Talks are not a neutral medium: they’re good for sharing some kinds of information (rhetoric, story) and bad for others (facts, details).
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Too often we treat talks as “the” medium for conferences without considering the medium’s properties. How can we incorporate other mediums?
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I suspect we may overemphasize talks (even when it’s the wrong medium) because it’s a way to actually make people “publish.” Works on me.
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I try to treat my talks like performance art and I try to convey more technical stuff in blog posts.
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Yeah, think that’s right.
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talks have all the good and bad of lectures. Ref material, tutorials, and even exercises have value. Need a good mix of all.
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. agreed - talks are not a catch-all format. The job organizers are *supposed* to do is match varied content to mediums