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’ve misused talks as a medium many times—maybe more often than not? Many would be way more effective as articles or literate code.
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Effective for what? Learning, yes. But talks are usually much more effective for advocacy.
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Yes, I agree. Many of my talks were about learning a concept, not advocacy.
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