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“What’s with these dev comedians?” and “Giving a talk doesn’t make you a good developer” are mealy-mouthed ways of saying “I feel threatened by people who can code *and* communicate, so I will devalue the communication part as much as possible.”

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One day I want to be able to say “if you can’t communicate effectively, you can’t participate in tech” because clearly we aren’t there yet. Keep up the great work 👍✊👏 (wish I could have attended your talk, sounds spectacular)

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What if you are not neurotypical?

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Seems a bit dickish to say you can't write software unless you're good at public speaking

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said, as they said it far more eloquently than I could (clearly *I* am still working on the effective communication thing… and always will be).

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There seems to be a huge push to get people to do public speaking even if it causes them tremendous anxiety though, which I think is harmful

6:19 PM · Aug 8, 2019Twitter for Android

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💯Agree here too. Context is hard on twitter but that’s an explanation, not an excuse. I should have taken three seconds to clarify. I apologize. There are countless ways to be good communicators in science/tech that don’t involve public speaking 👍

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This is also just my experience of course so I may be biased about how much of a problem it actually is

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My beef is that even though all these talks go on, many are not distributed, therefore have limited benefit/audience. I wouldn't recommend someone jump right into public speaking if it's anxiety inducing. My personal recommendation is getting into 1:1 mentoring. ;)