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Yes. I agree. So much. These are my metrics for a good tech talk: 1) It is informative 2) It is entertaining 3) It is actually about tech Well IAWAT (I Am
by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Yes. I agree. So much.
These are my metrics for a good tech talk:
1) It is informative
2) It is entertaining
3) It is actually about tech
Well IAWAT (I Am A Woman In Tech) talks can be 1 and 2, they cannot be 3. That would be okay, if they were informative or entertaining, but they so often aren't. Many just quote the same statistics we've heard before, and call for change. There is a reason that I will watch Piotr Szotkowski's "Standard Library, Uncommon Uses," Or Linus Torvalds' talk on Git, or Hilary Mason's opening talk at FutureStack, or absolutely every talk Bryan Cantrill does (even if it IS just to play Bryan Cantrill Bingo), or countless other talks whose names I forget. Because they are informative, they are entertaining, and they are about tech. And male or female, if you give a good talk, I'll listen. If you just want to get on the stage and talk about your gender, then I will be out of your talk faster than an ICMP packet travelling down an empty fiber cable.