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I'd guess that approximately 0% of moderately senior level jobs involve ever speaking at a conference or other fairly public and recorded venue. Company-interna

I'd guess that approximately 0% of moderately senior level jobs involve ever speaking at a conference or other fairly public and recorded venue. Company-internal training videos or recorded meetings are more common, but that's a far narrower attack surface.

ghaff 3y ago
You actually don’t think that even mid-level execs much less lower-level people who want to advance in part by speaking at events don’t end up appearing on video? I know I’m on plenty of it.
- thfuran 3y ago
  People speaking at events obviously often end up appearing on video. Most people don't speak at events.
albert_e 3y ago
go to the YouTube channels of companies like AWS, Azure, GCP --they publish 10 to 30 minute videos of various employees, from product managers to architects etc doing explainers on various topics, products and services they offer. More generally --the billions of hours and growing of audio video on YouTube, TikTok, and other platforms -- is literally someone in real life (most cases), likely some employee, that could be or become a middle manager somewhere.
- thfuran 3y ago
  >go to the YouTube channels of companies like AWS, Azure, GCP --they publish 10 to 30 minute videos of various employees, from product managers to architects etc doing explainers on various topics 1. Most companies don't do that. 2. AWS, for example, has what, 100k employees? What percentage of them are actually featured in those videos? >More generally --the billions of hours and growing of audio video on YouTube, TikTok, and other platforms -- is literally someone in real life (most cases), likely some employee, that could be or become a middle manager somewhere. A vanishingly small percentage of that content is generated as part of that middle management job. Yes, many people choose to place themselves on publicly accessible video, but it mostly isn't part of a mid level office job, so not doing so isn't incompatible with holding such a position.
Gustomaximus 3y ago
Even if not videos, most people have a bunch of photos in the public, or widely available. Even if the person themself doesn't share, other people around them will. It would take a very insular life to have no photos of yourself in public domain.

ghaff 3y ago

You actually don’t think that even mid-level execs much less lower-level people who want to advance in part by speaking at events don’t end up appearing on video? I know I’m on plenty of it.

thfuran 3y ago
People speaking at events obviously often end up appearing on video. Most people don't speak at events.

albert_e 3y ago

go to the YouTube channels of companies like AWS, Azure, GCP --they publish 10 to 30 minute videos of various employees, from product managers to architects etc doing explainers on various topics, products and services they offer. More generally --the billions of hours and growing of audio video on YouTube, TikTok, and other platforms -- is literally someone in real life (most cases), likely some employee, that could be or become a middle manager somewhere.

thfuran 3y ago
>go to the YouTube channels of companies like AWS, Azure, GCP --they publish 10 to 30 minute videos of various employees, from product managers to architects etc doing explainers on various topics 1. Most companies don't do that. 2. AWS, for example, has what, 100k employees? What percentage of them are actually featured in those videos? >More generally --the billions of hours and growing of audio video on YouTube, TikTok, and other platforms -- is literally someone in real life (most cases), likely some employee, that could be or become a middle manager somewhere. A vanishingly small percentage of that content is generated as part of that middle management job. Yes, many people choose to place themselves on publicly accessible video, but it mostly isn't part of a mid level office job, so not doing so isn't incompatible with holding such a position.

Gustomaximus 3y ago

Even if not videos, most people have a bunch of photos in the public, or widely available. Even if the person themself doesn't share, other people around them will. It would take a very insular life to have no photos of yourself in public domain.