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It's "meaningless" because if you broaden out the definition of "value" to "anything that will make people interested in what you're doing", the advice turns in
by tikhonj 1y ago
It's "meaningless" because if you broaden out the definition of "value" to "anything that will make people interested in what you're doing", the advice turns into a tautology.
- jszymborski 1y agoIt's still helpful to remind people that an audience will not care about what you are talking about until you tell them, in any way, why they should. So describing a fun problem is implicitly telling the audience why they should listen.
- kd0amg 1y agoAnd yet a lot of speakers still seem to need that self-evidently true statement pointed out to them. Tautological advice isn't necessarily bad or useless, especially for beginners.