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What DJs Can Teach Us About Presenting Ideas and Standing Out

Carl Cox's DJ philosophy - think two tracks ahead, create unique blends - shows how standing out requires unexpected combinations.

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Teaching with GPT: Building a Digital Persona That Thinks, Guides, and Surprises

Building a custom GPT for Columbia students means designing personality, setting boundaries, and creating 50+ rules for strategic learning.

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The Power of a Great Question: Unlocking Worlds, One Inquiry at a Time

Great questions need design, timing, delivery, and follow-through - like a billiard break that opens up every ball perfectly.

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The Blank Slide Shuffle

Scott Harrison went pitch black mid-keynote - using a blank slide to mark rock bottom, ramp tension, refocus attention.

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Understanding the Presentation Spectrum

Presentations live on a spectrum - performative keynotes at one end, decision-driven budget reviews at the other. Most work sits middle.

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Why David Marchese's skills remain underrated

NYT's David Marchese gets celebrities to reveal hidden lives - unusual questions, pushback, overcoming the desperate desire to be liked.

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Christopher Nolan's 26 principles for creative work

Christopher Nolan's 26 principles for creative work - constraints breed resourcefulness, flip ideas, mute the world then build your own.

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Introducing the Presentation Elevation Tool

A free tool packed with unconventional prompts to help you get unstuck

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What's Your Presenter Type?

Our free self-assessment tool will help you level up your presentation skills

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Why 6 is the magic workshop number

A quick guide on how the number 6 can serve as your secret weapon for designing and delivering effective workshops.

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What people really want from new technology

They don't want features, or even benefits. It's about something more human

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Storytelling & Narrative: What's the difference?

Storytelling and narrative get used interchangeably, until someone calls you out. A working distinction that holds up in practice.

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Alec Baldwin's secret to great conversations

Before every interview, Alec Baldwin's team hunts for one thing: the billiard break, the opening question that sets up the whole conversation.

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3 flavors of workshop

Every workshop has a flavor, and most designers never choose one on purpose. A short video on the three types and how to pick yours.

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