Twitter at the speed of parenting
"Hmm... maybe next time I'll talk about [topic mentioned as an unsolved problem in a recent research paper]"
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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TOTALLY. I’ve figured out various ways over the years to assert credentials without explicitly asserting them
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"I don't have any recent PRs on that project because I'm a committer"
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That is a good one!!
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I once had a dude complain to me that a talk (at a multi-track conference) was "too introductory" when "Introduction to" was literally in the talk title.
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I always imagine I’d say something like “what part of ‘introduction to’ was unclear” in those situations, but usually I’m just sort of stunned into silence at the gall
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This reminds me to say thank you for coming up after my talk the other day! I'm sorry we didn't have longer to chat! (That's the problem with wanting to chat with all the people after a talk and your friends are there too.)
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Ha ha thanks! It was a big group so I’m impressed you remember that conversation. :) Also btw based on that meetup, I’m going in halvsies with my bf on a v3 as a mutual anniversary present. Excited about the api you mentioned - I have some ideas
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A talk I gave had feedback sheets. My talk got a few of those. Also a few "Not interesting" etc. :-/ Can't please everyone.
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Totally. I’m one of those people though that one negative comment occupies more space in my brain than like a bazillion good comments
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Someone once left a review that said he knew less afterwards.
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WTF?? I guess the most charitable explanation is that he meant you revealed a depth to the topic that he hadn’t known existed. Like when my physics class brought in relativity just as I was getting comfortable with newtonian ideas
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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.
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I identify with that fear, but speaking for myself, I find a basic, good explanation of something, even if it’s something I already understand, really enjoyable to listen to. Good stories are good stories, and even slightly different analogies can give new perspectives on stuff.
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Also, talks that cover mostly stuff I already know sometimes help remind me that I already know stuff. Which is a nice feeling. Like, “Hey I know this and some people don’t — I have real skills and shit” is a nice anti-impostor-syndrome experience.
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Also consider that you’ve been programming for many years and a lot of folks who go to conferences are newer to it. So even if you think “everybody” at your level knows something, a lot of folks with less experience do not :)
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People do this??? Yikes.
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Honestly, it's tech. It's not even shocking to me.
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99% of me agrees with you, it’s just that other 1% of me is really loud tonight
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I mean, it's still upsetting. I validate your feelings and encourage your loudness.
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