audience would be terrified to get up and speak in front of an audience. You got this.

I hate sprint reviews for the same reason, however I've found knowledge sharing a lot easier. I greatly prefer live coding sessions, because fuck words... Just know that you'll make a few mistakes but nobody will judge you (if this is an option)!

I dislike speaking to more than one or two people at a time. So when faced with public speaking i kinda, sorta role play. I have a very dark sense of humour and typically i don't let it out too much.

In public speaking situations however my talks are littered with nightmarish imagery, casual suggestions that I'd faced the brink of madness and generally trying to communicate as little about the mind numbingly boring specifics as possible, because while most of us are devs, we all work in different areas and while we each know what we are talking about, without the appropriate context it's hard to effectively communicate exactly what you intend to without loosing people. So keep it pithy, funny and if it takes too long to explain something just suggest the solution was whispered to you by eldritch horrors during the night.