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The presentation skills that you can learn in a few college-level communications classes are invaluable for getting noticed and being taken seriously. Your comm
by padobson 15y ago
The presentation skills that you can learn in a few college-level communications classes are invaluable for getting noticed and being taken seriously. Your comment highlights this.
- lukeholder 15y agoI agree. Although all of us on HN like to think we can look past the grammar and poor sentence structure and judge someone by their github account or code quality - In reality humans are not built to evaluate others that way during first encounter, and most people you interact with in a startup (like customers) do not care about the code. Thread OP sounded like a 20 year old.
- unimpressive 15y ago>and most people you interact with in a startup (like customers) do not care about the code. Exactly. Technical debt is your problem; not the customers. Right now, to the average person you're probably a wizard. (And to some of your colleagues if your skills are of sufficient quality.) Nobody questions a wizards magic as long as it works. (Except in the edge case where it is indeed your colleagues observing.) The best magic requires sleight of hand and people skills to perform. EDIT: And since were all listing our ages here, 16.