Twitter at the speed of parenting
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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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.
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
