Dear talk-attending-humans, please don’t ever go up to a speaker and tell them their talk was “too basic” for you. Instead, try: “That was a great overview! So many good points. I bet you could make a whole talk out of [a point they mentioned that you’d prefer more info on]!”https://twitter.com/nellshamrell/status/1086073718495797248 …
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This is one of the big fears that keeps me from trying to submit talks at conferences. I’m just so darn confident that anything I would have to say is really just basic common knowledge that everyone else already knows and I’m late to the party.
Don’t give it a second thought. People that do this are just being smug and they’re wrong. Your personal journey and perspective on your topic will reveal ideas nobody else has thought about.
