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> tell people what problem you're trying to solve That's literally step one in OPs advice. It's just a pat way of conveying the "introduction > argument > summ
by ajcp 2y ago
> tell people what problem you're trying to solve
That's literally step one in OPs advice. It's just a pat way of conveying the "introduction > argument > summary" format for presenting and it scales really well from 3 slides to x.
1. This problem I'm trying to solve (i.e. I'm going to tell you how I solved this problem - Tell 'em what you're gonna tell 'em)
2. This is how I solved the problem (Tell 'em)
3. This is the outcome (i.e. This is what the solved problem looks like - Tell 'em what you told 'em)
- SilasX 2y ago>That's literally step one in OPs advice. No, it's your generous, retroactive re-writing of the OP's advice. If you genuinely don't understand that you communicated something that wasn't in the original, then your communication skills are not at the level that justifies the confidence with which you're posting.
- jerbear4328 2y agoHe was interpreting it generously, which is a pretty good way to keep discussions civil. The site guidelines say to "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says", and I think that has happened pretty well here.
- SilasX 2y agoThat ... doesn't apply when the topic at hand is the validity of oft-repeated conventional wisdom. In that case, the real anti-pattern to pretend that the conventional wisdom actually means a specific (sane) interpretation that lives only in one HN poster's head.[1] Which, coincidentally, is the very thing I was criticizing. It's really bizarre to see "be charitable in discussions" used to defend Orwellian reinterpretation of bad advice no one actually follows. [1] See sanewashing https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sanewashing https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sanewashing
- IshKebab 2y agoYes that's how the advice should be interpreted, but it is bad advice because it's not how it is actually interpreted. It fails to communicate a good idea.