Right. Public speaking is a proxy for stuff like, do you know your shit cold? Is your thinking clear and well organized? Are you sure?https://twitter.com/jezhumble/status/912178590791421952 …
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The number of times I have been writing a technical talk and realized I was wrong about a detail, or couldn't clearly explain something ...
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Anything I've ever given a talk about, I know like the back of my hand. The causation works the opposite of the way people assume it does.
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Most of the observability and distributed systems stuff we are pioneering at honeycomb first came out of a conversation or a talk.
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Other things public speaking teaches you: humility, improvisation, death of the ego. How much credit you get just for showing up ^_^
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So often, that's why I finish learning something with writing about it (documentation or blog), because yep, otherwise things escape...
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brain cells get recycled ...
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